Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2019 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
In the UK, the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Disoriental (Négar Djavadi, trans Tina Kover, Europa Editions) Drive Your...
New APA initiative to signify Australian created books
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has begun a campaign to signify books created in Australia with a new logo. Based on the logo for joint-industry group Books Create Australia, the...
First writers announced for Adelaide Writers’ Week
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
The first writers have been announced for next year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 29 February to 5 March. International guests include Nigerian novelist Chigozie Obioma, Omani novelist and...
Winners of 2019 YABBAs announced
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
The winners of the 2019 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Seriously Do Not Open This Book (Andy...
Lit projects account for 2.7% of OzCo arts funding in 2018–19
Tuesday, 29 October 2019
According to the Australia Council’s latest annual report, published last week, literature projects accounted for 2.7% of its arts funding in 2018–19, or $5.1 million out of a total of...
John Flanagan’s ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ to be adapted for film
Tuesday, 29 October 2019
A film based on YA adventure series ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ by Australian author John Flanagan (Random House Children’s) has received funding and is expected to begin production in 2020, reports the...
Fair Work approves PRH EBA
Tuesday, 29 October 2019
The Fair Work Commission has approved Penguin Random House Australia's enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA), the first union-negotiated EBA in Australian publishing history. In September, PRH delegates in the editorial and...
Create NSW makes changes to multi-year arts funding guidelines
Monday, 28 October 2019
The NSW state government has announced changes to its multi-year arts funding for small to medium independent arts organisations. Applicants for multi-year funding will no longer need to have received...
New online platform to help US indies compete with Amazon
Monday, 28 October 2019
In the US, a new website designed to help independent bookstores compete with Amazon will launch in January, reports Publishers Weekly. Backed by the American Booksellers Association (ABA), Bookshop is...
Meyer’s ‘A Superior Spectre’ shortlisted for Saltire Literary Awards
Monday, 28 October 2019
Angela Meyer’s novel A Superior Spectre (Peter Bishop) has been shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year award, as part of Scotland's Saltire Literary Awards. Published in the...
Hammer wins UK Dagger award for ‘Scrublands’
Friday, 25 October 2019
Australian writer Chris Hammer has won the John Creasey Award for the best crime novel by a first-time author at the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2019 Dagger awards. Hammer's...
Wild Dingo launches Deadly Dingo imprint, scholarship for First Nations writers
Friday, 25 October 2019
Wild Dingo Press has launched a new imprint to publish work by First Nations writers and poets. The imprint, called Deadly Dingo Books, will publish ‘authentic, integral and powerful stories...
Hardie Grant acquires Slattery Media Group publications, expands sports publishing
Friday, 25 October 2019
Hardie Grant has acquired the publishing and content activities of Slattery Media Group (SMG) with immediate effect. Hardie Grant Books (HGB) will take on all book publishing projects, including the...
‘Girl, Woman, Other’ more than doubles lifetime sales after Booker win
Thursday, 24 October 2019
In the UK, joint Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton) more than doubled its lifetime sales in the week following its win on 14 October, reports the...
‘The Things We Can’t Undo’ wins AAFT Award for Children’s Literature
Thursday, 24 October 2019
Gabrielle Reid’s YA novel The Things We Can’t Undo (Ford Street) has won the 2019 Australian Association of Family Therapists’ (AAFT) Award for Children’s Literature. The novel follows the relationship between...
Macfie wins 2019 CLNZ Writers’ Award
Thursday, 24 October 2019
Journalist Rebecca Macfie has won the Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ)/New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Writers’ Award, worth NZ$25,000 (A$23,360), to help support her biography of Helen Kelly—the first...
Winners announced for PM’s Literary Awards 2019
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
The winners of the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction The Death of Noah Glass (Gail Jones, Text) Nonfiction Half...
Remember, remember the 10th of September: Release day for ‘The Testaments’
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Three retailers share how their release-day strategies panned out for this year’s biggest release: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (Vintage). The sweet spot In Fremantle, New Edition bookseller Kristy Diffey has...
2020 vision: Kids’ and YA title preview
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
New books from favourites including Melina Marchetta, Sally Morgan and Jessica Townsend are slated for 2020 publication, alongside debuts by Danielle Binks and Georgina Young that are already generating buzz....
Great School Libraries report prompts call for compulsory library funding
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
In the UK, a new report from the Great School Libraries campaign has found that schools with a higher proportion of children on free meals are more than twice as...
XR-affiliated group book Brisbane library room despite ban
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
A group affiliated with Extinction Rebellion has defied Brisbane City Council’s ban on their use of library rooms by holding a meeting in Brisbane Square Library last week, reports the...
New Darling Square library to open next week
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
The new City of Sydney Library at Darling Square will open on 28 October. The Darling Square Library occupies two floors of the six-storey Exchange building, which also has a...
Chadwick, McMillan win 2019 Polari Prizes
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
In the UK, writers Angela Chadwick and Andrew McMillan have won the 2019 Polari Prizes for work that explores the LGBT experience, reports the Bookseller. Now in its ninth year,...
Film rights to Mostafa’s ‘Offshore’ optioned
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Filmmaker Partho Sen-Gupta has optioned the film rights to Joshua Mostafa’s novella Offshore (Seizure). Mostafa was joint winner of Seizure’s seventh annual Viva La Novella competition, with Carly Cappielli for...
Deborah Cass Prize 2019 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
The shortlist for Writers Victoria’s Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Deniz Agraz for ‘Rosewater’ Michelle Almiron...
Reminder: PM’s Literary Awards winners announced this morning
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
The winners of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards will be announced at an event at Parliament House in Canberra from 11am. Books+Publishing will be tweeting from the winner’s ceremony here....
Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction 2019 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
In the UK, the shortlist for this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: Furious Hours: Murder, fraud...
‘The Glad Shout’ wins 2019 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
Tuesday, 22 October 2019
Alice Robinson’s second novel, The Glad Shout (Affirm), has won the 2019 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. The Glad Shout was chosen from a shortlist of six by a...
Twelve Australians nominated for 2020 Astrid Lindgren Award
Tuesday, 22 October 2019
Twelve Australian authors, illustrators and organisations have been announced as candidates for the 2020 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's richest prize for children's literature. The Australian candidates are: Randa...
wāni wins 2019 Australian Poetry Slam
Tuesday, 22 October 2019
Melbourne-based poet wāni has won the 2019 Australian Poetry Slam, held in Sydney on 20 October. wāni beat 15 other finalists at the national grand final after qualifying by coming...
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