Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival launches crowdfunding campaign for 2019 event Archive
Friday, 17 May 2019
The organisers of the Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival, which is set to run this year from 12–28 July, have begun a crowdfunding campaign after unsuccessful applications for Australia...
Gunaratne wins 2019 Dylan Thomas Prize Archive
Friday, 17 May 2019
In the UK, British-Sri Lankan writer Guy Gunaratne has won the 2019 International Dylan Thomas Prize for his debut novel In Our Mad and Furious City (Tinder). In Our Mad...
Writers Victoria announces Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipients Archive
Friday, 17 May 2019
Writers Victoria has announced the fourth round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. Twelve successful writers, booksellers and publishers were selected from 111 applicants to receive a...
‘Girl Stuff 8–12’ tops Australian children’s/YA nonfiction bestsellers chart Archive
Thursday, 16 May 2019
Kaz Cooke’s go-to guides for pre-teen and teenage girls, Girl Stuff 8–12 and the original Girl Stuff, are at number one and eight, respectively, on the Australian nonfiction children’s/YA bestsellers...
‘Lifel1ke’ wins best sci-fi novel at Aurealis Awards Archive
Thursday, 16 May 2019
Jay Kristoff’s YA novel Lifel1k3 (Allen & Unwin)—which is pitched as Romeo and Juliet meets Mad Max meets X-Men—has been named best science-fiction novel at the Aurealis Awards for science-fiction, fantasy and...
A closer look at Australian children’s nonfiction Archive
Thursday, 16 May 2019
In this issue of Think Australian Junior we take a closer look at the bestselling Australian children’s nonfiction with a new children’s/YA nonfiction chart (adding to the monthly rotation of Australian...
Sophie Beer board books sold to the US Archive
Thursday, 16 May 2019
Hardie Grant Egmont has sold North American rights to two board books by illustrator Sophie Beer to Penguin imprint Dial Books. Beer’s Love Makes a Family and its forthcoming companion...
EWF 2019 program announced Archive
Thursday, 16 May 2019
The program has been announced for this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival, which runs in Melbourne from 19-29 June. More than 300 guests will appear at over 70 events. The opening...
Serong shortlisted for £15,000 Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize Archive
Thursday, 16 May 2019
Jock Serong has been shortlisted for the £15,000 (A$28,230) Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize, for his novel Preservation (Text). Preservation is one of six novels shortlisted for the prize, which celebrates...
Young wins 2019 Text Prize for ‘Loner’ Archive
Thursday, 16 May 2019
Melbourne writer Georgina Young has won the 2019 Text Prize for her YA novel, Loner. Loner is a ‘humorous and heartfelt exploration of new adulthood’ set in Melbourne’s South Eastern...
‘The Big Four’ wins Ashurst Business Literature Prize Archive
Thursday, 16 May 2019
Ian Gow and Stuart Kells have won this year's Ashurst Business Literature Prize for their book The Big Four: The Curious and Perilous Future of the Global Accounting Monopoly (La...
Australian Reading Hour ambassadors’ books covers revealed Archive
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Australian Reading Hour (ARH) has revealed the covers of the five books by its children’s ambassadors being published for this year’s event on 19 September. The Wiggles Love Books! (Five...
ILF Great Book Swap Archive
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation has opened registrations for this year's Great Book Swap. As part of UNESCO’s focus on Indigenous languages this year, ILF is inviting workplaces to find out...
The Vogel should have been awarded, argues Jane Rawson Archive
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
'How about setting up a prize for emerging writers over forty? How about one for an emerging writer whose career has been delayed by raising children, caring for parents, making...
The Collaborator Archive
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
An act of heroism, the taint of collaboration, a doomed love affair, and an Australian woman who travels across the world to discover the truth. It is 1944 in Budapest...
ALIA concerned about proposed merger of SLWA with gallery, museum Archive
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has written to the WA government in response to a report in the Australian about a proposed amalgamation of the State Library of...
Galleys and galleries: The art and design book market Archive
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Australian art gallery attendance is at an all-time high and BookScan data suggests a correlation between gallery attendance and the sales of illustrated art and design books. Kelsey Oldham explores the...
Gregg Dreise’s ‘My Culture and Me’ Archive
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
‘This book is perfect for Indigenous children who are finding their place in the revitalisation of Indigenous culture around Australia and will also appeal to primary school-aged children learning about...
‘In the Beginning: The Formative Years of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital’ Archive
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
A quiet Sunday morning in March 1965. Two teams of surgeons set up in adjoining operating theatres in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in suburban Adelaide. Over the next few hours...
Editors NSW: Copyright and copyright issues presentation Archive
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Editors NSW is running a presentation on the basics of copyright and common copyright issues in publishing, presented by Australian Society of Authors (ASA) legal services manager Olivia Lanchester. Topics...
Editors Victoria: Dinner meeting with Joe Reich Archive
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Editors Victoria is holding a dinner meeting with Joe Reich, the recently appointed director of Melbourne Jewish Book Week. Reich will speak about what’s involved and what it’s like to...
‘Trace’ longlisted for CWA Gold Dagger for nonfiction Archive
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Rachael Brown’s Trace (Scribe) has been longlisted for the UK Crime Writers Association’s (CWA) Gold Dagger for nonfiction. Brown’s true crime book based on the podcast of the same name...
Dymocks celebrates 140th anniversary Archive
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Dymocks is celebrating its 140th anniversary this year with an anniversary party instore at Dymocks Sydney on 27 May. William Dymock opened the first Dymock's Book Arcade in Market Street,...
Edemariam awarded 2019 Ondaatje Prize Archive
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
In the UK, Guardian journalist Aida Edemariam has won the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize for her memoir The Wife's Tale: A Personal History (Fourth Estate), which tells the...
Kidman wins 2019 New Zealand Book Award for fiction Archive
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Fiona Kidman has won the NZ$53,000 (A$50,200) fiction prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her novel This Mortal Boy (Vintage). Judges said that This Mortal Boy, which...
Shortlist announced for inaugural Fogarty Literary Award Archive
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Fremantle Press has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Fogarty Literary Award, an unpublished manuscript award for young writers in Western Australia, worth $20,000. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘Where the...
Mary Gilmore Award 2019 shortlist announced Archive
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Mary Gilmore Award, presented by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) for the best first book of poetry published in the past...
Sinclair, Castrique win Nature Writing Prize 2019 Archive
Tuesday, 14 May 2019
Jenny Sinclair and Sue Castrique have been named joint winners of the $10,000 Nature Writing Prize 2019, awarded biennially by the Nature Conservancy. Sinclair’s essay An Orchard for my Father...
Penguin General and Faber win at 2019 British Book Awards; ‘Normal People’ wins book of the year Archive
Tuesday, 14 May 2019
In the UK, the winners of the 2019 British Book Awards, known as the 'Nibbies', have been announced. In the trade section of the awards, Penguin General was named publisher...
No Vogel to be awarded this year Archive
Tuesday, 14 May 2019
The judges for this year’s Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award have announced they will not award the prize this year, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. For the third time in the award’s...
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