Kelada wins UWAP’s Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript
Monday, 27 February 2017
Melbourne-based writer and academic Odette Kelada has won UWA Publishing’s (UWAP) Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript for her novel ‘Drawing Sybylla’. Kelada receives $10,000 and a publishing contract...
Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Monday, 27 February 2017
The shortlist for the Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poems are: ‘Four Egrets’ by Ronald Dzerigian ‘Sentence to Lilacs’ by Louis Klee...
Spirited away: Gabrielle Wang on ‘The Beast of Hushing Woods’
Monday, 27 February 2017
Gabrielle Wang’s The Beast of Hushing Woods (Puffin, April) is a ‘lyrical, dreamlike fable for confident readers aged 10 and up’, which ‘marries snippets of Eastern mythology with a setting...
Movie mayhem: Alex Miles on ‘Mammoth Mistake’
Monday, 27 February 2017
Mammoth Mistake is the first book in Alex Miles’ new ‘Olive Black’ series, about a 10-year-old actress who juggles friendships, rivals and on-set hijinks. Reviewer Bec Kavanagh spoke to the...
Kent, Smith longlisted for Walter Scott Prize
Friday, 24 February 2017
Australian author Hannah Kent and Australian-born, US-based Dominic Smith have been longlisted for the 2017 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Kent is longlisted for The Good People (Picador) and...
Readings in the running for store design award
Friday, 24 February 2017
Independent bookselling chain Readings is a finalist for the Customer Experience Store Design Award, as part of Inside Retail’s 2017 Retailer Awards. Readings was selected for the design of its...
PEN America Literary Awards 2017 winners announced
Friday, 24 February 2017
In the US, Pen America has announced the winners of several categories in its 2017 Literary Awards. Among the award winners are: PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Evicted: Poverty...
Around 90 indie publishers, booksellers attend APA, ABA Indies Forum
Friday, 24 February 2017
Around 90 independent publishers, booksellers and other guests attended the Indies Forum, hosted by the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) and Australian Publishers Association (APA) in Melbourne on 20 February. The...
Nielsen survey finds 75% of Australian adults interested in Amazon Australia
Friday, 24 February 2017
A Nielsen survey has found 75% of Australians aged 18 years and older are interested in Amazon Australia, and 56% say they are likely to purchase from an Australian Amazon...
Nebula Awards 2016 nominees announced
Thursday, 23 February 2017
In the US, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has announced the nominees for the 2016 Nebula Awards, which are presented in 2017. The books nominated in...
Inky Awards 2017 longlists announced
Thursday, 23 February 2017
The longlists for the 2017 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria for local and international...
Macmillan UK acquires YA novel penned by seven authors
Thursday, 23 February 2017
In the UK, Macmillan Children’s Books has acquired a ‘unique collaborative novel’ written by seven YA authors, reports the Bookseller. Floored follows the lives of a group of teenagers over...
Fury awarded 2017 Kat Muscat Fellowship
Thursday, 23 February 2017
Melbourne writer Fury has been awarded the 2017 Kat Muscat Fellowship to work on a play ‘investigating the relationship between lesbians and gay men during the early AIDS crisis’. Fury...
Small Publisher Spotlight: Real Film and Publishing
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
Established in 2012, Melbourne-based Real Film and Publishing specialises in ‘memoirs, biographies, family histories and legacy books’ in high-quality hardback. Only a few of the books are available commercially, as...
City of Bayswater to overhaul library services
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
The City of Bayswater in northeastern Perth is planning to overhaul its library services and is considering pop-up libraries alongside the renovation of aging facilities, reports CommunityNews.com. The Bayswater Council...
Data and innovation discussed at Digital Book World 2017
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
The importance of data and innovation were the takeaways from this year’s Digital Book World, reports Hardie Grant Books managing director Roxy Ryan. At Digital Book World in New York...
Firm that developed US African-American museum hired for Obama library
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
The exhibition design for the planned presidential library of Barack Obama will be led by Ralph Appelbaum Associates, the same firm that worked on the recently opened National Museum of...
Milne, Littleton promoted at HarperCollins
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
HarperCollins Australia has announced several promotions in its general books division following the departure of publishing director Shona Martyn at the end of 2016. Publisher Catherine Milne has been promoted...
IPEd announces directory of freelance editors
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has introduced a new online directory of freelance editors. The Editors Directory is hosted on the IPEd website and is searchable by editors’ services,...
writingWA to host public forum on arts policy in lead-up to state election
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
writingWA will host a public forum to discuss policies and funding for the writing and publishing sector in Perth on 1 March, in the lead-up to the WA state election...
ALS Gold Medal 2017 longlist announced
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
The longlist for the 2017 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The longlisted titles are: One Hundred Letters Home (Adam Aitken, Vagabond) The Easy Way Out (Steven...
S&S revenue down, earnings up in 2016
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
Simon & Schuster has recorded a drop in revenue in 2016 and an increase in earnings, reports Publishers Weekly. Parent company CBS reported that the publisher’s revenue was US$767m ($A999m)...
S&S US cancels Yiannopoulos book
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
In the US, Simon and Schuster has cancelled British far-right journalist and Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ book Dangerous, reports Publishers Weekly. The company released a brief statement, saying: ‘After careful...
Birrell joins Tablo as creative director
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
Former Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) artistic director Jemma Birrell has been appointed creative director of Melbourne-based online self-publishing platform Tablo. Birrell will build partnerships between Tablo and literary organisations, including...
Scribe increases US presence
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
Scribe Publications has announced a change in North American sales and distribution arrangements, and will increase its US-based marketing and publicity team to boost support to its titles in the region....
Aurealis Awards 2016 finalists announced
Monday, 20 February 2017
The finalists for the 2016 Aurealis Awards, presented for science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. Among the categories are: Science fiction novel Watershed (Jane Abbott, Vintage)...
Pages & Pages creates ‘anti-Trump’ reading list, donates to Refugee Council of Australia
Monday, 20 February 2017
Sydney bookseller Pages & Pages has put together an anti-Trump reading list and has pledged to donate $1 to the Refugee Council of Australia for every book purchased from the list. The...
John Blake unable to publish Mick Jagger’s memoir
Monday, 20 February 2017
UK publisher John Blake has revealed he has the manuscript for Mick Jagger’s memoir but does not have permission from Jagger to publish it, reports the Bookseller. Blake, whose company...
Five Mile to publish ‘Sally Rippin Presents’ list
Monday, 20 February 2017
Bonnier Publishing Australia’s children’s imprint Five Mile will publish a ‘Sally Rippin Presents’ list of children’s books, with Rippin acting as editor-at-large. Rippin will work with Bonnier Publishing Australia CEO...
Australian authors longlisted for 2017 Carnegie Medal
Friday, 17 February 2017
Australian authors Zana Fraillon and Glenda Millard have been longlisted for the 2017 Carnegie Medal. Fraillon is longlisted for The Bone Sparrow (Hachette) and Millard for The Stars at Oktober...
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