Woollahra Digital Literary Award 2020 shortlists announced Archive
Monday, 11 May 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Woollahra Digital Literary Award has been announced. The award, founded by Woollahra Council to support innovation in Australian digital literature, offers prizes in fiction (judged...
Frankfurt director plans ‘completely different experience’ for this year’s fair Archive
Monday, 11 May 2020
Frankfurt Book Fair director Juergen Boos has said this year’s fair will go on, but it will be a ‘completely different experience’, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). On social distancing guidelines,...
$50k Marten Bequest scholarships to Roberts-Orr, Mol, Woollett Archive
Monday, 11 May 2020
Writers Isobel Roberts-Orr, Oliver Mol and Laura Woollett are among 12 recipients of Marten Bequest scholarships, worth $50,000 each. Roberts-Orr received a scholarship for poetry, while Mol and Woollett received...
Michael Gifkins Prize 2020 shortlist announced Archive
Monday, 11 May 2020
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa PEN NZ Inc have announced the shortlist for the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished...
The Architect’s Bookshop closes Archive
Monday, 11 May 2020
Specialist Sydney bookseller The Architect’s Bookshop has closed permanently and the store’s online retail site will close on 20 June, reports Jason Steger in the Age. Owner Adam Haddow said...
ANZ authors among IPPY award winners Archive
Friday, 8 May 2020
Books by Australian and New Zealand authors are among the winners of the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), which recognise excellence in independent publishing. The winners in the Australia/New...
Arrow wins 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for ‘The Seventies’ Archive
Friday, 8 May 2020
Michelle Arrow has won the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for history for her book The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia (NewSouth). The Seventies, which...
Arts Funders Network to distribute $1.5m in emergency grants Archive
Friday, 8 May 2020
A group of arts and culture philanthropists has launched a $1.5 million funding program to support artists and arts workers. Philanthropy Australia’s Arts Funders Network, in partnership with Creative Partnerships...
Survey shows UK small publishers at risk of closing Archive
Friday, 8 May 2020
A significant proportion of UK and Ireland’s small presses are at risk of closing due to the effects of the Covid-19 lockdown, according to the results of a Bookseller survey....
Coleman to write play for Malthouse Theatre Archive
Thursday, 7 May 2020
Author Claire G Coleman will work on a script for Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre, having been named one of two participants in the Theatre's 2020 Malcolm Robertson Writers Program. Coleman told...
Faber sales down ‘about a third’ as sales of ‘Normal People’ top 100k in Aus Archive
Thursday, 7 May 2020
In the UK, Faber chief executive Stephen Page has told the Bookseller the publisher’s sales are down by ‘about a third year on year for print’ during the country’s lockdown...
Robinson awarded 2020 Ondaatje Prize for ‘A Portable Paradise’ Archive
Thursday, 7 May 2020
In the UK, Roger Robinson has won the £10,000 (A$19,250) Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize for his poetry collection A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press). 'The spirit of place in...
Cham, Jenkins named joint winners of Anne Elder poetry award Archive
Thursday, 7 May 2020
Australian Poetry has announced joint winners of the 2019 Anne Elder Award: Cham Zhi Yi for blur by the (Subbed In) and Gareth Sion Jenkins for Recipes for the Disaster...
Funding boost for Australia Reads; Windy Hollow wins at Bologna and more Archive
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
This week, the Australia Reads campaign received a $100,000 funding boost from the federal government, and delayed this year’s Australian Reading Hour event from 17 September to 12 November due...
US Independent booksellers rally together via Bookshop.org Archive
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Bookshop.org has raised more than US$1.2 million (A$1.86m) for independent bookstores in the US. Could a similar model work here? Jinghua Qian reports. The book world has watched the rise...
More new pub dates confirmed for books delayed due to Covid-19 Archive
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Since Books+Publishing reported last week on the books being postponed due to Covid-19, publishers have confirmed further impacts on their schedules. Simon & Schuster’s (S&S) Anabel Pandiella told Books+Publishing the...
Windy Hollow Books named Bologna publisher of the year Archive
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Melbourne-based publisher Windy Hollow Books has been named the winner of the Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publisher of the Year in the Oceania category. ‘Windy Hollow Books has...
Whitehead wins second Pulitzer Prize for ‘The Nickel Boys’ Archive
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
In the US, Colson Whitehead has won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel The Nickel Boys (Fleet). He is the fourth person to win the fiction prize...
Arena acquires film rights to Cobby Eckermann’s ‘Ruby Moonlight’ Archive
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Production company Arenamedia has acquired screen adaptation rights to Ali Cobby Eckermann’s verse novel Ruby Moonlight (Magabala Books), via Natasha Solomun at The Rights Hive. Arenamedia partnered with No Coincidence...
Booktopia partners with Kobo for ebook, audiobook sales Archive
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Booktopia has changed its ebook offering following a deal with Rakuten Kobo to exclusively offer Kobo ebooks. Through the Booktopia by Rakuten Kobo app, readers will have access to Kobo’s...
Australia Reads receives $100K in federal funding, announces Reading Hour date change Archive
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
The Australia Reads campaign has received $100,000 in funding from the federal government, it announced today. Chair of the Australia Reads committee, Hachette ANZ CEO Louise Sherwin-Stark, said the government...
McGraw Hill and Cengage call off merger Archive
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
McGraw Hill and Cengage have ‘mutually agreed to terminate their proposed merger’, according to a statement from McGraw Hill. According to the Bookseller, Cengage said the decision was brought about...
Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2020 winners announced Archive
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
In the US, the Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published...
NZ publishers struggling after lockdown ‘obliterated’ April sales Archive
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
The Publishers Association of New Zealand/Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) reports that the country’s book publishers ‘are struggling to regroup after seeing sales obliterated in April’. Under New Zealand’s month-long...
Gardners re-opens with ‘much reduced staff’ Archive
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
In the UK, Garners has announced it is again accepting online orders and ‘will look to turning on further methods of accepting orders as soon as we can’, after having...
Kavanagh, Callil among Copyright Agency-funded ‘emerging culture critics’ Archive
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Book critics Bec Kavanagh and Jack Callil are among five ‘emerging culture critics’ appointed to write for Nine’s newspapers with its share of $150,000 in funding from the Copyright Agency...
Bertrams future ‘at risk’ Archive
Monday, 4 May 2020
In the UK, the Sunday Times reports that Bertrams will appoint an administrator, with the Bookseller writing that the book wholesaler’s future is ‘at risk’ following the sale of its...
Amazon’s first quarter sales up 26%, net earnings down 31% Archive
Monday, 4 May 2020
In the US, Amazon has posted a 26% increase in revenue in the first quarter of 2020, up to US$75.5 billion (A$118.2b), reports Publishers Weekly. Sales through the company’s online...
SPN launches podcast, plans for real-world November conference Archive
Monday, 4 May 2020
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced that it has begun planning this year’s Independent Publishing Conference, which is scheduled to run from 26–28 November in Melbourne. ‘We are working...
Bishop, Bui, Rowe named SMH 2020 Best Young Aus Novelists Archive
Monday, 4 May 2020
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has announced its 2020 Best Young Australian Novelists, all of whom have been chosen for short story collections. The writers are: Alice Bishop for A...
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