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The Museum of Words (Georgia Blain, Scribe)

Thursday, 29 June 2017
The Museum of Words, written as Georgia Blain knew she was dying of brain cancer, will be posthumously published. Her instinct, to the end, was to find meaning by writing...

The Choke (Sofie Laguna, A&U)

Thursday, 29 June 2017
Sofie Laguna is a writer who can wrench beauty even from the horror of a child caught up in the toxic world of bastardised masculinity. Fearsome, vivid and raw, her...

Colin Roderick Award 2017 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 28 June 2017
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award and H T Priestley Memorial Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, has been announced. The...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Sales Fiction—Fremantle Press has sold US and UK English-language rights to The Hope Fault (Tracy Farr) to Gallic Books imprint Aardvark Bureau. Giramondo has sold US rights to Border Districts and...

Three Geelong libraries to stay open until mid-2018

Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Three Geelong libraries have been offered a one-year reprieve from the Geelong City Council, which has backed away from its decision to close them by the end of September, reports...

‘The Cake and the Rain’—Jimmy Webb

Wednesday, 28 June 2017
The Cake and the Rain: ISBN 978-1-78558-618-7 Omnibus Press $49.95 is available now from Woodslane. Jimmy Webb plays Melbourne on June 27th, Sydney June 29th and Perth July 1st. The...

Government boosts funding for ArtsReady internship program

Tuesday, 27 June 2017
The federal government has announced an additional $200,000 in funding for its ArtsReady internship program, which assists arts and culture sector employers in providing 12-month traineeships to graduates. ArtsReady offers...

A&U acquires second book from Clementine Ford

Tuesday, 27 June 2017
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired a second book from Fight Like a Girl author Clementine Ford, to be published in late 2018. Boys Will Be Boys ‘will examine toxic...

Antidote festival to replace Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Tuesday, 27 June 2017
The Sydney Opera House will host a new two-day festival dedicated to progressive ideas and activism from 2-3 September. The Antidote festival replaces the Sydney Opera House’s Festival of Dangerous...

B&N sales fall 6.5% in fiscal 2017

Monday, 26 June 2017
Barnes & Noble (B&N) reported a 6.5% sales decline in the fiscal year ending 29 April 2017, with sales falling to US$3.89bn (A$5.1bn), reports Publishers Weekly. Operating income for the...

Writers Victoria announces $300,000 literary travel fund

Monday, 26 June 2017
Writers Victoria has announced a new literary travel fund, providing $300,000 in grants to writers, editors, agents, publishers, booksellers and other literary professionals over the next three years. The travel...

Spufford wins 2017 Desmond Elliott Prize

Friday, 23 June 2017
Francis Spufford has won the 2017 Desmond Elliott Prize for first-time novelists for Golden Hill (Faber). The winning novel, which is set in 18th-century New York, has already won the...

PRH to publish new John Green book in October

Friday, 23 June 2017
Penguin Random House is publishing a new YA novel by US author John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, in October. The book is Green’s first since The Fault in...

Agualusa wins 2017 International Dublin Literary Award

Thursday, 22 June 2017
Angolan writer Jose Eduardo Agualusa’s A General Theory of Oblivion (trans by Daniel Hahn, Vintage) has won the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award. Agualusa's novel about an exiled Portuguese woman who has bricked herself...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 21 June 2017
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold world Spanish rights to Kingpin (Lili St German) to Ediciones B Mexico SA de CV. Hachette has sold rights to Stars Across the Ocean (Kimberley Freeman)...

ALIA celebrates copyright amendment Bill

Wednesday, 21 June 2017
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has celebrated a Bill amending the Copyright Act 1968 to simplify the use of copyright materials for libraries, educational institutions, archives and people...

 

 

 

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