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Australian Short Story Festival 2018 program announced

Wednesday, 8 August 2018
The program for the 2018 Australian Short Story Festival has been announced. The festival, which is co-founded by Margaret River Press and MidnightSun Publishing, will run from 19-21 October in...

Dymocks’ Books For Kids week launched

Wednesday, 8 August 2018
Dymocks booksellers has launched its week-long charity campaign, Books For Kids. During Books For Kids week, which runs from 4-12 August, the retailer will donate $1 from the sale of...

Booksellers prepare for Love Your Bookshop Day

Wednesday, 8 August 2018
Preparations are underway for the Australian Booksellers Association’s (ABA) Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) on Saturday 11 August, with stores around the country hosting events and promotions. More than 50...

2018 First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) National Workshop

Wednesday, 8 August 2018
The FNAWN National Workshop for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander writers is a peer-to-peer professional development event. The workshop theme is 'Sovereign People: Sovereign Stories'. Presenters include Kim Scott, Melissa Lucashenko, Jackie...

APA announcements

Wednesday, 8 August 2018
Applications for industry internship program now open Publishers can now apply to host an intern as part of the Publishing Industry Internship Program. Applications are considered for the value of their prepared internship...

NewSouth congratulates Sandy Cull on Design Award

Wednesday, 8 August 2018
Esteemed designer Sandy Cull has received an Award of Merit at the 2018 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show for the cover design of NewSouth’s Woolloomooloo: A...

Oceanofpdf piracy website taken down

Tuesday, 7 August 2018
US-hosted ebook piracy website Oceanofpdf, which was giving away ebooks for free, has been shut down, reports the Bookseller. The site, which was active for seven months, had offered thousands...

Hachette adds LibraryThing reviews to US website

Tuesday, 7 August 2018
Tens of thousands of book and audiobook reviews written by members of social book cataloging app LibraryThing have been added to Hachette’s US website. Hachette Book Group (HBG), a division...

Rubbo awarded ‘Emerging Philanthropy Leadership Award’

Tuesday, 7 August 2018
Managing director of Readings Mark Rubbo has been jointly awarded the Emerging Philanthropy Leadership Award at the 2018 Creative Partnerships Awards. Rubbo shared the award with philanthropist, volunteer and advocate...

‘The Choke’ sold to UK, Europe, Commonwealth

Monday, 6 August 2018
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has sold UK, Europe and Commonwealth (excluding ANZ) rights to Sofie Laguna’s The Choke to London-based Gallic Books, reports the Bookseller. A&U rights associate Maggie Thompson...

Book-to-screen adaptations pitched at 2018 Books at MIFF

Friday, 3 August 2018
The 12th annual Books at MIFF (BaM) event, run by Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market, was held at Melbourne’s Forum Theatre on 2 August. Representatives from publishing and...

‘The Big Issue’ announces 2018 fiction edition

Friday, 3 August 2018
The Big Issue has announced the writers who will feature in its 2018 fiction edition, which will be distributed by vendors on 10 August. Traversing themes of race, identity, body...

The Adventures of Catvinkle (Elliot Perlman, Puffin)

Thursday, 2 August 2018
It’s hard to imagine that a book for children by two-time Miles Franklin-shortlisted author Elliot Perlman would be anything less than wonderful. Perlman was apparently inspired by a cat lying...

Girl Running, Boy Falling (Kate Gordon, Rhiza Edge)

Thursday, 2 August 2018
Kate Gordon’s Girl Running, Boy Falling deals subtly and sensitively with teen suicide, which is no mean feat. It is heartening to know that it is gradually becoming less of...

The Girl Who Fell (Violet Grace, Nero)

Thursday, 2 August 2018
Written by husband-and-wife team Kasey Edwards and Christopher Scanlon, The Girl Who Fell is the first book in a new urban fantasy trilogy. Misfit, social outcast, and orphan with a mysterious...

‘A Ghost in My Suitcase’ adapted for stage

Thursday, 2 August 2018
Gabrielle Wang’s novel for younger readers, A Ghost in My Suitcase (Puffin), has been adapted to a theatre production and will premiere at the Playhouse Arts Centre Melbourne from October 18-21...

NT Literary Awards 2018 winners announced

Thursday, 2 August 2018
The winners of this year’s Northern Territory Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Zip Print Short Story Award ($1000) ‘The Virgin Mary and Katrina Sparks’...

Stella Prize 2019 open for entries

Wednesday, 1 August 2018
Entries are now open for the 2019 Stella Prize, presented for the best work of literature—fiction or nonfiction—published in 2018 by an Australian woman. Discounted early-bird entries are open until...