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NSW govt funding targets emerging Western Sydney writers

Tuesday, 23 August 2016
The NSW state government has announced it will provide $75,000 in funding to the Western Sydney University’s (WSU) Writing and Society Research Centre to support emerging Western Sydney writers in...

Wiley acquires publishing software company Atypon

Tuesday, 23 August 2016
In the US, publisher John Wiley & Sons has acquired publishing software company Atypon for US$120m (A$157m), reports the Bookseller. The Silicon Valley-based company develops software that allows publishers to...

A&U acquires debut crime novel ‘The Dark Lake’

Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Allen & Unwin has acquired Melbourne author Sarah Bailey’s debut novel The Dark Lake via Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. The Dark Lake is a crime novel set in...

Lonely Planet announces food imprint

Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Lonely Planet has announced a new imprint for food-themed titles, called Lonely Planet Food. The imprint follows the launch of Lonely Planet’s recipe book series ‘From the Source’ last year,...

Hugo Awards 2016 winners announced

Monday, 22 August 2016
The winners of the 2016 Hugo Awards for the best science-fiction and fantasy titles of the previous year have been announced, with N K Jemisin’s The Fifth Season (Orbit) winning...

Kickstarter reaches milestone of US$100m for publishing

Monday, 22 August 2016
Crowdfunding website Kickstarter has reached a milestone of US$100m (A$132m) in pledges for general-publishing projects since launching in 2009, reports Publishers Weekly. On Kickstarter, the general-publishing category includes nonfiction, fiction,...

RWA awards 2016 winners announced

Monday, 22 August 2016
The winners of the 2016 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the ‘RUBYs’, were announced on 20 August at the RWA’s 25th national...

NYWF 2016 program announced

Monday, 22 August 2016
The full program for the 2016 National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF) has been announced. The festival, which runs from 29 September to 2 October in Newcastle, will include over 114...

CBCA Awards 2016 winners announced

Friday, 19 August 2016
The winners of this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are: Older Readers...

Horswood wins 2016 Scribe Nonfiction Prize

Friday, 19 August 2016
Deserae Horswood has won the 2016 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers for her entry, ‘My Parents’ Ashes are in the Boot of My Car’. Horswood was selected from a...

Reminder: CBCA awards announced today 

Friday, 19 August 2016
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) will announce the winners of this year’s Book of the Year Awards at 12pm today in Sydney. Books+Publishing will publish a list of the...

Sisters in Crime releases diversity report

Friday, 19 August 2016
In the US, a recent survey of 1,100 Sisters in Crime members found that white, non-Hispanic people make up 93% of the total membership, reports Publishers Weekly. The organisation, which...

Adsett partners with US agency Wolf Literary

Thursday, 18 August 2016
Alex Adsett Publishing Services (AAPS) has announced a partnership with former UQP marketing coordinator Rachel Crawford at Wolf Literary Services in New York. The deal will see Crawford represent AAPS...

Rowling to release new Harry Potter ebooks in September

Thursday, 18 August 2016
J K Rowling will release new digital short-form content set in the Harry Potter world in September, reports the Bookseller. A Pottermore spokesperson told the Bookseller that the ‘Pottermore Presents’...

Small publisher spotlight: Celapene Press 

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Melbourne-based Celapene Press released its first title—an anthology called Page Seventeen—in 2005 before specialising in children’s and YA fiction. Publisher Kathryn Duncan spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’...

ALIA makes My Big Idea shortlist

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
The Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) submission to the Concern for Future Generation’s My Big Idea national competition has made the shortlist. ALIA’s suggestion is for every child to...

SA State Library to cut 20 jobs 

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
The State Library of South Australia (SLSA) will cut nearly 20 full-time jobs as part of a restructure to save $6m over three years, reports the ABC. Public Service Association...

Not the Booker Prize 2016 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
The shortlist has been announced for this year’s Not the Booker Prize, which is run by the Guardian in the UK and voted on by the public. The shortlisted titles,...

Text acquires Macarthur biography

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Text has acquired world rights to a biography of Anglo-Australian settler and pioneer Elizabeth Macarthur by writer Michelle Scott Tucker in a two-book deal negotiated by Jacinta Di Mase Management....

NSW Premier’s History Awards 2016 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
The shortlists for the 2016 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Australian History Prize ($15,000) The Eighties: The Decade that...

Fairfax to host #SaveOzStories debates

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Fairfax newspapers the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald will host panel discussions in Melbourne and Sydney next week to debate how the Productivity Commission’s proposed changes to Australian intellectual...

Inky Awards 2016 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 16 August 2016
The shortlists for the 2016 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...

Shapiro, Markovits win 2016 James Tait Black Prizes

Tuesday, 16 August 2016
The winners of the James Tait Black Prizes for fiction and biography—the UK’s oldest literary awards—have been announced. James Shapiro has won the biography prize for 1606: William Shakespeare and...

National Bookshop Day 2016 the ‘most successful ever’

Tuesday, 16 August 2016
Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) CEO Joel Becker has described this year’s National Bookshop Day, held on 13 August, as the ‘most successful ever’, with unprecedented support from the Australian Publishers...