‘Cut and Paste Lake’ wins Tom Collins Poetry Prize 2013
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Western Australian poet Nandi Chinna has won the 2013 Tom Collins Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Cut and Paste Lake’. Chinna was announced as the winner of the $1000 prize...
Aurealis Awards 2013 finalists announced
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
The finalists for the 2013 Aurealis Awards, presented for science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. Among the categories announced are: Fantasy novel Lexicon (Max Barry, Mulholland)...
Indigenous writers network to be launched at Adelaide Writers’ Week
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
The First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN), an advocacy and resource service for Indigenous writers and storytellers, will be launched at Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) on 2 March.At the launch,...
Mukherjee wins inaugural UK crime prize
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
In the UK, Abir Mukherjee has won the inaugural Telegraph Harvill Secker Prize for Crime Writing, reports the Bookseller. Mukherjee receives a publishing contract with Harvill Secker and an advance of £5000 (A$9251)...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
SalesFiction—Fremantle Press has sold North American rights to Whisky Charlie Foxtrot (Annabel Smith) to Source Books. Children’s—Era Publications has sold Swedish rights to 24 ‘Wings Traditional Tales’ titles. Ford Street...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 17 February 2014
The film tie-in of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (Picador) is still number one on the bestsellers chart, while John Green’s YA novel The Fault in Our Stars (Penguin)—the film...
Aussie books featured on USBBY list of outstanding international books
Monday, 17 February 2014
Three books by Australian authors have been selected for the 2014 United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY) list of Outstanding International Books for children and young adults....
Shortlist for ‘Seizure’ Viva La Novella competition announced
Monday, 17 February 2014
Literary journal Seizure has announced the shortlist for this year’s Viva La Novella competition. The eight shortlisted authors are: Daniel Davis Wood Ben Hobson Nicole Holyer Hoa Pham Julie Proudfoot Anna Snoekstra...
Canadian regulators reach agency-pricing agreement with major publishers
Monday, 17 February 2014
The Competition Bureau of Canada has reached an agreement with Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster that will limit the publishers’ use of agency pricing for ebooks, reports Digital...
Bella Andre makes French-translation deal with Kobo
Monday, 17 February 2014
US author Bella Andre has signed a deal with ebookseller Kobo for the exclusive rights to French translations of five titles over a three-month period, reports Publishers Weekly. The first title available, Le Cadeau (The Wedding...
Wheeler Centre joins international climate change project
Monday, 17 February 2014
The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne is one of five international partners in a new literature and climate change project called Weather Stations. Organisations in Berlin...
Settler stories: Ken Gelder & Rachael Weaver on ‘The Colonial Journals’
Monday, 17 February 2014
In The Colonial Journals: And the Emergence of Australian Literary Culture (UWA Publishing, May), Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver curate a collection of essays, short stories and artwork from early...
On tour: Meet the author Rabih Alameddine
Monday, 17 February 2014
Lebanese-American author Rabih Alameddine is visiting Australia in March to promote his third novel, An Unnecessary Woman (Text).What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? A naked Colin...
On tour: Meet the author Mireille Guiliano
Monday, 17 February 2014
French-American author Mireille Guiliano is visiting Australia in February. Her latest book is French Women Don’t Get Facelifts (Doubleday). What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book?Attitude is the new...
BookExpo America 2015 to host China at Global Market Forum
Friday, 14 February 2014
BookExpo America (BEA) has announced that it will host China at its Global Market Forum in 2015. A delegation of 500 Chinese professionals from over 100 publishing companies and around...
Waterstones Children’s Book Prize shortlists announced
Friday, 14 February 2014
The shortlists for this year’s Waterstones Children’s Book Prize have been announced in the UK, reports the Bookseller. Bookselling chain Waterstones presents three children’s book prizes each year, each worth...
Oyster creates children’s section with Disney titles
Friday, 14 February 2014
In the US, ebook-subscription service Oyster has created a children’s section with 10,000 ebooks, including around 100 titles from Disney, reports Gigaom. Disney titles now available from Oyster include series such as ‘Toy Story’,...
‘Art in Oceania’ wins UK Art Book Prize 2013
Friday, 14 February 2014
A book authored and edited by staff and students from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand has won the 2013 UK Art Book Prize, worth £1000 (A$1853). Art...
‘Grandma McGarvey’ wins 2014 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award
Friday, 14 February 2014
New Zealand children’s book Grandma McGarvey by Jenny Hessell and Trevor Pye (Scholastic) has won the 2014 Gaelyn Gordon Award for a much-loved book. The award is presented annually by...
Black Inc. announces ‘Best Australian’ editors
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Black Inc. has announced the editors for this year’s ‘Best Australian’ series of anthologies. Amanda Lohrey is the editor of The Best Australian Stories 2014 and Robert Manne is the...
Morrissey review named Hatchet Job of the Year
Thursday, 13 February 2014
In the UK, A A Gill has won this year’s Hatchet Job of the Year Award for his Sunday Times review of Morrissey’s Autobiography (Penguin Classics), reports the Guardian. The...
International Book Giving Day this Friday
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Friday 14 February is International Book Giving Day, an initiative that encourages members of the public to donate books to children. The International Book Giving Day website encourages members of...
China’s biggest publishing company opens Melbourne office
Thursday, 13 February 2014
China’s biggest publishing company Phoenix Publishing & Media Group (PPMG) opened an office in Melbourne in October last year.PPMG is the parent company of 12 Chinese publishing houses that have a combined publishing...
Hugh Howey launches Author Earnings website
Thursday, 13 February 2014
US author Hugh Howey has launched a website for analysis of genre ebook sales called Author Earnings, reports the Bookseller. The website offers a report with an interpretation of sales-ranking data...
Stella Prize 2014 longlist announced
Thursday, 13 February 2014
The longlist for the second Stella Prize has been announced. This year’s longlist features six works of fiction and six works of nonfiction. The longlisted titles are: Letter to George...
Search underway for ‘Australia’s Favourite Library’
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) is calling for nominations in a national search for ‘Australia’s Favourite Library’. Members of the public are invited to nominate their favourite library...
Koala Books calls for picture book submissions
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Children’s book publisher Koala Books is calling for picture book submissions for the first time since it was acquired by Scholastic in early 2013. Koala Books’ ‘Picture Book Festival of...
Imagination Library now operating in nine Australian communities
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Child literacy program the Imagination Library, launched in 2013 as a pilot program, is now operating in nine communities around Australia.The local version of the Imagination Library, which is run...
Shortlists announced for 2014 Paddy Power Political Book Awards
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
In the UK, the shortlists for this year’s Paddy Power Political Book Awards have been announced, reports the Bookseller. The awards, which were established in 2012 and first presented at...
French book chain Chapitre closes
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
French bookstore chain Chapitre has completed its dissolution after the Paris commercial court approved the takeover sale of eight stores and the closure of 23 stores that couldn’t find buyers,...
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