Waterstones staff to receive 6.2% pay rise
Thursday, 27 February 2020
In the UK, staff at bookselling chain Waterstones will receive a 6.2% pay rise, reports the Bookseller. Effective 1 April, the raise in bookseller wages is in line with the...
Booktopia appoints Rowe national sales manager
Thursday, 27 February 2020
Booktopia has appointed Michelle Rowe in the newly created role of national sales manager. Rowe was previously the state manager for Western Australia and South Australia at the University Co-operative...
Godfrey awarded 2020 Kat Muscat Fellowship
Thursday, 27 February 2020
Perth-based writer Maddie Godfrey has been awarded the 2020 Kat Muscat Fellowship. Godfrey plans to use the fellowship to develop a hybrid manuscript of poetry and personal essays called ‘Womanhood...
Overland announces Judith Wright Poetry Prize shortlist
Thursday, 27 February 2020
The shortlist for the 2019 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for new and emerging poets has been announced. The nine shortlisted poems are: ‘Chinny chin chin’ (Grace Yee) ‘Eulogy for...
The bookseller’s dilemma: What bookstores won’t stock
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
As conversations proliferate about cultural appropriation in literature, debates about whether—and how—bookstores should stock controversial books have been renewed. In her first column for 2020, Books+Publishing's new columnist Veronica Sullivan...
Why are booksellers leaving Leading Edge?
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
A number of Australia’s most prominent independent booksellers are leaving Leading Edge Books in favour of a new buying group set up by the Australian Booksellers Association. Sarah Farquharson reports....
Folio Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
In the UK, the shortlist for the £30,000 (A$59,000) Rathbones Folio Prize has been announced. The eight shortlisted titles are: Guest House for Young Widows (Azadeh Moaveni, Scribe) On Chapel...
Affirm to publish speculative fiction anthology by diverse writers
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
Affirm Press will publish a speculative fiction anthology by writers from Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, as part of a partnership with Diversity Arts Australia and the Western...
TV adaptations of Cheng, Clarke books receive development funding
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
TV adaptions of Melanie Cheng's short story collection Australia Day (Text) and Maxine Beneba Clarke's Foreign Soil (Hachette) have received funding from Screen Australia in its latest development funding announcement. The...
CBCA 2020 Notable Books announced
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its list of Notable Books for 2020. The books in each category are: Older readers The Man in the Water (David...
Seizure announces 2020 Viva la Novella shortlist
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
Seizure has announced the shortlist for the 2020 Viva la Novella competition. This year’s shortlisted authors and their works are: Lana Guineay, for ‘Dark Wave’ Keely Jobe, for ‘Snake Skin’...
Boochani’s ‘No Friend But the Mountains’ to be adapted for film
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Behrouz Boochani’s book No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (trans by Omid Tofighian, Picador) will be adapted as a feature film. The feature will be primarily shot...
UQP to present gender equality award in honour of Quentin Bryce
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has established a new award, named in honour of former Governor General Quentin Bryce, that celebrates women’s lives or promotes gender equality. Established in...
Bologna postponed due to coronavirus
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
This year's Bologna Children’s Book Fair has been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak in Italy. The fair, which was scheduled for 30 March–2 April, will now run from 4–7...
The Next Chapter mentors announced
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
The recipients of the 2019 Next Chapter grants for developing writers, each worth $15,000, have been matched with their mentors, who will work with them over 12 months to help...
Wyld wins UWAP Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript
Monday, 24 February 2020
South Australian author Karen Wyld has won the 2020 UWA Publishing (UWAP) Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript for her manuscript ‘Where the Fruit Falls’. Wyld was chosen from...
City of Melbourne relaunches Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards
Monday, 24 February 2020
Melbourne's Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Awards, last held in 2017, will be relaunched this year, reports CBD News. Prizes will be awarded in six categories: short story, poetry, narrative nonfiction,...
Brown wins 2020 MUD Literary Prize for debut fiction
Monday, 24 February 2020
Sienna Brown’s Master of My Fate (Vintage) has won the 2020 MUD Literary Prize, awarded to a debut novel. Brown receives a cash prize of $3000, and will be presented...
Australian Book Design Awards 2020 longlists announced
Friday, 21 February 2020
The longlists for the 2020 Australian Book Design Awards have been announced. Longlisted titles in some of the categories are: Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover Bruny (Heather Rose, A&U), designed...
MWF to cut artist numbers for 2020 schools program
Friday, 21 February 2020
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) plans to reduce the number of artists appearing in its 2020 schools program, reports the Age. While more than 60 artists participated in the 2019 schools...
Revenue, profit down at S&S in 2019
Friday, 21 February 2020
In the US, Simon & Schuster’s (S&S) parent company ViacomCBS has reported that the publisher’s OIBDA (operating income before depreciation and amortisation) fell from US$153 million (A$231.3m) in 2018 to...
Foxlee, Cai, Tan longlisted for 2020 Carnegie, Greenaway medals
Friday, 21 February 2020
Australian children’s author Karen Foxlee and illustrators Shaun Tan and Rovina Cai have been longlisted for the UK’s 2020 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals respectively. Foxlee was longlisted for the...
‘The Trespassers’ makes UN reading list on sustainability goals
Thursday, 20 February 2020
Meg Mundell’s novel The Trespassers (UQP) has been included on a recommended reading list inspired by the United Nations’ sustainable development goals—a set of global benchmarks that are designed to...
Patch leaves PRH
Thursday, 20 February 2020
Bethany Patch has left her role as senior editor of Dorling Kindersley (DK) at Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia. Patch joined the PRH adult publishing team in mid-2016 before moving...
National Library makes cuts to ‘unprofitable’ publishing imprint
Thursday, 20 February 2020
The National Library of Australia is cutting the number of books it publishes each year through its NLA Publishing imprint, reports the Canberra Times. The total number of books published...
How did international book markets perform in 2019?
Wednesday, 19 February 2020
Representatives from trade publications in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden and China have shared insights with Books+Publishing on how their respective markets fared in 2019. Across the regions,...
HarperCollins creates standalone Irish division
Wednesday, 19 February 2020
HarperCollins is creating a new standalone Irish publishing division, reports the Bookseller. The division, which launches on 16 March, will be headed by Conor Nagle, who is currently Gill Books...
Scribe acquires Woollett’s ‘The Newcomer’
Wednesday, 19 February 2020
Scribe has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s third book, The Newcomer, via Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary. Inspired by a real-life murder on Norfolk Island,...
Readings Children’s Book Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 18 February 2020
The shortlist for the Readings Children's Book Prize for 2020 has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Pie in the Sky (Remy Lai, Walker Books) The Dog Runner (Bren MacDibble,...
‘The Absolute Book’ sold to US following rave review, sales spike
Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Victoria University Press has sold North American rights to New Zealand author Elizabeth Knox’s fantasy novel The Absolute Book following a rave review. Dan Kois’ review of The Absolute Book,...
« Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 Next page »
