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Digital Writers’ Festival reveals 2017 program

Tuesday, 3 October 2017
The program for the 2017 Digital Writers Festival (DWF), which runs from 24 October to 3 November, has been announced. More than 120 guests will participate in the online-first program,...

Text to publish two John Clarke collections

Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Text Publishing will release two collections by the late satirist John Clarke at the end of 2017. Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke, which is publishing 27 November, will...

Richell Prize 2017 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival have announced the shortlist for the 2017 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The shortlisted writers and their works are: Michelle Barraclough for ‘As...

Crowley, Oseman win 2017 Inky Awards

Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Cath Crowley and Alice Oseman have won the 2017 Inky Awards, presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria. Cath Crowley’s Words in Deep Blue...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now

Monday, 2 October 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains eight reviews of books publishing in October, November and December. The highest-scoring book was Alexis Wright’s biography of Indigenous activist Tracker Tilmouth, Tracker (Giramondo, November),...

Zable awarded 2017 Australia Council Fellowship

Friday, 29 September 2017
Writer Arnold Zable has been awarded the 2017 Australia Council Fellowship for literature, worth $80,000. Zable is the author of several memoirs, short story collections and novels, including Jewels and...

Goldsmiths Prize 2017 shortlist announced

Thursday, 28 September 2017
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2017 Goldsmiths Prize has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The shortlisted titles are: H(a)ppy (Nicola Barker, William Heinemann) A Line Made by Walking (Sara Baume, William...

Tracker (Alexis Wright, Giramondo)

Cover of 'Tracker' Wednesday, 27 September 2017
A biography can be written in a standard form: subject born, raised, educated, worked and died. And that will be fine for most people. But not Tracker Tilmouth. He was a polarising, intelligent, charismatic...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold German rights to Tears of the Maasai and Roar of the Lion (both Frank Coates) to Weltbild Retail GmbH & Co. KG; and German rights to...

Book blogger spotlight: Trish Talks Texts

Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Trish Buckley is a teacher-librarian who brings a critical perspective to YA literature. ‘I have been reading YA novels since I was a teenager, so that’s 30-odd years of context,...

Bailey’s ‘The Dark Lake’ optioned for screen

Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Hopscotch Features has optioned the film and TV rights to Sarah Bailey’s crime thriller The Dark Lake (A&U), via Lyn Tranter of Australian Literary Management. The Dark Lake, which was...

Big year of new publishing for Kate DiCamillo in 2018

Wednesday, 27 September 2017
The Walker Books Group announces that an exciting follow-up novel to Kate DiCamillo’s 2016 #1 New York Times bestseller, Raymie Nightingale, is to be released by the author in 2018....

The Naturalist’s Daughter

Wednesday, 27 September 2017
If you like The Birdman’s Wife and Remarkable Creatures, you’ll love Tea Cooper. A chance discovery sparks a chain of events that reverberates through the generations, uncovering secrets, lies and...

SLNSW wins approval for redevelopment

Tuesday, 26 September 2017
The City of Sydney and the NSW Heritage Council has approved the State Library of NSW’s planned $15m redevelopment of its Mitchell building. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the library...

Sports Writers Festival 2017 program launched

Monday, 25 September 2017
The program has been announced for this year’s Sports Writers Festival, which runs in Melbourne from 28 October to 4 November. Among the guests speaking at the event are broadcaster...

 

 

 

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