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ALIA announces 2018 grant for Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference

Wednesday, 7 March 2018
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced it will award a grant to a current ALIA member to attend the Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference this year. The...

Behind the marketing campaign: Kirstin Corcoran on ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’

Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Heather Morris’ debut novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Echo) is a fictionalised account of Austrian-Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor Ludwig ‘Lale’ Sokolov's experience of being a tattooist (tätowierer) in a prison camp...

Final diary of Miles Franklin to be donated to SLNSW

Wednesday, 7 March 2018
The final diary of author Miles Franklin will be donated to the State Library of NSW, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. The small, red pocket diary records the final year...

Atkins wins 2018 Romantic Novel of the Year

Wednesday, 7 March 2018
In the UK, author Dani Atkins has won the 2018 Goldsboro Books Romantic Novel of the Year award for her novel This Love (S&S). Facilitated by the Romantic Novelists' Association, the Romantic...

Kostakis nominated for Lammy award

Wednesday, 7 March 2018
YA author Will Kostakis has been announced as a finalist in the 30th annual Lambda Literary Awards—known as the ‘Lammys’—for his book The Sidekicks (Penguin). The Lammys celebrate achievement in...

20,000 attend PFWW; Beer tops bestsellers

Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Twenty thousand people attended the 2018 Perth Festival Writer’s Week (PFWW), which ran from 19 to 25 February. Attendance was down on last year’s event, but a festival spokesperson said...

New spec fic festival announces headliners Kaufman, Kristoff and Canavan

Wednesday, 7 March 2018
The creators of the Morning Bell literary podcast have announced a new festival focusing on speculative fiction and ‘the craft of writing’. The Speculate Literary Festival will run on Saturday...

‘WBN’ published Thursday next week

Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Please note that, due to the public holiday on Monday (Labour Day in Victoria, Adelaide Cup Day in South Australia, Canberra Day in ACT and Eight Hours Day in Tasmania),...

Pullman calls out publishers’ ‘damaging’ corporate approach

Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Philip Pullman has called out 'the ecology of the book world', in which profit margins for publishers are rising, while the money authors are paid for their work is decreasing,...

NewSouth withdraws ‘Deadly Woman Blues’ from publication

Tuesday, 6 March 2018
NewSouth Publishing has withdrawn Clinton Walker’s recently released book Deadly Woman Blues from publication, after factual inaccuracies were brought to light by women who were featured in the book. The...

HarperCollins launches unpublished manuscript prize

Tuesday, 6 March 2018
HarperCollins has launched The Banjo Prize, an annual unpublished manuscript prize for Australian commercial fiction. The winner of the prize will receive a publishing contract with HarperCollins and an advance...

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2018 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 6 March 2018
The shortlists for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The New Animals (Pip Adam, Victoria University Press) Salt Picnic...

Schmidt wins inaugural MUD Literary Prize for debut fiction

Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Sarah Schmidt's See What I Have Done (Hachette) has won the inaugural MUD Literary Prize, awarded to a debut novelist. As part of the prize, Schmidt received a cash prize...

‘The Jade Lily’ sold into North America

Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Australian author Kirsty Manning’s forthcoming historical-fiction novel, The Jade Lily (A&U), has sold in the US at auction to William Morrow in a two-book deal. The deal was negotiated by...

‘Overland’ Neilma Sidney Prize winners announced

Monday, 5 March 2018
The winner and runners-up for Overland’s second Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize for travel-themed short fiction have been announced. Laura Elvery’s story ‘Unspooling’—about a woman ‘overwhelmed by a pair of...

Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2018 winners announced; Winton donates prize money to Ningaloo Reef protection

Monday, 5 March 2018
The winners of the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature were announced at a ceremony on 3 March as part of Adelaide Writers’ Week. The winners in each category are:...

B&N to open five ‘prototype’ stores

Monday, 5 March 2018
Barnes & Noble has announced it will open five ‘prototype stores' after disappointing third-quarter sales, reports Publishers Weekly. The ‘prototype stores' will be 14,000 square feet (1300 square metres) in...

Pascoe honoured for Lifetime Achievement in Literature

Monday, 5 March 2018
Bunurong writer Bruce Pascoe has won the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. The Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers...