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Wright wins 2024 Stella Prize for ‘Praiseworthy’

Thursday, 2 May 2024
Alexis Wright has won the $60,000 Stella Prize for her fourth novel, Praiseworthy (Giramondo). Wright becomes the first author to win the Stella Prize twice, having previously won the 2018...

Walter Scott Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 2 May 2024
In the UK, the shortlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, worth £25,000 (A$48,000), has been announced. Chosen from a longlist announced in February, the titles shortlisted for...

ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 2 May 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins publishing division HQ have announced the shortlist for the 2024 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted works, chosen...

NT Writers Festival announces early line-up

Wednesday, 1 May 2024
The NT Writers Festival has announced an early line-up of guests for its 2024 festival, which will run from 27 to 30 June on Larrakia land at the Museum and...

Culture, pride and engagement: A report from the RISE program 

Wednesday, 1 May 2024
Bookseller Melissa Mantle attended the RISE ('Resilience, Innovation and Sustainability for the Enhancement of Bookselling') program at the 2024 Bookselling Ireland Irish Book Trade Conference. Mantle reports on the experience,...

Open Book 2024 interns announced

Photographs of Olivia Garcia, Tayla Goodman and Nashin Mahee Wednesday, 1 May 2024
The successful interns for the 2024 Open Book: Australian Publishing Internship have been announced. Chosen from over 320 applications, the 2024 interns are Olivia Garcia, Tayla Goodman and Nashin Mahee....

Affirm acquires Hodge’s ‘Top Knocks’

Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to Australian cricketer and commentator Brad Hodge’s nonfiction book Top Knocks, via TLA. The publisher said that Top Knocks will count down 20 of...

Ondaatje Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 30 April 2024
In the UK, the Royal Society of Literature has announced the shortlist for this year’s £10,000 (A$19,133) Ondaatje Prize, reports Publishing Perspectives. The shortlisted titles are: Falling Animals (Sheila Armstrong,...

Grenville shortlisted for 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction

Cover of Restless Dolly Maunder Monday, 29 April 2024
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. Local author Kate Grenville has been shortlisted for Restless Dolly Maunder (Text). The shortlisted titles are: The Wren,...

Writers boycott SLV over workshop cancellations

Monday, 29 April 2024
Writers Michelle de Kretser, Tony Birch and Grace Yee are refusing to work with State Library Victoria (SLV) over its decision to cancel the library’s Teen Bootcamp workshops, reports the...

Hardie Grant moves NZ distribution to TDLC 

Monday, 29 April 2024
Hardie Grant has announced that distribution in Aotearoa New Zealand will move to The Distribution and Logistics Company (TDLC), beginning on 1 July 2024. HarperCollins’s Arotahi Agency will continue as...

Wheeler Centre 2024 Hot Desk Fellows announced

Monday, 29 April 2024
The Wheeler Centre has announced the 22 emerging writers who will receive Hot Desk Fellowships in 2024. This is the 12th year of the fellowship program, which the Wheeler Centre...

‘Enter Ghost’ wins Aspen Words Literary Prize

Cover of Enter Ghost Monday, 29 April 2024
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad (Jonathan Cape) has won the 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize. Worth US$35,000 (A$53,540), the Aspen prize recognises ‘an influential work of fiction that illuminates a...

T&H celebrates 75-year anniversary

Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Thames & Hudson (T&H) is celebrating its 75-year anniversary this year with a series of trade promotions and events. Walter and Eva Neurath founded T&H in 1949 with the ambition...

Upswell acquires Spirovski debut, ‘White Hibiscus’ 

Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights for White Hibiscus: A portrait in words, the debut work of visual artist Loribelle Spirovski. Publisher Terri-ann White described the book as ‘a poetic...

No newsletter on Thursday

Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Due to the Anzac Day public holiday, the Books+Publishing newsletter will not be published on Thursday, 25 April.

PEN America cancels 2024 Literary Awards ceremony

Wednesday, 24 April 2024
In the US, PEN America has cancelled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony, which was to be held on 29 April, reports Publishers Weekly. It comes after 28 authors withdrew books...

Ashleigh Barton recommends 

Wednesday, 24 April 2024
I recently read and loved One Song by A J Betts. It reminded me how much I love YA. I also loved that it was set in Perth, revolved around...

Hammer, Morton on Daggers longlist

Tuesday, 23 April 2024
In the UK, the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced the longlists for its Dagger Awards. Chris Hammer’s Dead Man’s Creek (published locally as The Tilt, A&U) and Kate Morton’s...

HarperCollins UK partners with AI company on audiobooks

Tuesday, 23 April 2024
HarperCollins UK has announced a partnership with US-based audio AI company ElevenLabs to create audiobooks for its non-English language business, reports the Bookseller. Under the partnership, ElevenLabs' text-to-speech technology will...

 

 

 

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