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YABBAs 2017 winners announced Archive

Tuesday, 31 October 2017
The winners of the 2017 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Do Not Open This Book (Andy...

Waterstones owner Mamut considering sale of the chain Archive

Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Waterstones owner Alexander Mamut has asked corporate advisors from the investment banking company N M Rothschild to explore a £250m (A$429.5m) sale of the UK bookselling chain, reports the Sunday...

SPN Independent Publishing Conference 2017 program announced Archive

Tuesday, 31 October 2017
The Small Press Network (SPN) has launched the program for its 2017 Independent Publishing Conference, which will run at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne from 16-18 November. The three-day conference...

CBCA NSW announces shortlist for 2017 mentorship program Archive

Tuesday, 31 October 2017
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) NSW branch has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Aspiring Writers Mentorship Program for unpublished children’s writers. The three shortlisted writers are: Angela...

A&U acquires local crime-fiction debut with ‘major international buzz’ Archive

Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to Australian journalist Chris Hammer’s crime-fiction debut Scrublands for publication in August 2018. A&U reports that the novel is ‘causing major international buzz’,...

Sharjah Publishing City opens for business Archive

Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Sharjah Publishing City, a new publishing hub located in the United Arab Emirates, has opened for business, and the Sharjah Book Authority is inviting international publishers to occupy its 400...

UK booksellers pay 11 times more corporation tax than Amazon, report finds Archive

Monday, 30 October 2017
A report commissioned by the UK Booksellers Association and released by the Centre for Economics and Business Research has found that UK bookshops pay 11 times more corporation tax than...

‘SRB’ to publish anniversary anthology Archive

Monday, 30 October 2017
The Sydney Review of Books (SRB) will publish an anthology of essays on Australian fiction, poetry and nonfiction to mark its five-year anniversary. Essays in The Australian Face, previously published...

Arts Tasmania 2018 Artist Investment Program recipients announced Archive

Monday, 30 October 2017
Three writers have received grants in the 2018 round of Arts Tasmania’s Arts Investment Program, which provides funding for artists’ creative projects. Thirty-five successful applications shared in a total of...

‘Extinctions’ wins 2017 Colin Roderick Award Archive

Saturday, 28 October 2017
Josephine Wilson’s Miles Franklin Award-winning novel Extinctions (UWA Publishing) has won the 2017 Colin Roderick Award and the HT Priestley Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James...

‘The Dry’ wins CWA Gold Dagger Archive

Friday, 27 October 2017
Australian author Jane Harper has won the 2017 UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Gold Dagger for her debut novel The Dry (Pan). The Dry was one of seven titles shortlisted...

WA government honours arts ‘champions’ in inaugural awards Archive

Friday, 27 October 2017
The Western Australian government has announced the recipients of the inaugural State Arts and Culture Partnership Honours, which ‘acknowledge the outstanding contributions of individual philanthropists and businesses who partner with...

First authors announced for 2018 Adelaide Writers’ Week Archive

Friday, 27 October 2017
A number of authors have been announced for the 2018 Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 3-8 March. Among the big-name international authors attending the festival are US novelist Barbara...

WAYRBA 2017 winners announced Archive

Friday, 27 October 2017
The winners of the 2017 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced. The winners are: Picture book: Do Not Open This Book (Andy Lee, illus by Heath...

Scribe acquires ‘alarming report card’ on Trump’s first year Archive

Thursday, 26 October 2017
Scribe has acquired ANZ rights to Brian Klaas’ The Despot’s Apprentice: Donald Trump’s Attack on Democracy, a study of Trump’s ‘increasingly authoritarian tactics and the threat they pose to American...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now Archive

Thursday, 26 October 2017
Books+Publishing’s final Reviews newsletter for 2017 contains 14 reviews of books publishing in January, February and March 2018, as well as previews of Australian publishers’ most anticipated 2018 releases. Michael...

Spineless Wonders, Tablo, SLV to launch Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award Archive

Thursday, 26 October 2017
Publisher Spineless Wonders, online publishing platform Tablo and the State Library Victoria (SLV) have partnered to launch the Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award, a new prize for writers of short-story...

Oscar-nominated screenwriter to write, produce ‘Nevermoor’ adaptation Archive

Thursday, 26 October 2017
The Oscar-nominated US screenwriter, director and producer Drew Goddard will write and produce the film adaptation of Jessica Townsend’s children’s book Nevermoor (Lothian), reports the Hollywood Reporter. Goddard was a...

New Ventura Press imprint signs Meyer Archive

Thursday, 26 October 2017
The debut novel by Melbourne writer and Echo Publishing commissioning editor Angela Meyer has been acquired by Ventura Press’ new Peter Bishop Books imprint. Martin Shaw, a literary agent at...

Harry Hartog to open eighth store in East Maitland Archive

Wednesday, 25 October 2017
Independent bookselling chain Harry Hartog will open a new store at Stockland Green Hills shopping centre in East Maitland in New South Wales. Harry Hartog Green Hills will be managed...

Broad interest across Australian publishers’ lists at Frankfurt 2017 Archive

Wednesday, 25 October 2017
Australian publishers who attended this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (11-15 October) reported interest across a broad range of titles, from literary debuts to ‘women’s commercial fiction’ to political memoirs. Allen...

Behind the marketing campaign: Ashleigh Barton on ‘Nevermoor’ Archive

Wednesday, 25 October 2017
When Jessica Townsend’s debut children’s novel Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Lothian) was published on 10 October, the buzz around the novel was immense. In the following week it...

Nguyen’s ‘investigation of humanoid robots’ wins ALIA Research Grant Award Archive

Wednesday, 25 October 2017
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has presented its 2017 Research Grant Award to Linh Nguyen for her project ‘An investigation of humanoid robots and their implication to Australian...

NLA wins national award for digital replacement program Archive

Wednesday, 25 October 2017
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has won the Australian Institute of Project Management’s (AIPM) National Project of the Year for its Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement (DLIR) program. The program,...

YALSA announces teens’ top 10 books of 2017 Archive

Wednesday, 25 October 2017
In the US, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association, has announced the 2017 Teens’ Top 10 list of books nominated and voted...

UK campaign group Voices for the Library to close Archive

Wednesday, 25 October 2017
The UK campaign group Voices for the Library has announced that it will disband because its volunteers ‘can no longer undertake the work required to be a voice for public...

Library of Congress to offer early career residency program Archive

Wednesday, 25 October 2017
The US Library of Congress is launching a ‘Librarians-in-Residence pilot program’ for early career librarians completing their master’s degree in an American Library Association-accredited program. Starting in June 2018, four...

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