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...
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...
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