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Synchronicity Australia options FitzGerald’s ‘Ash Mountain’ for screen

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Synchronicity Australia, the new Melbourne-based arm of Glasgow production company Synchronicity Films, has acquired screen rights to Helen FitzGerald's forthcoming novel Ash Mountain (Affirm, March 2021). Affirm Press described Ash Mountain...

ACT Writers Centre: 2021 artistic program call-out

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
The ACT Writers Centre is calling for authors interested in participating in its 2021 program. At this stage, next year’s program will comprise many digital and possibly physical events in...

Ali Cobby Eckermann on the necessity of writing

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
'My decision to share my personal story through literature has been paramount to my emotional and holistic health, the cathartic telling guided by many senior healers and law-holders from my...

Page appointed Dymocks Sydney general manager

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Jon Page, currently buyer at Dymocks Sydney, has been promoted to general manager. In the newly created role he will have responsibility for overall store operations of the flagship Sydney...

Vale Noel Hammond

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Murdoch Books and Allen & Unwin national business development manager Noel Hammond has died. Allen & Unwin writes: It is with great sadness that Murdoch Books and Allen & Unwin...

Hope in chaos: Asphyxia on ‘Future Girl’

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Writer and artist Asphyxia's illustrated YA novel Future Girl (A&U, October) is set in an 'eerily plausible' dystopian Melbourne, and follows a Deaf teen Piper as she learns to embrace her...

Fed govt to propose copyright reforms, Williams appointed interim SWF artistic director

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
The federal government will propose reforms to Australia’s copyright laws in exposure draft legislation it expects to release later this year, and former Wheeler Centre director Michael Williams has been...

Hachette announces paid summer internship program

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Hachette Australia has announced it will run a new annual paid internship program ‘for anyone interested in a career in publishing’. The Hachette Australia Summer Internship Program will run for...

Change for Cordite Publishing Inc.

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Publisher: Cordite Publishing Inc. New distributor: NewSouth Books Changeover date: 1 August 2020 Contact URL: adscs@alliancedist.com.au

Change for Severn House Publishers

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Old distributor: DLS Distribution Services New distributor: Gardners UK Changeover date: 1 October 2020 Contact URL: www.gardners.com

Change for powerHouse Books

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Publisher: powerHouse Books Old distributor: Penguin Random House Australia New distributor: Simon & Schuster Australia Changeover date: 1 July 2020 Contact URL: orders@harpercollins.com.au

Walker Wednesday attracts over 1200 submissions

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
The Walker Wednesday open day attracted over 1200 submissions! These ranged from picture books to junior fiction to YA, with projects covering a vast array of topics. They were submitted...

Walker Books Australia congratulates Meg McKinlay on WA Premier’s Prize

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Walker Books Australia congratulates Meg McKinlay for winning West Australian Premier’s Prize for Writing for Children for her middle grade novel, Catch a Falling Star. We also congratulate Meg McKinlay...

Title showcase: ‘From Distress to Deliverance’ by Stephen Gow

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Title: From Distress to Deliverance Author: Stephen Gow Publisher: Self; Inscope Books Price: 75.00 ISBN: 9780646803791 Distributor: via author by email How was a young man sentenced to hang at...

Bookstore cafe for sale

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
A family owned and run secondhand book shop and cafe for sale located in the Sutherland Shire, Sydney. New location and fitout, floor to ceiling book shelves, amazing venue for...

Report finds people reading more books due to Covid-19

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
A new research report from GlobalWebIndex (GWI) has found 20% of Australians and 26% of New Zealanders surveyed are reading more books due to Covid-19. The coronavirus-focused market research report...

Support Australia Reads 2020

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Australia Reads takes place from 1–12 November, with our very successful headline event the Australian Reading Hour on 12 November 2020. We would like to recruit authors, libraries and booksellers...

Kamaleddine’s ‘The Truth About Luck’ wins inaugural Matilda Children’s Literature Prize

Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Samera Kamaleddine has won HarperCollins Australia’s inaugural Matilda Children’s Literature Prize for her YA manuscript The Truth About Luck. Kamaleddine’s novel tells the story of a 16-year-old Lebanese–Australian Layla Karimi,...