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Books without barriers: a new guide to accessible inclusive publishing

Wednesday, 3 May 2023
The product of two years’ work by IPEd’s Accessibility Initiative Working Party, based on a review of the international literature and a survey of local publishers, the new publication Books...

Local authors on Daggers longlist

Wednesday, 3 May 2023
In the UK, the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) has announced the longlists for its Dagger Awards. Authors from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand are among those longlisted for the annual...

B&N workers at flagship store launch union drive

Wednesday, 3 May 2023
In the US, workers at the flagship Barnes & Noble (B&N) shop in New York City’s Union Square have requested a union election with the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store...

Dale wins 2023 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize

Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Queensland Poetry has announced that Madeleine Dale has won the 2023 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for her manuscript The Water-Bearers. Dale receives $2000 and a publishing contract with UQP. Judges...

Best Australian Yarn prize pool grows to $75,000

Tuesday, 2 May 2023
The 2023 Best Australian Yarn short story competition has a $75,000 prize pool, with $50,000 to be awarded to the competition winner. This year’s award includes two new categories, the...

Fagan files suit against A&U

Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Allen & Unwin (A&U) publisher Kelly Fagan has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her employer, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. On 31 March, Justice Robert Bromwich ordered A&U ‘not...

Wheeler Centre 2023 Hot Desk fellows

Monday, 1 May 2023
The Wheeler Centre has announced the successful applicants for its 2023 Hot Desk Fellowships. The 21 Hot Desk fellows are: moirra Caroline Arnoul Sienna Barton Sue deGennaro Elese Dowden Anneliz...

NT Writers Festival launches 2023 program

Monday, 1 May 2023
The NT Writers Festival has launched the program for this year's event, which takes place from 1–4 June 2023 in the Olive Pink Botanic Garden in Mparntwe/Alice Springs on Arrernte...

Scribe acquires Wallman, Sparrow collaboration

Monday, 1 May 2023
Scribe has acquired world rights to 12 Rules for Strife, a new graphic nonfiction work by Jeff Sparrow and Sam Wallman. Described by Scribe as a ‘radical gift book’ that will...

Reynolds reportedly settles with publisher, journalist over alleged defamation in ‘Ego’

Monday, 1 May 2023
Former federal minister Linda Reynolds has settled with journalist Aaron Patrick and publisher HarperCollins over allegedly defamatory statements made in the book Ego: Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberal Party’s civil...

Ellis wins 2023 Calibre Essay Prize

Friday, 28 April 2023
Sydney writer Tracy Ellis has won the 2023 Australian Book Review (ABR) Calibre Essay Prize for her essay ‘Flow States’. Ellis, who won the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story...

Open Book 2023 interns announced

Friday, 28 April 2023
The successful applicants for the 2023 Open Book: Australian Publishing Internship have been announced. Selected from over 220 applications were Enchinea Close-Brown, Keerthana Ravindran and Isabelle Webb. Close-Brown, who will...

Hachette on AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list

Friday, 28 April 2023
Hachette Australia has been included in this year’s Best Places to Work list, published annually by the Australian Financial Review and BOSS magazine. The publisher placed seventh in the Retail, Hospitality,...

Shapiro named Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners

Friday, 28 April 2023
In the UK, James Shapiro has won the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award—being held to celebrate the prize’s 25th anniversary—for his book 1599: A year in the life of...

De Kretser shortlisted for Ondaatje Prize

Friday, 28 April 2023
In the UK, Michelle de Kretser has been shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s (RSL) Ondaatje Prize, for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U). Scary Monsters is one of five books shortlisted...

Holland-Batt wins 2023 Stella Prize for ‘The Jaguar’

Friday, 28 April 2023
Sarah Holland-Batt has won the 2023 Stella Prize, worth $60,000, for The Jaguar (UQP). It’s the second time a poetry collection has won the award, following Evelyn Araluen’s win last...

ABS survey finds children are reading less

Thursday, 27 April 2023
Children’s participation in reading for pleasure has dropped from 79% in 2017–18 to 72% in 2021–22, according to a survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The survey on...

UQP acquires Weetman nonfiction

Thursday, 27 April 2023
UQP has acquired ANZ rights to a nonfiction book by Nova Weetman. The as yet untitled book weaves together experiences of love and loss from throughout Weetman’s life, including...

Russell Prize for Humour Writing 2023 shortlists announced

Thursday, 27 April 2023
The State Library of NSW has announced the shortlists for the 2023 Russell Prize for Humour Writing and the Humour Writing for Young People Award. The books shortlisted for the...

Women’s Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Thursday, 27 April 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 International Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. The six titles shortlisted for the award are: Black Butterflies (Priscilla Morris, Duckworth Books) Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver, Faber) Fire...

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