Redgum to publish winners of 2016 Young Writers’ Award
Tuesday, 15 November 2016
Children’s book imprint Redgum will publish the winners of its 2016 Young Writers’ Award this month. The two books are Heart of a Home, an ‘emotional short story’ by 11-year-old...
Catton, Horrocks among NZ Art Awards winners
Monday, 14 November 2016
The 2016 New Zealand Art Awards winners have been announced, with a number of writers among those honoured. Writer Eleanor Catton and cartoonist and graphic novelist Dylan Horrocks are among...
Govt releases draft bill imposing GST on low-value goods
Monday, 14 November 2016
The federal government has released the draft of a bill that will impose a GST on goods worth under $1000 that are purchased online from international vendors. The proposed legislation...
‘Creating Cities’ wins 2016 Most Underrated Book Award
Friday, 11 November 2016
Marcus Westbury’s Creating Cities (Niche Press), a book about the transformation of the city of Newcastle, has won the 2016 Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA). The winner was announced in...
Wheeler Centre and Audiocraft launch Australian Audio Guide
Friday, 11 November 2016
The Wheeler Centre and radio-making and podcasting community Audiocraft have jointly launched the Australian Audio Guide, an ‘online companion to the best Australian podcasts and radio features’. Curated and edited...
Hay wins 2016 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
Friday, 11 November 2016
Ashley Hay has won the 2016 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her piece ‘The forest at the edge of time’, first published in the Australian Book Review....
Author wins $30,000 NSW Aboriginal Arts Fellowship
Friday, 11 November 2016
Author Cathy Craigie has been awarded the $30,000 NSW Aboriginal Arts Fellowship for 2016. Craigie will use the fellowship to research the northern NSW story of the Seven Sisters, in collaboration...
Australian Romance Readers Convention authors announced
Friday, 11 November 2016
Over 70 authors will participate in the 2017 Australian Romance Readers Convention (ARRC), which runs from 24-26 February in Melbourne. Headlining the festival are US authors Courtney Milan and Kristen Callihan,...
McGuire appointed SWF artistic director
Thursday, 10 November 2016
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has appointed Michaela McGuire as its artistic director, taking over the curation of the 2017 festival. McGuire will leave her role as director and co-CEO...
Macquarie Uni announces new poetry prize for young writers
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Macquarie University has announced the inaugural Sophia Nugent-Siegal Poetry Prize for writers aged 30 and under. The prize is in honour of poet Sophia Nugent Siegal, who died in 2014...
KROC Awards 2016 winners announced
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
The winners of this year’s Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for the Northern Territory, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Pig...
Kindle Unlimited launches in Australia
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Amazon’s ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited has been made available in Australia. Amazon is charging A$13.99 per month for the Australian Kindle Unlimited service, which has a library of almost...
TitlePage to return to the APA
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Direct management of the Australian book industry’s price and availability service TitlePage will return to the Australian Publishers Association (APA), the organisation has announced in a statement. TitlePage has been...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2016 winners announced
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
The winners of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced on 8 November in Canberra. The winners in each category are: Fiction (joint winners) The Life of Houses (Lisa...
Booksellers NZ proposes World Booksellers Conference for Dunedin in 2018
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Booksellers NZ has made a formal proposal for the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) to hold its 2018 conference in Dunedin, New Zealand. The two-day conference would be held...
Booktopia wins ‘Smart Company’ top retailer award
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Online bookseller Booktopia has won the top retailer award at the Smart Company Smart50 category awards. Booktopia was chosen from a shortlist that also included: Noosa Chocolate, Factory, Adore Beauty,...
Macquarie Dictionary launches podcast
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Macquarie Dictionary has launched a new podcast that investigates the histories behind Australian words and phrases. Word for Word will go behind-the-scenes with dictionary editors and interview some of Australia’s...
Sales, acquisitions successes for Australian publishers at Frankfurt
Monday, 7 November 2016
‘New voices in literary fiction’, crime fiction, nature writing and ‘narrative nonfiction for female readers’ were among the trends observed by Australian attendees at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, which...
Oz, NZ authors and illustrators on 2016 White Ravens list
Monday, 7 November 2016
A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors and illustrators have been included in the 2016 White Ravens list for international children’s and youth literature. The Australian titles...
Edwards resigns from S&S
Monday, 7 November 2016
Simon & Schuster Australia head of publishing Larissa Edwards has resigned from the company to pursue interests outside of publishing. Simon & Schuster managing director Dan Ruffino said sales at...
KOALAs 2016 winners announced
Friday, 4 November 2016
The 2016 winners of New South Wales’ annual children’s choice awards, the Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), have been announced. The winners and honour books in each category are:...
2016 AusRomToday Reader’s Choice Awards nominees announced
Friday, 4 November 2016
The nominees for the 2016 AusRomToday Reader’s Choice Awards have been announced. The nominees in each category, are: Best New Author Caroline Beecham Melanie Coles Athena Daniels Diane Demetre Marilyn...
Twentieth Century Fox options rights to ‘Nevermoor’
Friday, 4 November 2016
Twentieth Century Fox has optioned the film rights to Australian author Jessica Townsend’s forthcoming middle-grade novel Nevermoor, the first book in a trilogy acquired by Hachette US, UK and Australia...
First authors announced for Perth Writers Festival 2017
Thursday, 3 November 2016
The first guests have been announced for the 2017 Perth Writers Festival, which runs from 23-26 February. UK author Ben Rawlence will give the opening address on the issue of...
Memoir ‘Learning Polish’ wins T.A.G. Hungerford Award
Thursday, 3 November 2016
Jay Martin has won the 2016 T.A.G. Hungerford Award for an unpublished manuscript for Learning Polish, a memoir about living as a diplomat’s wife in Poland. The award was presented at...
Small Press Network’s MUBA 2016 shortlist announced
Thursday, 3 November 2016
The Small Press Network (SPN) had announced the shortlist for this year’s Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA), sponsored by Booktopia. The shortlisted titles are: The Floating Garden (Emma Ashmere, Spinifex...
Beneba Clarke to deliver Word for Word Festival keynote
Thursday, 3 November 2016
The program has been announced for the third annual Word for Word nonfiction festival, running in Geelong from 18-20 November. Author Maxine Beneba Clarke will deliver the opening keynote address,...
Chan’s ‘Dark Heavens’ series optioned for film
Thursday, 3 November 2016
Alex Adsett Publishing Services (AAPS) has optioned the film rights to Kylie Chan’s nine-book ‘Dark Heavens’ fantasy series to Hollywood production company Keller Entertainment. Chan’s agent Alex Adsett negotiated the deal...
‘The Chimes’ wins best novel at World Fantasy Awards 2016
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
New Zealand author Anna Smaill’s debut novel The Chimes (Sceptre) has won the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, announced on 30 October at the World Fantasy Convention in...
‘Frankie’ magazine to publish collection of stories
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
frankie magazine will publish a book-length collection of stories from the publication’s 12-year history on 7 November. Something to Say is the magazine’s first ‘text-based book’, having previously released cookbooks,...
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