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Inaugural ‘Rising Star’ award added to ABIAs 2018

Wednesday, 14 February 2018
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) has introduced a new award to recognise emerging talent in the publishing industry. The inaugural Rising Star of the Year Award will be presented...

New podcast on Australian kids’ books launches

Wednesday, 14 February 2018
A new fortnightly podcast about Australian children’s books has launched. One More Page focuses on Australian picture books through to middle-grade titles, and includes interviews, book reviews and competitions. Creators,...

Hardie Grant moves distribution to HEDS

Wednesday, 14 February 2018
Hardie Grant Publishing is moving to Harper Entertainment Distribution Services (HEDS) for it distribution in Australia and New Zealand. The new deal will commence on 1 July. Orders for new...

Blythe to direct Homecooked Comics Festival

Tuesday, 13 February 2018
Publicity and marketing manager at Black Inc. Marian Blythe has been announced as festival director for the 2018 Homecooked Comics Festival. Blythe, who was formerly marketing manager at Scribe, will...

Seizure announces 2018 Viva la Novella shortlist

Monday, 12 February 2018
Volunteer-run publishing initiative Seizure has announced the shortlist for the 2018 Viva la Novella competition. This year’s shortlisted authors and their works are: Hasti Abbasi for ‘And the Raindrops Fill...

PRH Literary Prize winner announced

Friday, 9 February 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced that the winner of its inaugural literary prize is Kathryn Hind for her novel Hitch. ACT-based Hind wins $20,000 (which acts as an...

Stella Prize 2018 longlist announced

Thursday, 8 February 2018
The longlist for the 2018 Stella Prize has been announced. This year’s longlisted titles are: The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Shokoofeh Azar, Wild Dingo Press) A Writing Life: Helen...

Hardie Grant acquires Karen Martini cookbook

Thursday, 8 February 2018
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to Karen Martini’s next cookbook for publication in 2019. The Melbourne chef, restaurateur, food writer and food editor of Sunday Life magazine has...

Inaugural children’s literature festival to be held in WA

Thursday, 8 February 2018
A new festival celebrating children’s literature and arts will be held in Claremont, Western Australia from 9-13 May. The inaugural Scribblers Festival is conceived by WA arts advocacy organisation FORM...

Young made honorary fellow by NZSA

Wednesday, 7 February 2018
New Zealand writer Ashleigh Young has been made an honorary literary fellow as part of the New Zealand Society of Authors’ (NZSA) annual Waitangi Day Honours. Young said of the...

WAYRBA 2018 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 7 February 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Picture books Torty and the Soldier: A Story...

‘The Garret’ podcast expands in 2018

Tuesday, 6 February 2018
The Garret podcast has announced plans to expand in 2018, which includes a move away from a season-based release schedule and new episodes dedicated to reviewing Australian books. In 2018,...

Staff changes at Readings 

Tuesday, 6 February 2018
Melbourne independent bookshop Readings has announced several staff changes across its seven stores. Joe Rubbo will move from his current role managing Readings Doncaster to take up the position of...

Europa Editions to be distributed by NewSouth

Monday, 5 February 2018
Titles from New York-based publisher Europa Editions will be distributed in Australia by NewSouth Books from March 2018. The new sales and distribution relationship constitutes, for Europa, a ‘renewed focus...

FWF expands to two festivals in 2018

Monday, 5 February 2018
The Feminist Writers Festival (FWF) has announced it will expand to two festivals in 2018, with the theme ‘rewriting the story’. FWF will run its first New South Wales festival in...

ABDA launches new survey for book designers

Monday, 5 February 2018
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has launched a new survey to measure the health of the local book-design industry and generate data around the issues that book designers face....

Janu wins XO Romance Prize 2017

Friday, 2 February 2018
Xoum Publishing has announced Penelope Janu as the winner of the 2017 XO Romance Prize for an unpublished manuscript for her novel ‘On the Same Page’. Janu receives a $5000...

VIPs announced for 2018 SWF

Friday, 2 February 2018
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2018 Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program, to be held alongside the Sydney Writers’ Festival in early May. The...

Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2018 winners announced

Thursday, 1 February 2018
Melbourne-based writer Sarah Krasnostein has won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for her first book, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster (Text Publishing)...

Clarke to present books segment on new ABC show

Thursday, 1 February 2018
Author Maxine Beneba Clarke will present a fortnightly books segment on a new ABC program hosted by journalist and commentator Stan Grant. The 45-minute program, Matter of Fact, will constitute...

 

 

 

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