Ditmar Awards 2021 ballot announced
Friday, 12 November 2021
The ballot for the 2021 Ditmar Awards has been announced. The shortlisted works include: Best Novel The Crying Forest (Venero Armanno, IFWG Publishing Australia) Hollow Empire (Sam Hawke, Penguin) The...
Australians nominated for Carnegie, Kate Greenaway medals
Friday, 12 November 2021
Several Australians have been nominated for the 2022 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals for writing and illustration for children and young people, presented annually by the UK’s Chartered Institute of...
Pascoe awarded 2021 ASA Medal
Friday, 12 November 2021
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Bruce Pascoe is the recipient of the 2021 ASA Medal. Author of the bestselling Dark Emu (Magabala), Pascoe has written over 30...
WHSmith eyes return to profitability after stronger FY21 results
Friday, 12 November 2021
UK-based bookselling chain WHSmith has revealed its preliminary results for the financial year ending 31 August, as it eyes a return to 'meaningful profitability'. After posting a £69 million (A$125m)...
Tsiolkas, Araluen, Grills, Clarke 2021 Melbourne Prize winners
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Christos Tsiolkas, Evelyn Araluen and Eloise Grills are the winners in the 2021 Melbourne Prize for Literature, announced on 10 November. Tsiolkas won the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature for...
Waidner wins Goldsmiths Prize for ‘Sterling Karat Gold’
Thursday, 11 November 2021
In the UK, Isabel Waidner has won the £10,000 (A$18,300) Goldsmiths Prize for their third novel Sterling Karat Gold (Peninsula Press). The publisher describes Waidner’s novel as ‘Kafka’s The Trial...
Amerena wins 2021 Speculate Prize
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Dominic Amerena has won the inaugural Speculate Prize for his speculative fiction manuscript ‘In Real Life’. ‘Part literary detective story, part gig economy fable, Domenic Amerena’s “In Real Life” is...
Cage of War
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
Australian James ‘Ned’ Kelly is captured in Vietnam and held in a bamboo cage. Rescued by a rogue CIA team, a chain of murderous events unfolds leading to the Adelaide...
El Akkad wins 2021 Giller Prize for ‘What Strange Paradise’
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
Omar El Akkad has won the C$100,000 (A$110,000) Giller Prize, Canada's richest literary award, for his second novel What Strange Paradise (Picador). El Akkad's novel depicts the relationship between a...
Change for Pro Lingua Learning
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
Publisher: Pro Lingua Learning ISBN prefix: 086647; 09791699; 09908745 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 October 2021 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk
Retirement: Tim Armstrong
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
After 12 years as a valued member of the Hardie Grant sales team, Tim Armstrong will be retiring on December 9. Tim has been a passionate reader and advocate of...
Career path: Johannes Jakob
Tuesday, 9 November 2021
Johannes Jakob began his publishing career as an editor at Express Media's Voiceworks magazine. He is now an editor at Penguin Random House Australia, and won the 2021 IPEd Rosie...
Varuna launches publisher and agent program
Tuesday, 9 November 2021
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has launched a program to connect Australian writers with the publishing industry. Pitch Me! provides the opportunity for writers ‘to cut through the complex business...
Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair postponed
Tuesday, 9 November 2021
The Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) has been postponed until March 2022, reports the Bookseller. The fair, which was originally scheduled to run from 19–21 November, will now run...
‘Lucky’s’ wins 2021 Readings Prize
Monday, 8 November 2021
The winner of the 2021 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction is Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos (Picador). Elizabeth Tan, who won the 2020 prize for her short story collection Smart...
Get to know the SPN Book of the Year shortlist
Monday, 8 November 2021
The winner of the 2021 Small Press Network (SPN) Book of the Year Award will be announced on 26 November during the annual SPN Independent Publishing Conference. Each Monday, in...
GenreCon 2022 full program announced
Monday, 8 November 2021
GenreCon has released the full program for next year’s conference, which will be held at the State Library of Queensland from 18–20 February. The theme for the conference is ‘The...
‘Avoiding the Ageing Parent Trap’ wins AJA 2021 book award
Monday, 8 November 2021
Avoiding the Ageing Parent Trap (Brian Herd, Big Sky) has won the 2021 Australasian Journal on Ageing (AJA) Book Award. Brain Body Food (Ngaire Hobbins, self-published) received an honourable mention....
Woollahra Digital Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Friday, 5 November 2021
The shortlists for the Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Fiction ($2500) Understanding Almost Nothing of the World (James Hughes, Spineless Wonders)...
Jordan wins 2021 Richell Prize
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Simone Amelia Jordan has won the 2021 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for her memoir manuscript ‘Tell Her She’s Dreamin’’. An Australian journalist, writer, host and media consultant, Jordan founded...
Onus on Australian rights holders to opt out of Internet Archive donation
Thursday, 4 November 2021
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) is alerting Australian authors and publishers that the decision by the National Library of New Zealand (NLNZ) to donate more than 400,000 books to...
Vale Chrissy Sharp
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Former Sydney Writers Festival CEO and former Wheeler Centre director Chrissy Sharp has died. Sydney Writers’ Festival writes: 'Sydney Writers’ Festival is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of...
NZ Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement 2021 announced
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Creative New Zealand has announced the winners of the 2021 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, worth NZ$60,000 (A$57,634) each. Award-winning poet, fiction writer, screenplay editor and teacher Anne Kennedy...
Parliamentary inquiry into the arts, US DoJ seeks to block PRH, S&S deal
Thursday, 4 November 2021
A parliamentary inquiry has made a slate of recommendations to support Australia’s cultural and creative industries, including a review of PLR/ELR schemes, minimum thresholds of local content and increased funding...
Galgut wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’
Thursday, 4 November 2021
South African author Damon Galgut has won the £50,000 (A$91,830) Booker Prize for his ninth novel The Promise (Chatto & Windus), reports the Bookseller. Galgut’s novel, set in South Africa during the...
Vale Ashley Mallett
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Ashley Mallett, ex-Australian cricketer and author of 35 books, has died in Adelaide at age 76. Born in Sydney in 1945, Mallett moved as a child to Western Australia where...
Vale Robert ‘Bob’ Stafford
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Robert 'Bob' Stafford has passed away at age 91, after a 70-year career across sales, marketing and publishing. Mark Stafford, Bob's son, writes: 'Bob's first job at age 16 was...
Applications open for 2022 Residential Editorial Program
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Applications are now open for the 2022 Residential Editorial Program, which will be held from 21-24 February in Manly, Sydney. The program includes two scholarships for First Nations editors. The...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Bucheon’s Yong Books
Wednesday, 3 November 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. Today we...
NEWC crowd-funds children’s publishing book
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
The New England Writers' Centre (NEWC) has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for the printing and marketing of Inside Story: the wonderful world of writing, illustrating and publishing...
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