Meet the ABDA Emerging Designers of the Year: Mika Tabata
Wednesday, 23 June 2021
In the lead-up to the 2021 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 speak to Sydney-based...
Byron Writers Festival 2021 full program announced
Wednesday, 23 June 2021
Byron Writers Festival has revealed the full program for its 2021 event, which runs the weekend of 6–8 August at various locations throughout Byron Bay, NSW. In its 25th year,...
NewSouth acquires Kamenev’s ‘Kin’
Wednesday, 23 June 2021
NewSouth has acquired ANZ rights to Kin: Family in the 21st century by journalist Marina Kamenev via Melanie Ostell Literary. In Kin, Kamenev will investigate how traditional ideas of family...
D&Q to publish Ang short story collection, graphic novel
Wednesday, 23 June 2021
Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly (D&Q) has acquired world rights (ex ANZ) to two books by Melbourne-based cartoonist Rachel Ang, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. The first...
Chow wins 2021 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction
Wednesday, 23 June 2021
Keshe Chow has won the 2021 Lip magazine Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction for her story ‘Lady Finger’. Judge Nicola Redhouse said Chow’s story ‘achieved a wonderful balance of surprise,...
Annie Smithers on ‘Recipe for a Kinder Life’
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Chef, cookbook author and writer Annie Smithers's Recipe for a Kinder Life (Thames & Hudson, August) blends memoir, philosophy and practical tips on sustainability based on the author's experience running...
Booktopia shortlisted for online retail awards
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Online bookseller Booktopia has been shortlisted for the 2021 Online Retail Industry Awards (ORIAs). Booktopia is a finalist in the Best Pureplay Retailer category for 'online-only retailers who demonstrate best...
Affirm signs first debut from Sweatshop mentorship
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Affirm Press has acquired a debut novel by Shirley Le, the first book to be acquired through the Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers. Le, a Vietnamese-Australian writer from Yagoona,...
‘Fight Like a Girl’ to be adapted for TV
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Aquarius Films has acquired all development and production rights to Clementine Ford’s nonfiction book Fight Like a Girl (A&U), in a deal negotiated by Jacinta Dimase at Jacinta Dimase Management....
Lit orgs, writers among latest Australia Council funding recipients
Monday, 21 June 2021
The Australia Council has announced $8.8 million in funding for 256 projects in its latest round of funding. Among the literature organisations to receive funding for projects are Liminal Magazine...
Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2021 shortlists announced
Monday, 21 June 2021
The Wilderness Society has announced the shortlists for the 2021 Environment Award for Children’s Literature (EACL). The shortlisted titles in each category are: Nonfiction The Wonderful Wisdom of Ants (Philip...
Mantel wins Walter Scott Prize for ‘The Mirror & Light’
Monday, 21 June 2021
In the UK, Hilary Mantel has won the £25,000 (A$46,155) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for The Mirror & the Light (Fourth Estate)—11 years after the first book in...
ABA 2021 Booksellers’ Choice winners announced
Monday, 21 June 2021
The winners of the Australian Booksellers Association’s (ABA) 2021 Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Adult Fiction Book of...
Lui wins Russell Prize for Humour Writing, Bunting wins inaugural writing for young people award
Friday, 18 June 2021
Nakkiah Lui has won the $10,000 biennial Russell Prize for Humour Writing for Black is the New White (A&U), the book of her play of the same name. Judges Mark...
Black Inc. partners with ASRC on ‘Seeking Asylum: Our stories’
Friday, 18 June 2021
Black Inc. will partner with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) to publish Seeking Asylum: Our stories in commemoration of the ASRC’s 20th year. The book will capture the experiences...
ALS Gold Medal 2021 shortlist announced
Friday, 18 June 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Rain Heron (Robbie Arnott, Text) Cadaver Dog (Luke Best, UQP) The...
WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced
Friday, 18 June 2021
The shortlists for this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an Emerging Writer ($15,000) Father of the...
Meet the ABDA Emerging Designers of the Year: George Saad
Thursday, 17 June 2021
In the lead-up to the 2021 Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) Awards, Books+Publishing spoke to the two shortlisted nominees for Emerging Designer of the Year. In this first instalment we talk to...
Reading across the ditch: Forthcoming highlights from Aotearoa New Zealand
Thursday, 17 June 2021
Sharing a travel bubble and a relatively compatible time zone, could Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand's respective book industries be looking at each other afresh in this new pandemic era?...
Watson wins 2021 Penguin Literary Prize
Thursday, 17 June 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced that Denizen by James McKenzie Watson has won the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize. Dubbo-based Watson receives $20,000 as an advance against royalties, with...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Milan’s Libreria dello Spettacolo
Thursday, 17 June 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookshops in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. When, in 1979, Maria...
Reynolds, Smith win 2021 Carnegie, Greenaway medals
Thursday, 17 June 2021
The UK Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has announced the winners of the 2021 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals. Jason Reynolds won the Carnegie Medal for children’s...
Welbeck Flame acquires five-book ‘Hedgewitch’ series
Thursday, 17 June 2021
Welbeck Flame, the children’s imprint of UK publisher Welbeck Publishing Group, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to a five-book middle-grade series by debut Australian author Sky McKenna,...
Miles Franklin 2021 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 16 June 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The six shortlisted novels, chosen from a longlist of 12, are: Amnesty (Aravind Adiga, Picador) The Rain Heron (Robbie Arnott,...
Pulitzer Prize winners announced
Wednesday, 16 June 2021
In the US, the winners of the Pulitzer Prizes were announced at a virtual ceremony on 11 June, reports Publishers Weekly. Louise Erdrich won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for...
Michael Gifkins Prize 2021 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) have announced the shortlist for the 2021 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished...
Perkin’s My Bookshop to close
Wednesday, 16 June 2021
My Bookshop, the independent Melbourne bookstore owned by Corrie Perkin, is set to close, ‘a victim of Covid-19 lockdowns and lease negotiations’, reports the Age. Perkin, who launched the Hawksburn...
Oratia Media named Bologna publisher of the year, Oceania
Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Independent New Zealand/Aotearoa publisher Oratia Media has won the Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the Oceania category. The winner's citation describes Oratia Media as...
IPEd announces shortlist for 2021 Rosie Award
Wednesday, 16 June 2021
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, also known as the ‘Rosie’. The shortlisted editors are: Johannes Jakob, for his...
Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award 2021 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 16 June 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award has been announced. Selected from 100 submissions, including short story collections and novellas of up to 30,000 words, the 12...
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