Spinifex Press celebrates 30 years
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Founded in March 1991, Spinifex Press is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a series of Zoom events, beginning with 'Welcome to Country' on Thursday, 18 March. The event includes talks...
Title showcase: ‘Still Alive’ by Safdar Ahmed
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Title: Still Alive Author: Safdar Ahmed Publisher: Twelve Panels Press Price: $30.00 ISBN: 9780980593730 Distributor: www.twelvepanelspress.com Walkley Award-winning Safdar Ahmed interweaves journalism, history and autobiography to document Australia’s refugee detention...
SWF program announced, guests revealed for BookUp, IPEd
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
In a big week for events announcements, the Sydney and Auckland writers’ festival programs have been revealed, and the first speakers for the BookUp and IPEd conferences—the second of which...
Scribd launches in Australia
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
US-based reading subscription service Scribd has launched in Australia. The platform, which charges $13.99 per month for unlimited access, offers access to two million ebooks and over a million audiobook...
Lift-off: Non-profit Parachute Press launches in regional Vic
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Parachute Press is a new children’s publisher based in Castlemaine, regional Victoria. Co-founded by award-winning author Martine Murray and artist, ceramicist and musician Anna Read, Parachute Press is described by...
Spotlight on new authors
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
The longlist for the Stella Prize for Australian women’s writing was announced earlier this month, and it was interesting to see that five of the 12 works on the list...
Meet literary agent Jacinta di Mase
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Jacinta di Mase is the founder and lead agent at Jacinta di Mase Management, which she established after working under ‘formidable’ agents Lyn Tranter and Jenny Darling. She spoke to...
Dalton, Pape, Bluey top Australian bestsellers 2020
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
For the second year running, Trent Dalton’s debut novel Boy Swallows Universe and Scott Pape’s guide to household finance The Barefoot Investor have come out on top as the year’s overall bestselling Australian...
Pandemic novel wins Australia’s richest literary prize
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Laura Jean McKay has won Australia’s richest literary prize, the Victorian Prize for Literature, for her second book The Animals in That Country (Scribe)—‘a literary spec-fic novel that imagines a...
‘Sorrow and Bliss’, ‘Jane in Love’, ‘The Geography of Friendship’ acquired for screen
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Meg Mason’s novel Sorrow and Bliss has sold into 21 countries since it was published by HarperCollins Australia in 2020, and now Hollywood has come calling. The US production company...
New children’s acquisitions include collaboration from Alice Pung, Sher Rill Ng
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Author Alice Pung and illustrator Sher Rill Ng have teamed up on a highly anticipated new children’s book that was acquired at auction by HarperCollins Children’s Books Australia via Curtis...
Two China memoirs on Australian nonfiction line-up
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Two new memoirs that explore life in modern-day China have been acquired by Australian publishers. Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to Vicky Xu’s memoir You’re So Brave at...
‘Superstar’ Mirandi Riwoe among Australian fiction acquisitions
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
University of Queensland Press publisher Aviva Tuffield describes author Mirandi Riwoe as a ‘superstar who deserves all the recognition she’s received to date for Stone Sky Gold Mountain—and I’m sure...
New talent: Australian publishers, agents nominate their top new authors
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
In this issue of Think Australian we asked Australian publishers and literary agents to nominate their most promising new authors, whose debut or second books would appeal to an international...
Publishable launches
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Queensland Writers Centre’s Publishable Manuscript Development competition now open. Publishable is open to submissions of unpublished manuscripts from all genres and is a competition for emerging writers around the nation,...
Change for Taschen
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Publisher: Taschen ISBN prefix: 97838365 Old distributor: Books at Manic New distributor: Thames & Hudson Returns cut-off: 30 April 2021
Jacqueline Bublitz on ‘Before You Knew My Name’
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
Jacqueline Bublitz's debut novel Before You Knew My Name (A&U, May) takes the crime fiction trope of a jogger discovering a dead body and turns it on its head. Bublitz's novel...
IPEd conference goes online, keynote speakers announced
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
The 10th Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) conference, originally scheduled to take place in Tasmania in late June, will now be an online event. The organisation made the decision to...
Madden to deliver BookUp keynote
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
Social researcher Claire Madden will deliver a presentation on future Australian demographic trends as the keynote at the Australian Publisher’s Association’s BookUp conference, which will run online and in-person in...
Vucic awarded 2021 Kat Muscat Fellowship
Monday, 15 March 2021
Dženana Vucic, a Bosnian-Australian writer, editor, critic and 2020 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow, is the recipient of the 2021 Kat Muscat Fellowship, which ‘offers support and development to a...
Egmont rebrands as Farshore
Monday, 15 March 2021
HarperCollins standalone children’s division Egmont Books has rebranded as Farshore. The publisher said the rebrand ‘reflects the company’s mission to make every child a proud reader through a broad and...
Brexit hits UK book orders to EU
Friday, 12 March 2021
Orders from the EU for UK books are down by around 43% since the outbreak of Covid-19 and Brexit, a freight forwarding company has told the IPG International Publishing Forum,...
Penguin Literary Prize 2021 shortlist announced
Friday, 12 March 2021
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize, worth $20,000. The shortlisted writers are: Jane Carrick, for ‘So Far No Father’ Alicia Carter, for ‘Songs...
SWF 2021 program announced
Friday, 12 March 2021
The program for the 2021 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) program has been released. The festival, which runs from Monday, 26 April to Sunday, 2 May, will host 231 live events...
PRH acquires debut romantic comedy ‘The Matchmaker’
Friday, 12 March 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to The Matchmaker by debut Pakistani–Australian author Saman Shad via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown. It is the first local adult...
Vale Simon Player
Thursday, 11 March 2021
Simon Player, co-director of Footprint Books, has died. Player and his wife Kate O'Reilly established the Sydney-based distributor in 1999. It closed in November 2020 due to Player's health issues....
Auckland Writers Festival program announced
Thursday, 11 March 2021
The program for the 2021 Auckland Writers Festival, which runs from 11–16 May, has been announced. In-person guests include fantasy writer Neil Gaiman and his partner, singer and author Amanda...
Stella Prize longlist, Frankfurt announces hybrid event
Thursday, 11 March 2021
The longlist for this year’s Stella Prize, announced last week, includes short fiction, a young adult novel, three works of nonfiction and a novel in translation, and comprises five works...
Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 longlist announced
Thursday, 11 March 2021
In the UK, the longlist for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. Now in its 26th year, the £30,000 (A$54,040) prize is presented annually to the best...
Drury promoted at S&S
Thursday, 11 March 2021
Kay Drury has been promoted to the newly created position of national field sales manager at Simon & Schuster Australia. Drury began the position on 22 February 2021.
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