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UWAP announces Dorothy Hewett Award 2016 shortlist

Wednesday, 30 November 2016
UWA Publishing has announced the shortlist for the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Anne-Marie Priest for ‘A Free Flame’, a...

Campus Bookselling Award winners announced

Wednesday, 30 November 2016
The Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) has announced the recipients of its annual booksellers awards. Supplier Customer Service Person of the Year Awards (joint winners) Nick Evgenias (Oxford University Press)...

Pizzinga wins 2016 ABA Vic Rep of the Year

Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Anthony Pizzinga from Penguin Random House was named as this year’s Victorian Rep of the Year at the Australian Booksellers Association’s (ABA) Victorian booksellers and publishers Christmas party on 29...

Ireland to roll out 23 more ‘staffless’ libraries

Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Ireland will expand its ‘staffless’ library scheme to a further 23 libraries in 2017, reports the Irish Times. Under the ‘My Open Library’ initiative, libraries will remain operating without staff...

New Zealand Education Awards winners 2016 announced

Tuesday, 29 November 2016
The winners of the New Zealand Content Counts Education Awards 2016 have been announced. The winners in each category are: Primary Toitoi: A Journal for Young Writers and Artists (ed...

‘Overland’ Story Wine Prize winners announced

Tuesday, 29 November 2016
The winners of the 2016 Overland Story Wine Prize have been announced. Melbourne-based writer Cameron Watson won the $4000 first prize for his piece ‘Sweeping’, a story exploring the role...

Pollock appointed CEO of BWF organisation UPLIT

Monday, 28 November 2016
Zoe Pollock has been appointed CEO of UPLIT, the new name of the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) organisation. Pollock, who was previously head of development at Sydney Living Museums and...

Inaugural Writing NSW grants announced

Monday, 28 November 2016
The NSW Writers’ Centre has announced the recipients of its inaugural Writing NSW Grants for early career writers, an emerging writing organisation, and a writer and technologist working on a...

Lonely Planet increases turnover in 2015

Friday, 25 November 2016
Lonely Planet has released its full-year results for the 2015, revealing a 6.7% growth in turnover from £16.1m (A$27.1m) in 2014 to £17.2m (A$28.9m) in 2015, reports the Bookseller. Operating...

Holland-Batt awarded Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship

Friday, 25 November 2016
Poet Sarah Holland-Batt has been awarded a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, worth $160,000 tax-free over two years. Holland-Batt is the author of two poetry collections, Aria and The Hazards (both...

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ tops A&R readers poll

Thursday, 24 November 2016
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird finished on top of Angus & Robertson Bookworld’s ‘Top 130 Books Ever’ readers’ poll, run for the first time since 2010 to mark A&R’s...

Costa Book Awards 2016 shortlists announced

Thursday, 24 November 2016
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2016 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The four titles shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award are: This Must be the Place (Maggie...

Steed awarded 2016 Dromkeen Librarian’s Award 

Wednesday, 23 November 2016
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has presented this year’s Dromkeen Librarian’s Award to Sarah Steed, senior manager of content and engagement for Libraries ACT. Steed has worked for more...

Deakin academics to research teen reading habits 

Wednesday, 23 November 2016
A team of seven researchers at Melbourne’s Deakin University is working on a study of Australian adolescents’ recreational reading habits in the digital era. Researcher Leonie Rutherford told Books+Publishing that the pilot...

Landers wins 2016 Waverley Library Award

Wednesday, 23 November 2016
Filmmaker and historian Rachel Landers has won the 2016 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as the ‘Nib’, for her book Who Bombed the Hilton? (NewSouth). Landers was presented with the...

 

 

 

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