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Podcast spotlight: The Wheeler Centre podcast

Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Established in 2010, The Wheeler Centre (TWC) podcast features full recordings of talks hosted in TWC building in Melbourne. TWC senior digital editor Jon Tjhia has been working on the...

Christmas predictions: Louise Pfanner from Gleebooks in Sydney

Wednesday, 12 December 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this final instalment...

RiP Harriet McKnight

Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Writer and editor Harriet McKnight (1988–2018) has died. She grew up in Bermagui and spent several years studying music and performing around Melbourne before deciding to return to her love...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold multiple translation rights to The Nowhere Child (Christian White) via Kaplan/Defiore: Greek-language rights to Pedio Publishing, Turkish-language rights to April Publishing, Norwegian-language rights to...

Alison Evans’ ‘Highway Bodies’

Wednesday, 12 December 2018
‘Highway Bodies is a compassionate story imbued with softness, which helps make the intense horrors and violence more digestible. Evans' second novel shares similarities with John Marsden’s 'Tomorrow' series and will be...

IPEd announces keynotes for 2019 conference

Wednesday, 12 December 2018
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced four keynote presentations for its ninth National Editors Conference, held in Melbourne on 8-10 May 2019. Keynotes include: Macquarie Dictionary former editor Susan Butler will...

HarperCollins acquires McKinnon’s second novel

Tuesday, 11 December 2018
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Catherine McKinnon’s second novel, The Great Time, via Jeanne Ryckmans at the Cameron Creswell Agency. Set during World War II, The Great Time follows...

Charts this week 

Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Meltdown: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin 2 Past Tense Lee Child Bantam 3 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape...

James wins Horne Prize

Monday, 10 December 2018
The Saturday Paper and cosmetics company Aesop announced writer Daniel James as the winner of the $15,000 Horne Prize 2018 for his essay ‘Ten More Days’. An account of intergenerational...

Ko wins Deborah Cass Prize 2018

Friday, 7 December 2018
Writer Karina Ko has won the 2018 Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds for her manuscript extract ‘Things I used to Believe’. Chosen from a shortlist of...

NewSouth sells Gordon-Smith debut to US, UK

Thursday, 6 December 2018
NewSouth has sold North American rights to Australian academic Eleanor Gordon-Smith’s forthcoming debut Stop Being Reasonable to PublicAffairs. The nonfiction book (previously titled What Makes You So Sure You’re Not...

Podcast spotlight: Sisteria

Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Launched in 2016, Sisteria is a Melbourne-based podcast about 'women's experiences as creators and consumers of arts and culture'. Hosted by Stephanie Van Schilt and Veronica Sullivan, and produced by Jessica Lukjanow, the...

Andrea Goldsmith’s ‘Invented Lives’

Wednesday, 5 December 2018
‘In her eighth novel, Andrea Goldsmith depicts Australia through the eyes of a new arrival: the abundance of Victoria Market contrasted with Soviet-era poverty. Written in plain prose, this is...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Sales Fiction Pantera Press has sold French-language rights to The Crossing (B Michael Radburn). Nonfiction Big Sky Publishing has sold UK rights to Frederick Whirlpool VC (Alan Leek) to Pen...

RiP Judith Rodríguez

Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Australian poet Judith Rodríguez has died, aged 82. Rodríguez's first poetry appeared in the 1962 collection Four Poets, under the pseudonym Judith Green, alongside poetry by David Malouf, Rodney Hall and Don...

Winners announced for PM’s literary awards 2018

Wednesday, 5 December 2018
The winners of the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Border Districts (Gerald Murnane, Giramondo) Australian history John Curtin’s War:...

Indie Book Awards 2019 longlists announced

Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2019 Indie Book Awards for books published in 2018. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Lost Man (Jane...

Rights People to represent Affirm Press kids list

Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Affirm Press has engaged international agency Rights People to represent its kids list. Affirm sales and marketing director Keiran Rogers says he is anticipating more international rights sales as a...

$20k unpublished manuscript award launched for WA young writers

Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Fremantle Press is partnering with social-purpose organisation the Fogarty Foundation to launch an unpublished manuscript award for young writers in Western Australia, worth $20,000. The biennial award, called the Fogarty Literary...

Frey wins Bad S-x in Fiction Award

Tuesday, 4 December 2018
US author James Frey has received the 2018 Bad S-x in Fiction Award, the Literary Review’s annual prize for ‘poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction’....

Findlay to edit ‘Growing Up Disabled in Australia’

Monday, 3 December 2018
Blogger and appearance activist Carly Findlay will edit the forthcoming anthology Growing Up Disabled in Australia, to be published by Black Inc. in 2020. Black Inc. is seeking first-person submissions that...

Bad S-x in Fiction Award 2018 shortlist announced

Monday, 3 December 2018
In the UK, the Literary Review has announced the Bad S-x in Fiction Award shortlist for 2018. The seven shortlisted books are: Scoundrels: The Hunt for Hansclapp (Major Victor Cornwall & Major Arthur St John...

 

 

 

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