Blake Poetry Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Friday, 4 September 2020
The shortlist for the Blake Poetry Prize has been announced. The eight shortlisted poems are: 'History of Sadness' by Louise Carter 'On Finding Charlotte in the Anthropological Record' by Judith...
EWF announces At Home Residencies
Thursday, 3 September 2020
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) has launched a new remote residency program, the EWF At Home Residencies. Four successful applicants will each receive $1600 to commit to spending two weeks...
Hachette UK buys Laurence King Publishing
Thursday, 3 September 2020
Hachette UK has acquired arts and gift specialist Laurence King Publishing (LKP), reports the Bookseller. Under the deal, which was made for an undisclosed sum, managing director Laurence King will...
Glover, Murphy join APA
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Stuart Glover has joined the Australian Publishers Association as government relations manager and Mitchell Murphy has joined the association as technical business support analyst.
Lack of diversity remains an issue within the book industry
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
'How can we expect anything other than a white and middle-class way of looking at the world if the key decision-makers are predominately white and middle-class? Diversity isn’t a trend,...
Outsider art: Sofie Laguna on ‘Infinite Splendours’
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Infinite Splendours (A&U, November), Sofie Laguna's fourth novel for adults, charts the life of eccentric, artistic outsider Lawrence Loman. Conveyed through poetic prose that 'creates a tangible sense of beauty,...
Over 30k attend MWF Digital, new bookshop for Noosa, latest awards
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
This year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF)—which ran as a digital event due to the Covid-19 pandemic—attracted around 34,200 attendees. A new ‘profit for purpose’ bookshop has been announced for Noosa...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
The shortlists for the 2020 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best illustrated book Crafting Aotearoa (ed...
Indigenous Literacy Day goes live around Australia
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) ambassador Jessica Mauboy and long-time supporter Archie Roach invite all Australians to join the national, virtual Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) celebrations today, Wednesday 2 September. The 45-minute...
Inaugural Write North residency recipients announced
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Create NSW and Byron Writers Festival have announced the recipients of the inaugural Write North Writers’ Group Residency, worth almost $40,000. The successful mid-career and established NSW writers' group comprises...
New parliamentary inquiry into Covid-19 impact on arts
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts will report on Australia’s cultural and creative industries and the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the sector in...
PRH revenue down 1.4% in first half of 2020; Bertelsmann ‘interested’ in buying S&S
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Bertelsmann, the parent company of Penguin Random House (PRH), has reported that the publisher’s global revenue fell 1.4% in the first half of 2020 compared to the same period in...
Everything in its Right Place
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
‘Powerful and urgent. Crackling with energy and wit, a dark joyride of a read, its danger and beauty announcing a roaring new talent.’—Roger Averill ‘Equal parts harrowing coming-of-age story and...
HarperCollins Publishers: the new home of Egmont Books (UK)
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
HarperCollins Publishers is pleased to advise that effective 28 December, 2020 it will become the new home for Egmont Books (UK) in ANZ, taking over from Hardie Grant with January...
Nib Literary Award 2020 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Mark and Evette Moran Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: After the Count: The death of Davey Browne...
City of Fremantle Hungerford Award 2020 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award has been announced. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘The Silence of Water’, a work of historical fiction by Sharron Booth ‘Still...
SCBWI announces new awards for Australian illustrators
Monday, 31 August 2020
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has announced three new awards for Australian illustrators, with support from the Copyright Agency. The SCBWI Australian Picture Book Illustrator Awards...
‘Tiberius with a Telephone’ wins National Biography Award
Monday, 31 August 2020
Patrick Mullins has won the 2020 National Biography Award for Tiberius with a Telephone: The life and stories of William McMahon (Scribe). Mullins receives $25,000, while the other shortlisted authors...
First phase of online-only Beijing Book Fair begins
Friday, 28 August 2020
The first phase of this year’s Beijing International Book Fair—which is taking place entirely online due to the Covid-19 pandemic—has begun this week, with the launch of the fair’s Smart...
MWF Digital: a ‘balm’ for challenging times
Friday, 28 August 2020
The digital edition of the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which ran from 7–16 August during Melbourne's stage four lockdown, attracted around 34,200 attendees. MWF sold 27,500 tickets to 41 online,...
Mary Ryan’s Noosa to close
Thursday, 27 August 2020
Mary Ryan's Noosa will close in October 2020. Owners Ross and Susan Burgess purchased the business in June 2010, and are closing the store due to illness. A spokesperson for...
ASA: government ‘failed to adequately respond’ to calls for PLR/ELR digital expansion
Thursday, 27 August 2020
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) is calling on its membership to contact their local members as part of a campaign to have ebooks included in the PLR/ELR scheme, after...
Rijneveld wins International Booker Prize
Thursday, 27 August 2020
Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has won the £50,000 (A$91,310) International Booker Prize for their debut novel The Discomfort of Evening (trans by Michele Hutchinson, Faber), reports the Bookseller. Rijneveld's...
Ned Kelly Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The shortlisted works in each category are: Best crime fiction...
The Guardian on the coming flood of new releases
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
'The books business can sometimes feel like fast fashion—pile ’em high, move ’em along a couple of weeks later to make space for the next new thing. This speed is...
Vale John Bangsund
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Editor John Bangsund has died, aged 81. Bangsund edited the Hugo Award–nominated fanzine the Australian Science Fiction Review in the late 1960s, helped organise the 1975 World Science Fiction Convention...
Adventure time: Shivaun Plozza on ‘The Boy, the Wolf and the Stars’
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Shivaun Plozza's middle-grade debut The Boy, the Wolf and the Stars (Puffin, 20 October) is a fantasy adventure about a boy who is tasked with returning the stars to the sky....
Indigenous Literacy Day to stream on YouTube; Lui to curate new A&U imprint
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
The ILF will hold its annual Indigenous Literacy Day celebration as a ‘visual event’ on its YouTube channel on Wednesday, 2 September. Allen & Unwin has announced that writer, actor...
Hardie Grant, RMIT announce new narrative nonfiction prize
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Hardie Grant Books and RMIT Writing and Publishing have established a new biennial developmental prize for narrative nonfiction. Open to published and unpublished Australian writers, the Spark Prize offers $2000...
Kunahlan joins Hardie Grant, Collins promoted to communications director
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Shalini Kunahlan has joined Hardie Grant Publishing as head of marketing for Hardie Grant Books and Hardie Grant Travel. Kasi Collins, who led the successful campaign for Malcolm Turnbull’s memoir...
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