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Henson joins SLV

Thursday, 7 July 2016
Rebecca Henson has been appointed reading and literacy development manager at the State Library of Victoria, responsible for the library’s children’s and family programs and the Centre for Youth Literature...

WA Premier’s Book Awards 2016 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 6 July 2016
The shortlists for the biennial WA Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Fever of Animals (Miles Allinson, Scribe) Clade (James Bradley, Hamish...

Debut novel ‘Man in the Corner’ optioned for film

Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Film producers Simon Baker and Rebecca Rigg have optioned the film rights to Australian writer Nathan Besser’s debut novel Man in the Corner (Vintage), ahead of its publication on 1...

WORD Christchurch 2016 program announced

Wednesday, 6 July 2016
The program for the 2016 WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival, which runs from 24-28 August, has been announced. Among the international guests attending this year’s festival, which embraces the...

National Biography Award 2016 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 5 July 2016
The State Library of NSW has announced the shortlist for the 2016 National Biography Award for biographical writing and memoir. The shortlisted titles are:  Battarbee and Namatjira (Martin Edmond, Giramondo) Comrade...

Howard appointed DWF director

Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Writer and critic Jane Howard has been appointed as Digital Writers’ Festival director. Howard has worked with numerous Adelaide-based arts organisations, been commissioned for work by the Lifted Brow and...

MWF international authors announced

Tuesday, 5 July 2016
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced the first of its international authors who will appear at the 2016 festival, which runs from 26 August to 4 September. The line-up...

Film rights to Australian YA debut sold to US producers

Krystal Sutherland Monday, 4 July 2016
US film production company Awesomeness Films has acquired film rights to Townsville author Krystal Sutherland’s forthcoming debut YA novel Our Chemical Hearts (Penguin). The book, which will be simultaneously published...

Lonely Planet opens new headquarters

Friday, 1 July 2016
Lonely Planet’s new headquarters in the inner-city suburb of Carlton, Melbourne opened this week. The offices are across levels two and three of The Malt Store building, the former Carlton...

Publishers selected for SPN mentorship program

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Eight small publishers based in Victoria have been selected for the Small Press Network’s (SPN) mentorship program. The publishers are: Celapene Press, Empowering Resources, Monash University Publishing, Miscellaneous Press, Three...

‘Letters to Tiptree’ wins Locus Award

Letters to Tiptree Wednesday, 29 June 2016
An anthology by Australian speculative-fiction publisher Twelfth Planet Press has won a 2016 Locus Award for science-fiction and fantasy, announced at a ceremony in Seattle, US, on 25 June. Letters...

Ex MUP and Black Inc. publicists form PR agency

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
A new PR agency has been launched by former Melbourne University Publishing publicists Terri King and Dina Kluska and former Black Inc. publicist Anna Lensky. Pitch Projects ‘specialises in publicity,...

‘The Pearl Frontier’ wins NT History Book Award

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Julia Martinez and Adrian Vickers have won the 2016 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award for their book The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern...

Xenophon calls on government to keep PIRs

Tuesday, 28 June 2016
South Australian senator Nick Xenophon outlined his objections to the Productivity Commission’s draft recommendation to repeal parallel importation restrictions (PIRs) at a press conference at Matilda Bookshop in Adelaide on...

ASAL conference to focus on Indigenous writing

Tuesday, 28 June 2016
This year’s Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) conference will be held in Canberra from 6-9 July, and will include a focus on Indigenous writing. Melissa Lucashenko, author...

Ticket sales up 25% at EWF 2016 

Monday, 27 June 2016
Ticket sales were up 25% at this year’s Emerging Writers Festival (EWF), which ran in Melbourne from 14-24 June and was the first under festival director Michaela McGuire. McGuire said...

‘Alice Miranda’ series to be adapted for TV

Monday, 27 June 2016
Jacqueline Harvey’s ‘Alice Miranda’ children’s book series (Random House) will be adapted into an animated TV show to screen on Channel Nine. The 26 half-hour episode series will be produced...

Feminist Writers Festival line-up announced

Friday, 24 June 2016
The line-up for the inaugural Feminist Writers Festival’s (FWF) networking day, to be held on Friday 26 August at the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre in Melbourne, has been announced. Among...

Bilingual Chinese Writers Festival to be held in Melbourne

Friday, 24 June 2016
A ‘completely bilingual’ Chinese Writers Festival will be held at Richmond Library in Melbourne on Sunday 28 August. The festival, presented by Writers Victoria, the Australia Chinese Writers Festival and...

Affirm Press to represent US publisher The Experiment 

Friday, 24 June 2016
Affirm Press will represent New York publisher The Experiment’s titles in Australia and New Zealand starting from 1 July. The partnership will see the Melbourne-based publisher sell The Experiment’s frontlist...

 

 

 

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