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Melbourne Prize for Literature entries close 9 July

Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Entries close Monday 9 July, 5pm Don't miss out. Visit www.melbourneprize.org to enter the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018 & Awards. Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018: $60,000 Best Writing Award 2018: $30,000 NEW Readings...

CBCA 2019 award submissions now open

Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Publishers and creators with books eligible for the 2019 CBCA Book of the Year Awards can now submit entries online: awards.cbca.org.au. Books can be delivered to: The CBCA Awards Administrator, Level...

Bookshop for sale

Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Busy, independent city-based bookshop is for sale in sunny Townsville. Has solid trading figures, an established reputation and a loyal customer base. There is a long lease and lots of...

Tickets on sale for Educational Publishing Awards

Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Tickets for the 25th annual Educational Publishing Awards are now on sale at the special early bird price of $120. Early bird prices are available until 10 August, so book...

Varuna Residential Fellowships for Writers 2019 applications open

Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Varuna, the National Writers’ House, invites writers from across Australia to apply for a Varuna Residential Fellowship. A Varuna Residential Fellowship offers writers working across a wide range of literary...

Change for Boys Town Press

Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Publisher: Boys Town Press Old distributor: Footprint Books New distributor: None Changeover date: 1 July 2018 Returns cut-off: 1 August 2018

Copyright Agency sues NSW government after unsuccessful mediation

Wednesday, 27 June 2018
After an unsuccessful mediation last week, the Copyright Agency is pursuing a law suit it filed against the New South Wales state government last year over the non-payment of copyright...

Rapper ‘Loki’ wins 2018 Orwell Prize

Wednesday, 27 June 2018
In the UK, Darren McGarvey, also known as the rapper ‘Loki’, has won the £3000 (A$5547) Orwell Prize for Books for Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass (Luath...

Hardie Grant acquires Pascoe’s travel guide

Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Hardie Grant Travel has acquired world rights to a travel guide book by Bunurong writer Bruce Pascoe. The as-yet-untitled book will look at places in Australia ‘where evidence of Indigenous...

Goldin’s escape room thriller attracts six-figure North American deal

Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Australian author Megan Goldin’s second novel, The Escape Room (Michael Joseph), has sold into North America in a six-figure, two-book deal negotiated by David Gernert of the Gernert Agency on...

Heartland

Wednesday, 27 June 2018
A perfect companion to Evicted and Nickel and Dimed, Heartland reveals one woman's experience of working class poverty with a startlingly observed, eye-opening, and topical personal story. Sarah Smarsh was born a fifth generation...

Maguire’s ‘An Isolated Incident’ sold to UK

Tuesday, 26 June 2018
UK publisher Lightning Books has acquired Emily Maguire’s 2016 crime novel An Isolated Incident (Picador), reports the Bookseller. Lightning Books editor-at-large Scott Pack acquired world English-language rights (excluding Australia and...

US online sales tax ruling applauded by booksellers

Tuesday, 26 June 2018
In the US, the Supreme Court has ruled that online retailers with no physical presence in a state are required to collect tax on sales in that state, reports Publishers...

Allan wins 2018 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction

Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Lip magazine’s 2018 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction has been presented to Liz Allan for her story ‘Our Voices, Fierce’. Margot McGovern, on behalf of the judging panel, described the winning...

Law to edit ‘Growing Up Queer in Australia’ anthology

Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Black Inc. has announced it will publish a new anthology in 2019, Growing Up Queer in Australia, which will be edited by Benjamin Law. The anthology, which will be aimed...

Online bookstore stocking only debut Australian titles to launch this year

Tuesday, 26 June 2018
A new online bookstore that will stock only debut Australian writers is preparing to launch later this year. Non-profit group Underground Writers is establishing the new online store—called Underground Books—to...

‘Into the Heart of Tasmania’ wins inaugural Dick and Joan Green Family Award

Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Historian Rebe Taylor’s Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity (MUP) has won the inaugural Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, reports the Advocate. The...

ALA renames Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal

Monday, 25 June 2018
In the US, a division of the American Library Association (ALA) has voted to remove the name of Laura Ingalls Wilder from a children’s book award, over concerns about how...

Donovan appointed scout for FremantleMedia

Monday, 25 June 2018
Australian editor and consultant Philippa Donovan has been appointed literary scout for production and entertainment company FremantleMedia Australia. Donovan will be covering book-to-film as well as TV adaptations for world English-language territories, with...