‘How to Make a Bird’ wins SCBWI Crystal Kite Award Archive
Friday, 14 May 2021
Children’s picture book How to Make a Bird (Meg McKinlay, illus by Matt Ottley, Walker) has won the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards, presented...
Booksellers’ Choice 2021 Book of the Year Awards shortlists announced Archive
Friday, 14 May 2021
The shortlists for the Australian Booksellers Association’s (ABA) 2021 Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles for the 2021 awards are: Adult Fiction Book...
‘Shuggie Bain’ wins Book of the Year at the British Book Awards Archive
Friday, 14 May 2021
Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize-winning debut novel Shuggie Bain (Picador) has won book of the year at the British Book Awards, reports the Bookseller. Stuart’s novel, which also won the debut...
UK’s CMA clears Bertelsmann’s S&S acquisition Archive
Thursday, 13 May 2021
In the UK, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared Penguin Random House (PRH) owner Bertelsmann’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster (S&S) following an investigation, reports the Bookseller. Bertelsmann...
Beautrais wins 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for fiction Archive
Thursday, 13 May 2021
Whanganui poet Airini Beautrais has won the NZ$57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her collection of stories Bug Week (Victoria...
Over 100 attend BookUp, Avid Reader shortlisted for LBF bookstore of the year Archive
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Over 100 people attended the APA’s first BookUp conference; however, the event—particularly the inclusivity panel—was criticised by attendees for its lack of diversity. Brisbane's Avid Reader has been shortlisted for...
Fogarty Literary Award shortlist announced Archive
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Fremantle Press has announced the shortlist for the $20,000 Fogarty Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'The Glass House' by Brooke Dunnell 'A Horse Held at...
EWF 2021 program announced Archive
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
The program for the 2021 Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), running 16–26 June 2021, has been announced. After being held entirely online in 2020, EWF will in 2021 be a hybrid...
Gilligan wins Ondaatje Prize for ‘The Butchers’ Archive
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
In the UK, Ruth Gilligan has won the £10,000 (A$18,000) Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for The Butchers (Atlantic), a literary thriller set in the Irish Borderlands during the 1996...
The Shut Ins (Katherine Brabon, A&U) Archive
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
When Mai Takeda runs into an old acquaintance at a train station in Nagoya, it begins a narrative that weaves the lives of four people together in unexpected ways. Mai,...
Andrew Paterson on ‘Rainfish’ Archive
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Andrew Paterson's debut middle-grade novel Rainfish (Text, July) won the 2020 Text Prize. Set in Far North Queensland, the book follows narrator Aaron, who breaks the law to impress an...
The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the great Australian dissent (Gideon Haigh, Scribner) Archive
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
If Herbert Vere 'Doc' Evatt is thought of at all today, it’s usually in terms of his nearly decade-long failure as Labor leader to combat Menzies’ conservative stranglehold. Gideon Haigh...
Avid Reader shortlisted for LBF Bookstore of the Year Archive
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Brisbane bookshop Avid Reader has been shortlisted for the bookstore of the year award at the London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence Awards. Avid Reader, which was recently named bookshop...
Writing NSW to offer paid mentorships, publishing internships Archive
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Writing NSW has announced three new programs in writing, curating and publishing, designed to increase cultural diversity in those fields, supported by funding from Create NSW. The development program for...
Peter Carey Short Story Award 2021 longlist announced Archive
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
The longlist for the 2021 Peter Carey Short Story Award has been announced. Chosen from a record 336 entries by longlisting judges Brooke Dunnell and Alex Cothren, the 13 longlisted...
Kellow elected APA president, new committee members elected Archive
Monday, 10 May 2021
Ultimo Press managing director James Kellow has been elected president of the Australian Publishers Association (APA). Kellow, who was elected at the APA’s AGM in April, replaces Oxford University Press...
Reece YA novel ‘Mice’ to be adapted for film Archive
Friday, 7 May 2021
Gordon Reece's 2010 young adult novel Mice (A&U) will be adapted into a feature film by Nicole Kidman’s production company Blossom Films and Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories. Mice is a psychological...
Authors announced for Queenscliffe, Northern Beaches literary festivals Archive
Friday, 7 May 2021
Nearly 30 authors will appear at the inaugural Northern Beaches Readers Festival (NBRF), which will run at the Avalon Recreation Centre in NSW from 17–19 September. Michael Robotham and Judy...
Oseman wins YA Book Prize for ‘Loveless’ Archive
Friday, 7 May 2021
Alice Oseman has won the Bookseller’s 2021 YA Book Prize for Loveless (HarperCollins), a ‘joyful’ coming out story about a romance-obsessed teenager who realises she is aromantic and asexual. Loveless tells the...
Lahiri, Nelson, Dabiri announced as first guests for MWF 2021 Archive
Thursday, 6 May 2021
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), to run from 3–12 September, has announced the first guests for its 2021 event, which will include a mix of digital and in-person sessions. Pulitzer...
Knight to retire from ADS Archive
Thursday, 6 May 2021
Phill Knight will retire as distribution director of Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) after more than 20 years in the role. Knight will step down in early January 2022, which allows...
MWF 2021 schools program announced Archive
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
The schools program for the 2021 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has been announced. The primary school program, which will run 6 and 7 September, features Australian Children’s Laureate Ursula Dubosarsky;...
Vale Valerie Parv Archive
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Canberra-based romance novelist Valerie Parv has died, aged 69. The author of 93 books in 29 languages, spanning romance, nonfiction and writing guides, Parv's writing career began when her first...
Vale Margaret McKenzie Archive
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Margaret McKenzie, co-owner of the former Seagulls Bookshop in the Melbourne suburb of Williamstown, has died. Co-owner of Seagulls and McKenzie's husband Nick Chapman writes: 'Margaret died suddenly on Saturday,...
Sophie Overett on ‘The Rabbits’ Archive
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Sophie Overett's debut novel The Rabbits (Vintage, July), winner the 2020 Penguin Literary Prize, is a magic realist family saga centred around Delia Rabbit, a mother dealing with trauma from her...
ABIA winners, push for EBA at Better Read Than Dead Archive
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
In a big week for awards, the winners of this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards were announced, as were the winners of the Vogel, the Nature Writing Prize, IPEd’s Janet Mackenzie...
Catch Us the Foxes (Nicola West, S&S) Archive
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Marlowe ‘Lo’ Robertson is an ambitious young journalist given the job of covering the annual show for the local paper. When Lo discovers the body of her friend, reigning showgirl...
Briggs awarded 2021 Janet Mackenzie Medal Archive
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Edwin (Ted) Briggs as the recipient of the second annual Janet Mackenzie Medal. The award, which honours the late founding member of...
Mascara announces new residency Archive
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Mascara Literary Review, in partnership with the Bundanon Trust, has announced the creation of the Mascara Bundanon Writer’s Residency. The residency, which is now open for submissions, is for First...
Thaker awarded 2021 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship Archive
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Torres Strait Islander storyteller Lenora Thaker has won the 2021 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship. Thaker is the first Torres Strait Islander writer to win the Boundless Indigenous Mentorship, which was launched in...
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