NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2017 winners announced Archive
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
The winners of the 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were presented at a ceremony at the State Library of NSW on 22 May. Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife (Currency Press),...
Blay releases Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report Archive
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Harlequin executive senior editor Annabel Blay has released her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report into fiction editing in the US following a 10-week placement in New York. In her report...
HarperCollins acquires Henry-Jones’ YA novel Archive
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
HarperCollins has acquired Eliza Henry-Jones’ YA novel From the Sea in a two-book deal via Sally Bird at Calidiris Literary Agency. From the Sea is Henry-Jones’ first YA novel after...
Johnson awarded ‘ABR’ Gender fellowship Archive
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Academic Marguerite Johnson has been awarded the inaugural Australian Book Review fellowship for a proposed essay on Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock. Johnson’s essay, ‘Mapping Gender, Sexuality and the Environment:...
Lee Child tops ALIA most borrowed list; crime and thrillers most popular titles Archive
Monday, 22 May 2017
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has partnered with library provider Civica to compile a list of most borrowed books from Australian libraries from May 2016 to April 2017, with...
Amazon introduces weekly bestseller lists Archive
Monday, 22 May 2017
In the US, Amazon has introduced a weekly bestseller list that will rank titles based on sales and borrow-rates across all its platforms and formats, reports Publishers Weekly. The Amazon...
Eckermann wins inaugural Red Room Poetry fellowship Archive
Monday, 22 May 2017
Ali Cobby Eckermann has won the inaugural Red Room Poetry fellowship. Eckermann was chosen from a shortlist of 10 poets. She receives a $5000 stipend, a $1000 commission to create...
Morrissey, Connolly to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame Archive
Monday, 22 May 2017
Novelist Di Morrissey and literary agent Margaret Connolly will be inducted into the ABIA Hall of Fame at a ceremony on 25 May in Sydney. Morrissey will be presented with...
MWF 2017 schools program released Archive
Monday, 22 May 2017
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has released its schools program for 2017. This year’s program, which runs from 28 to 31 August, features US author and tech entrepreneur Amani Al-Khatahtbeh,...
Australians longlisted for 2017 CWA Daggers Archive
Monday, 22 May 2017
A number of Australian authors have been longlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2017 Dagger awards. The Dry by Jane Harper (Macmillan) has been longlisted for the Gold...
Hachette UK CEO Hely Hutchinson to retire Archive
Friday, 19 May 2017
Hachette UK (HUK) has announced CEO Tim Hely Hutchinson will step down from the position at the end of the year, reports the Bookseller. David Shelley, current CEO of Little,...
Authors announced for Canberra Writers Festival Archive
Friday, 19 May 2017
A number of authors have been announced for the second Canberra Writers Festival, which runs from 25-27 August. Festival guests include Maggie Alderson, Richard Fidler, Julia Baird, Nikki Gemmell, Robyn Williams,...
Bloomsbury revenues up 15% overall, 48% in children’s Archive
Friday, 19 May 2017
Bloomsbury’s revenues have grown 15% to £142.6m (A$249m) in the 12 months ending in February 2017, reports the Bookseller. The biggest growth came from children’s publishing, which was up 48%...
Durneen wins UK award for best short story collection Archive
Friday, 19 May 2017
UK author Lucy Durneen’s short story collection Wild Gestures, which is published by Adelaide-based small press MidnightSun, has won the prize for best short story collection in the 2017 Saboteur...
French publisher Nyssen appointed culture minister Archive
Thursday, 18 May 2017
Françoise Nyssen, CEO of French publishing house Éditions Actes Sud, has been appointed Culture Minister in newly elected French president Emmanuel Macron’s cabinet, reports Artnet. Belgian-born Nyssen trained as an urban planner and...
ASA urges government to extend PLR scheme to ebooks, audiobooks Archive
Thursday, 18 May 2017
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has written to communications minister Mitch Fifield urging the government to extend the Public Lending Right (PLR) and Educational Lending Right (ELR) schemes to include...
Harlequin US cancels five original mass-market lines Archive
Thursday, 18 May 2017
In the US, Harlequin is closing five mass-market original lines, reports Publishers Weekly. The romance publisher has confirmed a report on Book Riot that it will phase out its Harlequin Western,...
Nick Hardie-Grant appointed MD of Hardie Grant Media Archive
Thursday, 18 May 2017
Nick Hardie-Grant has been appointed managing director of Hardie Grant’s marketing and custom-publishing business Hardie Grant Media, effective from 5 June. Hardie-Grant takes over from co-founder Fiona Hardie, who has...
Hay Literary Festival to fund local library to prevent closure Archive
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
In the UK, the Hay Literary Festival has agreed to fund part of the Hay-on-Wye library’s operating costs as a short-term solution to the library’s proposed closure, reports the BBC....
Sydney TAFE library to stay open Archive
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
TAFE NSW has announced the level two library at Ultimo TAFE will remain open following resistance to its plans to replace one floor of the library with offices. As previously...
Book blogger spotlight: Books for a Delicate Eternity Archive
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Chiara Sullivan blogs about YA books, with a particular focus on diversity and LGBTQIA+ representation. Blogging since 2003, she is a passionate believer in the importance of young members of...
Orwell Prize 2017 shortlist announced Archive
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
In the UK, the shortlist for the Orwell Prize for Books 2017 has been announced. The titles shortlisted for the £3000 (A$5547) prize for political writing are: Citizen Clem (John...
Dempster to step down after MWF 2017 Archive
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) artistic director and CEO Lisa Dempster will step down following this year’s festival, which runs from 25 August to 3 September. Dempster was appointed in 2012...
Chidgey wins NZ$50,000 fiction prize at New Zealand Book Awards Archive
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
The winners of the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards were announced at a ceremony at the Auckland Writers Festival on 16 May. Catherine Chidgey won the NZ$50,000 (A$46,380) fiction prize...
RWA releases 2017 conference program ‘Love Gone Wild’ Archive
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
The Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has released the program for its 2017 conference, to be held in Brisbane from 11-13 August under the theme ‘Love Gone Wild’. International guests...
Juchau, Valentine awarded $100,000 Charles Perkins Centre fellowships Archive
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Author Mireille Juchau and playwright Alana Valentine have been awarded Writer in Residence fellowships at the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre. Both writers will receive $100,000 and will spend...
Writers, literary orgs among OzCo grant recipients Archive
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Thirty-seven writers, publishers and other literary organisations have been awarded a total of $938,117 in the Australia Council’s first grants round for 2017. Nineteen writers received arts projects grants of...
New report highlights ‘disparate realities’ in world ebook market Archive
Tuesday, 16 May 2017
A new global ebook report by industry consultant Rüdiger Wischenbart has argued there is ‘no cohesive single interpretation’ of the world ebook market given the ‘disparate realities’ in different markets,...
‘Ruby’ romance awards 2017 finalists announced Archive
Tuesday, 16 May 2017
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...
Curtis Brown, Hachette top list of UK acquisitions Archive
Tuesday, 16 May 2017
In the UK, a survey of 278 acquisition deals in March and April reveals Curtis Brown and Hachette as the biggest agent and publisher respectively, reports the Bookseller. Curtis Brown’s deals...
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