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NewSouth Books congratulates Giramondo authors on the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards

Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Big congratulations from NewSouth Books to Gerald Murnane for Border Districts (Giramondo), winner of the Fiction category, and Brian Castro for Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria (Giramondo), winner of the...

IPEd announces keynotes for 2019 conference

Wednesday, 12 December 2018
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced four keynote presentations for its ninth National Editors Conference, held in Melbourne on 8-10 May 2019. Keynotes include: Macquarie Dictionary former editor Susan Butler will...

World Illustration Awards 2019 is open for entries

Wednesday, 12 December 2018
The UK-based Association of Illustrators (AOI) in partnership with US-based Directory of Illustration announces that the World Illustration Awards (WIA) 2019 is open for entries. Illustrators, commissioners, agents and tutors...

Melbourne Book Market: Christmas event

Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Melbourne Book Market will be held on Sunday, 16 December at Queen Victoria Market for a special Christmas event. The market includes booksellers of secondhand, remainder, new release and self-published...

Australian Reading Hour 2019

Wednesday, 12 December 2018
The Australian Reading Hour (ARH) is calling out for involvement in its event on 19 September 2019. ARH is seeking ambassadors for 2019, preferably one children’s and one adult author. Suggestions...

Staff changes at Australian Booksellers Association

Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Robbie Egan has joined the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) as Chief Executive Officer. He is currently working alongside outgoing CEO Joel Becker, who will be leaving on 21 December. Egan’s...

Final ‘Weekly Book Newsletter’ for 2018, ‘Special Bulletin’ coming

Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Today’s Weekly Book Newsletter will be the last for 2018. The first Weekly Book Newsletter for 2019 will be published on Wednesday 16 January. The last Daily Newsletter for 2018 was published on...

Agent ordered to pay $514k after losing lawsuit against Morton

Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Literary agent Selwa Anthony has lost her lawsuit in the NSW Supreme Court against former client Kate Morton, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Anthony has been ordered to pay Morton...

HarperCollins acquires McKinnon’s second novel

Tuesday, 11 December 2018
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Catherine McKinnon’s second novel, The Great Time, via Jeanne Ryckmans at the Cameron Creswell Agency. Set during World War II, The Great Time follows...

Collis wins 2018 ACT Book of the Year for ‘Dancing Home’

Monday, 10 December 2018
Paul Collis has won the 2018 ACT Book of the Year for his novel Dancing Home (UQP). Dancing Home, which won the 2016 David Unaipon Award for an unpublished manuscript,...

James wins Horne Prize

Monday, 10 December 2018
The Saturday Paper and cosmetics company Aesop announced writer Daniel James as the winner of the $15,000 Horne Prize 2018 for his essay ‘Ten More Days’. An account of intergenerational...

Activist author made director of Mexico’s largest state-owned publishing house

Friday, 7 December 2018
Author and activist Pablo Ignacio Taibo II has been made director of Mexico's largest state-owned publishing house, Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE), reports Publishers Weekly. Mexico's new president Andrés Manuel...

Presser wins 2018 Voss Literary Prize for ‘The Book of Dirt’

Friday, 7 December 2018
Author Bram Presser has won the 2018 Voss Literary Prize for The Book of Dirt (Text). The Voss Literary Prize is awarded to the best novel published in Australia in the...

Christmas predictions: Sean Guy from The Bookshop Darwin

Friday, 7 December 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this instalment,...

Adaptations win at AACTA Awards 2018

Friday, 7 December 2018
The 2018 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards have been announced, with many of the awards going to book-to-screen adaptations. The award for best adapted screenplay went...

Christmas predictions: the Hobart Bookshop team

Ko wins Deborah Cass Prize 2018

Friday, 7 December 2018
Writer Karina Ko has won the 2018 Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds for her manuscript extract ‘Things I used to Believe’. Chosen from a shortlist of...

Final ‘B+P Daily’ for 2018

Friday, 7 December 2018
This issue of the Books+Publishing Daily will be the last for 2018. The Daily will return on Monday 14 January. The Books+Publishing team wishes our subscribers all the best for...

UK Society of Authors issues ‘Brexit Briefing’

Thursday, 6 December 2018
The UK's Society of Authors (SoA) has issued a report outlining the vulnerabilities faced by the UK's creative industries during the government's Brexit negotiations, reports Publishers Weekly. Representing 10,500 members,...

Readings Foundation announces 2019 grant recipients

Thursday, 6 December 2018
The Readings Foundation has chosen nine Victorian organisations to share in $146,700 worth of grants in 2019. The grant recipients are: Aboriginal Literacy Foundation: $20,000 to start an after-school program...

NewSouth sells Gordon-Smith debut to US, UK

Thursday, 6 December 2018
NewSouth has sold North American rights to Australian academic Eleanor Gordon-Smith’s forthcoming debut Stop Being Reasonable to PublicAffairs. The nonfiction book (previously titled What Makes You So Sure You’re Not...

Podcast spotlight: Sisteria

Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Launched in 2016, Sisteria is a Melbourne-based podcast about 'women's experiences as creators and consumers of arts and culture'. Hosted by Stephanie Van Schilt and Veronica Sullivan, and produced by Jessica Lukjanow, the...