Carey to headline Geelong’s Word for Word Nonfiction festival
Friday, 6 October 2017
Novelist Peter Carey will headline this year’s Word for Word Nonfiction festival, which runs at the Geelong Library & Heritage Centre from 17-19 November. Carey will be in conversation with...
Almost 28,000 votes cast for Dymocks members’ favourite children’s book of all time
Thursday, 5 October 2017
Dymocks Booklovers members have cast almost 28,000 votes for their favourite children’s book of all time, with 18 Australian titles making the top 51—up from 13 last year. Possum Magic...
Queensland Writers Fellowships, ‘Griffith Review’ Fellowships announced
Thursday, 5 October 2017
The winners of the 2017 Queensland Writers Fellowships and Griffith Review Fellowships were announced at the Queensland Literary Awards ceremony on 4 October. The winners of the Queensland Writers Fellowships...
Queensland Literary Awards 2017 winners announced
Thursday, 5 October 2017
The winners of the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards (QLAs) were announced on 4 October. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction The Birdman’s Wife (Melissa Ashley, Affirm) Nonfiction Saltwater...
Pan Macmillan signs two-book deal with debut YA author Guillaume
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Pan Macmillan Australia has signed a two-book deal with debut YA author and BuzzFeed Australia editor Jenna Guillaume, via Danielle Binks for Jacinta di Mase Management. Pan Macmillan acquired ANZ rights...
Tan’s ‘Rubik’ sold to North America
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
US and Canadian rights to Elizabeth Tan’s debut novel Rubik (Brio) have been sold to Unnamed Press. The deal was negotiated by Rachel Crawford at New York agency Wolf Literary...
LEB to hold 2018 conference in Hobart
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Leading Edge Books (LEB) will hold its annual conference on 25-27 March 2018 at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Hobart. The conference program will incorporate a half-day supplier trade show...
Writers Victoria announces Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipients
Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Writers Victoria has announced the first round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. Ten successful writers, playwrights and publishers were selected from of 205 applicants to receive...
New PRH Australia imprint Penguin Life to launch next year
Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia will launch Penguin Life, an imprint focussed on personal development and healthy living, in January 2018. Six books will be published under the imprint in...
Digital Writers’ Festival reveals 2017 program
Tuesday, 3 October 2017
The program for the 2017 Digital Writers Festival (DWF), which runs from 24 October to 3 November, has been announced. More than 120 guests will participate in the online-first program,...
Text to publish two John Clarke collections
Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Text Publishing will release two collections by the late satirist John Clarke at the end of 2017. Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke, which is publishing 27 November, will...
Richell Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival have announced the shortlist for the 2017 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The shortlisted writers and their works are: Michelle Barraclough for ‘As...
Crowley, Oseman win 2017 Inky Awards
Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Cath Crowley and Alice Oseman have won the 2017 Inky Awards, presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria. Cath Crowley’s Words in Deep Blue...
Gibson fined $410,000 for ‘misleading and deceptive conduct’
Monday, 2 October 2017
The Federal Court has ordered Belle Gibson to pay the state of Victoria $410,000, after earlier finding she had engaged in ‘misleading and deceptive conduct’, reports the Guardian. Gibson was...
Zable awarded 2017 Australia Council Fellowship
Friday, 29 September 2017
Writer Arnold Zable has been awarded the 2017 Australia Council Fellowship for literature, worth $80,000. Zable is the author of several memoirs, short story collections and novels, including Jewels and...
‘The 78-Storey Treehouse’ tops Australian children’s bestsellers charts
Thursday, 28 September 2017
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 78-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has topped the Australian children’s bestsellers chart for July 2016-June 2017, selling 342,000 titles over this period. This is the sixth...
‘Truly Madly Guilty’, ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top 2016-17 Australian adult bestsellers charts
Thursday, 28 September 2017
Liane Moriarty’s Truly Madly Guilty (Pan) and Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor (John Wiley) have topped the Australian adult fiction and nonfiction bestsellers charts for July 2016-June 2017, respectively. Truly...
Bailey’s ‘The Dark Lake’ optioned for screen
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Hopscotch Features has optioned the film and TV rights to Sarah Bailey’s crime thriller The Dark Lake (A&U), via Lyn Tranter of Australian Literary Management. The Dark Lake, which was...
writingWA to promote WA books at Frankfurt Book Fair
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
writingWA CEO Sharon Flindell will attend this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair to promote 25 new books by WA writers and publishers. Flindell told Books+Publishing that she will be promoting a...
Varuna announces recipients of 2018 Residency Fellowships
Tuesday, 26 September 2017
Varuna, the Writers House, has announced the recipients of the 2018 Varuna Residency Fellowships. The writers and their projects are: The Mick Dark flagship fellowship Donna Mazza for her short...
Affirm Press sells White’s VPLA-winning novel into nine territories
Tuesday, 26 September 2017
Affirm Press has sold rights to Christian White’s forthcoming The Nowhere Child, previously called Decay Theory, into nine overseas territories. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Affirm acquired the rights to...
Over 100 Australian writers, artists sign ‘ABR’ open letter supporting marriage equality
Tuesday, 26 September 2017
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has published an open letter in support of marriage equality, which has been signed by more than 100 writers, artists and public figures. ABR editor...
Sports Writers Festival 2017 program launched
Monday, 25 September 2017
The program has been announced for this year’s Sports Writers Festival, which runs in Melbourne from 28 October to 4 November. Among the guests speaking at the event are broadcaster...
Hardie Grant acquires Pembroke’s ‘well-timed’ book on Korea
Monday, 25 September 2017
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights (excluding the US and Canada) to Australian historian Michael Pembroke’s ‘well-timed’ book on Korea, to be published next year. In Korea: Where the American...
Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature 2017 winners announced
Monday, 25 September 2017
The winners of the 2017 Australian Family Therapists’ Awards for Children’s Literature have been announced. Saving Jazz by Kate McCaffrey (Fremantle Press) has won the $1500 Older Readers Award, and...
‘Guardian Australia’ expands books coverage
Monday, 25 September 2017
Guardian Australia is expanding its book coverage with two new series of commissioned works on established and emerging Australian writers, launched under a dedicated section on its website called Reading...
Blanchard wins inaugural Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award
Friday, 22 September 2017
Jacqueline Blanchard has won the Institute of Professional Editors’ (IPEd) inaugural Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as The Rosie, for her editorial work on All Fall Down (Matthew Condon, UQP)....
2017 Australian Short Story Festival program announced
Friday, 22 September 2017
The program for the 2017 Australian Short Story Festival has been announced. Founded by Margaret River Press director Caroline Wood and MidnightSun publisher Anna Solding, this year’s festival will run...
Spec-fic specialists IFWG expands as it seeks growth as ‘middle-tier independent publisher’
Friday, 22 September 2017
Spec-fiction specialists IFWG Publishing has signed a distribution deal with Dennis Jones & Associates (DJA), as it looks to entrench its brand in the industry ‘with an emphasis on quality...
CHASS Australia Book Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Thursday, 21 September 2017
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Australia Book Prize. The prize, worth $3500, is part of the CHASS Australia...
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