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Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2022: Mika Tabata 

Wednesday, 8 June 2022
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....

Desmond Elliott Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 7 June 2022
In the UK, the shortlist for this year’s £10,000 ($17,400) Desmond Elliott Prize, presented to the best first novel from UK and Ireland, has been announced. The shortlisted novels are:...

Rachel Funari Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 7 June 2022
Lip magazine has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction. The shortlisted stories are: ‘The Reliquary’ by Claire Alcock ‘In the Wake of Tokyo’ by Louise...

ALS Gold Medal 2022 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 7 June 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted works of fiction and poetry are: Wild Abandon (Emily Bitto, A&U) Human Looking (Andy Jackson, Giramondo) Pushing...

ABDA awards 2022 winners announced

Tuesday, 7 June 2022
The winners of the 70th Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The winners in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in...

Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2022: Emily Hart 

Monday, 6 June 2022
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....

Books in the media this weekend, 4–5 June 

Friday, 3 June 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National  The Saturday Paper  Machines Behaving Badly: The morality of AI (Toby Walsh, La Trobe...

Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2022: Emily Cook 

Friday, 3 June 2022
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....

PRH to publish Rutledge debut novel 

Thursday, 2 June 2022
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to A Man and His Pride, a commercial fiction title by debut novelist Luke Rutledge, via Melanie Ostell Literary. PRH describes...

black&write! fellowships 2022 recipients announced

Wednesday, 1 June 2022
The 2022 black&write! fellowships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers have been awarded to Queensland Elder Herbert Wharton and Lay Maloney from Victoria. Each fellowship is worth $10,000 and...

The Collins Booksellers story

Wednesday, 1 June 2022
May this year marks the 100-year anniversary of Collins Booksellers, which was established by Fredrick Henry (Harry) Slamen in 1922. The company celebrated its centenary over the weekend, where it...

BookUp full 2022 program announced

Wednesday, 1 June 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released the full program for the one-day BookUp publishing conference, to be held in Sydney next Thursday, 9 June, ahead of the Australian Book...

Meet the ABDA Emerging Designers of the Year: Mietta Yans 

Wednesday, 1 June 2022
In the lead-up to the 70th Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) Awards, Books+Publishing spoke to the two shortlisted nominees for Emerging Designer of the Year. In this second instalment we meet Mietta Yans,...

Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2022: Kate Lloyd 

Wednesday, 1 June 2022
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....

July books reviewed 

Tuesday, 31 May 2022
A round-up of local books to look out for in July, as recommended by Books+Publishing reviewers in the past month. Fiction Come July, three debut authors will see their books...

HarperCollins acquires Harrison’s ‘The Visitors’ 

Tuesday, 31 May 2022
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the novel The Visitors by Jane Harrison, in 'a highly competitive auction' brokered by Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management Literary Agency....

Money wins First Nations Arts Award

Monday, 30 May 2022
Wiradjuri poet and artist Jazz Money has won a 2022 Dreaming Award for a young and emerging artist, presented as part of the Australia Council's First Nations Arts Awards. Money's...

Vucic awarded $50k Marten Bequest scholarship

Monday, 30 May 2022
Dženana Vucic, a Bosnian-Australian writer, editor, critic and recipient of the 2021 Kat Muscat Fellowship, is among the seven recipients of the 2022 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, each worth $50,000....

Khan, Chan win 2022 Jhalak prizes

Monday, 30 May 2022
In the UK, the winners of the 2022 Jhalak prizes, which recognise ‘authors who feel that their work is often marginalised unless it fulfils a romantic fetishisation of their cultural...

Books in the media this weekend, 28–29 May  

Friday, 27 May 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National  The Saturday Paper  Indelible City (Louisa Lim, Text)  My Heart is a Little Wild...

 

 

 

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