Podcast spotlight: So You Want to Be a Writer
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Established in 2014, So You Want to Be a Writer is made by the Australian Writers’ Centre (AWC) and co-hosted by author Allison Tait and AWC CEO Valerie Khoo. Each episode covers...
New Oran Park library wins 2018 Outstanding Community Project of the Year award
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
A new $14 million library and community resource centre at Oran Park Town, NSW, has received the Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue (the Dialogue) Outstanding Community Project of the Year award,...
Ventura sells ‘A Superior Spectre’ to the UK
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Ventura Press has sold UK rights to Angela Meyer’s debut novel A Superior Spectre to Scottish publisher Saraband. Publisher Sara Hunt acquired rights at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair via UK-based agency Abner...
Book Aid International to donate £500k worth of books to Ghana libraries
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
UK charity Book Aid International has signed a partnership with the Ghana Library Authority (GhLA) to supply the country's public, school and special libraries with books, reports Ghanaian news outlet...
A&U sells ‘The Mummy Bloggers’ to UK, Europe, India in two-book deal
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has sold English-language rights in the UK, Europe and India to The Mummy Bloggers (Holly Wainwright) to Legend Press in a two-book deal. A Sydney-based journalist...
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Wednesday, 14 November 2018
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Leading Edge to hold 2019 conference in Adelaide
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Leading Edge Books (LEB) will hold its annual conference on 17-19 March at the Hilton Adelaide in South Australia. With the theme ‘making connections’, the conference program will incorporate the...
Copyright Agency launches legal action against universities
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
The Copyright Agency has lodged action in the Copyright Tribunal against Universities Australia, the peak body representing universities, over the terms of the licensing agreement for distributing content. Universities Australia,...
‘Bad Blood’ wins 2018 Business Book of the Year
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
In the UK, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Picador) by investigative journalist John Carreyou has won the 2018 Financial Times (FT) and McKinsey & Company Business Book of...
Scribe sells Giggs’ ‘Fathoms’ to US in record deal
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Scribe has sold North American rights at auction to Rebecca Giggs’ forthcoming Fathoms: The World in the Whale to Simon & Schuster (S&S), in what publisher Henry Rosenbloom describes as...
Deborah Cass 2018 prize shortlist announced
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
The shortlist for Writers Victoria’s Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds has been announced. The shortlisted works are: ‘Bread of the dead’ by Shannon Anima (Canada) ‘The...
UAE grants companies accreditation to self-monitor book content
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), regulatory body the National Media Council (NMC) has granted Content Self-Monitoring Program (CSMP) accreditation to five book industry companies so they can monitor the content...
Voss Literary Prize 2018 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Voss Literary Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: No More Boats (Felicity Castagna, Giramondo) The Last Garden (Eva Hornung, Text) The Choke (Sofie Laguna, A&U) Storyland...
A&U acquires second Kitty Flanagan book
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ and Oceania rights (including audio) to 488 Rules for Life by comedian Kitty Flanagan. A spoof of Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life...
Hunt awarded inaugural Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
Barkindji writer Allanah Hunt has been awarded the inaugural Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship. Her winning manuscript, 'Forever and Ever', tells the story of a young woman reckoning with her unplanned...
Australian Family Therapists’ Award for children’s literature 2018 winners announced
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
The winners of the 2018 Australian Family Therapists’ Award for children’s literature have been announced. The winners are The Build-up Season by Megan Jacobson (Penguin) and Finding Nevo by Nevo...
Winners of 2018 Chen Bochui International Children’s Literature Awards announced
Monday, 12 November 2018
The winners of the 2018 Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award (CICLA) have been announced. Zhang Mingzhou, president of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), was honoured as Special...
Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize winner announced; Australian writer among runners-up
Monday, 12 November 2018
The recipients of the inaugural Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize for an unpublished novella have been announced. Californian writer, translator and poet Marci Vogel has won the prize for her...
KROC Awards 2018 winners announced
Monday, 12 November 2018
The winners of the 2018 Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for the Northern Territory, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Do...
Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2018 winners announced
Monday, 12 November 2018
The winners of the 2018 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year awards have been announced. Chosen from shortlists announced in July, the winning titles are: Birth to three years...
‘Florette’ named on 2018 NYT/NYPL Best Illustrated Children’s Books list
Friday, 9 November 2018
Melbourne-based writer and illustrator Anna Walker's picture book Florette (Viking) has been named as one of the New York Times (NYT)/New York Public Library's (NYPL) best illustrated children's books for 2018....
Brazilian publishers seek to intervene to save leading retailers from closure
Friday, 9 November 2018
Brazilian publishers are meeting this week to discuss how they might prevent the country’s two largest retailers from closure, reports Publishing Perspectives. The National Syndicate of Book Publishers (SNEl) will...
Christmas predictions: Annie Waters from Mostly Books in Adelaide
Friday, 9 November 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In the second...
Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2018 winners announced
Friday, 9 November 2018
The Wilderness Society has announced the winners of the 2018 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. The winners are: Picture fiction Florette (Anna Walker, Viking) Fiction Wombat Warriors (Samantha Wheeler, UQP) Nonfiction...
Walkley Book Award 2018 shortlist announced
Friday, 9 November 2018
The Walkley Book Award 2018 shortlist has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The First Casualty (Peter Greste, Viking) No Front Line: Australia’s Special Forces At War in Afghanistan (Chris...
KOALAs 2018 winners announced
Friday, 9 November 2018
The winners of the 2018 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), the children’s choice book awards for New South Wales, have been announced. The winners and honour books in each...
Amazon’s AbeBooks backflips after booksellers protest
Thursday, 8 November 2018
After two days of striking against Amazon subsidiary AbeBooks, antiquarian booksellers around the world have had success, with the retailer apologising and saying it would reverse the decision that prompted...
Podcast spotlight: Write Through the Roof
Thursday, 8 November 2018
Hosted by speculative fiction author Madeleine D’Este, Write Through the Roof is a podcast for writers who want to improve their craft. Guests have included crime writer Emma Viskic and...
Singapore National Library Board to archive digital publications, websites
Thursday, 8 November 2018
In Singapore, the National Library Board (NLB) has announced it will archive digital publications and websites ending with the .sg domain, reports the Straits Times. Around 180,000 websites will be added...
NZ’s first suburban self-service library to open
Thursday, 8 November 2018
New Zealand’s first suburban self-service library will open in Whanganui East on the country’s North Island in January 2019, reports the New Zealand Herald. The new Hakeke Street Library, to be...
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