Money wins First Nations Arts Award
Monday, 30 May 2022
Wiradjuri poet and artist Jazz Money has won a 2022 Dreaming Award for a young and emerging artist, presented as part of the Australia Council's First Nations Arts Awards. Money's...
Vucic awarded $50k Marten Bequest scholarship
Monday, 30 May 2022
Dženana Vucic, a Bosnian-Australian writer, editor, critic and recipient of the 2021 Kat Muscat Fellowship, is among the seven recipients of the 2022 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, each worth $50,000....
Khan, Chan win 2022 Jhalak prizes
Monday, 30 May 2022
In the UK, the winners of the 2022 Jhalak prizes, which recognise ‘authors who feel that their work is often marginalised unless it fulfils a romantic fetishisation of their cultural...
Indian author Shree wins International Booker Prize
Friday, 27 May 2022
Indian author Geetanjali Shree has won the £50,000 (A$88,800) International Booker Prize for her novel Tomb of Sand (trans by Daisy Rockwell, Tilted Axis). The novel, which is set in northern...
Gervay wins 2022 Crystal Kite award
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Susanne Gervay has won the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards, presented by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). Gervay...
Mabey awarded Creative NZ Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Claire Mabey has been named the recipient of Creative New Zealand’s 2022 Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary, receiving funding of NZ$23,150 (A$21,150). Based in Pōneke (Wellington), Mabey is a writer...
ASAL announces book awards finalists
Thursday, 26 May 2022
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the finalists for several literary awards that the organisation oversees. Magarey Medal ASAL and the Australian Historical Association have...
Vale Caroline Jones
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Broadcaster, television journalist and writer Caroline Jones has died, aged 84. Jones, who presented the ABC radio program The Search for Meaning, authored several books based on the program, as...
Mason wins fiction book of the year at 2022 British Book Awards
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Sydney-based Aotearoa New Zealand writer Meg Mason has won the 2022 British Book Award for fiction book of the year for her second novel Sorrow and Bliss (Fourth Estate). The...
Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards, which celebrate excellence in writing across the Northern Territory, have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction...
Spufford wins £10k Encore Award for ‘Light Perpetual’
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
In the UK, Francis Spufford has won the £10,000 (A$17,630) Royal Society of Literature (RSL) Encore Award, presented annually to the best second novel of the year, for his book...
Enclave (Claire G Coleman, Hachette)
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Born of social media algorithms and convenience culture, with a biting critique of modern tribalism, Enclave, Claire G Coleman’s third novel, is Brave New World with every conceit flipped for...
Claire G Coleman on ‘Enclave’
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Described by reviewer Stefan Brazulaitis as Brave New World for the smartphone generation, Enclave (Hachette, July), Claire G Coleman's third novel, centres on a young woman who lives in the walled city...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2022 longlist announced
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
The longlist for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The 12 longlisted novels are: The Other Half of You (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette) After Story...
‘The Art of Losing’ wins 2022 Dublin Literary Award
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
The Art of Losing by French author Alice Zeniter, translated by Irishman Frank Wynne (Picador), has won the €100,000 (A$147,400) Dublin Literary Award, the world’s richest prize for a single...
Quilliam named ILF ambassador
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced a new ILF ambassador, Aboriginal artist and adjunct professor Wayne Quilliam. A photographer, artist, filmmaker, author and cultural advisor, Quilliam has 30 years...
ABIA 2022 shortlists announced
Monday, 23 May 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: General fiction book of the year When Things Are Alive...
Ventris to depart LBF
Monday, 23 May 2022
In the UK, director of the London Book Fair (LBF) Andy Ventris is expected to leave his role in the European summer, reports the Bookseller. Ventris, who was appointed in...
Fijian writer Rokonadravu wins Commonwealth Short Story Prize Pacific category
Monday, 23 May 2022
Fijian writer Mary Rokonadravu has won the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize in the Pacific category for her story 'The Nightwatch', described by Pacific region judge, Wiradjuri writer, poet and...
‘Shifting Grounds’ and ‘Vandemonians’ joint 2022 Ernest Scott Prize winners
Monday, 23 May 2022
Shifting Grounds: Deep histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (Lucy Mackintosh, Bridget Williams Books) and Vandemonians: The repressed history of colonial Victoria (Janet McCalman, Miegunyah Press) have jointly won the 2022...
Williams appointed The Monthly editor
Monday, 23 May 2022
Schwartz Media has announced the appointment of Michael Williams as editor of The Monthly. Appointed interim artistic director of Sydney Writers’ Festival in late 2020, Williams delivered the festival's 2021 and...
UK ebook purchases drop to lowest point since 2012
Friday, 20 May 2022
UK ebook purchases dropped to their lowest point since 2012 last year after a record 2020, reports the Bookseller. The data from Nielsen BookData, however, shows that the estimated spending...
NT Writers Fest announces full line-up, travel subsidy scheme
Friday, 20 May 2022
The full program for this year's NT Writers Festival, which runs from 23–26 June at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Garrmalang/Darwin, has been announced. Themed...
Orwell Prizes 2022 shortlists announced
Thursday, 19 May 2022
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2022 Orwell Prizes for political writing have been announced. The titles shortlisted for the political writing book prize are: Behind Closed Doors (Polly...
Culver appointed Griffith Review editor
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Carody Culver, senior editor at Griffith Review since 2019, has been appointed editor of the literary journal, replacing Ashley Hay in the role. Culver begins her new role mid-June.
UQP acquires Saleh debut poetry collection
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to the debut poetry collection The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazel el-Banat by Arab-Australian writer and activist Sara M Saleh. Described...
ABA 2022 Bookseller of the Year shortlists announced
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the shortlists for the 2022 ABA Bookseller of the Year awards. The awards recognise an individual bookseller for their outstanding achievement in the...
Hard Joy: life and writing
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
This compelling memoir of a life across seven decades circles between Australia and Europe, activism and seclusion, everyday life and the writing life, gender and sexuality, offers an incisive portrait...
Coming of age novel Different for Boys by Patrick Ness has found a home with Walker Books
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Walker Books are proud to announce the acquisition of Patrick Ness’ Different for Boys. The YA fiction novel that explores the importance of male friendships and romantic relationships. First published...
Simon & Schuster congratulates Anita Heiss & Chloe Wilson
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Simon & Schuster Australia sends our warmest congratulations to our authors for their 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Anita Heiss for winning the Indigenous Writers’ Prize for Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray and...
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