Change for Foreign Policy Institute
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Publisher: Foreign Policy Institute ISBN prefix: 97809997406; 97817337339; 97809890294 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 June 2022 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk
August & Jones (Pip Harry, Lothian)
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Meet Jones and August: Jones’s family have had to sell their farm and relocate to Sydney because of the drought, while August’s quirky personality means he feels isolated both at...
‘A Place Near Eden’ wins 2022 Vogel
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
A Place Near Eden by Melbourne writer Nell Pierce has won this year’s $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. Described...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2022 winners announced
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
The winners of the 2022 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Safdar Ahmed’s graphic novel Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s immigration detention system (Twelve Panels Press) was...
Booktopia opens new corporate offices in Western Sydney
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Online book retailer Booktopia has opened its new corporate offices in the Western Sydney suburb of Rhodes. The company said the new, 2000 sqm offices will free up space at...
Green to leave Meanjin
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Meanjin editor Jonathan Green has announced that the December 2022 edition of the literary journal will be his last. Green, who has has been in the role since 2015, is...
Bublitz shortlisted for Gold Dagger
Monday, 16 May 2022
Australia-based author Jacqueline Bublitz has been shortlisted for the Gold Dagger, awarded to the best crime novel originally written in English by an author of any nationality, in the UK...
Michael Gifkins Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Monday, 16 May 2022
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) have announced the shortlist for the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished...
Lockwood wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘No One is Talking About This’
Friday, 13 May 2022
In the UK, American writer Patricia Lockwood has won the £20,000 (A$36,240) Dylan Thomas Prize for her debut novel No One is Talking About This (Bloomsbury). Chair of judges Namita Gokhale...
New writers festival for Wollongong
Friday, 13 May 2022
The South Coast Writers Centre (SCWC) has announced a new literary festival, to take place in the Illawarra region of New South Wales. The South Coast Writers Festival will run...
Australian Reading Hour moves to March from 2023
Friday, 13 May 2022
Australia Reads has announced that its flagship event the Australian Reading Hour, which has run each year in September for the past decade, will not take place in 2022, with...
Ockham NZ Book Awards 2022 winners announced
Thursday, 12 May 2022
The winners of the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The NZ$60,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, Aotearoa New Zealand's richest writing prize, went to Wellington...
‘Happy Stories, Mostly’ wins Republic of Consciousness Prize
Thursday, 12 May 2022
In the UK, Indonesian writer Norman Erikson Pasaribu and his publisher Tilted Axis Press have won this year’s Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, for Pasaribu’s short story collection...
New PRH longform mentoring program
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
The Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas (JNI) has partnered with Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) and the Copyright Agency on a new initiative to provide practical experience and...
UK publishing staff report stress, burnout
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
A survey by the Bookseller has found the UK publishing trade is facing ‘industry-wide burnout’, with nearly nine out of 10 (89%) respondents having experienced work-related stress over the past...
EWF 2022 program announced
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has revealed its 2022 festival program, which will take place from 15–25 June 2022. Following EWF’s successful pivot to an online format in response to...
Nightcrawling
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Inspired by the true story of a shocking scandal underpinning a police department, Nightcrawling is a searing debut novel about vulnerability and survival from an astonishing young talent. Nightcrawling by...
Douglas-Kinghorn appointed Voiceworks editor
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Express Media has announced Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn as the new editor of Voiceworks literary journal. Douglas-Kinghorn has been a member of the Voiceworks editorial committee for the past two years. As...
Pulitzer Prize winners announced
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
In the US, the winners of this year's Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. Joshua Cohen won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Netanyahus (Fitzcarraldo), which the judges described as...
Foyles records operating loss as footfall remains ‘depressed’
Monday, 9 May 2022
In the UK, bookshop chain Foyles recorded an operating loss after sales dropped dramatically in the year ending 24 April, reports the Bookseller. Sales fell to £8.5 million (A$14.9m) last...
WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced
Monday, 9 May 2022
The shortlists for the 2021 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an Emerging Writer ($15,000) Debesa (Cindy Solonec, Magabala)...
Otmar awarded 2022 Janet Mackenzie Medal
Friday, 6 May 2022
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Geelong-based writer, editor, researcher and trainer Renée Otmar as the winner of the the 2022 Janet Mackenzie Medal for services to editing....
Ypi wins Ondaatje Prize for ‘Free’
Friday, 6 May 2022
In the UK, Lea Ypi has won the £10,000 (A$17,400) Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for Free (Allen Lane), a coming-of-age memoir set amid political upheaval in Albania. The...
The meteoric rise of manga
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Books+Publishing investigates what’s behind the current manga boom, and how it’s impacting publishers’ local comics and graphic novel lists. It’s no secret that in 2021 the modest growth of the...
Centre for Stories Writing Fellowships 2022 winners announced
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
The Centre for Stories has announced the winners of the 2022 Centre for Stories Writing Fellowships. The six winning writers are: Ana Brawls, for a manuscript of literary fiction Melanie...
‘The Dictionary of Lost Words’ picked for Reese’s Book Club
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Pip Williams’ novel The Dictionary of Lost Words (Affirm) is the first Australian book to be selected for Reese’s Book Club. US actor and producer Reese Witherspoon founded the book...
Ultimate Australia Travel List
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Lonely Planet's Ultimate Australia Travel List has been revealed. Win one of 10 copies! For the first time, the team at Lonely Planet and its panel of industry experts have...
Change for White Goat Press
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Publisher: White Goat Press ISBN prefix: 97817343872; 97809893731; 97989852069 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 May 2022 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk
Blue Hour (Sarah Schmidt, Hachette)
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Sarah Schmidt’s second novel, following her award-winning debut See What I Have Done, is an intensely absorbing emotional journey through motherhood and trauma set against the turbulent 20th century. In...
Parker-Chan shortlisted for Hugo Award for Best Novel
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Australian writer Shelley Parker-Chan is a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel for her debut novel She Who Became the Sun. She Who Became the Sun was published...
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