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Creative Victoria announces VicArts recipients

Monday, 29 October 2018
Several literary projects and writers have been included among the recipients in the latest round of Creative Victoria’s VicArts Grants. The program will provide over $1.5 million in funding for...

Writers Victoria announces Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipients

Monday, 29 October 2018
Writers Victoria has announced the third round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. Nine successful writers, illustrators and translators were selected from 112 applicants to receive a...

‘Real Pigeons’ series sold to US in three-book deal

Monday, 29 October 2018
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has sold North American rights to three books in the ‘Real Pigeons’ series (Andrew McDonald, illus by Ben Wood) to Random House Children’s Books, following a...

Benyamin wins inaugural JCB Prize for Literature

Friday, 26 October 2018
Novelist and short story writer Benyamin has won the inaugural JCB prize for Literature in India. Benyamin won Rs 25 lakhs (A$48,220) for his book Jasmine Days (Juggernaut Books), translated into...

Parliament fast-tracks 5% tax cut for small to medium-sized enterprises

Friday, 26 October 2018
The federal government has passed updated legislation to reduce taxes for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from 30% to 25% over a three-year period, reports MyBusiness. The Morrison government has...

McTiernan shortlisted for 2018 Irish Book Awards

Friday, 26 October 2018
Perth-based author Dervla McTiernan has been shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. McTiernan’s debut, The Ruin (HarperCollins), was one of six shortlisted titles in the category for Irish Independent Crime Fiction...

Subbed In announces six winners of 2018 Chapbook Prize

Friday, 26 October 2018
Subbed In has announced six winners of its 2018 Chapbook Prize. The winning entries, chosen from a shortlist of 14, will be published by Subbed In. They are: When I...

UK Dagger awards 2018 winners announced

Friday, 26 October 2018
The UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced the winners of the 2018 Dagger awards. The winners in each category are: Diamond Dagger (for an author whose crime writing careers...

Creative Vic announces Creators Fund grant recipients

Friday, 26 October 2018
Creative Victoria has announced the second-round recipients of the Creators Fund program, who will share in $900,000 worth of funding. Among the 24 recipients are: Sarah Firth ($30,000) for a...

Bookshops prepare for NZ Bookshop Day

Thursday, 25 October 2018
Booksellers NZ's fourth annual NZ Bookshop Day will be held on Saturday, 27 October, with bookshops around the country hosting events and promotions. To mark 10 years of Nielsen operating...

Book sales in Iceland dropped 43% from 2010 to 2017

Thursday, 25 October 2018
Book sales in Iceland dropped 43% between 2010 and 2017, with sales from the first four months of 2018 dropping a further 5% from the same period in 2017, reports...

Fremantle sells world English rights to Sally Morgan board book ‘I Love Me’

Thursday, 25 October 2018
Fremantle Press has sold world English-language rights to Sally Morgan’s board book I Love Me (illus by Ambelin Kwaymullina) to Andrews McMeel Publishing, part of Andrews McMeel Universal (AMU), in...

SLWA releases 2018-2022 strategic plan

Wednesday, 24 October 2018
The State Library of Western Australia (SLWA) has released its strategic plan for 2018-2022. The key objectives of the strategic plan include: to embrace digital transformation by creating easier access...

Louise Cornege on the Publishers Publicity Circle

Wednesday, 24 October 2018
A networking group for UK publicists, the Publishers Publicity Circle (PPC), launched an Australian chapter this year. Allen & Unwin head of publicity Louise Cornege is the chair of PPC...

Canadian partnership to enhance First Nations library services

Wednesday, 24 October 2018
In the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, a new partnership is aiming to increase library resources on First Nations reserves, reports the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Currently, out of 306 public...

Making the deal: The state of rights sales in the UK

Wednesday, 24 October 2018
While the UK remains a tough market for Australian publishers to break into, UK indies are showing an interest in Australian voices, reports Catherine Moller. Several Australian independent publishers have had...

State Library NSW seeks UNESCO listing for Unaipon manuscript

Wednesday, 24 October 2018
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) will display a manuscript by Indigenous writer, inventor and polymath David Unaipon and is preparing a case for it to be given UNESCO heritage...

Australian children’s books shortlisted for Japan’s Sakura Medal

Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Five Australian children's books have been shortlised for Japan's Sakura Medal. Jeannie Baker's picture book Circle (Walker) has been nominated in the picture books category, while in the chapter books category, Paul...

Mununggurr-Williams wins 2018 Australian Poetry Slam

Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Darwin-based Djapu poet Melanie Mununggurr-Williams has won the 2018 Australian Poetry Slam national final, reports the Guardian. At the national final held at the Sydney Opera House on 21 October,...

Four UK bookshops nominated for Britain’s Best Small Shop

Wednesday, 24 October 2018
In the UK, four independent bookshops have been nominated for Britain’s Best Small Shop of 2018, reports the Bookseller. The annual competition, managed by the Independent Retailers Confederation, celebrates ‘entrepreneurial...

Queensland Literary Awards 2018 winners announced

Wednesday, 24 October 2018
The winners of the 2018 Queensland Literary Awards (QLAs) were announced on 23 October. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction ($15,000) Taboo (Kim Scott, Picador) Nonfiction ($15,000) Tracker...

Le, Saleh awarded inaugural Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers

Tuesday, 23 October 2018
Vietnamese-Australian writer Shirley Le and Palestinian-Australian poet Sara Saleh, of Western Sydney-based literacy collective Sweatshop, have been announced as the inaugural recipients of a new mentorship for Sweatshop writers, run in...