Black Inc. acquires Kate Holden true-crime book
Friday, 25 August 2017
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to a true-crime book by Kate Holden on the murder of New South Wales state environment officer Glen Turner in 2014. Scheduled for release...
Shortlists for 2017 NSW Premier’s History Awards announced
Friday, 25 August 2017
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2017 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The shortlisted works in each category are: Australian History Prize ($15,000) Australia’s War...
‘Our Mob, God’s Story’ wins 2017 Australian Christian Book of the Year
Friday, 25 August 2017
Our Mob, God’s Story: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists Share Their Faith (Louise Sherman & Christobel Mattingley, Bible Society) has been named the Australian Christian Book of the Year...
Hachette acquires Inga Simpson picture book ‘The Peach King’
Thursday, 24 August 2017
Hachette has acquired world rights to Inga Simpson’s first picture book, The Peach King. The book, which was acquired by commissioning editor Robert Watkins, is based on the fairytale that...
Second ‘Overland’ residency program open to Indigenous writers
Thursday, 24 August 2017
Literary journal Overland’s second residency program, which is ‘aimed at addressing a lack of opportunities for marginalised writers’, has opened for entries from Indigenous writers at any stage of their...
HarperCollins partners with Bolinda to produce audiobooks
Wednesday, 23 August 2017
HarperCollins will partner with audiobook publisher Bolinda to jointly produce audio editions of HarperCollins’ Australian titles. About 50 titles from HarperCollins’ frontlist and backlist will be published for the launch...
TitlePage relaunches on APA platform
Wednesday, 23 August 2017
Australian book industry’s price and availability service TitlePage relaunched on the Australian Publishers Association’s (APA) platform on 23 August. The APA said users will notice ‘some design improvements’, as well...
RMIT students to host Odyssey literary festival
Wednesday, 23 August 2017
Students from RMIT University’s Professional Writing and Editing program are hosting a literary festival in Melbourne on 6 September. The Odyssey: Line by Line festival, which was first held in...
A&U acquires Jack Heath’s ‘grisly’ adult debut; rights sold into five territories
Wednesday, 23 August 2017
Allen & Unwin has acquired children’s and YA author Jack Heath’s debut adult thriller Hangman, to be published in January 2018. Hangman is a ‘grisly crime novel about a cannibal...
S&S acquires debut thriller from ABC journalist Tim Ayliffe
Wednesday, 23 August 2017
Simon & Schuster Australia has acquired world rights to the debut thriller—the first in a trilogy—by ABC News managing editor of television and video, Tim Ayliffe. The Greater Good was...
‘Overland’ Victoria University Short Story Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 23 August 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced. The shortlisted stories are: Allan Drew for ‘Wharekaho Beach, 1944’ Amanda Niehaus...
Readings announces 2017 New Australian Fiction Award shortlist
Tuesday, 22 August 2017
Readings has announced the shortlist for its 2017 New Australian Fiction Award. The shortlisted titles are: The Windy Season (Sam Carmody, A&U) Australia Day (Melanie Cheng, Text) Jean Harley Was...
NZ publishing projects awarded CLNZ funds
Tuesday, 22 August 2017
A number of New Zealand publishers will share in NZ$75,000 (A$69,248) of funding in the latest round of Copyright Licensing New Zealand’s (CLNZ) Contestable Fund. The successful publishers and authors...
Ubud releases festival program for 2017
Tuesday, 22 August 2017
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has released the full program for its 2017 festival, which will run from 25-29 October in Ubud, Indonesia. Among the newly announced international...
Parliament passes legislation to impose GST on low-value online imports
Tuesday, 22 August 2017
Federal parliament has enacted legislation to impose a 10% GST on low-value imports purchased from online overseas sellers from 1 July 2018. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the government first...
NZ Book Industry Awards 2017 winners announced
Tuesday, 22 August 2017
The winners of the 2017 New Zealand Book Industry Awards were announced in Auckland on 19 August. The winners in each category are: Bookshop of the Year Time Out Bookstore,...
Mem Fox receives CBCA Nan Chauncy Award
Monday, 21 August 2017
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has presented Mem Fox with the 2017 CBCA Nan Chauncy Award for her contribution to Australian children’s literature. The award was presented on...
S&S acquires debut novel by Australian ‘book ninjas’
Monday, 21 August 2017
Simon & Schuster Australia has acquired world rights to the debut novel by Australian ‘book ninjas’ Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus. Berg, a copywriter and co-founder of Melbourne advertising agency...
Hardy appointed MWF artistic director
Friday, 18 August 2017
Writer and producer Marieke Hardy has been appointed artistic director of the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), with general manager Shona Barrett to take on the role of CEO. As previously...
CBCA Awards 2017 winners announced
Friday, 18 August 2017
The winners of this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are: Older readers...
Giramondo to publish series of ‘innovative fiction and nonfiction’ by southern hemisphere writers
Friday, 18 August 2017
Giramondo has published the first title in its ‘Southern Latitudes’ series, which focusses on ‘innovative fiction and nonfiction by writers of the southern hemisphere’. The first book in the series,...
‘SRB’ announces recipients of Emerging Critics fellowships
Friday, 18 August 2017
The ‘Sydney Review of Books’ has announced the recipients of this year’s Copyright Agency-SRB Emerging Critics fellowships. The recipients are: Rita Horanyi (SA) Darius Sepehri (NSW) Robert Wood (WA). Each...
Nielsen NZ report: reading the second most popular leisure activity
Thursday, 17 August 2017
A Nielsen Consumer and Media Insight survey has found about 1.9 million New Zealanders aged over 10 read a book every week, making reading the second most popular leisure activity...
Black Inc. to publish the ‘Cook’s Companion’ of mental health
Thursday, 17 August 2017
Black Inc. will publish Mental: Everything You Never Knew You Needed to Know about Mental Health, a guidebook to mental health by psychiatrist and broadcaster Steve Ellen and comedian and...
Inky Awards 2017 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
The Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria has announced the shortlists for the 2017 Inky Awards for young adult literature. The shortlisted books in each category...
Robertson wins 2017 ‘ABR’ Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
UK author Eliza Robertson has won the Australian Book Review’s (ABR) 2017 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Pheidippides’. Dominic Amerena placed second for his story ‘The Leaching Layer’ and...
Fox Searchlight options ‘Two Steps Forward’
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
Fox Searchlight has optioned the film rights to Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist’s novel Two Steps Forward (Text). Ellen DeGeneres and Jeff Kleeman will produce the film through their company...
‘KYD’, ACWA announce shortlist for S D Harvey Short Story competition
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
Kill Your Darlings and the Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) have announced the shortlist for this year’s S D Harvey Short Story Competition. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Rules to Live By’ by Louise...
Longlists for Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes announced
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
The longlists for the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The longlisted works and their authors are: Tasmania Book Prize for the best book with Tasmanian content in any...
Dymocks launches Books for Kids charity campaign
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
Dymocks bookstores are running a two-week Books for Kids charity campaign, with 50 cents from every children’s book sold to be donated to literacy support programs through Dymocks Children’s Charities....
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