Organisers cancel 2016 Book Expo Australia
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Book Expo Australia organisers have cancelled this year’s event, which was scheduled to run at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse in Sydney on 8-9 October, due to low ticket sales. Founder Sandra...
Queensland Literary Awards 2016 winners announced
Thursday, 6 October 2016
The winners of the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction ($10,000) Between a Wolf and a Dog (Georgia Blain, Scribe) Nonfiction ($10,000)...
ASA announces 2016 Barbara Jefferis Award shortlist
Thursday, 6 October 2016
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the 2016 Barbara Jefferis Award. The shortlisted titles are: This Picture of You (Sarah Hopkins, A&U) A Guide to...
Leading Edge to hold 2017 conference in Surfers Paradise
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Leading Edge Books will host its 2017 annual conference at the Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort & Spa on 19-21 March. The conference program features an informal lunch and afternoon sessions...
Hines to retire as A&U group publishing director
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Allen & Unwin has announced that group publishing director Sue Hines will retire from the position at the end of 2016. Hines joined A&U in 1996 and held roles as...
‘Chasing Shadows’ longlisted for UK sports book award
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Tim Lane and Elliot Cartledge’s Chasing Shadows: The Life & Death of Peter Roebuck (Hardie Grant Books) has been longlisted for the UK-based William Hill Sports Book of the Year...
Green recognised on ‘Women of Influence’ list
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Pantera Press CEO and co-founder Alison Green has been recognised in the Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence 2016 list. Green was recognised in the business enterprise category. The...
Kaufman & Kristoff, Nelson win 2016 Inky Awards
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
The winners of the 2016 Inky Awards, presented by the Centre for Youth Literature, were announced at the State Library of Victoria on 4 October. Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff...
#LoveOzYA to introduce e-newsletter with new release titles
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Grassroots advocacy group #LoveOzYA is introducing a monthly e-newsletter with information on new-release Australian YA titles. The newsletter aims to be a resource for booksellers, teachers, librarians and readers. A...
Varuna announces recipients of 2017 Residency Fellowships
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Varuna, the Writers House has announced the recipients of the 2017 Varuna Residency Fellowships. The writers and their projects are: The Mick Dark flagship fellowship Rebecca Giggs for ‘The Whale...
Nix’s forthcoming ‘Frogkisser!’ to be adapted for musical film
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Garth Nix’s forthcoming middle-grade novel Frogkisser! (A&U, February 2017) is being adapted into a live-action/animation musical film by US-based Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios. The film will follow the...
WA Premier’s Book Awards 2016 winners announced
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
The winners of the biennial WA Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction ($15,000) The Golden Age (Joan London, Vintage) Nonfiction ($15,000) This House...
Harlequin to fully integrate into HarperCollins ANZ
Monday, 3 October 2016
Harlequin Australia is to fully integrate into HarperCollins ANZ, with the Harlequin publishing division sharing HarperCollins’ sales network and in-house services, including contracts, rights, pre-press, supply and data solutions, HarperCollins...
T.A.G. Hungerford 2016 shortlist announced
Monday, 3 October 2016
The shortlist for the 2016 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award for an unpublished manuscript has been announced. The shortlisted writers and their works are: Catherine Gillard for ‘The Incidental...
Greenhill wins Richell Prize
Thursday, 29 September 2016
Tasmanian author Susie Greenhill has won the 2016 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for her entry ‘The Clinking’, described as an ‘ecological love story’. In a statement, Emerging Writers’ Festival...
Carter to receive international sports autobiography prize
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
New Zealand rugby player Dan Carter will receive the best autobiography prize at the 2016 Sportel Awards, to be held in Monaco on 25 October, for his book Dan Carter:...
Film Vic gives funding to Boori Monty Pryor web-series
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
A documentary web-series looking back on the life of Indigenous author and activist Boori Monty Pryor, to be screened on the ABC’s iview portal, is one of 17 Victorian film...
Affirm mentorship award winners announced
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Affirm Press has announced the winners of its second Affirm Mentorship Award, run in partnership with Varuna, the Writers’ House. The writers and their projects are: Angela J Williams, for her creative...
New monthly Australian poetry podcast launched
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
The Poet’s Voice has launched a new podcast series, called ‘The necessary poet’, which presents Australian writers, thinkers and poets discussing the work of a poet they consider to be...
Printer turns down anti same-sex marriage title due to its ‘subject matter and content’
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
McPherson’s Printing Group, a division of parent company Opus Group, has declined the job of printing an anti same-sex marriage book from niche publisher Connor Court, citing that it wouldn’t...
‘The 65-Storey Treehouse’ tops Australian children’s bestsellers charts
Monday, 26 September 2016
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 65-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has topped the Australian children’s bestsellers chart for July 2015-June 2016, selling an astounding 347,000 titles over this period. This is...
Inaugural Excellence in Translation medal shortlist announced
Monday, 26 September 2016
The shortlist for the inaugural Medal for Excellence in Translation, administered by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, has been announced. The shortlisted translators and their works are: John Minford,...
‘Dummies’ to relaunch in October
Friday, 23 September 2016
Wiley’s ‘For Dummies’ series will officially relaunch in October with new book covers, interiors and mascot, as well as an expanded online presence. Every new book published since July has...
‘The Dressmaker’, ‘I Quit Sugar’ top 2015-16 Australian adult bestsellers charts
Friday, 23 September 2016
Rosalie Ham’s The Dressmaker (Duffy & Snellgrove) and Sarah Wilson’s I Quit Sugar: Simplicious (Macmillan) have topped the Australian adult fiction and nonfiction bestsellers charts for July 2015-June 2016, respectively....
Peat wins inaugural CLNZ Writer’s Award
Thursday, 22 September 2016
Wildlife photographer and author Neville Peat has won the inaugural NZ$25,000 (A$24,195) Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Writers Award for nonfiction, to help support his project The Invading Sea. Peat...
MacDonald wins 2016 Lady Cutler Award
Thursday, 22 September 2016
Bookseller Paul MacDonald has won this year’s Lady Cutler Award, presented by the New South Wales branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) for distinguished service to children’s...
Symonds leaves Nielsen
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Shaun Symonds, general manager of Nielsen Book in Australia and New Zealand, has left the company. Symonds has been replaced in the role by Julie Winters following an internal reorganisation...
Belle Gibson’s cancer story questioned prior to cookbook publication
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Documents provided to the federal court suggest Penguin was warned about gaps in Belle Gibson’s cancer story prior to the publication of her cookbook The Whole Pantry, reports the Age....
ABA to hold 2017 conference in Melbourne
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) will host its 2017 conference and trade exhibition at the InterContinental Melbourne on 18-19 June. The trade exhibition will be held on the afternoon of...
Affirm Press title raises $20,000 for Reach Foundation
Tuesday, 20 September 2016
Letter to My Teenage Self (ed by Grace Halphen, Affirm Press) has raised $20,000 for the Reach Foundation in its first two weeks of release. The book features letters from...
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