18,000 attend Clunes Booktown Festival 2017; sellout sessions with Kent, Ford
Friday, 12 May 2017
Around 18,000 visitors attended this year’s Clunes Booktown Festival in Victoria, which ran from 6-7 May. The number of visitors is about the same as the previous two festivals. A...
Melbourne’s Books in Print to close in June
Friday, 12 May 2017
Books in Print in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern will close at the end of June. The store has been run by Chris Harrington and Deborah Holland for the past...
PRH Australia announces new literary division; Ball promoted
Friday, 12 May 2017
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia will establish a Penguin Random House Literary division in June. The division, led by Ben Ball in the newly created role of publishing director of...
Red Room Poetry announces shortlist for inaugural fellowship
Friday, 12 May 2017
The shortlist has been announced for the inaugural Red Room Poetry fellowship, launched to recognise the achievements and artistic goals of contemporary Australian poets. The 10 shortlisted poets are: Ali...
Echo acquires historical novel from Meg Keneally
Friday, 12 May 2017
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to Meg Keneally’s historical novel Fled in a two-book deal. The novel, which is based on the life of convict Mary Bryant, will be...
McFarlane wins £30,000 International Dylan Thomas Prize
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Fiona McFarlane has won the £30,000 (A$52,772) International Dylan Thomas Prize for her short-story collection The High Places (Hamish Hamilton), reports the Guardian. McFarlane was selected from a shortlist of...
Russell Prize for Humour Writing 2017 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
The State Library of NSW has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Russell Prize for Humour Writing. The shortlisted titles are: Going Out Backwards: A Grafton Everest Adventure (Ross Fitzgerald...
Federal government extends $20,000 tax write-off for small business
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
The federal government will extend its $20,000 ‘instant’ tax deduction threshold for small businesses for another 12 months. The scheme, which was first introduced in the 2015 federal budget, allows...
PRH acquires ‘subversive’ boarding school YA debut
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Penguin Random House Australia has acquired the rights to Margot McGovern’s contemporary YA debut Neverland. Random House Young Readers publisher Zoe Walton acquired ANZ rights and English-language rights in Asia via Jacinta...
Budget confirms return of Catalyst funding to OzCo
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
The 2017-18 federal budget has confirmed the return of Catalyst funding to the Australia Council, first announced in March this year. The budget papers show that the government is directing...
EWF 2017 program launched
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced its full 2017 program, which runs from 14-23 June in venues across Melbourne’s CBD, Footscray and Dandenong. The festival will open with ‘an...
ASA conducting pay-rate survey; plans to update ‘rates schedules’
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) is conducting a survey of pay rates for writers and illustrators ‘as a first step towards updating the rates schedules’. The ASA said in...
Winder promoted to MD of Hachette NZ; plans for local publishing program
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Hachette New Zealand’s sales and marketing director Mel Winder has been promoted to managing director of the New Zealand business. Winder has run Hachette’s New Zealand office since 2013, when...
New ILF app to help children in remote WA community read in their first language
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has launched a new app in Ngaanyatjarra and English languages for the Warburton community in Western Australia. The app, which was developed as part of...
Affirm acquires ‘The Uncollected Plays of Shaun Micallef’
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Affirm Press has acquired a collection of playscripts by comedian Shaun Micallef, to be published next year. In a statement, Affirm publishing director Martin Hughes said the company wants to...
‘A Court of Wings and Ruin’ sets Dymocks’ record for fastest selling book this year
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
US YA author Sarah J Maas’ A Court of Wings and Ruin sold over 1300 units across Dymocks stores on its 2 May release date, making it the chain’s fastest...
Copyright Agency defends Future Fund
Monday, 8 May 2017
The Copyright Agency has defended its $15m Future Fund, to be used for advocacy and litigation in response to the threat of changes to the Copyright Act. The fund was...
CBCA partners with party supplies company
Monday, 8 May 2017
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has partnered with Australian party supplies company The Party People to promote Children’s Book Week. The CBCA said the partnership will enable it...
Ditmar Awards 2017 ballot announced
Friday, 5 May 2017
The ballot for the 2017 Ditmar Awards was announced on 10 April. The shortlisted works include: Best Novel The Grief Hole (Kaaron Warren, IFWG) The Lyre Thief (Jennifer Fallon, HarperCollins)...
Wheeler Centre receives $300,000 for new podcasting centre
Friday, 5 May 2017
The Victorian government has allocated $300,000 to the Wheeler Centre in its 2017-18 state budget for a new podcasting centre. The Wheeler Centre will use the funds for the ‘creation, publication...
Hawthorne, Henke and Richards receive Vic Supreme Court Inspire Awards
Thursday, 4 May 2017
Writers Susan Hawthorne, Frances Henke and Kate Richards have been presented with Inspire Awards for Best Achievement in Writing, administered by the Victorian Supreme Court’s Funds in Court Division. The...
Cece wins 2017 Text Prize
Thursday, 4 May 2017
Adelaide-based author Adam Cece has won the 2017 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for his middle-grade manuscript ‘The Extremely Weird Thing That Happened in Huggabie Falls’. The...
Four publishers selected for Austrade China-Korea trip
Thursday, 4 May 2017
Representatives from four Australian publishers have been selected to participate in the 2017 Austrade China-Korea Publisher Visits program. The delegation, led by Penguin Random House senior rights manager Nerrilee Weir,...
EWF Monash Writing Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Fifteen writers have been shortlisted for the 2017 Emerging Writers’ Festival’s (EWF) Monash Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing. The shortlisted stories and their authors are: ‘Femina’ by Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor ‘Unmoored’...
A&U sells North American rights to microbe picture book
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Allen & Unwin has sold North American rights to Idan Ben-Barak and Julian Frost’s picture book about microbes, Do Not Lick This Book, in a two-book, six-figure pre-empt to publisher...
Foxlee wins 2017 Readings Children’s Book Prize
Tuesday, 2 May 2017
Karen Foxlee has won the 2017 Readings Children’s Book Prize for her middle-grade novel A Most Magical Girl (Piccadilly). Foxlee’s title was chosen from a shortlist of six. She receives $3000. The...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2017 longlist announced
Tuesday, 2 May 2017
The longlist for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Easy Way Out (Steven Amsterdam, Hachette) An Isolated Incident (Emily Maguire, Picador) The...
‘The Garret’ podcast announces episodes with publishers, editors, booksellers, critics
Tuesday, 2 May 2017
The Australian writers podcast ‘The Garret’ has announced a series of special episodes with publishers, editors, booksellers and critics, beginning with Text publisher Michael Heyward on 4 May. In his...
Byron Writers Festival unveils StoryBoard Bus
Tuesday, 2 May 2017
The Byron Writers Festival has launched its StoryBoard Bus, a travelling creative writing program that will take authors and illustrators into schools across NSW’s Northern Rivers region. The bus, which...
Two writers named as winners of the SA Hachette Mentoring Program
Tuesday, 2 May 2017
Writers Dee Ayer and Jessie Byrne have been named as the winners of the second South Australian Hachette Mentoring Program. Ayer and Byrne will work with Hachette publisher Sophie Hamley...
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