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ALIA Online Storytime pilot distributes over $50,000

Friday, 28 May 2021
Since its launch at the beginning of 2021, the Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) Online Storytime pilot has generated $54,875 to be distributed to publishers, authors and illustrators. As...

Varuna announces inaugural Writer’s Space fellows

Varuna, The National Writers House Thursday, 27 May 2021
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the 12 recipients of the inaugural Writer’s Space fellowships for writers with disability or who are D/deaf. This program offers six in-person residencies...

Makumbi, Lawrence win 2021 Jhalak prizes

Thursday, 27 May 2021
In the UK, the winners of the 2021 Jhalak prizes, which recognise ‘authors who feel that their work is often marginalised unless it fulfils a romantic fetishisation of their cultural...

Booktopia restructures merchandise team

Booktopia logo Thursday, 27 May 2021
Booktopia has restructured its merchandise teams, with several changes to key personnel. Jo Lewin, formerly head of trade product, has been appointed to the newly created role of head of...

Australian children’s publishing ahead of Bologna

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
While many Australian rights managers and literary agents will be missing the book fair halls (and bars and restaurants) of Bologna, they couldn’t be busier as in-person fairs have effectively...

‘Treehouse’ titles top children’s fiction, nonfiction charts

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s ‘Treehouse’ series—which celebrates 10 years in print this year—has topped the Australian children’s fiction chart (The 130-Storey Treehouse) and Australian children’s/YA nonfiction chart (The Treehouse...

Bookshop-set middle-grade adventure bags multiple prizes

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor (Affirm Press)—a middle-grade adventure novel set in Melbourne’s historic Cole’s Book Arcade—has picked up three major book prizes in recent months:...

YA psychological thriller to be adapted for film

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Gordon Reece’s 2010 YA novel Mice (Allen & Unwin) will be adapted into a feature film by Nicole Kidman’s production company Blossom Films and Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories. Mice...

Magabala picture book scores North American sale

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
A number of Australian children’s picture books have been sold into international markets over the past few months, including a North American sale for Indigenous publisher Magabala Books. Magabala Books...

Text signs Sheppard in two-book deal

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to the second YA novel by Holden Sheppard, in a two-book deal via Gaby Naher of Left Bank Literary. The Brink (2022) follows a...

Anderson, Elisara awarded 2021 black&write! fellowships

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
The 2021 black&write! fellowships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers have been awarded to Susie Anderson and Tylissa Elisara. Each fellowship is worth $10,000 and includes editorial development from...

Barjas wins US$50k International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Jordanian poet and novelist Jalal Barjas has won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his novel Notebooks of the Bookseller (Arabic Institute for Research and Publishing). Barjas receives US$50,000...

Change for 1517 Media

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Publisher: 1517 Media New distributor: Woodslane Pty Ltd Changeover date: 1 June 2021 Contact URL: https://www.woodslane.com.au/Contact

Brio Books distribution to move to Booktopia

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Brio Books has announced that its distribution will move from Hardie Grant Publishing (HEDS) to BPS (Booktopia Publisher Services) from July. HEDS will continue to receive orders for Brio Books...

Stellarphant

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Stella wants to be an astronaut. There is only one problem: Stella is an elephant. Every time she applies to Space Command, they come up with a new reason she...

Grandma’s Knicker Tree

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
A charming story about the importance of gardens, grandparents and families doing things together. When our dads say, ‘Money doesn’t grow on trees you know,’ Grandma smiles and says, ‘Mmm,...

Sardines and the Angel

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
A vintage children’s story written and illustrated by Bettina Ehrlich. Miss Patricia Higgins’ painting holiday in a picturesque Italian fishing village isn’t going according to plan. As soon as her...

Shine

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Shine is a love song between a parent and a child, celebrating the beauty and joy of everyday family life, through mess and chaos and daily routines. This is a...

The Monster of Her Age

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Ellie Marsden was born into the legendary Lovinger acting dynasty. Granddaughter of the infamous Lottie Lovinger, as a child Ellie shared the silver screen with Lottie in her one-and-only role...

Sunburnt Veils

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Tara wears hijab even though her parents hate it, and in a swipe right world she’s looking for the ‘will go to the ends of the earth for you’ type...

Amani Haydar on ‘The Mother Wound’

Tuesday, 25 May 2021
Artist, writer and lawyer Amani Haydar's father murdered her mother in 2015, while Haydar was pregnant with her first child. The Mother Wound (Macmillan, July), Haydar's debut memoir, is an...

The Mother Wound (Amani Haydar, Macmillan)

Tuesday, 25 May 2021
Like her own mother before her, Amani Haydar lost her mother young. In 2006 Haydar’s grandmother was killed in the 2006 Israeli–Lebanese conflict. In 2015 Haydar’s mother was murdered by...

 

 

 

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