Moriarty, Catton to be adapted for screen
Monday, 5 September 2016
Australian author Liane Moriarty and New Zealand author Eleanor Catton have had their books picked up for screen adaptations. Film rights to Moriarty’s latest novel Truly Madly Guilty (Macmillan) have...
Close to 5000 attend inaugural Canberra Writers Festival
Monday, 5 September 2016
Just under 5000 visitors attended the inaugural Canberra Writers Festival, which ran from 26-28 August at various locations across the city. Festival director Vickii Cotter told Books+Publishing organisers were ‘blown...
Inaugural Australian Short Story Festival program launched
Monday, 5 September 2016
The program has been launched for the inaugural Australian Short Story Festival, which runs from 21-23 October in Perth. Cate Kennedy will deliver the opening address and Kim Scott will...
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2016 winners announced
Monday, 5 September 2016
The winners of the 2016 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Australian History Prize ($15,000) Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction...
Waverley Council partners with St Albans Writers’ Festival for Nib announcement
Friday, 2 September 2016
Waverley Council in Sydney will present the 2016 Nib Waverley Library Award for Literature shortlist at a special session at the St Albans Writers’ Festival, which runs from 16-18 September...
Hachette, EWF announce 2016 Richell Prize shortlist
Friday, 2 September 2016
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) have announced the shortlist for the 2016 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The five shortlisted writers and their works are: ‘The Illusion...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing 2016 shortlist announced
Friday, 2 September 2016
The shortlist for the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Ghost River (Tony Birch, UQP) Inside My Mother (Ali Cobby Eckermann,...
Text celebrates its 100th ‘Text Classic’ with promotions, events
Thursday, 1 September 2016
Text Publishing has released the 100th title in its ‘Text Classics’ series, Mena Calthorpe’s out-of-print 1961 novel The Dyehouse, and is marking the occasion with events, an advertising campaign, trade...
City of Literature announces Known Bookshops grant recipients
Thursday, 1 September 2016
The Melbourne City of Literature office has announced the first recipients of its Known Bookshops grants. The stores and their projects are: Blarney Books in Port Fairy will host spoken-word...
Rowe wins 2016 ‘ABR’ Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Thursday, 1 September 2016
Josephine Rowe has won the 2016 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Glisk’. Rowe was awarded the $7000 prize at a ceremony during the Melbourne...
Colin Roderick Award 2016 shortlist announced; prize money doubles to $20,000
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
The finalists for the Colin Roderick Award and H T Priestley Memorial Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, have been announced. The seven...
Newnham wins ‘The Lifted Brow’ & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize 2016
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Writer W J P Newnham has won The Lifted Brow’s (TLB) Prize for Experimental Nonfiction for his piece ‘Trashman Loves Maree’. Newnham was selected from a shortlist of eight entries. A...
Narellan Harry Hartog the third to open since July
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Independent bookselling chain Harry Hartog will open a new store at Narellan Town Centre in southwest Sydney on 15 September. The store will become the third Harry Hartog shop to...
Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature 2016 winners announced
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
The winners of the 2016 Australian Family Therapists’ Awards for Children’s Literature have been announced. Risk by Fleur Ferries (Random House) has won the $1500 Older Readers Award. The book was cited...
Xoum announces romance writers’ prize to launch new imprint
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
Xoum Publishing has announced a $5000 romance prize for an unpublished manuscript to mark its new imprint, XO Romance. Xoum publisher director Rod Morrison told Books+Publishing the imprint will start...
Hares & Hyenas to mark 25th anniversary with events series
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
Melbourne’s sexuality and gender diverse bookshop Hares & Hyenas will run a season of events from November to December to mark its 25th anniversary. The store received Melbourne City of Literature...
ACT Book of the Year shortlist announced
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
The shortlist for the 2016 ACT Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Locust Girl (Merlinda Bobis, Spinifex) The Eighties (Frank Bongiorno, Black Inc.) The...
The Co-op buys Australian Geographic stores
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
The Co-op has bought the Australian Geographic retail chain from its owner, Myer Family Investments. The Co-op will take over the chain’s 66 stores and its online shop on 5 September....
CHASS Australia Prize 2016 longlist announced
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the 2016 Australia Book Prize longlist. The prize, worth $3500, is part of the CHASS Australia Prizes program,...
Davitt Awards 2016 winners announced
Monday, 29 August 2016
Sisters in Crime announced the winners of the 2016 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women at an event in Melbourne on 27 August. The winning titles...
Cleave wins third Ngaio Marsh Award; Berard wins Best New Novel
Monday, 29 August 2016
Paul Cleave’s Trust No One (Upstart Press) has won the 2016 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. This is the third time Cleave has won the Ngaio Marsh Award, after...
Warner, Viskic, Haigh win 2016 Ned Kelly Awards
Monday, 29 August 2016
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) announced the winners of this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing at the Melbourne Writers Festival on 28 August. The winner in the...
Patrić wins 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award for ‘Black Rock White City’
Friday, 26 August 2016
A S Patrić has won the 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel Black Rock White City (Transit Lounge). Patrić was announced as the winner at the opening night...
Keil and Bos appointed commissioning editors at Five Mile
Friday, 26 August 2016
Bonnier Publishing Australia has appointed Melissa Keil and Samone Bos as commissioning editors at Five Mile Press. Keil has been promoted from senior children’s editor at Five Mile. She is...
‘Overland’ Victoria University Short Story Prize 2016 winners announced
Friday, 26 August 2016
The winners of the 2016 ‘Overland’ Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced. The first prize, worth $8000, was awarded to Melbourne writer Julia...
Rogers to leave Hardie Grant Egmont
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) publishing director Hilary Rogers is leaving the company to start her own ‘series creation business’. HGE said in a statement that Rogers will continue to collaborate...
Ubud releases 2016 festival program
Thursday, 25 August 2016
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has released the full program for its 2016 festival, which will run from 26-30 October in Ubud, Indonesia. Among the newly announced international...
‘Child, Arise!’ wins Australian Christian Book of the Year Award
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Child, Arise! The Courage to Stand by Jane N Dowling (David Lovell Publishing) has won the 2016 Australian Christian Book of the Year Award. Chosen from a shortlist of 10, the...
Oz academics receive funding to study popular fiction; Melb Uni to hold popular fiction symposium
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
A group of Australian academics have received an Australian Research Council grant to study contemporary Australian popular fiction and its methods of publishing. The project, ‘Genre Worlds: Australian Popular Fiction...
Inaugural Chinese Writers Festival releases full program
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Writers Victoria has released the full program for the inaugural Chinese Writers Festival, to be held in Melbourne on 28 August. The program features a line-up of international Chinese and...
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