Berbay sells Canty picture books to US
Thursday, 14 June 2018
Berbay Publishing has sold rights to Melbourne author and illustrator John Canty’s Heads and Tails: Insects in three territories, including North America. Rights to the picture book, which is the...
Booktopia shortlisted for online retail awards
Thursday, 14 June 2018
Online bookseller Booktopia has been shortlisted in several categories in the 2018 Online Retail Industry Awards (ORIAs). Booktopia is a finalist for Best Mobile Commerce Site/Application and Best Pureplay Online...
Text, Writing NSW launch Boundless Indigenous Mentorship Program
Thursday, 14 June 2018
Text Publishing and Writing NSW have launched a new nationwide mentoring program for an unpublished Indigenous writer. The Boundless Indigenous Mentorship Program will pair an emerging Indigenous writer who has...
Shortlist for ‘Lip’ magazine’s 2018 Rachel Funari Prize announced
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
The shortlist for Lip magazine’s annual Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their works are: 'A Landing' (Phoebe Chen) 'Fishing for Yabbies' (Laura McCluskey) 'Highway' (Alice...
‘The Bad Guys’ feature film in development with DreamWorks
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
DreamWorks Animation has begun development on a feature animated film based on Aaron Blabey’s illustrated chapter book series The Bad Guys (Scholastic). Foundation Media Partners and Northside Services negotiated the...
Adichie wins PEN Pinter Prize 2018
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
In the UK, Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been awarded the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize, reports the Bookseller. Founded in 2009 in honour of the playwright Harold Pinter, the annual prize...
Byron Writers Festival 2018 program announced
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
The full program for the 2018 Byron Writers Festival, which runs from 3-5 August, has been announced, featuring 140 writers, thinkers and commentators. International guests include UK-based novelists Matt Haig...
2017 Stella Count reveals drop in percentage of women reviewed
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
The 2017 Stella Count has found that four out of 12 publications surveyed reviewed more books by women than men—the same ratio as 2016’s count—but that the overall percentage of...
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Tim Jarvis from Fullers Bookshop
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
In the week leading up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2018 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for Young Bookseller of the Year ahead of...
German book sales down in 2017
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
In Germany, book trade association Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels has released data showing value sales of books and journals in Germany dropped marginally by 1.6% in 2017. Overall, the German...
Grenville, book industry figures recognised in 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
A number of Australian authors and industry figures were recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. Author Kate Grenville was made Officer in the General Division of the Order of...
Payne resigns from UQP
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
University of Queensland Press (UQP) nonfiction publisher Alexandra Payne has resigned from the position after 11 years with the company. In a statement, UQP announced Payne will step down from...
Coleman, Meadows win Norma K Hemming Awards 2018
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
The winners of the 2018 Norma K Hemming Awards were announced on Friday, 8 June. Western Australian writer Claire G Coleman won in the long work category for her novel Terra...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best illustrated book Aberhart Starts Here...
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Stephanie Beck from Better Read Than Dead
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
In the week leading up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2018 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for Young Bookseller of the Year ahead of...
Longlist for 2018 ‘KYD’ Unpublished Manuscript Award announced
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
The longlist for the 2018 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The longlisted works, and their authors, are: ‘Blindside’ (Beth Amos) ‘The Eulogy’ (Jacqueline Bailey) ‘Behind the...
PLR to extend to ebooks and audio in UK
Friday, 8 June 2018
In the UK, Public Lending Rights (PLR) will be extended to include ebooks and audiobooks borrowed from libraries, reports the Bookseller. Effective from 1 July, the change means authors will...
‘The Scared Book’ wins SCBWI Crystal Kite Award
Friday, 8 June 2018
Children’s picture book The Scared Book (Debra Tidball, illus by Kim Siew, Lothian) has won in the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards,...
Sharp appointed CEO of SWF
Friday, 8 June 2018
Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has appointed Chrissy Sharp as its new CEO. Sharp, who was previously the inaugural director of the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne from 2009 to 2011, will...
Harvey and Whittaker announced as poets in residence for QPF 2018
Friday, 8 June 2018
The Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) has announced two poets in residence for the 2018 festival: African-American poet Yona Harvey and Gomeroi poet Alison Whittaker. Harvey is a poet, literary artist...
Foundry658 to offer $20,000 seed funding to creative entrepreneurs
Friday, 8 June 2018
A new business development program, Foundry658, has been launched in Victoria to help creative entrepreneurs and organisations develop start-ups. Ten Victorian individuals or teams will be offered seed funding of...
UQP celebrates 70th anniversary with anthology and events
Friday, 8 June 2018
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) is celebrating its 70th birthday this year. Established in 1948, UQP was originally founded as a traditional university press, but it later branched out...
No ‘Daily’ on Monday
Friday, 8 June 2018
Please note that, due to the Queen’s Birthday holiday on Monday in all states except Queensland and Western Australia, the next Daily newsletter will be published on Tuesday, 12 June.
Shamsie wins 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Thursday, 7 June 2018
British-Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie has won the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Home Fire (Bloomsbury). Home Fire, which reworks Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone to tell the story of...
Brio launches Fantastica Prize for sci-fi manuscripts
Thursday, 7 June 2018
Brio Books has launched the Fantastica Prize, an unpublished manuscript prize for local science-fiction. Open to Australian and New Zealand writers, the prize is seeking submissions of science-fiction manuscripts of...
New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now
Thursday, 7 June 2018
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 16 reviews of books publishing in July and August. Chris Hammer's novel, Scrublands (A&U, August) received five stars from reviewer Scott Whitmont. Hammer's fiction debut—in which a...
New England Writers’ Centre launches new pitch program
Thursday, 7 June 2018
New England Writers’ Centre (NEWC) has launched a new pitch program, Pitch Independent, to connect regional writers and illustrators with small and independent presses and literary magazines. Pitch Independent will...
Barrett joins Pantera Press
Thursday, 7 June 2018
Bloomsbury Australia sales director Lucy Barrett will join Pantera Press in the newly created role of chief operating officer. ‘Lucy has a proven track record of growing sales and her...
NT Writers’ Festival Wordstorm 2018 wraps up
Wednesday, 6 June 2018
The 2018 Northern Territory Writers’ Festival was held over four days from 24-27 May in Darwin. With the theme ‘exploring outside the margins’, this year’s program featured more than 40...
Podcast spotlight: Pratchat
Wednesday, 6 June 2018
Pratchat is a monthly 'book club' podcast hosted by Elizabeth Flux and Ben McKenzie that aims to discuss every Terry Pratchett novel ever written. Each episode, Flux and McKenzie are joined...
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