Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Monday, 4 December 2017
The 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction A New England Affair (Steven Carroll, HarperCollins) Australia Day (Melanie Cheng, Text) The Life to...
Herrmann named UK FutureBook Leader of the Year
Monday, 4 December 2017
Founder and co-CEO of Bolinda Rebecca Herrmann has been named Leader of the Year at the FutureBook awards, run by the Bookseller in the UK. As previously reported by Books+Publishing,...
AusRomToday Reader’s Choice Awards 2017 winners announced
Monday, 4 December 2017
The winners for the 2017 AusRomToday Reader’s Choice Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Book of the year Nineteen Letters (Jodi Perry, Hachette) Author of the...
Winners announced for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2017
Friday, 1 December 2017
The winners of the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Their Brilliant Careers (Ryan O’Neill, Black Inc.) Poetry Headwaters (Anthony...
Wagner awarded 2017 Dromkeen Medal
Friday, 1 December 2017
The State Library Victoria (SLV) has awarded the 2017 Dromkeen Medal to Erica Wagner, publisher of books for children and young adults at Allen & Unwin. Wagner has worked as...
Heyman wins 2017 Copyright Agency Fellowship
Friday, 1 December 2017
Kathryn Heyman has won the Copyright Agency’s 2017 fellowship for mid-to-late career authors, worth $80,000. Heyman received the fellowship for her forthcoming memoir Words to Live By. The memoir explores how...
Filming starts on adaptation of Jensen’s ‘Acute Misfortune’
Friday, 1 December 2017
A film adaptation of Erik Jensen’s biography of painter Adam Cullen, Acute Misfortune (Black Inc.), has begun production in the Blue Mountains. The film will track the volatile relationship between...
RMIT professional writing staff awarded $20,000 teaching prize
Friday, 1 December 2017
The teaching team for the Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing at Victoria’s RMIT University has won the university’s Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. The team, which comprises Penny Johnson, Stephanie Holt,...
Renamed Writers SA announces plans to expand program
Friday, 1 December 2017
The SA Writers Centre has changed its name to Writers SA, adopted a new logo and announced plans to expand its events program. Writers SA chair Amy Matthews said the...
‘Overland’ Fair Australia Prize 2017 winners announced
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Literary journal Overland has announced the winners for this year’s Fair Australia Prize. The winners are: Poetry: Andrew Sutherland for ‘East Perth [imagined nation]’, a ‘response to citizenship, love, distance...
Milligan wins 2017 Walkley Book Award for ‘Cardinal’
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Investigative journalist Louise Milligan has won the 2017 Walkley Book Award for Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell (MUP). Milligan’s book was chosen from a shortlist of three....
HQ to publish actress McGowan’s memoir in ANZ
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
HarperCollins Australia imprint HQ will publish US actress Rose McGowan’s memoir Brave in Australia and New Zealand in January 2018. McGowan’s ‘memoir/manifesto’ will be a ‘pull-no-punches’ account of her life as an...
Australia Council publishing delegation to travel to US
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The Australia Council will select a delegation of up to six Australian rights sellers, literary agents and publishers to visit the US in 2018. The New York Publishers Program 2018...
Readings Foundation announces 2018 grant recipients
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The Readings Foundation has chosen 15 Victorian organisations to share in $184,692 worth of grants in 2018. The grant recipients are: Ardoch Youth Foundation: $10,000 to run four writer-in-residence programs...
Splatt selected for Australia Council’s Kolkata publishing residency
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Melbourne-based author and editor Sophie Splatt has been selected for the Australia Council’s inaugural Seagull School of Publishing residency in Kolkata, India. Splatt will travel to Kolkata in January 2018...
New Zealand Book Awards 2018 longlists announced
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The longlists for the 2018 New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles are: Fiction The New Animals (Pip Adam, Victoria University Press) The Beat of the Pendulum...
Attendance up at SPN conference; children’s books a growth area for small publishers
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) sixth Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 16-18 November. With attendance up on last year, SPN general manager Matthia...
Wright named Melbourne Uni’s Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Author Alexis Wright has been appointed as the second Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne, following Richard Flanagan’s inaugural appointment in 2015. The Boisbouvier Chair was...
Hachette Australia announces promotions in publishing division
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Hachette Australia has promoted several of its publishers to newly created roles within the publishing division. Vanessa Radnidge has been promoted to head of nonfiction, and will focus on growing...
Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes 2017 winners announced
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Tasmania Book Prize for best book with Tasmanian content in any...
QWC’s #8WordStory campaign attracts over 10,000 entries
Monday, 27 November 2017
The Queensland Writers Centre’s (QWC) #8WordStory campaign has ‘surpassed all expectations with over 10,000 entries submitted’, the organisation has announced. QWC invited members of the public to the submit stories...
Dark Mofo festival announces new ‘literature, film and ideas’ program
Monday, 27 November 2017
Tasmania’s midwinter festival Dark Mofo will incorporate a new ‘literature, film and ideas’ program into its June 2018 festival. The Dark and Dangerous Thoughts (DDT) program will ‘comprise a curated...
NZ Book Council enlists celebrities for reading campaign
Friday, 24 November 2017
The New Zealand Book Council has selected nine New Zealand celebrities to participate in its new reading campaign. The #ReadToSucceed campaign will run in the lead-up to Christmas and will...
Carter’s ‘Prime Cut’ shortlisted for BBC Audio Drama Award
Friday, 24 November 2017
A radio adaptation of Australian author Alan Carter’s Prime Cut (Fremantle Press) has been shortlisted for a BBC Audio Drama Award. The adaptation was announced in 2016 as part of...
Coleman’s ‘Terra Nullius’ sold to North America
Friday, 24 November 2017
Hachette Australia has sold US and Canadian rights to Claire G Coleman’s debut speculative-fiction novel Terra Nullius to US independent publisher Small Beer Press. Small Beer Press publisher Gavin J...
Deborah Cass Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Friday, 24 November 2017
Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds. The shortlisted writers and their works are: Lur Alghurabi for ‘Letters from...
Fielding to direct Australian Academy of the Humanities arts advocacy program
Friday, 24 November 2017
The Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH) has appointed Kate Fielding as program director of its $1.65m arts advocacy initiative ‘A New Approach’, which aims to champion investment and return...
Alghurabi wins 2017 Scribe Nonfiction Prize
Friday, 24 November 2017
Lur Alghurabi has won the 2017 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers for her entry ‘Letters from the Grave’ . Alghurabi was selected from a shortlist of 12 writers and will...
Welch promoted to group head of PRH NZ
Friday, 24 November 2017
Penguin Random House (PRH) New Zealand sales director Carrie Welch has been promoted to the newly created role of group head of PRH New Zealand. Welch will take on responsibility...
‘Anaesthesia’ wins 2017 Waverley Library Award
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness by Melbourne journalist Kate Cole-Adams (Text) has won the Waverley Council’s Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award for 2017....
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