Writers, literary orgs among latest OzCo funding round recipients
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
Twenty writers and seven literary organisations are among the 186 recipients of the Australia Council’s latest grants round, worth a total of $6.5 million. Funding in the literature category totalled...
ACT Book of the Year 2019 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
The shortlist for the 2019 ACT Book of the Year Award was announced in December. The shortlisted titles are: Made by Humans: The AI Condition (Ellen Broad, MUP) Book of...
UWAP announces 2020 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
In December, UWA Publishing announced the shortlist for the 2020 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted authors and their works are: ‘The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette’...
US print sales down 1.3% in 2019
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
US print sales in 2019 fell by 1.3% in volume compared to the previous year, reports Publishers Weekly. Volume sales for the year totalled 689.5 million units, down from 698.4...
MWF appoints Nair as program manager
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has appointed writer and critic Sonia Nair as program manager, taking over the role from Gene Smith, who has moved into the role of associate director...
Pearson sells remaining 25% stake in PRH to Bertelsmann
Monday, 13 January 2020
Pearson is selling its remaining 25% stake in Penguin Random House (PRH) to Bertelsmann, giving the German corporation 100% ownership of the world’s largest trade publisher, reports the Bookseller. The...
MacDonald joins MUP as senior director of marketing and sales
Monday, 13 January 2020
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has appointed Brian MacDonald as its new senior director of marketing and sales. MacDonald has moved to Melbourne from Canada, where he was the business development...
Book sales value down three percent in 2019: Nielsen
Monday, 13 January 2020
After five consecutive years of marginal growth in the Australian book market, book sales fell three percent in value in Australia in 2019, down $36 million to $1.14 billion, according...
Costa Book Awards 2019 category winners announced
Monday, 13 January 2020
In the UK, the five category winners for the 2019 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The five winners were chosen from shortlists announced in November 2019. The winning authors each...
Whitmont joins Booktopia Publisher Services
Monday, 13 January 2020
Booktopia has announced that Scott Whitmont will be joining Booktopia's distribution division Booktopia Publisher Services (BPS), in the role of business development and relationship manager. Whitmont was previously the owner...
UWAP staff given six-month extensions; university to reconsider publishing model
Monday, 13 January 2020
Staff at the University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP) have been given six-month extensions of their contracts, amid the university’s plans to reconsider the publishing model of the press. The...
2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced
Friday, 20 December 2019
The shortlists have been announced for the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, presented biennially by the South Australian government. The shortlisted titles are: Children’s literature award ($15,000) The Elephant...
Hardie Grant announces new parental leave policy
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Hardie Grant will introduce changes to its parental leave policy in 2020 that will mean secondary carers will receive the same paid parental leave benefits as primary carers—13 weeks of...
What we’ll be reading in 2020
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Books+Publishing editors Sarah Farquharson and Kelsey Oldham share the books they're most looking forward to reading in 2020. Sarah Farquharson: Like many others, I was beside myself to learn that...
Book bites: Starting 2020 on the right note
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Mischa Parkee, teacher and children’s specialist at Sydney’s Better Read Than Dead, shares her top children's picks for the new year. What better way to bring in the new year...
Sun wins KYD New Critic Award
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Sydney-based writer and designer Michael Sun has been named the winner of the 2020 Kill Your Darlings (KYD) New Critic Award. Sun receives a $1000 cash prize, plus a regular...
Inaugural Writing WA Literary Lions Medal shortlist announced
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Writing WA has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Literary Lions Medal. The new award recognises individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the vitality and success of Western...
Peri Wilson appointed A&U publicity director
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Peri Wilson has been appointed publicity director at Allen & Unwin (A&U). Wilson has worked across media, arts and advertising industries, within companies including Random House, Yahoo7, Sensis, PwC and...
Lebeter wins Horne Prize 2019 for essay on climate change and biodiversity
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Rachael Lebeter has won the the $15,000 Horne Prize for her essay ‘Diary of a Wildlife Carer’, on the plight of native fauna in the face of climate change and...
Staff at NYC bookshop chain McNally Jackson ‘likely’ to unionise
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
In the US, employees at New York City bookshop and stationary store chain McNally Jackson are voting on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) this...
HQ Fiction acquires Fiona Lowe novels in two-book deal
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
HarperCollins imprint HQ Fiction has acquired ANZ rights to two new novels by Victoria-based author Fiona Lowe in a 'substantial' deal. A Home Like Ours, the first novel in the...
Final ‘WBN’ for 2019
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Today’s Weekly Book Newsletter (WBN) is the last for 2019 and the newsletter will return on Wednesday, 15 January. The Daily Newsletter will return on Monday, 13 January. The Books+Publishing...
Copyright Agency announces recipients of $455k in funding grants
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Twenty-one projects and six new initiatives have received a total of $455,691 in the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Literary organisations and projects that received...
Winton wins 2019 Voss Literary Prize for ‘The Shepherd’s Hut’
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Tim Winton has won the 2019 Voss Literary Prize, worth $5000, for his novel The Shepherd’s Hut (Hamish Hamilton). Now in its sixth year, the Voss Literary Prize is awarded...
Melbourne City of Lit announces Quebec City exchange recipients
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
The Melbourne City of Literature has announced the six Victorian-based book-industry professionals who will spend a week in Quebec City, as part of a new exchange program between the two...
‘Bridget Crack’ wins 2019 Tasmania Book Prize
Friday, 6 December 2019
The winners of the 2019 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The winning works and their authors are: Tasmania Book Prize for the best book with Tasmanian content in...
Arts to be merged into new government ‘super-department’
Friday, 6 December 2019
From 1 February 2020, the Department of Communications and the Arts (DCA) will be incorporated into the new Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications, meaning the arts will...
Booton appointed Stella Prize executive director
Friday, 6 December 2019
The Stella Prize has appointed Jaclyn Booton as its new executive director, replacing previous ED Michelle Scott Tucker, who in July left the role after less than a year to...
Chen wins Deborah Cass Prize 2019
Friday, 6 December 2019
Writer Janette Chen has won the 2019 Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds for her manuscript extract ‘Wall of Men’. Chosen from a shortlist of 10, ‘Wall of...
Final ‘B+P Daily’ for 2019
Friday, 6 December 2019
This issue of the Books+Publishing Daily will be the last for 2019. The Daily will return on Monday, 13 January 2020. The Books+Publishing team wishes our subscribers all the best...
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