Book industry figures to attend Australia Fest in India
Thursday, 1 November 2018
Australian authors, publishers and literary festival programmers are among the guests at Australia Fest, a six-month festival comprising more than 75 events across 20 Indian cities. Supported by the federal...
Foundry658 announces successful applicants for Bootcamp
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Business development program Foundry658, an initiative from State Library Victoria (SLV) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), has announced the successful applicants for its inaugural bootcamp sessions....
First authors announced for 2019 Adelaide Writers’ Week
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
A number of authors have been announced for the 2019 Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 2-7 March 2019. Among the international authors attending the festival are Nigerian poet and...
‘On the Java Ridge’ wins 2018 Colin Roderick Award
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Jock Serong’s On the Java Ridge (Text) has won the 2018 Colin Roderick Award and the HT Priestley Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook...
YABBAs 2018 winners announced
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
The winners of the 2018 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Do Not Open This Book Again!...
Brennan wins CHASS Australia Book Prize 2018 for ‘A Writing Life’
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Bernadette Brennan has won the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences’ (CHASS) 2018 Australia Book Prize, for her book A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work (Text)....
Melbourne City of Lit announces 10th anniversary event program
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
The Melbourne City of Literature, in partnership with the Wheeler Centre, has announced the program for its 10th anniversary event, based on the idea of a parliament for the city....
Samuel Wagan Watson wins 2018 Patrick White Literary Award
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Poet, essayist, scriptwriter and performer Samuel Wagan Watson has been named the winner of the $20,000 Patrick White Literary Award for 2018. The annual award was established by Patrick White...
PRH acquires Smethurst’s ‘The Freedom Circus’
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights at auction to The Freedom Circus by Sue Smethurst. The Freedom Circus is a nonfiction account of Smethurst’s husband’s grandparents, Holocaust...
Creative Victoria announces VicArts recipients
Monday, 29 October 2018
Several literary projects and writers have been included among the recipients in the latest round of Creative Victoria’s VicArts Grants. The program will provide over $1.5 million in funding for...
Writers Victoria announces Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipients
Monday, 29 October 2018
Writers Victoria has announced the third round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. Nine successful writers, illustrators and translators were selected from 112 applicants to receive a...
‘Real Pigeons’ series sold to US in three-book deal
Monday, 29 October 2018
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has sold North American rights to three books in the ‘Real Pigeons’ series (Andrew McDonald, illus by Ben Wood) to Random House Children’s Books, following a...
Parliament fast-tracks 5% tax cut for small to medium-sized enterprises
Friday, 26 October 2018
The federal government has passed updated legislation to reduce taxes for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from 30% to 25% over a three-year period, reports MyBusiness. The Morrison government has...
McTiernan shortlisted for 2018 Irish Book Awards
Friday, 26 October 2018
Perth-based author Dervla McTiernan has been shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. McTiernan’s debut, The Ruin (HarperCollins), was one of six shortlisted titles in the category for Irish Independent Crime Fiction...
Subbed In announces six winners of 2018 Chapbook Prize
Friday, 26 October 2018
Subbed In has announced six winners of its 2018 Chapbook Prize. The winning entries, chosen from a shortlist of 14, will be published by Subbed In. They are: When I...
Creative Vic announces Creators Fund grant recipients
Friday, 26 October 2018
Creative Victoria has announced the second-round recipients of the Creators Fund program, who will share in $900,000 worth of funding. Among the 24 recipients are: Sarah Firth ($30,000) for a...
Bookshops prepare for NZ Bookshop Day
Thursday, 25 October 2018
Booksellers NZ's fourth annual NZ Bookshop Day will be held on Saturday, 27 October, with bookshops around the country hosting events and promotions. To mark 10 years of Nielsen operating...
Fremantle sells world English rights to Sally Morgan board book ‘I Love Me’
Thursday, 25 October 2018
Fremantle Press has sold world English-language rights to Sally Morgan’s board book I Love Me (illus by Ambelin Kwaymullina) to Andrews McMeel Publishing, part of Andrews McMeel Universal (AMU), in...
Australian children’s books shortlisted for Japan’s Sakura Medal
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Five Australian children's books have been shortlised for Japan's Sakura Medal. Jeannie Baker's picture book Circle (Walker) has been nominated in the picture books category, while in the chapter books category, Paul...
Mununggurr-Williams wins 2018 Australian Poetry Slam
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Darwin-based Djapu poet Melanie Mununggurr-Williams has won the 2018 Australian Poetry Slam national final, reports the Guardian. At the national final held at the Sydney Opera House on 21 October,...
Queensland Literary Awards 2018 winners announced
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
The winners of the 2018 Queensland Literary Awards (QLAs) were announced on 23 October. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction ($15,000) Taboo (Kim Scott, Picador) Nonfiction ($15,000) Tracker...
Le, Saleh awarded inaugural Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers
Tuesday, 23 October 2018
Vietnamese-Australian writer Shirley Le and Palestinian-Australian poet Sara Saleh, of Western Sydney-based literacy collective Sweatshop, have been announced as the inaugural recipients of a new mentorship for Sweatshop writers, run in...
Birch to give inaugural State of the (Writing) Nation oration
Tuesday, 23 October 2018
Writers Victoria in partnership with State Library Victoria (SLV) has announced a new annual oration called State of the (Writing) Nation. Each year, Writers Victoria will choose a prominent Australian...
CLNZ announces recipients of 2018 Contestable Fund Grants
Tuesday, 23 October 2018
Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) has announced the recipients of this year’s round of the Contestable Fund Grants. The fund supports strategic projects that demonstrate New Zealand’s publishing growth and...
UWAP celebrates 10 years of publishing Australian poetry
Monday, 22 October 2018
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has celebrated its 10th anniversary of publishing Australian poetry. UWAP’s first poetry collection, Martin Harrison’s Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems, was published in 2008, and the...
Mostly Books celebrates 41st birthday
Monday, 22 October 2018
Adelaide bookshop Mostly Books will celebrate its 41st birthday with a free event on 8 November. Situated in the inner-southern suburb of Torrens Park, Mostly Books was founded by Jacqueline...
‘Pulse Points’ wins 2018 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
Friday, 19 October 2018
Jennifer Down's short story collection Pulse Points (Text) has won the 2018 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Pulse Points was chosen from a shortlist of six by a judging panel comprising...
‘Liminal’ founder McIntosh nominated for Victorian Young Australian of the Year
Friday, 19 October 2018
Founder and editor-in-chief of Liminal magazine Leah Jing McIntosh has been announced as one of four nominees for Victorian Young Australian of the Year. A writer and photographer, McIntosh created Liminal in response to the...
2019 Scribblers Festival Schools Program announced
Friday, 19 October 2018
The program for the Scribblers Festival Schools Program, which runs from 8-10 May 2019 in Claremont, Western Australia, has been announced. Launched last year, Scribblers Festival celebrates children’s literature and...
Redgum Book Club acquires school book fair provider Central Book Suppliers
Friday, 19 October 2018
Redgum Book Club has acquired school book fair provider Central Book Suppliers (CBS). Established in 2014, Redgum provides in-school book clubs to schools nationwide, with emphasis on Australian authors, illustrators...
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