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Varuna Pitch Me! inaugural fellows announced

Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Varuna has announced the two recipients of the inaugural Pitch Me! Fellowship, established to connect Australian writers with the publishing industry. The two successful applicants, chosen from 39 submissions, are:...

Floods devastate Lismore Library, Book Warehouse

Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Lismore Library and the Book Warehouse Lismore have both been badly affected by the floods that have devastated the Northern Rivers area in New South Wales. Lismore Library has had...

WBN published Thursday this week

Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Due to the public holiday in Victoria on Monday, 14 March, the Weekly Book Newsletter (WBN) will be published on Thursday, 17 March this week. Classifieds and job advertisements for inclusion...

Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon

Tuesday, 15 March 2022
By the new Australian Children’s Laureate, Gabrielle Wang. Meet Zadie Ma, a girl who writes magical stories that sometimes come true. Zadie’s dearest wish is to have a dog of...

International Booker 2022 longlist announced

Friday, 11 March 2022
The longlist for the 2022 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$90k), has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Cursed Bunny (Bora Chung, trans by Anton Hur, Honford Star) After The Sun...

Penguin Literary Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Friday, 11 March 2022
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'On a Bright Hillside in Paradise' by Annette Higgs, about a...

ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize shortlist announced

Friday, 11 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins publishing division HQ have announced the shortlist for the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. The winner will receive...

Posavec, Quick win Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize

Thursday, 10 March 2022
In the UK, Stefanie Posavec and Miriam Quick have won the £10,000 (A$18,000) Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize for I Am a Book. I Am a Portal to the...

Warburton appointed ALIA CEO

Thursday, 10 March 2022
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced the appointment of Cathie Warburton as its new CEO, replacing Sue McKerracher who left the organisation in January. Warburton has experience...

Vale Jordie Albiston

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Melbourne-based poet Jordie Albiston has died, aged 60. Born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, Albiston studied music at the Victorian College of the Arts and received a Doctorate in English...

Publishing industry Workforce Survey on Diversity and Inclusion launches today

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The Australian publishing industry Workforce Survey on Diversity and Inclusion launches today. Answers will be anonymous, accessible only to the University of Melbourne researchers. Participants will be asked a number...

Chidgey, Mason longlisted for 2022 Women’s Prize

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand writers Catherine Chidgey and Meg Mason have been longlisted for the £30,000 (A$54,000) Women’s Prize for Fiction. Chidgey, the author of six novels, is longlisted for Remote Sympathy,...

Wang appointed Australian Children’s Laureate 2022–23

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation (ACLF) has named Gabrielle Wang as the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2022–23. Melbourne-based Wang is an award-winning author and illustrator of over 20 books, including...

Vale Shane Warne

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Australian cricketer Shane Warne has died, aged 52. Warne was the author of the memoir No Spin (with Mark Nicholas), published by Penguin Random House (PRH) simultaneously in the UK and...

Australian Playwrights’ Festival

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
An initiative from Currency Press to mark 50 years as a performing arts publisher, the festival is a public event to celebrate the contribution of our playwrights to the national...

Voss Literary Prize 2022

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The Australian University Heads of English and the estate of Vivian Robert de Vaux Voss are pleased to call for nominations to the ninth annual Voss Literary Prize. The prize,...

Sales and distribution

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The National Library of Australia have opened a tender for the sales and distribution contract for NLA Publishing. The tender will close on 1 April, 2022 at 2:00pm. More information...

Workshop: Using PDF mark-up effectively

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Learn to master on-screen PDF mark-up, using the comment tools in Adobe Acrobat. Trainer: Kevin O’Brien Series 1: 1–3:30pm, 19 March, and 7–8pm, 22 March https://iped.memnet.com.au/MemberSelfService/EventBooking.aspx?selectedEventId=650 or Series 2 (repeat):...

George Haddad on ‘Losing Face’

Tuesday, 8 March 2022
George Haddad's Losing Face (May, UQP) follows the lives of an intergenerational Lebanese-Australian family living in Western Sydney. Told primarily from the perspective of young protagonist Joey, Haddad's narrative reveals the complexities...