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Wednesday, 14 October 2020
Poet, writer and teacher Ania Walwicz died on 29 September, aged 69. Born in Poland in 1951, Walwicz emigrated to Australia in 1963 and studied at Melbourne's Victorian College of...

BookUp: APA announces online panels

Wednesday, 14 October 2020
The Australian Publishers Association (APA), which in March postponed its planned one-day BookUp conference due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will instead present a series of online panel and conversation sessions...

ABA, APA launch #ShopEarly #ShopLocal Christmas campaign

Tuesday, 13 October 2020
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) have partnered on a new campaign encouraging Australians to do their Christmas shopping early 'to avoid disappointment when shopping...

Morton to edit ‘Growing Up in Country Australia’

Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Black Inc. has announced the latest addition to its 'Growing Up' nonfiction anthology series, Growing Up in Country Australia, to be edited by journalist Rick Morton. Morton is the Saturday Paper's...

Lucas-Pennington wins 2020 Nakata Brophy prize

Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Grace Lucas-Pennington has won the 2020 Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Superposition’. Lucas-Pennington receives $5000 and a three-month writing residence at Trinity College at the...

Deborah Cass Prize 2020 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 13 October 2020
The shortlist for Writers Victoria’s Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds has been announced. The shortlisted works and their authors are: ‘Oluwale, My God Has Come Home’...

Bad Sydney Crime Writers Fest in-person program announced

Monday, 12 October 2020
The full program for the 2020 Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival, which will run in-person on 7–8 November at the State Library of NSW, has been announced. Festival guests appearing...

Australia Reads campaign to host live YouTube events

Monday, 12 October 2020
Australia Reads will host a series of live YouTube events as part of this year’s campaign, which runs from 1–12 November. Australia Reads will broadcast its main event at 12.30pm...

Glück awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature

Friday, 9 October 2020
American poet Louise Glück has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature, reports Publishers Weekly. Glück was named winner at a ceremony at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on...

Word for Word nonfiction festival 2020 program launched

Friday, 9 October 2020
The Word for Word National Nonfiction Festival has launched its 2020 program. The event, which usually runs in Geelong, Victoria, will this year take place online due to Covid-19 restrictions....

Pan Mac UK sells Jaku’s memoir in 22 languages

Friday, 9 October 2020
Pan Macmillan UK has sold rights in 22 languages to Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku’s memoir The Happiest Man on Earth, with ‘multi-publisher auctions in many territories’, reports the Bookseller. Pan...

Bragg Prize for Science Writing 2020 shortlist announced

Thursday, 8 October 2020
The shortlist for this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘True Grit’ by Ceridwen Dovey (Wired) ‘Case of the missing frogs’...

National Book Awards 2020 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 7 October 2020
In the US, the shortlists for the 2020 National Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Leave the World Behind (Rumaan Alam, Bloomsbury) A...

Egan on Christmas bookselling in 2020

Wednesday, 7 October 2020
'There will be no airfreighting of books into Australia for this Christmas. If it’s not here or in a container on a ship now it’s not going to be available.’—ABA...

Booktopia senior appointments, latest awards

Wednesday, 7 October 2020
This week Booktopia announced a slate of senior appointments, including a new CFO. Meanwhile, the Big Issue released its 2020 fiction edition line-up and the Queensland Poetry Festival received funding...

Victorian literary orgs to receive Creative Vic funding

Wednesday, 7 October 2020
Creative Victoria has announced the 78 arts and cultural organisations that will share in $7.85 million in grants in stage two of its Strategic Investment Fund. The funding is ‘focused...

Inaugural $50k Historical Novel Prize longlist announced

Wednesday, 7 October 2020
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the longlist for the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize. The HNSA has also confirmed sponsor ARA has doubled its funding for the...

ALIA welcomes library budget announcement

Wednesday, 7 October 2020
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has welcomed the ‘positive outcomes’ for library and information workers announced in the Federal government’s 2020-21 budget. The federal government announced $31.2 million...