Thursday, 31 May 2018
In the UK, the shortlists for the Forward Prizes for Poetry have been announced. The shortlist for the £10,000 (A$17,570) Forward Prize for Best Collection is: Venus as a Bear...

Tuesday, 29 May 2018
Bloomsbury Publishing has reported a 13% surge in total revenues to £161.5 million (A$284.9m) in 2017, its best performance since it was founded in 1986, reports the Guardian. The publisher's global...

Monday, 28 May 2018
The Booker Prize Foundation has announced the shortlist of its Golden Man Booker Prize, a special one-off award to mark the 50th anniversary of the prize. The shortlisted titles, which...

Friday, 25 May 2018
In the UK, the Booksellers Association (BA) has announced several measures to improve diversity in bookselling, including providing £50,000 (A$66,910) worth of grants to bookshops, reports the Bookseller. The trade...

Thursday, 24 May 2018
In the US, Audible has announced a partnership with Hello Sunshine, the cross-platform media brand founded by Reese Witherspoon that is dedicated to producing female-driven content, reports Publishers Weekly. Reese’s...

Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk has won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for Flights (trans by Jennifer Croft, Text). Tokarczuk and Croft will each receive £25,000 (A$44,330), as well as a further...

Tuesday, 22 May 2018
In the US, the winners of the 2017 Nebula Awards, presented in 2018, have been announced. The Stone Sky (N K Jemisin, Orbit) was awarded Best Novel, and was chosen...

Thursday, 17 May 2018
In the US, two authors have filed a federal lawsuit against educational publisher Cengage, alleging that the company’s new subscription service will improperly cost them sales and royalty payments, reports Publishers Weekly....

Wednesday, 16 May 2018
In the UK, Paris-born Pascale Petit has won the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize for her poetry collection Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe Books). The annual £10,000 (A$18,070) prize is awarded for ‘a distinguished...

Thursday, 10 May 2018
The Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) annual StatShot survey estimated that US publishers’ revenue for trade books increased by US$96 million (A$128.7 million) to US$7.6 billion (A$10.19 billion)—a 1.3% increase—in 2017....

Wednesday, 9 May 2018
In the UK, Richard Lloyd Parry has won the  £20,000 (A$34,610) Rathbones Folio Prize, relaunched last year, for Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone (Vintage). Judges praised Parry's...

Tuesday, 8 May 2018
In the US, the National Book Foundation (NBF)—which administers the National Book Awards—has introduced a new process whereby authors who are not US citizens are eligible for the awards, reports...

Friday, 4 May 2018
In South Africa, the PEN Afrikaans Translation Fund will expand consideration for translation grants to twice in a calendar year, reports Publishing Perspectives. Established in June 2017, the PEN Afrikaans Translation...

Tuesday, 1 May 2018
Irish author Mark O’Connell has won the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize for his debut To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem...

Monday, 30 April 2018
In the UK, American writer Courtney Zoffness has won the £30,000 (A$54,540) Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for ‘Peanuts Aren't Nuts’. Zoffness, only the second ever woman to win...