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NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2018 winners announced Archive

Tuesday, 1 May 2018
The winners of the 2018 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were presented at a ceremony at the State Library of NSW on 30 April. Kim Scott’s Taboo (Picador), which tells the...

Meet the ABIA Rising Stars: Shalini Kunahlan Archive

Tuesday, 1 May 2018
In recognition of the Australian Book Industry Awards’ (ABIA) inaugural Rising Star of the Year Award, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees ahead of the winner’s announcement...

US author Courtney Zoffness wins £30,000 ‘Sunday Times’ Short Story Award Archive

Monday, 30 April 2018
In the UK, American writer Courtney Zoffness has won the £30,000 (A$54,540) Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for ‘Peanuts Aren't Nuts’. Zoffness, only the second ever woman to win...

Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2018 winners announced Archive

Monday, 30 April 2018
In the US, the Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2018 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published...

Wilson awarded 2018 Lloyd O’Neil award; Covernton awarded Pixie O’Harris Archive

Monday, 30 April 2018
Independent bookseller and Indigenous literacy advocate Suzy Wilson and Working Title Press publisher Jane Covernton will be inducted into the ABIA Hall of Fame at the Australian Book Industry Awards...

Meet the ABIA Rising Stars: Cate Blake Archive

Monday, 30 April 2018
In recognition of the Australian Book Industry Awards' (ABIA) inaugural Rising Star of the Year Award, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees ahead of the winner's announcement...

Edwards named patron of Society of Women Writers Victoria Archive

Monday, 30 April 2018
Author Hazel Edwards has been named as the next patron of the Society of Women Writers Victoria (SWWVic). Edwards was announced as patron at the SWWVic committee meeting on 27...

ALS Gold Medal 2018 shortlist announced Archive

Monday, 30 April 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: A Long Way from Home (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton) The Agonist (Shastra...

Norma K Hemming Award 2018 shortlists announced Archive

Monday, 30 April 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Norma K Hemming Award have been announced. The award is presented by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation for a work of speculative fiction published in...

Waterstones sold to hedge fund Elliott Advisors Archive

Friday, 27 April 2018
British bookstore chain Waterstones has been sold to hedge fund Elliott Advisors for an undisclosed amount, reports the Bookseller. Following exclusive talks that began in January 2018, Elliott Advisors bought...

Meet the ABIA Rising Stars: Patrizia di Biase-Dyson Archive

Friday, 27 April 2018
In recognition of the Australian Book Industry Awards' (ABIA) inaugural Rising Star of the Year Award, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees ahead of the winner's announcement...

Kenwood wins 2018 Text Prize Archive

Friday, 27 April 2018
Melbourne-based writer Nina Kenwood has won the 2018 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for her YA manuscript 'It Sounded Better in My Head'. The ‘tender, funny and joyful...

The Wheeler Centre invites readers to The Next Chapter writers’ scheme launch Archive

Thursday, 26 April 2018
The Wheeler Centre would like to invite you to join the Wheeler Centre Board and VIPs for the launch of our exciting new writers' scheme, The Next Chapter. Presented by...

US Senate to consider Marrakesh Treaty on book accessibility for the print disabled Archive

Thursday, 26 April 2018
The United States Senate is poised to pass the Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act, which, if passed, will make an additional 350,000 books available to the blind and print disabled. A...

Podcast spotlight: The Morning Bell Archive

Thursday, 26 April 2018
Established in 2014, the Morning Bell is a literary podcast recorded live at the Brunswick Street Bookstore every second Wednesday. For each episode, a guest joins host Joel Martin and co-hosts...

ALIA board election results announced Archive

Thursday, 26 April 2018
The results of the Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) 2018 board election have been announced. Helen Ebsworth and Paula Kelly Paull have been elected as directors and will take...

RiP Beverly Farmer Archive

Thursday, 26 April 2018
Australian writer and essayist Beverly Farmer has died, aged 77. Farmer, who won the Patrick White award—traditionally awarded to authors who ‘have made a significant but inadequately recognised contribution to...

Rights round-up Archive

Thursday, 26 April 2018
Sales Fiction Author Ryan O'Neill has directly sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to The Drover's Wives to Lightning Books. (See news.) Children’s Berbay Publishing has sold German rights...

black&write! Writing Fellowship 2018 winners announced Archive

Thursday, 26 April 2018
The 2018 black&write! Fellowships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers have been awarded to Gold Coast writer Lystra Bisschop and Sydney-based writer Nardi Simpson. Bisschop, a descendant of the...

North Fitzroy Library nominated for 2018 Melbourne Design Awards Archive

Thursday, 26 April 2018
The City of Yarra’s Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library and Community Hub has been nominated for the 2018 Melbourne Design Awards. The library building’s new $15+ million design, which was...

Nasrallah wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction Archive

Thursday, 26 April 2018
Jordanian-Palestinian author Ibrahim Nasrallah has won the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his novel The Second War of the Dog (Arab Scientific Publishers). The Second War of...

Meet the ABIA Rising Stars: Ali Hammond Archive

Thursday, 26 April 2018
In recognition of the Australian Book Industry Awards' (ABIA) inaugural Rising Star of the Year Award, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees ahead of the winner's announcement...

O’Neill’s forthcoming ‘Drover’s Wives’ sold to UK Archive

Thursday, 26 April 2018
Prime Minister’s Literary Award-winner Ryan O’Neill has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Australia and New Zealand) to his Henry Lawson-inspired short-story collection, The Drover’s Wives, to UK publisher Lightning...