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UK small publishers protest Women’s Prize fees

Wednesday, 13 September 2017
In the UK, a few small publishers have protested the publisher fees charged by the Women’s Prize for Fiction, claiming the the fees are ‘extortionate’ and pose a prohibitive barrier to entry,...

Subbed In to launch three poetry titles this month

Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Sydney literary organisation Subbed In is launching its first series of books at an event in Sydney on 23 September. Subbed In has been hosting regular reading series for emerging...

RM Marketing Services returning to full-time operation

Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Rachael McDiarmid will be leaving Bloomsbury on 22 September and returning full-time to RM Marketing Services from 9 October. With 27 years' experience working with local and international publishers and...

Authors for Asylum Twitter campaign raises over $13,000

Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Australian writers have raised $13,143.84 for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) by auctioning off various items as part of the ‘Authors for Asylum’ Twitter campaign. The campaign ran from...

Savage appointed director of Writers Victoria

Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Angela Savage has been appointed director of Writers Victoria, effective from 25 September. Savage’s appointment follows the departure of Kate Larsen, who served as director since March 2013. The current acting...

Writers, literary orgs among latest OzCo funding recipients

Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Thirty-two writers and literary organisations are among the recipients of the latest Australia Council grants round, which awarded $6.1 million to 221 projects. Grants in the literary category were worth...

Report finds bookshops contribute £1.9b to UK economy

Tuesday, 12 September 2017
In the UK, a new report commissioned by the British Booksellers Association (BA) has found that bookshops contribute an estimated £1.9bn (A$3.12bn) annually to the UK economy, support 46,000 jobs,...

Inaugural Boundless festival launches program

Tuesday, 12 September 2017
The full program has been launched for the inaugural Boundless festival for Indigenous and culturally diverse writers. Ellen van Neerven, Julie Koh, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Benjamin Law, Sarah Ayoub and...

PRH acquires new Tim Winton novel for March 2018

Monday, 11 September 2017
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to a new Tim Winton novel, The Shepherd’s Hut, to be published in March 2018. Literary agency Jenny Darling also sold UK...

Longlist announced for Baillie Gifford Prize 2017

Monday, 11 September 2017
The longlist for the £30,000 (A$49,130) 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize, which recognises nonfiction writing by authors of any nationality, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Red Famine: Stalin’s War...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now

Friday, 8 September 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 14 reviews of books publishing in September, October and November. Two November picture books scored the highest possible rating of 5 stars: Swan Lake (Anne Spudvilas, A&U)...

Line-up for Bundaberg’s WriteFest announced

Friday, 8 September 2017
The program for WriteFest 2017, running in Bundaberg from 6-8 October, has been announced. Author Arnold Zable headlines the festival program, joining other guests including Aleesah Darlison, Helena Pastor, Cindi...

Audiobooks added to Kobo app

Thursday, 7 September 2017
Kobo has added an audiobook service to its smartphone and tablet app, with a monthly one-book membership costing $12.99. The service launched on 6 September in Australia. Members can also...

Berbay launches junior fiction series

Thursday, 7 September 2017
Berbay Publishing will release its first junior fiction series, ‘Norton’, in 2018, by Melbourne writer and illustrator John Dickson. The series focuses on seven-year-old Norton, who is ‘finding his way...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 6 September 2017
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold the following rights to The Museum of Modern Love (Heather Rose): Hebrew rights to Modan Publishing House; Korean rights to Hankyoreh; and Greek rights...

SLV reaches fundraising target for redevelopment

Wednesday, 6 September 2017
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has reached its $27.7m fundraising goal, which it targeted in order to complete the SLV’s $88m ‘Vision 2020’ redevelopment. A $3.5m donation from the...

Calling emerging children’s authors and illustrators

Wednesday, 6 September 2017
The May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust is delighted to announce: The Ian Wilson Memorial Fellowship This fellowship will give an emerging author or illustrator creative time in the Trust’s Adelaide...

 

 

 

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