Voss Literary Prize 2018 shortlist announced Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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The recipients of the inaugural Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize for an unpublished novella have been announced.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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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...
Libraries awarded 2018 NLA Community Heritage Grants Archive
Thursday, 8 November 2018
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced the recipients of its 2018 Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program, including three New South Wales organisations that received grants for library collections. The...
A remarkable entry point: Terri-ann White on the Sharjah International Book Fair Archive
Thursday, 8 November 2018
UWA Publishing director Terri-ann White travelled to the United Arab Emirates to attend the Sharjah International Book Fair, which runs from 31 October to 10 November. As a publisher who is...
Booksellers protest Amazon’s AbeBooks withdrawing from several countries Archive
Thursday, 8 November 2018
Hundreds of antiquarian booksellers from around the world have removed their books from Amazon subsidiary AbeBooks, after it announced it would withdraw its services from several countries, reports the New...
McIver wins 2018 Richell Prize for ‘I Shot the Devil’ Archive
Thursday, 8 November 2018
Melbourne-based writer Ruth McIver has won the 2018 Richell Prize for her entry ‘I Shot the Devil’. The novel is a dual narrative following a journalist in 2010 who is...
A&U sells ‘The Museum of Modern Love’ to UK Archive
Thursday, 8 November 2018
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has sold UK rights to Heather Rose’s The Museum of Modern Love to Weidenfeld & Nicolson, a division of Orion Publishing. A&U rights associate Maggie Thompson...
French publisher wins $342k Turjuman Award Archive
Wednesday, 7 November 2018
French publishing house Actes Sud has won the Turjuman Award, receiving AED 910,000 (A$342,000) for its French translation of The Nature of Despotism by Syrian author Abdul Rahman Al Kawakibi (trans Hala...
Australians nominated for 2019 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals Archive
Wednesday, 7 November 2018
A number of Australian authors and illustrators have been nominated for the 2019 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals. Australian books including A Different Boy by Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly (A&U)...
Bowker’s ISBN agency websites hacked in Australia and US; credit card numbers compromised Archive
Wednesday, 7 November 2018
Bowker, which trades in Australia as Thorpe-Bowker, is investigating ‘patterns of unauthorised charges’ to credit cards that have been used on Bowker’s MyIdentifiers websites, which are used to purchase ISBNs...
Leigh wins 2018 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing Archive
Wednesday, 7 November 2018
Andrew Leigh has won the 2018 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for 'From bloodletting to placebo surgery’, an excerpt from his book Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World (Black Inc.). Leigh's...
Two books tie for best novel at the 2018 World Fantasy Awards Archive
Wednesday, 7 November 2018
In the US, the winners of the 2018 World Fantasy Awards have been announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Baltimore, with two books tying for best novel. The winning...
Robotham’s ‘The Secrets She Keeps’ to be adapted for TV Archive
Monday, 5 November 2018
Michael Robotham’s thriller The Secrets She Keeps (Hachette) will be adapted into a six-part television miniseries, reports If. Premiering on Channel 10 in 2019, the series will be produced by...
First authors announced for 2019 Perth Festival Writers Week Archive
Monday, 5 November 2018
The first authors and events have been announced for the 2019 Perth Festival Writers Week, which runs from 18-24 February. 'Our Imagined Selves' is the theme of the week, which...
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