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MWF to launch podcast, free digital events

Date: 8 October 2021
Category: Local news

Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced it will release more than 50 cancelled events from its 2021 program as podcasts from 13 October, with a further five events from First... Read more

Akec, Kemp win UWAP Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript

Date: 11 June 2021
Category: Awards Local news News

UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced Kgshak Akec and Joshua Kemp as this year’s joint winners of the Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript, for their respective manuscripts ‘Hopeless Kingdom’... Read more

Australian children’s book creators sign open letter in support of Palestine

Date: 2 June 2021
Category: Junior Local news

Almost 300 publishing professionals, authors, illustrators and others with a connection to the children’s book industry have signed an open letter in support of Palestinian liberation since it was posted online on... Read more

UWAP announces 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist

Date: 28 April 2021
Category: Awards Local news

UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives a cash prize of $10,000, as well as manuscript development... Read more

AWW 2021 ‘more special than ever’; women dominate bestsellers

Date: 11 March 2021
Category: 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 2021
Category: Awards 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 2020
Category: 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 2020
Category: 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 2020
Category: 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 2020
Category: 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 2020
Category: 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

Story you can hold: Tyson Yunkaporta on ‘Sand Talk’

Date: 21 August 2019
Category: 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 2019
Category: 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 2019
Category: 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