Melbourne Writers Festival Schools’ Program launched
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
The 2012 Melbourne Writers Festival Schools’ Program has been launched and is available on the website. Tickets are also now available for purchase. Authors featured in this year’s schools’ program,...
Writing Australia launches new regional residency program
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Writing Australia has announced a new regional residency program. The Writing Australia Places program offers four-week regional writing residencies in Lake St Clair and Bruny Island in Tasmania, Kangaroo Island...
Brown to appear as keynote speaker at BBWF
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
The Byron Bay Writers Festival has confirmed Greens Senator Bob Brown will be a keynote speaker at this year’s event. Brown, who recently stepped down from his role as Greens...
New owner for Better Read Than Dead
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Independent Sydney bookstore Better Read Than Dead has been sold to Parkstone Investments, a private company led by businessman and arts patron Pat Corrigan. Derek Dryden, who opened Better Read...
OPUS announces strategic alliance with MTC to expand digital services
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
OPUS Group has announced a new strategic alliance with Philippines-based content management company MTC which will involve OPUS expanding the range of digital services it offers, including ebook conversions. OPUS, parent...
EWF Monash Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing winners announced
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
The winners of the inaugural Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) Monash University Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing have been announced. The overall prize, worth $4000, was presented to Tully Hansen for...
Get Reading! drops free book incentive
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Following the news that the '50 Books You Can’t Put Down' list will be all-Australian for the first time this year, Get Reading! has revealed that this year’s campaign will...
More than 20 staff to be made redundant at Murdoch Books
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Murdoch Books has announced it is ‘taking radical steps to secure its future in the face of dramatic changes in the book industry’. The publisher said in a statement that...
Rolley to leave SWF
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced that current director Chip Rolley will leave the festival in August to take up the role of editor of the ABC’s The Drum....
Canongate, Faber to co-publish audiobooks
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
UK publishers Canongate and Faber will launch an audiobook co-publishing venture later this year, reports the Bookseller. Under the arrangement, Canongate will handle the sales and production of the audio...
APA to publish fifth edition of ‘An Introduction to Australian Book Publishing’
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) will publish a new edition of An Introduction to Australian Book Publishing next month. The fifth edition of the book is edited by Richard Smart...
RiP Carlos Fuentes
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Latin American author Carlos Fuentes has died aged 83. Fuentes's best-known works include The Death Of Artemio Cruz, The Old Gringo and The Crystal Frontier.
RiP Sue Gillies
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Sue Gillies, who was the business development manager at Five Mile Press prior to her retirement, has died. Five Mile Press writes: ‘It is with great sadness we must let you...
Simpson awarded Michael King Writers’ Fellowship
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
New Zealand writer, scholar and curator Peter Simpson has been announced as the recipient of this year’s Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship. Simpson will use the NZ$100,000 (approximately...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
The erotic fiction of the ‘Fifty Shades’ trilogy (E L James, Arrow Books) dominate the top of the bestsellers chart this week with Fifty Shades of Grey again in first place, followed by...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Sales Nonfiction—Exisle has sold rights to The Happiness Trap (Dr Russ Harris) to Finland and Poland; The Reality Slap (Dr Russ Harris) to Italy, Denmark and Sweden; French-language rights to...
APA Book Design Awards 2012 winners announced
Monday, 28 May 2012
The winners of this year's Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards were announced on Thursday 17 May in Sydney as part of the Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF). The winning...
2012 ABIA winners announced
Monday, 28 May 2012
The winners of this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced on Friday 18 May at a special event in Sydney. Hosted by the ABC’s Paul Barclay, this year’s...
NSW tribunal to consider Judith Wright poetry case
Monday, 28 May 2012
An application has been made to the New South Wales Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal (CTTT) by publisher Gumquest/Editions Tom Thompson (ETT) Imprint regarding the publication of poems from Judith Wright’s...
Introducing the PM’s Literary Awards fiction shortlist
Monday, 28 May 2012
The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlists have been announced, and in the fiction category Miles Franklin contenders All That I Am and Foal’s Bread are joined by Sarah Thornhill, Autumn Laing and Forecast:...
Reviews: July 2012
Friday, 25 May 2012
Fiction Nightfall (Will Elliott, HarperCollins, July) Aden wakes up in a blood-filled bathtub in a strange place. He knows he has killed himself, but remembers only fragments of his life....
‘All That I Am’ wins 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award
Thursday, 24 May 2012
All That I Am by Anna Funder (Penguin) has won this year’s Barbara Jefferis Award, presented by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). Funder’s novel was selected for the $35,000...
Orange to cease sponsoring the Orange Prize
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
In the UK, mobile services company Orange will end its sponsorship of the Women’s Prize for Fiction after the presentation of this year’s award, reports the Bookseller. Orange has sponsored...
‘Berlin Syndrome’ film adaptation
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Aquarius Films has optioned the film rights to Melanie Joosten’s Berlin Syndrome (Scribe). Screenwriter Shaun Grant, writer of the screenplay for Snowtown, will adapt the book to film. Joosten said,...
Keil joins the Ampersand Project
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
The Ampersand Project, a Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) initiative to publish books from unpublished emerging writers, has signed up Melbourne writer Melissa Keil. The project received 250 submissions after an...
CBCA conference returns on a smaller scale
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Around 380 delegates attended this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) ‘multistoried’ conference, which was held at the Adelaide Convention Centre from 17-19 May. Julie Wells, national president of...
International authors take centre stage at SWF 2012
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Book sales at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival, held between 14 and 20 May, were dominated by international authors, according to festival bookseller Gleebooks. Gleebooks owner David Gaunt told Bookseller+Publisher...
Simon & Schuster joins Hachette, HarperCollins in settling antitrust case with US states
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
In the US, Simon & Schuster has joined Hachette and HarperCollins in settling the antitrust lawsuit filed by a group of US states over ebook pricing earlier this year, reports...
HGE signs first author through Ampersand Project
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
The Ampersand Project, a Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) initiative to publish books from unpublished emerging writers, has signed up Melbourne writer Melissa Keil. The project received 250 submissions after an...
APOL Australia to close Melbourne office; Crocker to replace Willis as Australian manager
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
APOL Australia, parent company of book printing brokers Phoenix and Bookbuilders, has announced that it has closed its Melbourne office and Australian manager Joy Willis will retire next month. The...
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