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Bragg Prize for Science Writing shortlist announced

Tuesday, 12 October 2021
The shortlist for this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: 'The COVID–climate collision’ by Jo Chandler (Griffith Review) ‘Everlasting free-fall’ by...

NSW retail to reopen after lockdown

Monday, 11 October 2021
After over 100 days of restrictions, New South Wales has reached its reopening target of 70% of the population being fully vaccinated with two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Bookshops...

Italian book sales rise 29%

Monday, 11 October 2021
In Italy, book sales have risen by 29% in the first nine months of the year, compared to the same period in 2020, reports Publishing Perspectives. According to data from...

Richell Prize 2021 shortlist announced

Logo for the Richell Prize, featuring a swooping bird Friday, 8 October 2021
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) have announced the shortlist for the 2021 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The shortlisted writers were judged on the first three chapters...

Booktober

Friday, 8 October 2021
Booktober from WestWords is the lockdown friendly fundraising event helping turn the page on literary disadvantage in Greater Western Sydney. WestWords is partnering with Booktopia for the second year in...

MWF to launch podcast, free digital events

Friday, 8 October 2021
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...

Gurnah awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature

Friday, 8 October 2021
Zanzibar-born British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature, reports Publishers Weekly. Gurnah was named winner at a ceremony at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm...

Balint, Meany win 2021 Viva la Novella prize

Thursday, 7 October 2021
The 2021 Viva la Novella prize has been awarded to Christine Balint for Water Music and Helen Meany for Every Day is Gertie Day. Both novellas have been published by Seizure....

Giller Prize 2021 shortlist announced

Thursday, 7 October 2021
In Canada, the shortlist for the C$100,000 (A$109,250) 2021 Giller Prize for the best Canadian fiction published in English has been announced. The shortlisted novels are: What Strange Paradise (Omar...

Goldsmiths Prize 2021 shortlist announced

Thursday, 7 October 2021
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize, worth £10,000 (A$18,700), has been announced. The shortlisted novels are: Checkout 19 (Claire-Louise Bennett, Jonathan Cape) Assembly (Natasha Brown, Hamish Hamilton) A...

National Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 6 October 2021
In the US, the finalists for the 2021 National Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr, Fourth Estate) Matrix (Lauren Groff, William...

Thames & Hudson Australia to distribute SendPoints

Wednesday, 6 October 2021
Thames & Hudson Australia is pleased to announce a new distribution partnership with Sendpoints, the most innovative book production coming out of Asia. The Sendpoints catalogue is now available to...

Indies Roadshow 2021 now available on YouTube

Wednesday, 6 October 2021
The Independent Publishers Committee and Australian Publishers Association would like to thank all the publishers involved in the Roadshow this year as well as the live audience who joined us...

Upcoming change of distribution for Head of Zeus

Wednesday, 6 October 2021
Following the recent purchase of Head of Zeus by Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury will take over distribution of Head of Zeus (HoZ) titles in Australia and New Zealand from 1st February 2022....

Julia Carlomagno joins Monash Publishing

Wednesday, 6 October 2021
Monash Publishing is delighted to announce the appointment of Julia Carlomagno as publisher. Armed with a wealth of experience with publishers including Black Inc., Scribe and Penguin, Julia’s appointment continues...

ACWA announces new fiction award

Tuesday, 5 October 2021
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced a new fast fiction crime writing prize, the Louie Award. Sponsored by ACT president of the Australian Medical Association Antonio Di Dio,...

Hereaka awarded 2021 NZSA Beatson Fellowship

Monday, 4 October 2021
Wellington-based novelist and playwright Whiti Hereaka has been awarded the 2021 New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship, worth NZ$10,000 (A$9549). Hereaka will use the fellowship...

Canadian book sales up 11%

Monday, 4 October 2021
In its annual look at Canadian publishing, Publishers Weekly reports that print sales for the first six months of this year were up 11.2% over the same period in 2020,...

Canberra Writers Festival cancelled

Monday, 4 October 2021
The Canberra Writers Festival has announced the event will not go ahead in 2021. The announcement follows an earlier postponement of the festival due to Covid outbreaks. In a statement,...

France proposes minimum rates for book deliveries

Friday, 1 October 2021
In France, lawmakers are considering a draft law that would stop Amazon from offering virtually free delivery for book purchases, reports Politico. The draft law, which has the backing of...

Hazel Rowley fellowship increases to $20,000

Friday, 1 October 2021
Writers Victoria has announced the value of the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship will increase from $15,000 to $20,000 in 2022. Established in 2011 to encourage Australian authors to aim for...

Open Book internship pilot program to run in 2022

open book logo Friday, 1 October 2021
Open Book, a new paid internship aiming to increase cultural diversity in the Australian publishing workforce, has announced the details of its pilot program. After being announced late last year...

Frankfurt expecting up to 800 international delegates

Thursday, 30 September 2021
The Bookseller reports that Frankfurt Book Fair organisers are expecting between 700 and 800 international delegates to attend this year’s event, which runs from 20–24 October. The number is down...

YA, graphic novels among recent international sales

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Lisa Fuller’s multi-award-winning YA novel Ghost Bird (UQP), which previously won the David Unaipon Award for an Unpublished Indigenous Writer, has been sold to UK independent publisher Old Barn Books...

 

 

 

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