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Drewe wins 2019 Colin Roderick Literary Award for ‘The True Colour of the Sea’ Archive

Friday, 1 November 2019
Robert Drewe has won the $20,000 Colin Roderick Literary Award 2019 and the H T Priestley Medal for his short story collection The True Colour of the Sea (Hamish Hamilton)....

Pomare’s ‘In the Clearing’ sold to US, UK in two-book deal Archive

Thursday, 31 October 2019
US and UK rights to J P Pomare’s In the Clearing (Hachette) have been sold in a two-book deal to global Hachette imprints Mulholland Books US and Hodder UK. The...

Tighe, Walker announced as inaugural ABR Rising Stars Archive

Thursday, 31 October 2019
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the inaugural ABR Rising Stars, a new initiative to support young ABR writers and critics supported by Creative Victoria and Create NSW. Alex...

Lake wins 2019 CHASS Australia Book Prize for ‘The Bible in Australia’ Archive

Thursday, 31 October 2019
Meredith Lake has won the 2019 Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences’ (CHASS) Australia Book Prize, for her book The Bible in Australia: A cultural history (NewSouth). Lake’s...

Chowdhury named Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellow Archive

Wednesday, 30 October 2019
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced Penguin Random House audio producer Radhiah Chowdhury as the recipient of the 2019–2020 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship. The fellowship will allow Chowdhury to...

New APA initiative to signify Australian created books Archive

Wednesday, 30 October 2019
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has begun a campaign to signify books created in Australia with a new logo. Based on the logo for joint-industry group Books Create Australia, the...

First writers announced for Adelaide Writers’ Week Archive

Wednesday, 30 October 2019
The first writers have been announced for next year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 29 February to 5 March. International guests include Nigerian novelist Chigozie Obioma, Omani novelist and...

Winners of 2019 YABBAs announced Archive

Wednesday, 30 October 2019
The winners of the 2019 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Seriously Do Not Open This Book (Andy...

Lit projects account for 2.7% of OzCo arts funding in 2018–19 Archive

Tuesday, 29 October 2019
According to the Australia Council’s latest annual report, published last week, literature projects accounted for 2.7% of its arts funding in 2018–19, or $5.1 million out of a total of...

John Flanagan’s ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ to be adapted for film Archive

Tuesday, 29 October 2019
A film based on YA adventure series ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ by Australian author John Flanagan (Random House Children’s) has received funding and is expected to begin production in 2020, reports the...

Fair Work approves PRH EBA Archive

Tuesday, 29 October 2019
The Fair Work Commission has approved Penguin Random House Australia's enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA), the first union-negotiated EBA in Australian publishing history. In September, PRH delegates in the editorial and...

Create NSW makes changes to multi-year arts funding guidelines Archive

Monday, 28 October 2019
The NSW state government has announced changes to its multi-year arts funding for small to medium independent arts organisations. Applicants for multi-year funding will no longer need to have received...

Meyer’s ‘A Superior Spectre’ shortlisted for Saltire Literary Awards Archive

Monday, 28 October 2019
Angela Meyer’s novel A Superior Spectre (Peter Bishop) has been shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year award, as part of Scotland's Saltire Literary Awards. Published in the...

Hammer wins UK Dagger award for ‘Scrublands’ Archive

Friday, 25 October 2019
Australian writer Chris Hammer has won the John Creasey Award for the best crime novel by a first-time author at the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2019 Dagger awards. Hammer's...

Wild Dingo launches Deadly Dingo imprint, scholarship for First Nations writers Archive

Friday, 25 October 2019
Wild Dingo Press has launched a new imprint to publish work by First Nations writers and poets. The imprint, called Deadly Dingo Books, will publish ‘authentic, integral and powerful stories...

Hardie Grant acquires Slattery Media Group publications, expands sports publishing Archive

Friday, 25 October 2019
Hardie Grant has acquired the publishing and content activities of Slattery Media Group (SMG) with immediate effect. Hardie Grant Books (HGB) will take on all book publishing projects, including the...

‘The Things We Can’t Undo’ wins AAFT Award for Children’s Literature Archive

Thursday, 24 October 2019
Gabrielle Reid’s YA novel The Things We Can’t Undo (Ford Street) has won the 2019 Australian Association of Family Therapists’ (AAFT) Award for Children’s Literature. The novel follows the relationship between...

Macfie wins 2019 CLNZ Writers’ Award Archive

Thursday, 24 October 2019
Journalist Rebecca Macfie has won the Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ)/New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Writers’ Award, worth NZ$25,000 (A$23,360), to help support her biography of Helen Kelly—the first...

Winners announced for PM’s Literary Awards 2019 Archive

Wednesday, 23 October 2019
The winners of the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction The Death of Noah Glass (Gail Jones, Text) Nonfiction Half...

Film rights to Mostafa’s ‘Offshore’ optioned Archive

Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Filmmaker Partho Sen-Gupta has optioned the film rights to Joshua Mostafa’s novella Offshore (Seizure). Mostafa was joint winner of Seizure’s seventh annual Viva La Novella competition, with Carly Cappielli for...

Deborah Cass Prize 2019 shortlist announced Archive

Wednesday, 23 October 2019
The shortlist for Writers Victoria’s Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Deniz Agraz for ‘Rosewater’ Michelle Almiron...

Reminder: PM’s Literary Awards winners announced this morning Archive

Wednesday, 23 October 2019
The winners of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards will be announced at an event at Parliament House in Canberra from 11am. Books+Publishing will be tweeting from the winner’s ceremony here....

‘The Glad Shout’ wins 2019 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction Archive

Tuesday, 22 October 2019
Alice Robinson’s second novel, The Glad Shout (Affirm), has won the 2019 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. The Glad Shout was chosen from a shortlist of six by a...

Twelve Australians nominated for 2020 Astrid Lindgren Award Archive

Tuesday, 22 October 2019
Twelve Australian authors, illustrators and organisations have been announced as candidates for the 2020 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's richest prize for children's literature. The Australian candidates are: Randa...