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Screen Canberra invests in book-to-screen adaptations

Thursday, 12 November 2020
Adaptations of Peter Papathanasiou's memoir Little One (A&U) and Kaaron Warren's fantasy novel The Grief Hole (IFWG Publishing Australia) are among several projects to receive investment from Screen Canberra. Papathanasiou's...

Leaf Mag launches to demystify book industry

Thursday, 12 November 2020
A new online publication that aims to 'demystify, equitise and diversify' publishing, bookselling, libraries and other book-related work in Australia has been launched by two university students and a recent...

‘Fathoms’ wins Nib Literary Award

Thursday, 12 November 2020
Rebecca Giggs’ Fathoms (Scribe) has won the Waverley Council’s $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award for 2020. Giggs’s work of narrative nonfiction blends natural history, science and philosophy...

Walkley Book Award 2020 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 11 November 2020
The Walkley Book Award shortlist for 2020 has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know (Sophie McNeill, ABC Books) Fallen (Lucie Morris-Marr, A&U) The Altar Boys (Suzanne Smith,...

Gay YA rom-com wins 2020 Ampersand Prize

Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing (HGCP) has announced that Auckland teacher and writer Helen Valley has won the 2020 Ampersand Prize for her YA novel Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean...

Chowdhury on diversity in the publishing industry

Wednesday, 11 November 2020
‘It is extremely important that mine is not the only voice being solicited when discussing and considering ways to make the Australian publishing landscape more inclusive ... It is even...

Riwoe wins inaugural $50k ARA Historical Novel Prize

Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Brisbane writer Mirandi Riwoe has won the $50,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize for Stone Sky Gold Mountain (UQP). Selected from more than 185 entries and a shortlist of three announced in...

Thammavongsa wins Canada’s $100k Giller Prize

Wednesday, 11 November 2020
In Canada, Souvankham Thammavongsa has won this year’s C$100,000 (A$106,150) Giller Prize for her short story collection How to Pronounce Knife (Bloomsbury). Of Thammavongsa’s collection, the prize jury said: ‘How...

Chowdhury releases Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report

Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Penguin Random House Australia senior audio producer and commissioning editor Radhiah Chowdhury has released her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report on the experiences and perspectives of BAME (Black, Asian and...

Christmas closing list: Submissions due

Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Publishers and distributors are asked to submit their Christmas closing dates by 5pm Friday, 20 November. A full list will appear in the Weekly Book Newsletter on Wednesday, 25 November....

Viva La Novella announces regional focus

Tuesday, 10 November 2020
Seizure has partnered with the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) for its annual Viva la Novella competition, and has announced one of the winners of the 2021 competition will...

FutureBook Conference to run as virtual event

Tuesday, 10 November 2020
This year’s FutureBook Conference, run by the UK’s Bookseller, will run as a virtual event from 16–20 November. The program includes more than 40 sessions and 100 speakers, including the...

UK audiobook sales surge in lockdown

Monday, 9 November 2020
In the UK, audiobook sales are expected to show 15.8% growth in volume by the end of the year according to Nielsen, reports the Bookseller. Nielsen projected UK audiobook sales...

Smith wins 2020 Richell Prize for ‘Petrichor’

Monday, 9 November 2020
Aisling Smith has won the 2020 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for her fiction manuscript ‘Petrichor’. The judges said ‘Petrichor’ ‘announces an assured and evocative new Australian literary voice’. ‘Smith,...

NZ book sector campaign to promote creative rights

Friday, 6 November 2020
The New Zealand Society of Authors, the Publishers Association of New Zealand, and Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) have launched a new campaign to promote creative rights. The ‘Creative Rights...

‘Literary Plus’ a trend at Frankfurt

Thursday, 5 November 2020
‘People are hunting feel-good, upmarket fiction—defined as either “book club” or “reader’s group” but with great plots. We’ve heard it called a few things but “Literary Plus” seems to fit...

Reviews round-up

Thursday, 5 November 2020
In October Books+Publishing reviewed more than a dozen forthcoming titles due to be published in December 2020 and January 2021. In adult fiction, lighthearted summer reads The Funny Thing About...

My Parents’ Daughter

Thursday, 5 November 2020
My Parents’ Daughter retells the recent mobbing bullying heaped on Victoria Hartmann (pseudonym) by one Victorian state school’s whole Principal Class. This confronting tale reflects courage whilst calling for action....

Change for Cameron and Company

Thursday, 5 November 2020
Publisher: Cameron and Company Old distributor: NewSouth Books New distributor: Thames & Hudson Changeover date: 1 September 2020 Returns cut-off: 30 November 2020

 

 

 

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