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EWF 2021 goes completely digital

Thursday, 10 June 2021
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), which was originally planned as a hybrid festival of both online and in-person events at locations across Melbourne, has announced it will shift its 2021...

Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction 2021 shortlist announced

Thursday, 10 June 2021
Lip magazine has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Homing Stars’ by Tiffany Korssen ‘Lady Finger’ by Keshe Chow ‘The Tooth...

Hazareesingh wins £40,000 Wolfson History Prize

Thursday, 10 June 2021
In the UK, Sudhir Hazareesingh has won the £40,000 (A$73,045) Wolfson History Prize for Black Spartacus: The epic life of Toussaint Louverture (Allen Lane), reports the Bookseller. Black Spartacus is...

Career path: Andrew Robertson 

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Andrew Robertson, who began his career at one of Melbourne's most well-loved bookshops, joined NewSouth Books as the account manager for Victoria and Tasmania in 2019. Here he shares his...

ABA moves 2021 conference online only 

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced it will hold its forthcoming 2021 conference online only, due to the uncertainty caused by Melbourne’s ongoing Covid-19 restrictions. The conference had been...

Malla Nunn on ‘Sugar Town Queens’

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens (A&U, August) is a young adult novel set in Sugar Town, South Africa. This coming-of-age story follows 15-year-old Amandla as she uncovers her family history and...

PEN Sydney establishes writer’s refuge program

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
PEN Sydney has established a writer’s refuge for writers living with disadvantage and/or discrimination that restricts their work. Supported by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University of...

Bloomsbury records ‘outstanding’ results in 2020

Tuesday, 8 June 2021
In the UK, Bloomsbury recorded an ‘outstanding’ financial year, as shown in its 2020 preliminary results, with sales up 14% to £185.1 million (A$338.2m) and profit up 22% to £19.2 million...

Spineless Wonders launches new imprint 

Tuesday, 8 June 2021
Small press Spineless Wonders, which specialises in short fiction, has created a new imprint, ES-Press. ES-Press was established to publish poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction including essays and memoir—work that...

Writing NSW Emerging Writers mentees announced

Tuesday, 8 June 2021
Writing NSW has announced the successful applicants for its new Emerging Writers Mentorship Program for emerging writers from Indigenous or culturally diverse backgrounds. The successful applicants are: Deniz Agraz Jackie...

Scribner acquires Ballard’s ‘I, Millennial’ 

Monday, 7 June 2021
Simon & Schuster has acquired I, Millennial: One snowflake’s screed against plague, boomers, billionaires & everything else by comedian Tom Ballard, to be published under its Scribner imprint. The publisher...

UK backlist titles up during lockdowns

Monday, 7 June 2021
In the UK, Nielsen BookScan data has found demand for backlist titles increased over lockdown, reports the Bookseller. A report from Enders Analysis covers the shift in demand from frontlist...

Digital library service hoopla expands to Australia

Monday, 7 June 2021
US online library service hoopla digital has expanded to Australia, its first international market beyond North America. Available immediately, the service offers library card holders from selected libraries access to...

US audiobook sales grows 12%

Friday, 4 June 2021
In the US, an Audio Publishers Association report found audiobook revenue grew 12% to US$1.3 billion (A$1.7 billion) last year, reports Publishing Perspectives. The result is the ninth year in...

MUP announces operating profit increase of 19% 

Friday, 4 June 2021
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has reported its operating profit for the two-year period of 2019–2020 is up 19%, compared to 2017–2018. ‘Since the end of 2018, total equity in the...

French author Diop wins International Booker Prize

Thursday, 3 June 2021
French author David Diop has won the £50,000 (A$91,400) International Booker Prize for his novel At Night All Blood is Black (trans by Anna Moschovakis, Pushkin). The judges described At...

UQP acquires Haddad debut novel ‘Losing Face’

Thursday, 3 June 2021
UQP has acquired world rights to Losing Face, the debut novel by Sydney writer George Haddad. Losing Face interweaves the stories of Joey, who has recently finished school and is...

Inaugural Kuracca Prize longlist announced

Thursday, 3 June 2021
Overland has announced the longlist for the inaugural Kuracca Prize for Australian Literature, created in honour of the late Wiradjuri elder, poet, writer, activist and artist Kerry Reed-Gilbert. The longlisted...

July reviews round-up 

Wednesday, 2 June 2021
Releasing in July are two well-reviewed memoirs about family and intergenerational trauma: Dianne O’Brien’s Daughter of the River Country and Amani Haydar’s The Mother Wound. Although both stories are confronting...

‘The Nancys’ optioned for screen

Wednesday, 2 June 2021
Screen adaptation rights to crime novel The Nancys by Melbourne-based New Zealand author R W R McDonald (A&U) have been optioned by Queensland production company Hoodlum Entertainment, via Grace Heifetz...

 

 

 

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