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Territory Read Book of the Year 2018 shortlist announced Archive

Friday, 25 May 2018
The Northern Territory Writers’ Centre has announced the shortlist for the Territory Read Book of the Year awards. The shortlisted titles are: There’s a Crocodile on the Golf Course (Rachel...

Woollahra Digital Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced Archive

Friday, 25 May 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards, for writing first published online or electronically, have been announced. Nonfiction Seeing Through Perspective: A Blind Tourist’s Guide to Art (Ria...

Peter Carey Short Story Award 2018 shortlist announced Archive

Friday, 25 May 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Peter Carey Short Story Award has been announced. The six shortlisted stories are: ‘Clearing’ (Alice Bishop) ‘Fighting Season’ (Alison Martin) ‘Being The Mother’ (Anne Casey)...

Transit Lounge acquires Pajalic family memoir on mental illness Archive

Friday, 25 May 2018
Transit Lounge has acquired Amra Pajalic’s memoir, Things Nobody Knows But Me. Transit Lounge publisher Barry Scott told Books+Publishing the ‘beautifully written’ memoir was ‘a tender, funny and searingly honest story of...

Audible partners with Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Archive

Thursday, 24 May 2018
In the US, Audible has announced a partnership with Hello Sunshine, the cross-platform media brand founded by Reese Witherspoon that is dedicated to producing female-driven content, reports Publishers Weekly. Reese’s...

ASA launches podcast on ‘entrepreneurial’ creatives Archive

Thursday, 24 May 2018
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched a new podcast series focusing on ‘the numerous ways wordsmiths can adapt their talents beyond the confines of a book’. Called Words...

A&U acquires Bowditch memoir Archive

Thursday, 24 May 2018
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to a memoir by musician, actor and broadcaster Clare Bowditch, and will publish the title in October 2019. Publisher Kelly Fagan acquired...

New small publisher Elephant Tree Publishing launches first title Archive

Thursday, 24 May 2018
A new Canberra-based small publisher of fiction, nonfiction and young adult fiction has recently released its first title. Mother-and-daughter team Jennifer Brown-Leslie and Kathryn Spurling have established Elephant Tree Publishing...

Ngaio Marsh Award 2018 longlist announced Archive

Thursday, 24 May 2018
The longlist for the 2018 Ngaio Marsh award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted works are: Marlborough Man (Alan Carter, Fremantle Press) Baby (Annaleese Jochems, VUP) See...

Fine shortlisted for Orwell Prize 2018 Archive

Thursday, 24 May 2018
University of Melbourne academic and author Cordelia Fine has been shortlisted for the 2018 Orwell Prize for Books, for her book Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of our Gendered Minds (Icon...

Podcast spotlight: Audacious Archive

Wednesday, 23 May 2018
First established in 2015, Audacious is the audio-journal of arts organisation Melbourne Spoken Word (MSW). Each 'issue' of the paid-for audio-journal is produced as a quarterly album of spoken-word performances. A...

Victorian councils reject reports of libraries censoring books to combat gender bias Archive

Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Victorian councils have rejected media reports that libraries will remove children’s books from their collections based on research into the development of gender roles in young children, reports SBS. Melbourne...

Swedish universities cancel contract with Elsevier Archive

Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Swedish universities have decided not to renew a contract with Dutch journal publisher Elsevier, reports Times Higher Education. The Bibsam Consortium, which represents 85 higher education and research institutions in...

North Fitzroy Library wins gold at 2018 Melbourne Design Awards Archive

Wednesday, 23 May 2018
The City of Yarra’s Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library and Community Hub has won a gold prize at the 2018 Melbourne Design Awards. Announced on 17 May, this year’s awards...

MWF 2018 schools’ program released Archive

Wednesday, 23 May 2018
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has released its 2018 schools' program, which will run from 27-30 August. Held at Melbourne's Federation Square, the 2018 MWF schools' program will focus on...

Tokarczuk wins 2018 Man Booker International Prize Archive

Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk has won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for Flights (trans by Jennifer Croft, Text). Tokarczuk and Croft will each receive £25,000 (A$44,330), as well as a further...

Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 longlist announced Archive

Wednesday, 23 May 2018
The longlist for the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The 11 longlisted titles are: A Long Way from Home (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton) No More Boats (Felicity...

‘Ruby’ romance award 2018 finalists announced Archive

Wednesday, 23 May 2018
The finalists for the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year Award, known as ‘the Ruby’, have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Long romance...

ABA booksellers of the year 2018 finalists announced Archive

Wednesday, 23 May 2018
The finalists for the 2018 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) booksellers of the year awards have been announced. The finalists for Bookseller of the Year are: Paul MacDonald (The Children's Bookshop)...

Viskic, Clark longlisted for UK Dagger awards Archive

Tuesday, 22 May 2018
Emma Viskic has been longlisted in two categories in the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2018 Dagger awards for her novel Resurrection Bay (Echo). Viskic’s novel is one of 10...

Nebula Awards 2017 winners announced Archive

Tuesday, 22 May 2018
In the US, the winners of the 2017 Nebula Awards, presented in 2018, have been announced. The Stone Sky (N K Jemisin, Orbit) was awarded Best Novel, and was chosen...

Inaugural digital participants announced for 2018 Hardcopy program Archive

Tuesday, 22 May 2018
The ACT Writers Centre has announced the inaugural participants of the new digital stream of its professional development program, Hardcopy, which will focus on fiction manuscripts this year. The seven...

Forbes inducted into ABDA hall of fame Archive

Tuesday, 22 May 2018
Book designer Alison Forbes has been announced as the 2018 inductee into the Australian Book Design Hall of Fame. Forbes was the first full-time independent book designer in Australia, with...

Transit Lounge sells rights to Rawson’s ‘From the Wreck’ to Picador UK Archive

Tuesday, 22 May 2018
Melbourne-based independent publisher Transit Lounge has sold world English-language rights (ex-ANZ) to Jane Rawson's 2017 novel From the Wreck. Picador UK associate publisher Ravi Mirchandani acquired rights to the literary speculative-fiction...