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Industry prepares for Indigenous Literacy Day tomorrow Archive

Tuesday, 5 September 2017
The 11th Indigenous Literacy Day will take place around Australia on Wednesday 6 September. This year the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is hoping to raise $200,000 to help buy 20,000...

Marsh named NZ Poet Laureate Archive

Tuesday, 5 September 2017
The National Library of New Zealand has named Selina Tusitala Marsh as the 2017-19 New Zealand Poet Laureate. Marsh, the author of three poetry collections and a lecturer at the...

Melbourne City of Literature Office announces Reading Victoria project Archive

Tuesday, 5 September 2017
The Melbourne City of Literature Office will commission 52 original pieces of writing, each titled after a Victorian town or suburb, to be published on its website every Monday morning...

S&S to launch Scribner Australia imprint; acquires literary novel by Olsson Archive

Tuesday, 5 September 2017
Simon & Schuster Australia will launch the literary imprint Scribner in Australia and New Zealand in 2018 with a new novel by Kristina Olsson. Shell is ‘a sweeping literary novel...

CHASS Australia Book Prize 2017 longlist announced Archive

Tuesday, 5 September 2017
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the longlist for the 2017 Australia Book Prize. The prize, worth $3500, is part of the CHASS Australia...

Era launches ‘WINGS’ children’s book series in China Archive

Monday, 4 September 2017
South Australia-based publisher Era Publications has partnered with Chinese publisher New Century Publishing to publish 1.7 million copies of its ‘WINGS’ children’s reader series in China. Launched at the Beijing...

Canongate profit up 7.6% in 2016 Archive

Monday, 4 September 2017
UK publisher Canongate has revealed a profit increase of 7.6% to £128,506 (A$209,050) for the year ending December 2016, reports the Bookseller. Overall turnover for the publisher rose about one...

McKinty, Harper win 2017 Ned Kelly Awards Archive

Monday, 4 September 2017
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The best fiction award was presented to Adrian McKinty for...

Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2017 shortlist announced Archive

Monday, 4 September 2017
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: James Bradley for ‘Fish Have Feelings Too’ (the Monthly) Jo Chandler...

Winners of the 2017 NSW Premier’s History Awards announced Archive

Monday, 4 September 2017
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the winners of the 2017 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The winning works in each category are: Australian History Prize ($15,000) From the...

Comic Art Workshop raises more than $11,500 for artists’ residency Archive

Friday, 1 September 2017
The Comic Art Workshop has successfully raised more than $10,000 on Kickstarter to help fund its 2017 residency program. The Kickstarter campaign was launched on 11 August and successfully reached...

UK children’s publisher pulps ‘Growing Up for Boys’ after criticism Archive

Friday, 1 September 2017
In the UK, Usborne Publishing has announced it will pulp the remaining stock of its 2013 title Growing Up for Boys, after the book was criticised for its claim that...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now Archive

Friday, 1 September 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 11 reviews of books publishing in October and November. Gabriella Coslovich’s investigation of an alleged art fraud in Australia, Whiteley on Trial (MUP, October), received...

Myer to stock Amazon Kindle Archive

Friday, 1 September 2017
Myer will stock Amazon Kindle devices and accessories in its stores and online as part of a new partnership, reports Inside Retail. ‘We are thrilled to announce our program with...

Page wins 2017 ACU Poetry Prize Archive

Friday, 1 September 2017
Poet Geoff Page has won the 2017 ACU Poetry Prize, worth $10,000, for his poem ‘Charles S. Ryan to Alice E. Sumner’. Judge Chris Wallace-Crabbe said Page’s winning poem, which...

Guest, Riggs win ‘Lifted Brow’ Prize for Experimental Nonfiction Archive

Friday, 1 September 2017
Literary journal the Lifted Brow has selected Stephanie Guest and Kate Riggs as the winners of its 2017 Prize for Experimental Nonfiction for their essay ‘An Architecture of Early Motherhood’....

US PEN Center withdraws ‘Stealing Indians’ from YA prize shortlist after criticism Archive

Thursday, 31 August 2017
The PEN Center USA has withdrawn John Smelcer’s novel Stealing Indians (Leapfrog Press) from its Young Adult Prize shortlist after several writers publicly questioned Smelcer’s integrity, reports the Guardian. Stealing...

Avid Reader launches ‘Avid Kitchen + Garden’ Archive

Thursday, 31 August 2017
Brisbane bookstore Avid Reader is relaunching its café and courtyard space under the new name Avid Kitchen + Garden. The West End bookstore has hired new management to take over...

Speculative fiction publisher Talem Press launches first book Archive

Thursday, 31 August 2017
New speculative fiction publisher Talem Press, an imprint of the online writers’ platform Writer’s Edit, will release its first book on 31 August. Heart of Mist is the first book...

Rights round-up Archive

Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Czech rights to the ‘Phryne Fisher’ books Cocaine Blues and Flying Too High (Kerry Greenwood) to Charleston Media. Text has sold ANZ audio rights...

US educational provider Follett partners with advocacy group to save school libraries Archive

Wednesday, 30 August 2017
In the US, educational provider Follett has teamed up with Chicago-based political action group EveryLibrary to assist advocacy efforts for school libraries, reports Publishers Weekly. Follett is funding EveryLibrary’s expanded...