AWW 2021 ‘more special than ever’; women dominate bestsellers
Date: 11 March 2021Category: Local news
Adelaide Writers' Week (AWW) wrapped up on Thursday, 4 March, having run since Saturday, 27 February. Director Jo Dyer told Books+Publishing that after being ‘the last literary festival to squeak... Read more
ABIA 2021 longlists announced
Date: 22 February 2021Category: Awards Books from Australia Local news
The longlists for the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year The Bluffs (Kyle Perry, Michael... Read more
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Date: 8 December 2020Category: Awards Local news
The shortlists for the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted and highly commended works in each category are: Fiction The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Richard... Read more
Bologna postponed due to coronavirus, CBCA & ABDA longlists, screen adaptations and more
Date: 26 February 2020Category: This week’s news
Bologna Children’s Book Fair organisers have postponed the event for a month due to the coronavirus outbreak in Italy. Originally scheduled for 30 March–2 April, the fair will now run... Read more
Affirm to publish speculative fiction anthology by diverse writers
Date: 26 February 2020Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Affirm Press will publish a speculative fiction anthology by writers from Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, as part of a partnership with Diversity Arts Australia and the Western... Read more
Wyld wins UWAP Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript
Date: 24 February 2020Category: Awards Local news
South Australian author Karen Wyld has won the 2020 UWA Publishing (UWAP) Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript for her manuscript ‘Where the Fruit Falls’. Wyld was chosen from... Read more
UWAP announces 2020 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist
Date: 14 January 2020Category: Awards Local news
In December, UWA Publishing announced the shortlist for the 2020 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted authors and their works are: ‘The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette’... Read more
Ghost Bird (Lisa Fuller, UQP)
Date: 5 September 2019Category: Junior newsletter Review list Reviews
Lisa Fuller was the recipient of the 2017 David Unaipon Award for an Unpublished Indigenous Writer for Ghost Bird. In this young adult novel, Stacey Thomson’s twin sister, Laney, is... Read more
Story you can hold: Tyson Yunkaporta on ‘Sand Talk’
Date: 21 August 2019Category: Features Interview Magazine feature story
In Sand Talk (Text, September), researcher and arts critic Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. Reviewer Karen Wyld said the book ‘offers fuel for timely discussions... Read more
Angie Martin wins inaugural First Nations Fellowship for commercial writing
Date: 14 August 2019Category: Awards Local news
Harlequin has announced Angie Martin as the winner of the inaugural Commercial Fiction Fellowship for First Nation Writers, for her manuscript ‘Melaleuca’. Martin’s manuscript was chosen from a shortlist of... Read more
Harlequin announces shortlist for First Nations Fellowship
Date: 7 August 2019Category: Local news
Harlequin has announced the shortlist for the 2019 First Nations Fellowship for commercial fiction. The shortlisted writers and titles are: Julie Janson for ‘Desert Lands’ Melanie Saward for ‘Barks and the City’... Read more
Books by design: B+P magazine Issue 3 out now
Date: 6 August 2019Category: In the magazine
Issue 3 of Books+Publishing magazine is here, featuring Tyson Yunkaporta’s Sand Talk (Text, September) on the cover. Inside, Yunkaporta speaks with reviewer Karen Wyld about his motivations, his wood carving... Read more
The Tiniest House of Time (Sreedhevi Iyer, Wild Dingo)
Date: 25 July 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
The Tiniest House of Time is the well-researched debut novel by Sreedhevi Iyer, an Indian-Malaysian-Australian author. Matriarch Susheela Sastri is dying. Her granddaughter, Sandhya, born on the same date as... Read more
Sand Talk: How Indigenous thinking can save the world (Tyson Yunkaporta, Text)
Date: 27 June 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list Think Australian old reviews list by category
Tyson Yunkaporta is a researcher, academic and arts critic. With ties to the Apalech clan in Far North Queensland, Yunkaporta combines his lived experiences and academic interests in this innovative... Read more
Australia’s Original Languages: An introduction (R M W Dixon, A&U)
Date: 30 May 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list Think Australian old reviews list by category
Bob Dixon has an impressive academic and publishing career, which includes 50 years of researching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Dixon’s latest book combines linguistics, colonisation history, anthropology and... Read more
One Careless Night (Christina Booth, Black Dog)
Date: 2 May 2019Category: Junior newsletter Review list Reviews Think Australian old reviews list by category
Tony Birch’s ‘The White Girl’
Date: 1 May 2019Category:
The White Girl (Tony Birch, UQP)
Date: 26 April 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Featured book review Think Australian old reviews list by category
Hitch (Kathryn Hind, Hamish Hamilton)
Date: 26 April 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
No place like home: Kelly and Kennedy on ‘Wilam: A Birrarung Story’
Date: 19 March 2019Category: Features Interview Junior
Wilam: A Birrarung Story (Aunty Joy Murphy & Andrew Kelly, illus by Lisa Kennedy, Black Dog)
Date: 7 March 2019Category: Junior newsletter Review list Reviews Think Australian old reviews list by category
Black is the New White (Nakkiah Lui, A&U)
Date: 1 February 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Wyld, Howard, Younus announced as inaugural participants of Writers SA residency project
Date: 26 September 2018Category: Local news
Blakwork (Alison Whittaker, Magabala)
Date: 26 July 2018Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Ameblin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina’s ‘Catching Teller Crow’
Date: 11 July 2018Category:
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now
Date: 6 July 2018Category: Recently published by B+P
Reaching out: Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina on ‘Catching Teller Crow’
Date: 5 July 2018Category: Features Junior newsletter Interview
Catching Teller Crow (Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina, A&U)
Date: 5 July 2018Category: Junior newsletter Featured book review Reviews Think Australian old reviews list by category
Inaugural digital participants announced for 2018 Hardcopy program
Date: 22 May 2018Category: Local news
Wyld receives Hardcopy scholarship for First Nations writers
Date: 10 May 2018Category: Local news
Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia (Marcia Langton, Hardie Grant)
Date: 3 April 2018Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list Think Australian old reviews list by category
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia (ed by Anita Heiss, Black Inc.)
Date: 22 February 2018Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list Think Australian old reviews list by category
Richell Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Date: 3 October 2017Category: Awards Local news
Richell Prize 2017 longlist announced
Date: 29 August 2017Category: Local news
Rights round-up
Date: 22 June 2016Category: Rights round-up
Identity crisis? Andrew Nette on the state of Australian crime fiction
Date: 18 August 2015Category: Features