New September dates for Beijing Book Fair
Thursday, 2 September 2021
The Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) will go ahead on 14–18 September after it was postponed from August dates due to Covid-19 measures. While in-person attendance is limited to Chinese...
Writers SA, Liminal announce new partnership
Thursday, 2 September 2021
Writers SA has partnered with literary platform Liminal magazine to launch two new initiatives that will provide writing and mentorship opportunities for Asian-Australian writers and editors based in South Australia....
Stella Prize rebrands, expands eligibility
Thursday, 2 September 2021
The Stella Prize has revealed a new identity and website in a rebranding announcement to mark 10 years of the prize. Under its new identity the organisation has announced changes...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Azil in Ljubljana
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookstores in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. Novi trg is one...
Readings announces 2021 New Australian Fiction Prize shortlist
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Readings has announced the shortlist for its 2021 New Australian Fiction Prize. The shortlisted titles are: New Animal (Ella Baxter, A&U) She is Haunted (Paige Clark, A&U) Echolalia (Briohny Doyle,...
Booktopia yearly results, latest award winners
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Booktopia has posted revenue growth of 35% and a 125% rise in profit for the 2021 financial year—its first full year results as an ASX-listed company. In other news, Brisbane Writers Festival...
PRH half-yearly profits up 55%
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Penguin Random House (PRH) parent company Bertelsmann has reported the publisher posted a profit rise of 55.1% and a 10.9% growth in sales for the first half of 2021. Total...
Sylph Series: Sylphie is Resilient
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Sylphie is unique as she has wings because she is an air elemental known as a Sylph. But there is a problem, Sylphie cannot fly. Will Sylphie ever fly? Sylph...
Chelsea Watego on ‘Another Day in the Colony’
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Chelsea Watego is an Indigenist health humanities scholar, prolific writer and public intellectual. Her debut essay collection Another Day in the Colony (UQP, November) examines the ongoing racism faced by...
Walker Book Australia signs up picture book series with Mick Elliott
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Walker Books Australia is thrilled to announce they have signed a three book deal with acclaimed Australian author/illustrator Mick Elliott (Squidge Dibley and The Turners), through Fiona Inglis at Curtis...
Walker Books Australia congratulates Meg McKinlay and Matt Ottley
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Walker Books Australia sends massive congratulations to Meg McKinlay and Matt Ottley, with their sublime picture book, How To Make A Bird, being announced as the winner of the WA...
‘The Book of Chance’ Highly Commended in the Davitt Awards
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Walker Books is thrilled to congratulate Sue Whiting! Her book, The Book of Chance, has been Highly Commended in the 2021 Davitt Awards in the 'best children’s crime book' category....
PA: £2.2b book revenue ‘at risk’ in copyright consultation
Tuesday, 31 August 2021
In the UK, Publishing Perspectives has reported new research from the Publishers Association (PA) showing that a total of 64% of its member publishers’ revenue is estimated to be ‘at...
BWF engages curators to build 2022 program
Tuesday, 31 August 2021
Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which will celebrate its 60th year in 2022, has engaged five curators to build its festival program for the event. They are Ellen van Neerven, Anne-Marie...
Hachette acquires two Jordan novels
Tuesday, 31 August 2021
Hachette has acquired world rights for two novels by Toni Jordan, in a deal struck between head of fiction Rebecca Saunders and Jane Novak of Jane Novak Literary Agency. The...
Drewe, Krien awarded Copyright Agency fellowships
Monday, 30 August 2021
Robert Drewe and Anna Krien have received writers fellowships, worth $80,000 each, from the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund. Drewe was awarded the Author Fellowship to write his novel Nimblefoot, which...
Davitt Awards winners announced
Monday, 30 August 2021
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2021 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The winners in each category are: Adult crime novel...
‘Into Books’ campaign spreads to Paris, New York
Monday, 30 August 2021
The Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) has expanded its new ‘Into Books’ campaign to Paris, New York and Riyadh, reports Publishing Perspectives. The campaign, which has the slogan ‘If you’re into...
Nib Literary Award 2021 longlist announced
Monday, 30 August 2021
The longlist for the $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Truth about China: Propaganda, patriotism and...
Barnes & Noble sales up 5–6%
Friday, 27 August 2021
Barnes & Noble (B&N) CEO James Daunt is confident the bookselling chain can ‘weather the Covid storm’ with book sales ‘resilient’ during the recession, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). In an...
Pybus wins 2021 National Biography Award for ‘Truganini’
Friday, 27 August 2021
Cassandra Pybus has won the 2021 National Biography Award for Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse (A&U). Pybus wins $25,000, while the other authors shortlisted for the award receive $2000 each....
Von Reinhold, Ní Ghríofa win James Tait Black prizes
Thursday, 26 August 2021
In the UK, Shola Von Reinhold and Doireann Ní Ghríofa have won the James Tait Black prizes for fiction and biography respectively, reports the Bookseller. Von Reinhold won the fiction prize...
Ned Kelly Awards 2021 winners announced
Thursday, 26 August 2021
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners of the 2021 Ned Kelly Awards. Crime novels released by Text Publishing swept the fiction categories, with the winning titles...
WA Premier’s Book Awards announced
Thursday, 26 August 2021
The winners of the 2020 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. Chosen from shortlists announced in June, the winners in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an Emerging...
Malwatta wins 2021 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Queensland Poetry has announced that Janaka Malwatta has won the 2021 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for his manuscript blackbirds don’t mate with starlings. Malwatta receives $2000 and a publishing contract...
CBCA winners, MWF live events cancelled
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
The winners of this year’s CBCA Book of the Year Awards were announced last Friday. In other awards news, the recipients of the Sydney Opera House Mentorship for Diverse Emerging...
Beijing International Book Fair postponed at last minute
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
The Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), which was set to run from 25–29 August, has been postponed due to an outbreak of Covid-19 in the city, reports the Bookseller. 'Due...
The Stoning
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
The Stoning is an atmospheric page-turner, a brilliant crime novel with superb characters, but also a nuanced and penetrating insight into the heart of a country intent on gambling with its...
ILF book supply program
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
ILF book supply program for remote communities is asking for submissions from publishers. Criteria regarding selection, quantities, discount, fulfilment of orders, etc. is available from Seeba Tapim, programs administrator—via email:...
Bookings open for Think Australian Frankfurt
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Bookings are now open for Think Australian's Frankfurt issue, out 30 September. The Frankfurt issue includes a limited number of banner ads and prominently placed title preview ads. Discounts apply for...
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