Dymocks reduces online range amid eight-week delays Archive
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Dymocks has ‘significantly’ reduced the range of products available on its website as it processes a backlog of orders amid delivery delays of up to eight weeks. In a statement...
ALS Gold Medal 2020 shortlist announced Archive
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Element (Jordie Albiston, Puncher & Wattmann) Nganajungu Yagu (Charmaine Papertalk Green, Cordite)...
Black Inc. sells second Oslo Davis colouring book as US sales of first top 86k copies Archive
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Black Inc. has sold world rights (ex ANZ) to Australian cartoonist Oslo Davis's new colouring book This Annoying Home Life: A Mindless Coloring Book for the Whole Family to Chronicle...
Some publishing staff return to office as Covid-19 restrictions ease Archive
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
Staff at some Sydney-based publishers have returned to the office this week after working from home for several weeks under Covid-19 restrictions. However, the return to publishers’ physical offices will...
Writing WA receives Copyright Agency emergency funding for virtual book clubs Archive
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
Writing WA has launched a virtual event fund with support from the Copyright Agency’s emergency action fund. The virtual event fund will enable WA writers to be paid Australian Society...
UQP acquires Araluen poetry collection ‘Dropbear’ Archive
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired Evelyn Araluen’s debut poetry collection Dropbear. Dropbear is the second work the publisher has acquired from the Wheeler Centre’s inaugural Next Chapter...
‘A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares’ optioned for TV Archive
Monday, 18 May 2020
Television rights to Krystal Sutherland’s YA novel A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares (Penguin) have been optioned by the US division of production company Yellow Bird. Yellow Bird US, a...
Think+Do Tank Foundation, Scribble partner to offer Mirror Mentorship Archive
Friday, 15 May 2020
Think+DO Tank Foundation, the Sydney community art charity that owns multilingual bookshop Lost in Books, will partner with Scribe’s Scribble imprint to run a mentorship with funding from the Australia...
Australia Council announces latest funding recipients Archive
Friday, 15 May 2020
Publishers Giramondo, Puncher & Wattmann and Thames & Hudson Australia, and literary journal Kill Your Darlings are among the recipients of the Australia Council's most recent funding rounds, announced on...
Screen adaptations of Marchetta, Zusak novels, Jamieson & Cai picture book Archive
Thursday, 14 May 2020
TV adaptions of Melina Marchetta's novel The Place on Dalhousie (Penguin) and Markus Zusak's The Messenger (Picador) have received funding from Screen Australia in its latest development funding announcement, while...
Peter Carey Short Story Award 2020 longlist announced Archive
Thursday, 14 May 2020
The longlist for the 2020 Peter Carey Short Story Award has been announced. Chosen from over 300 entries, the 18 longlisted stories are: ‘Once Were Three Sisters’ (Alice Mantel) ‘The...
Vale Richard Turner Archive
Thursday, 14 May 2020
Dymocks regional business development manager Richard Turner has died. Dymocks writes: ‘It is with great sadness that Dymocks announces the passing of Richard Turner, who has died after a short...
Scribner acquires Wilson’s ‘Hold Your Fire’ Archive
Thursday, 14 May 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia's Scribner imprint has acquired ANZ rights to Chloe Wilson's debut short story collection Hold Your Fire, from Rach Crawford at Mackenzie Wolf in a four-way auction....
‘Bluey: The Beach’ wins 2020 ABIA Book of the Year Archive
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
The winners of the 2020 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. Allen & Unwin (A&U) won publisher of the year, and titles published by the company took out...
Text Prize 2020 shortlist announced Archive
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
The shortlist for the $10,000 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been announced. The seven shortlisted manuscripts are: 'Therefore I Am' by Miranda Luby, which follows Sarah,...
Australia Institute Writer in Residency Program longlist announced Archive
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
The longlist for the Australia Institute Writer in Residency Program has been announced. One winning writer will receive a $5000 stipend to undertake a two-week residency to develop a nonfiction...
Walker Books sold to Trustbridge Global Media Archive
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Walker Books Limited, parent company of Walker Books ANZ, has been acquired by private equity-owned children’s content company Trustbridge Global Media, but says ‘no changes to operations are contemplated’. In...
Manawatu wins New Zealand Book Award for fiction Archive
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
The winners of the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. Debut novelist Becky Manawatu took out the NZ$55,000 ($A51,700) Jann Medicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, New Zealand’s...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 longlist announced Archive
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
The longlist for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The 10 longlisted novels are: The White Girl (Tony Birch, UQP) Room for a Stranger (Melanie...
HarperCollins revenue down 2% in latest quarter Archive
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
HarperCollins’ parent company News Corp has reported the publisher’s global revenue fell two percent year-on-year for the three months ending 31 March, as News Corp announced all its businesses are...
Wheeler Centre announces 2020 Hot Desk fellows Archive
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
The Wheeler Centre has announced the successful applicants for its 2020 Hot Desk Fellowships. The 21 Hot Desk fellows are: Mama Alto Alex Creece Monikka Eliah Lou Garcia-Dolnik Veronica Heritage-Gorrie...
Woollahra Digital Literary Award 2020 shortlists announced Archive
Monday, 11 May 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Woollahra Digital Literary Award has been announced. The award, founded by Woollahra Council to support innovation in Australian digital literature, offers prizes in fiction (judged...
$50k Marten Bequest scholarships to Roberts-Orr, Mol, Woollett Archive
Monday, 11 May 2020
Writers Isobel Roberts-Orr, Oliver Mol and Laura Woollett are among 12 recipients of Marten Bequest scholarships, worth $50,000 each. Roberts-Orr received a scholarship for poetry, while Mol and Woollett received...
Michael Gifkins Prize 2020 shortlist announced Archive
Monday, 11 May 2020
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa PEN NZ Inc have announced the shortlist for the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished...
The Architect’s Bookshop closes Archive
Monday, 11 May 2020
Specialist Sydney bookseller The Architect’s Bookshop has closed permanently and the store’s online retail site will close on 20 June, reports Jason Steger in the Age. Owner Adam Haddow said...
S&S first quarter print sales ‘slightly ahead’ of last year Archive
Friday, 8 May 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia’s (S&S) first quarter print sales are ‘slightly ahead’ of the same time last year, driven by a 25.7% boost to fiction sales, as US parent company...
ANZ authors among IPPY award winners Archive
Friday, 8 May 2020
Books by Australian and New Zealand authors are among the winners of the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), which recognise excellence in independent publishing. The winners in the Australia/New...
Arrow wins 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for ‘The Seventies’ Archive
Friday, 8 May 2020
Michelle Arrow has won the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for history for her book The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia (NewSouth). The Seventies, which...
Arts Funders Network to distribute $1.5m in emergency grants Archive
Friday, 8 May 2020
A group of arts and culture philanthropists has launched a $1.5 million funding program to support artists and arts workers. Philanthropy Australia’s Arts Funders Network, in partnership with Creative Partnerships...
Coleman to write play for Malthouse Theatre Archive
Thursday, 7 May 2020
Author Claire G Coleman will work on a script for Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre, having been named one of two participants in the Theatre's 2020 Malcolm Robertson Writers Program. Coleman told...
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