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Judges for inaugural Michael Gifkins Prize announced

Wednesday, 6 December 2017
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaitahu O Aotearoa and Text Publishing (Text) have announced the judges for the inaugural Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished novel. New...

Grattan Institute releases PM summer reading list

Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Australian public policy think tank Grattan Institute has released its annual summer reading list for the Prime Minister. In a statement on its website announcing the six books included in...

Please complete our pre-Christmas survey: Last chance

Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual pre-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. Booksellers If you are a bookseller, please complete...

Amazon Australia officially launches

Tuesday, 5 December 2017
Amazon’s Australian store has officially launched, and is selling print books and 22 other product categories through its own store and marketplace. Online retailers selling books through Amazon's marketplace include...

Online book club launches YA event

Tuesday, 5 December 2017
Online young adult book club the YA Room has programmed a one-day young adult (YA) event in Melbourne at the Wheeler Centre. ‘YA Day’, which will be held on 28...

O’Flynn wins 2017 Voss Literary Prize

The last days of Ava Langdon Tuesday, 5 December 2017
Author Mark O’Flynn has won the 2017 Voss Literary Prize for The Last Days of Ava Langdon (UQP). The Voss Literary Prize is awarded to the best novel published in...

Bollen wins Bad S-x in Fiction Award

Monday, 4 December 2017
US author Christopher Bollen has received the 2017 Bad S-x in Fiction Award, the Literary Review’s annual prize for ‘poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern...

Herrmann named UK FutureBook Leader of the Year

Monday, 4 December 2017
Founder and co-CEO of Bolinda Rebecca Herrmann has been named Leader of the Year at the FutureBook awards, run by the Bookseller in the UK. As previously reported by Books+Publishing,...

Wagner awarded 2017 Dromkeen Medal

Friday, 1 December 2017
The State Library Victoria (SLV) has awarded the 2017 Dromkeen Medal to Erica Wagner, publisher of books for children and young adults at Allen & Unwin. Wagner has worked as...

Heyman wins 2017 Copyright Agency Fellowship

Friday, 1 December 2017
Kathryn Heyman has won the Copyright Agency’s 2017 fellowship for mid-to-late career authors, worth $80,000. Heyman received the fellowship for her forthcoming memoir Words to Live By. The memoir explores how...

RMIT professional writing staff awarded $20,000 teaching prize

Friday, 1 December 2017
The teaching team for the Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing at Victoria’s RMIT University has won the university’s Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. The team, which comprises Penny Johnson, Stephanie Holt,...

‘Overland’ Fair Australia Prize 2017 winners announced

Thursday, 30 November 2017
Literary journal Overland has announced the winners for this year’s Fair Australia Prize. The winners are: Poetry: Andrew Sutherland for ‘East Perth [imagined nation]’, a ‘response to citizenship, love, distance...

Italy to offer tax breaks for bookstores

Thursday, 30 November 2017
The Italian government will introduce tax breaks for bookstores to help stem the number of store closures, reports the Bookseller. The government will cut property and local services taxes for...

Pullman, Gaiman back UK school library campaign

Wednesday, 29 November 2017
In the UK, authors Philip Pullman, Neil Gaiman and Malorie Blackman are among more than 150 book industry figures who are supporting a campaign to halt the decline of libraries...

Sydney libraries fitted out with robotic kits

Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The City of Sydney will supply more than 180 new robotic and electronic kits to its libraries’ ‘makerspaces’, giving students and library patrons the opportunity to explore a range of...

Where popular meets the professional: Genre Con 2017 

Wednesday, 29 November 2017
GenreCon 2017 was the conference’s biggest yet. The biennially-staged writers conference aimed at genre writers sold out its registrations with 240 attendees, up from 190 in 2015. Fantasy writers were...

Christmas closing list 2017 

Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Company Last day of business in 2017 First day of business in 2018 Allen & Unwin Friday, 22 December (closing 1pm) Tuesday, 2 January Alliance Distribution Services Closed public holidays...

HQ to publish actress McGowan’s memoir in ANZ

Wednesday, 29 November 2017
HarperCollins Australia imprint HQ will publish US actress Rose McGowan’s memoir Brave in Australia and New Zealand in January 2018. McGowan’s ‘memoir/manifesto’ will be a ‘pull-no-punches’ account of her life as an...

 

 

 

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