UK films based on books create 44% more revenue
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
A new research report commissioned by the UK Publisher’s Association (PA) has found that UK-produced films based on books generate 44% more revenue in the British box office (and 53%...
PRH sells North American rights to 13-year-old slam poet’s debut
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has sold North American rights to Limelight by 13-year-old slam poet Solli Raphael to Andrews McMeel Universal (AMU). AMU executive editor Patty Rice acquired the rights...
Walker Books to publish YA anthology by LGBTQIA+ authors
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to an anthology of YA short stories by LGBTQIA+ Australian authors. Due to be published in June 2019, Kindred: A Queer #LoveOzYA Anthology...
Australian Historical Association 2018 awards announced
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
The Australian Historical Association (AHA) has announced the winners of the 2018 W K Hancock Prize and the Kay Daniels Award. The $2000 W K Hancock prize, which recognises an...
Shortlist announced for National Biography Award 2018
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the 2018 National Biography Award, worth $25,000. The shortlisted works are: Songs of a War Boy (Deng...
‘Nevermoor’ tops Dymocks Kids’ Top 51 list
Monday, 9 July 2018
Dymocks Booklovers members have cast a combined 5500 votes for their favourite children’s book of all time, with Queensland writer Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Lothian) taking...
‘Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts’ and ‘Reported Missing’ win 2018 Gold Ledger Awards
Monday, 9 July 2018
The winners of the 2018 Ledger Awards for excellence in Australian comics and graphic novels were announced in Sydney on 6 July. Two works received Gold Ledger Awards: Giants, Trolls,...
‘The English Patient’ voted best Man Booker winner
Monday, 9 July 2018
Michael Ondaatje’s 1992 novel The English Patient (Bloomsbury) has won the Golden Man Booker Prize, which awards the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the Man...
BILBY Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Monday, 9 July 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards—the children’s choice book awards for Queensland—have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Early readers Do...
‘Freedom Swimmer’ optioned for film
Monday, 9 July 2018
Wai Chim’s YA novel Freedom Swimmer (A&U) has been optioned for film by writer and director Ben Ockrent at Micro Productions UK. Agent Brian Cook, of literary agency The Authors’...
McAlinden wins 2018 ‘KYD’ unpublished manuscript award
Monday, 9 July 2018
Literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced Nicole McAlinden as the winner of its 2018 unpublished manuscript award for her manuscript ‘Little Did I Know’. McAlinden receives $5000 and...
Ned Kelly Awards 2018 longlists announced
Friday, 6 July 2018
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the longlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The longlisted titles in each category are: Best crime Marlborough...
OUP turnover drops 0.9% following ‘unexpected market conditions’
Friday, 6 July 2018
Oxford University Press (OUP) has recorded a 0.9% decrease in turnover to £840.1 million (A$1.5bn) for the year ending 31 March 2018, reports the Bookseller. The results were attributed to 'challenging...
Davitt Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Friday, 6 July 2018
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted works in each category are: Adult novel The...
BWF 2018 program announced
Friday, 6 July 2018
The program has been announced for the 2018 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs from 6-9 September. More than 200 writers will appear at the festival, including human rights barrister...
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now
Friday, 6 July 2018
Books+Publishing’s most recent Junior newsletter contains six reviews of books publishing in September 2018. Catching Teller Crow (A&U), a 'hybrid YA novel that blends thriller, crime and ghost story elements' by...
Tsiolkas announced as final judge for The Next Chapter
Friday, 6 July 2018
The Wheeler Centre has announced author Christos Tsiolkas as the final judge for its $150,000 initiative for developing writers, The Next Chapter. Tsiolkas joins previously announced judges Benjamin Law, Maxine...
Books+Publishing magazine Issue 2 2018
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Books+Publishing magazine’s second issue for 2018 is out now! It features 34 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing from July to August. Reviews: Of the 17 adult books reviewed in this issue,...
Reading the audience: the LoveOzYA readership survey
Thursday, 5 July 2018
In 2017, the LoveOzYA committee conducted a survey into the reading habits of the Australian YA community. Committee chair Stacey Malacari reports on the survey’s findings. The LoveOzYA movement was...
Reaching out: Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina on ‘Catching Teller Crow’
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina’s Catching Teller Crow (A&U, September) is a 'distinctly Australian hybrid YA novel that blends thriller, crime and ghost story elements', writes reviewer Karen Wyld. Told in two...
La Trobe University invests $200,000 in ‘The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka’ adaptation
Thursday, 5 July 2018
La Trobe University has invested $200,000 in a TV series adaptation of Clare Wright's book The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, reports the Age. Money from the university's Strategic Innovation Fund...
French book sales fell 1.6% in 2017
Thursday, 5 July 2018
French publishing sales fell in 2017 by 1.6% in value to €2.79 billion (A$4.4bn), according to figures from the French Publishers Association (Syndicat National de l’Edition, SNE), reports the Bookseller....
Creative Victoria announces VicArts recipients
Thursday, 5 July 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...
Podcast spotlight: Coffee Pod|cast
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Coffee Pod|cast was established this year by Australian indie press Spineless Wonders, which publishes quality short stories, microliterature and novellas in print, digital and audio. The ethos of Spineless Wonders...
Deo wins 2018 ALS Gold Medal
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Shastra Deo’s debut poetry collection The Agonist (UQP) has won the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal. Deo’s collection was chosen from a shortlist of six that included Peter Carey,...
Wright awarded 2018 Magarey Medal
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Alexis Wright has won the biennial Magarey Medal for Biography for Tracker (Giramondo). Wright’s biography of Aboriginal leader, thinker and entrepreneur Tracker Tilmouth was chosen from a shortlist of five...
UQP sells ‘The Geography of Friendship’ to UK
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold UK and Irish rights to Sally Piper’s The Geography of Friendship and 2014 debut novel Grace’s Table to Legend Press, in a two-book...
Stokes donates $1m to NLA for fellowships
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Outgoing council chair of the National Library of Australia (NLA) Ryan Stokes has donated $1 million to support research fellowships at the library. The $1 million gift from the Stokes...
Safe harbour scheme extended to libraries, cultural institutions
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Australian libraries and cultural institutions will now be covered by the copyright safe harbour scheme, which protects them from being held liable when their online services are used by others...
Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature planned
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
A group of Swedish cultural figures have joined together to bestow an alternate literature award to replace this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, reports the Guardian. As previously reported, the...
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