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Gaudry joins Hachette Australia

Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Kelly Gaudry has been appointed to the existing position of senior national account manger at Hachette Australia in Sydney, replacing Sean Cotcher in the role. Gaudry begins the position on...

Prisoner

Wednesday, 4 August 2021
24 HOURS AFTER LEAVING HIS CELL HE WAS DEAD. CAN SHE FIND OUT WHY? 'S R White is the real deal.' —Chris Hammer, author of Scrublands. When a man is...

The Stoning (Peter Papathanasiou, Transit Lounge)

Tuesday, 3 August 2021
At dawn one Sunday, homicide detective George Manolis is woken with a call: a schoolteacher has been murdered in the outback town of Cobb, and the local police need his...

Folio Books announces closure

Tuesday, 3 August 2021
The owners of Brisbane bookshop Folio Books have announced it will not reopen ‘for the foreseeable future’. Folio Books, which opened in Elizabeth Street in 1979, was most recently located...

UK authors, illustrators protest mooted copyright changes

Tuesday, 3 August 2021
In the UK, over 2600 authors and illustrators have signed an open letter to protest the government’s reconsideration of copyright and trade laws, reports Publishing Perspectives. The letter comes after...

Age Book of the Year 2021 shortlist announced

Monday, 2 August 2021
The shortlist for the revived Age Book of the Year has been announced. The seven works of fiction in the running for the $10,000 prize are: The Rain Heron (Robbie...

US reading time up 21%

Friday, 30 July 2021
Survey results from the US Department of Labor found people were spending 21% more time reading in May–December 2020, compared to the same period in 2019, reports Publishers Weekly. According...

Boyle wins 2021 Text Prize for ‘Dancing Barefoot’

Friday, 30 July 2021
Victorian writer and teacher Alice Boyle has won the 2021 Text Prize for her YA novel Dancing Barefoot. According to Text, Dancing Barefoot is 'a story about finding love, figuring out...

Kuracca Prize 2021 winner announced

Friday, 30 July 2021
The winner and runners up in the inaugural Kuracca Prize for Australian Literature have been announced. Chosen from a longlist of 12 authors, Adam Brannigan won the $5000 prize for...

Polari Prize shortlists announced

Thursday, 29 July 2021
In the UK, the shortlists for the Polari Prizes for LGBTQ+ literature have been announced, reports the Bookseller. The titles shortlisted for the £2000 (A$3770) Polari Prize, which awards an...

New FNAWN writers residency, masterclasses

Thursday, 29 July 2021
The First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) has developed a new writers residency with the Regional Council of Goyder in South Australia. Due to current recent and ongoing Covid-19 lockdowns,...

MWF 2021 full program launched

Thursday, 29 July 2021
The program for the 2021 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which will run from 3–12 September, has been announced. In its 35th year, MWF will bring together celebrated figures in fiction,...

Ned Kelly Awards 2021 shortlists announced

Australian Crime Writing Association Ned Kelly Wednesday, 28 July 2021
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Ned Kelly Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best crime fiction Consolation (Garry Disher, Text)...

Diana Reid on ‘Love & Virtue’

Wednesday, 28 July 2021
Diana Reid's debut novel Love & Virtue (Ultimo, October) explores feminism, power and sex through the lives of two young women at an Australian university. Reviewer Georgia Brough calls Love &...

Taylor, Wasley receive 2022 KSP residencies

Tuesday, 27 July 2021
The Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP) Writers’ Centre in the Perth Hills has announced Josephine Taylor as its 2022 Emerging Writer-in-Residence and Sasha Wasley as its Established Writer-in-Residence. KSP’s residency program...

Booker Prize 2021 longlist announced

Tuesday, 27 July 2021
The longlist for the 2021 Booker Prize has been announced. The 13 books longlisted for the £50,000 (A$93,600) prize are: A Passage North (Anuk Arudpragasam, Granta) Second Place (Rachel Cusk,...

Mary Gilmore Award 2021 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 27 July 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Mary Gilmore Award, for the best first book of poetry published in the previous year, has been announced. The shortlisted books are: Cadaver Dog (Luke...

Scholastic sales down 13%

Monday, 26 July 2021
Scholastic has reported a 13% drop in sales for the year ending 31 May. Revenue declined US$186.8 million (A$253.6m) to US$1.3 billion (A$1.76b), due to lower sales through Scholastic’s book...

Davitt Awards 2021 shortlists announced

Monday, 26 July 2021
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the shortlists for the 2021 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The titles shortlisted in each category are:  Adult crime...

Furphy Literary Award 2021 shortlists announced

Friday, 23 July 2021
The shortlists for this year’s Furphy Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted stories and writers in the open category are: ‘in vitro’ by Christine Fontana ‘Oranges’ by Thomas Alan...

Scarlet Stilettos offer record prize money in 2021

Thursday, 22 July 2021
Sisters in Crime Australia's annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards are offering a record $11,910 in prize money this year. The competition, for short crime and mystery stories by women writers, has...

 

 

 

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