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CBCA Book of the Year 2020 winners announced

Friday, 16 October 2020
The winners of the 2020 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles and honour books in each category are: Older...

Varuna announces recipients of 2021 Residency Fellowships

Friday, 16 October 2020
Varuna, the Writers House, has announced the recipients of the 2021 Varuna Residency Fellowships. The writers and their projects are: The Mick Dark flagship fellowship Rachael Mead, for her literary...

Missingham to deliver keynote as SPN annual conference goes online

Friday, 16 October 2020
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced that Sam Missingham, founder of the UK-based marketing agency The Empowered Author, will be the keynote speaker at its 2020 Independent Publishing Conference,...

Deacon in the running for US award

Friday, 16 October 2020
Australian writer Desley Deacon is in the running for the US Theatre Library Association’s 2020 George Freedley Memorial Award. Deacon’s book Judith Anderson: Australian Star First Lady of the American...

Davies, Al-Kadhi win 2020 Polari Prizes

Friday, 16 October 2020
In the UK, writers Kate Davies and Amrou Al-Kadhi have won the 2020 Polari Prizes for work that explores the LGBT experience, reports the Bookseller. Davies won the £2000 (A$3640) Polari...

Arnott wins inaugural $30,000 Hedberg residency

Friday, 16 October 2020
Robbie Arnott has won the inaugural University of Tasmania Hedberg Writer-in-Residence Program. Arnott said the program, which carries a stipend of $30,000, would give him the time and space needed...

Walkley Book Award 2020 longlist announced

Thursday, 15 October 2020
The Walkley Book Award longlist for 2020 has been announced. The longlisted titles are: After the Count (Stephanie Convery, Viking) City On Fire (Antony Dapiran, Scribe) Hazelwood (Tom Doig, Viking)...

Study finds CBCA early childhood category shortlisted books overwhelmingly white

Thursday, 15 October 2020
A study of books shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year Award in the early childhood category since 2001 has found that only 12% of human main characters in...

Ned Kelly Awards 2020 winners announced

Thursday, 15 October 2020
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners of this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The winning works and authors in each category are: Best...

Four years after Dylan, another American wins the Nobel

Wednesday, 14 October 2020
‘You never know what the Swedish Academy is going to do. I didn't think they would go back to America so quickly, but it's really a righteous award, and a...

Industry pushes for early Christmas shopping; Australia Reads to stream on YouTube

Wednesday, 14 October 2020
The ABA and APA have launched a new campaign to encourage Australians to do their Christmas shopping early as the global supply chain strains under the pressure of the Covid-19...

New $10k Albert Ullin Award for children’s book creators

Wednesday, 14 October 2020
The Victorian branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) will administer a new $10,000 award for children's book creators, established with a bequest from the late Albert Ullin,...

RSVP to attend Albert Ullin Award online

Wednesday, 14 October 2020
The CBCA Victorian Branch will present the inaugural Albert Ullin Award at a virtual event on Monday, 19 October at 4pm. To RSVP and receive a Zoom invite, email vic@cbca.org.au.

The Rock: Looking into Australia’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ from the edge of its wild frontier

Wednesday, 14 October 2020
Aaron Smith's new memoir holds up a unique mirror to Australia. What he sees is at once amazing, disturbing and revealing. The Rock explores the failings of our nation's character, its unresolved...

Congratulations Trent Dalton

Wednesday, 14 October 2020
HarperCollins Publishers congratulates Trent Dalton, whose highly anticipated second novel All Our Shimmering Skies shot straight to number one on Nielsen Bookscan in the week of release, selling over 23,000...

RM Marketing Services availability for new publishers

Wednesday, 14 October 2020
RM Marketing Services currently has a vacancy for an outsourced client for marketing and sales up to 12 hours a week. For publishers, distributors and industry organisations looking to outsource...

Vale Ania Walwicz

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...