ABIA 2020 longlists announced
Monday, 2 March 2020
The longlists for the 2020 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Bruny (Heather Rose, A&U) Call...
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature winners announced
Monday, 2 March 2020
The winners of the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, presented biennially by the South Australian government, have been announced. The winning titles are: Premier’s Award for best overall published...
Clunes Booktown Festival 2020 program announced
Monday, 2 March 2020
The program has been announced for this year’s Clunes Booktown Festival, to be held from 2–3 May. Over 30 authors will appear at the festival, including Andy Griffiths, Garry Disher,...
S&S, Macmillan US pull out of LBF due to coronavirus
Monday, 2 March 2020
Several American publishing companies including Simon & Schuster US (S&S), Macmillan Trade US, Ingram Content Group and OverDrive have pulled out of the London Book Fair (LBF) due to the...
The elephant in the room: Chris Flynn on ‘Mammoth’
Friday, 28 February 2020
Chris Flynn’s third novel Mammoth (UQP, May) handles an ambitious conceit and makes it work, according to reviewer Brad Jefferies. Narrated by the fossil of a 13,000-year-old mammoth, the novel...
Mammoth (Chris Flynn, UQP)
Friday, 28 February 2020
Chris Flynn’s third novel is an ambitious adventure back in time that recounts the folly of humanity—as told by the fossil of a 13,000-year-old mammoth. It sounds like it could...
Azar longlisted for International Booker Prize 2020
Friday, 28 February 2020
Iranian-Australian writer Shokoofeh Azar has been longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize for her novel The Englightenment of the Greengage Tree (trans by Anonymous, Wild Dingo Press). Azar is...
BookUp announces first keynotes
Friday, 28 February 2020
The Australian Publishers Association has announced the first keynote speakers for its inaugural book industry conference BookUp. Demographer Claire Madden will present ‘Generational change: where is Australia going?’, a look...
Waterstones staff to receive 6.2% pay rise
Thursday, 27 February 2020
In the UK, staff at bookselling chain Waterstones will receive a 6.2% pay rise, reports the Bookseller. Effective 1 April, the raise in bookseller wages is in line with the...
Godfrey awarded 2020 Kat Muscat Fellowship
Thursday, 27 February 2020
Perth-based writer Maddie Godfrey has been awarded the 2020 Kat Muscat Fellowship. Godfrey plans to use the fellowship to develop a hybrid manuscript of poetry and personal essays called ‘Womanhood...
Overland announces Judith Wright Poetry Prize shortlist
Thursday, 27 February 2020
The shortlist for the 2019 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for new and emerging poets has been announced. The nine shortlisted poems are: ‘Chinny chin chin’ (Grace Yee) ‘Eulogy for...
Ivor Indyk on literary writing and publishing
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
‘A prize as supposedly prestigious as the Prime Minister’s Award has only a modest impact on sales, and in the case of poetry, none at all. Speaking generally, we have...
Bologna postponed due to coronavirus, CBCA & ABDA longlists, screen adaptations and more
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
Bologna Children’s Book Fair organisers have postponed the event for a month due to the coronavirus outbreak in Italy. Originally scheduled for 30 March–2 April, the fair will now run...
Russia and the West 2017-19
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
Trade consignment and retail orders accepted for Russia and the West 2017-19, RRP$25. Tony Kevin’s controversial new book. Selling well. A book for fearless and discerning readers. See www.tonykevin.com.au or...
Editors Victoria: Punctuation refresher
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
Editors Victoria is running a one-day face-to-face course, taught by Ann Philpott, which is designed to help writers and editors brush up on their punctuation. Are you unclear about when...
Folio Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
In the UK, the shortlist for the £30,000 (A$59,000) Rathbones Folio Prize has been announced. The eight shortlisted titles are: Guest House for Young Widows (Azadeh Moaveni, Scribe) On Chapel...
TV adaptations of Cheng, Clarke books receive development funding
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
TV adaptions of Melanie Cheng's short story collection Australia Day (Text) and Maxine Beneba Clarke's Foreign Soil (Hachette) have received funding from Screen Australia in its latest development funding announcement. The...
CBCA 2020 Notable Books announced
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its list of Notable Books for 2020. The books in each category are: Older readers The Man in the Water (David...
Seizure announces 2020 Viva la Novella shortlist
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
Seizure has announced the shortlist for the 2020 Viva la Novella competition. This year’s shortlisted authors and their works are: Lana Guineay, for ‘Dark Wave’ Keely Jobe, for ‘Snake Skin’...
Boochani’s ‘No Friend But the Mountains’ to be adapted for film
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Behrouz Boochani’s book No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (trans by Omid Tofighian, Picador) will be adapted as a feature film. The feature will be primarily shot...
UQP to present gender equality award in honour of Quentin Bryce
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has established a new award, named in honour of former Governor General Quentin Bryce, that celebrates women’s lives or promotes gender equality. Established in...
Bologna postponed due to coronavirus
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
This year's Bologna Children’s Book Fair has been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak in Italy. The fair, which was scheduled for 30 March–2 April, will now run from 4–7...
The Next Chapter mentors announced
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
The recipients of the 2019 Next Chapter grants for developing writers, each worth $15,000, have been matched with their mentors, who will work with them over 12 months to help...
Wyld wins UWAP Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript
Monday, 24 February 2020
South Australian author Karen Wyld has won the 2020 UWA Publishing (UWAP) Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript for her manuscript ‘Where the Fruit Falls’. Wyld was chosen from...
City of Melbourne relaunches Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards
Monday, 24 February 2020
Melbourne's Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Awards, last held in 2017, will be relaunched this year, reports CBD News. Prizes will be awarded in six categories: short story, poetry, narrative nonfiction,...
Brown wins 2020 MUD Literary Prize for debut fiction
Monday, 24 February 2020
Sienna Brown’s Master of My Fate (Vintage) has won the 2020 MUD Literary Prize, awarded to a debut novel. Brown receives a cash prize of $3000, and will be presented...
Australian Book Design Awards 2020 longlists announced
Friday, 21 February 2020
The longlists for the 2020 Australian Book Design Awards have been announced. Longlisted titles in some of the categories are: Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover Bruny (Heather Rose, A&U), designed...
MWF to cut artist numbers for 2020 schools program
Friday, 21 February 2020
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) plans to reduce the number of artists appearing in its 2020 schools program, reports the Age. While more than 60 artists participated in the 2019 schools...
Revenue, profit down at S&S in 2019
Friday, 21 February 2020
In the US, Simon & Schuster’s (S&S) parent company ViacomCBS has reported that the publisher’s OIBDA (operating income before depreciation and amortisation) fell from US$153 million (A$231.3m) in 2018 to...
Foxlee, Cai, Tan longlisted for 2020 Carnegie, Greenaway medals
Friday, 21 February 2020
Australian children’s author Karen Foxlee and illustrators Shaun Tan and Rovina Cai have been longlisted for the UK’s 2020 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals respectively. Foxlee was longlisted for the...
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