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Phillips wins 2024 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize

Tuesday, 3 December 2024
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced that Eva Phillips has won the 2024 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for the manuscript Borrow-or-rob. Phillips receives $2250 and a publishing contract with UQP,...

Wright wins 2024 Voss Literary Prize

Tuesday, 3 December 2024
Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy (Giramondo) was announced as the winner of the 2024 Voss Literary Prize by the Australian University Heads of English (AUHE). The prize judges said: ‘Praiseworthy is a work...

Comic Arts Awards of Australia winners announced

Monday, 2 December 2024
The winners of the 2024 Comic Arts Awards of Australia have been announced. The recipients in each category are: Gold Ledger Deadsheet (Benji Bajorek, self published) Eventually Everything Connects (Sarah Firth, A&U)...

Funder wins Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger

Monday, 2 December 2024
Anna Funder has won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in the nonfiction category for the French translation of Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life (Hamish Hamilton). The book was translated to French...

Number of publishing start-ups using AI explodes

Thursday, 28 November 2024
Spines, a startup technology company founded in 2021 that published its first titles this year, is ‘offering the use of AI to proofread, produce, publish and distribute books’, reports the...

Lucashenko wins 2024 Nib Literary Award

Thursday, 28 November 2024
Melissa Lucashenko has won the Waverley Council’s 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, for her novel Edenglassie (UQP). The judging panel, comprising publisher Julia Carlomagno, poet Jamie...

McGuire wins 2024 Richell Prize

Thursday, 28 November 2024
Myles McGuire has won the 2024 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for his story Stroke. Prize judges, who selected the manuscript from a shortlist of seven, were ‘impressed by McGuire’s...

BWF changes venue, dates, bookseller; Bloomsbury adds audiobooks to Spotify; Flanagan declines Baillie Gifford prize money

Wednesday, 27 November 2024
The Brisbane Writers Festival has announced it will next year be held at the Brisbane Powerhouse and take place during October, with Avid Reader and Riverbend Books replacing the Library...

Vale Gemma Carey

Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Australian author and academic Gemma Carey has died. Carey was director of the Centre for Social Impact University of New South Wales, where she undertook primary research in governance and...

The Unquiet Grave

Wednesday, 27 November 2024
I didn’t have a new story for Cormac for a long time. I think I’d put him through so much by the end of The Good Turn that most of...

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Wednesday, 27 November 2024
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ByteDance publishing imprint announces first books

Tuesday, 26 November 2024
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has announced it will start selling print books in bookshops from early 2025, under its publishing imprint 8th note press, reports the Bookseller. ByteDance filed a US...

National Book Award winners announced

Monday, 25 November 2024
In the US, the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards, worth US$10,000 (A$15,367) in each category, have been announced. The winners in each category are: Fiction James (Percival Everett,...

Taylor wins first prize in 2024 Scarlet Stiletto Awards

Monday, 25 November 2024
Sisters in Crime Australia announced the winners of the 2024 Scarlet Stiletto Awards at an event in South Melbourne on Saturday night. Newcastle author Nikki Lee Taylor won the $2000...

Writers receive Arts Tasmania funding

Monday, 25 November 2024
Three writers have received grants in the 2024 round of Arts Tasmania’s individuals and groups 2024-25 funding program. A total of $377,562 was awarded for 20 activities. Recipients with book-related...

‘The Ministry of Time’ named Dymocks Book of the Year

Monday, 25 November 2024
Kaliane Bradley’s novel, The Ministry of Time (Sceptre), has been named the 2024 Dymocks Book of the Year. On accepting the award, Bradley said: ‘There isn’t a vote of confidence...

‘Praiseworthy’ longlisted for Climate Fiction Prize

Monday, 25 November 2024
Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy (Giramondo) has been longlisted for the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize. Chair of judges Madeleine Bunting said Praiseworthy ‘makes you giddy, plunging you into a distinctive form of...

New England Illustration Prize 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 21 November 2024
The New England Writers’ Centre has announced the winners of this year’s New England Illustration Prize for Children’s Picture Book Publishing. The winners of the 2024 award are: First prize...

‘Leading Wellbeing’ wins book of the year at the Australian Business Book Awards

Thursday, 21 November 2024
The winners of the 2024 Australian Business Book Awards have been announced. The winners are: Book of the year Leading Wellbeing (Fleur Heazlewood, Major Street) Communications and sales Self-Promotion Without...

Michaels wins 2024 Giller Prize for ‘Held’

Thursday, 21 November 2024
Anne Michaels has won the C$100,000 (A$110,028) Giller Prize, Canada’s richest literary award, for her novel Held (Bloomsbury). Of the book, the judging panel wrote: ‘Held is a novel that...

‘Flawed Hero’ wins 2024 Australian Political Book of the Year

Thursday, 21 November 2024
Chris Masters has won the 2024 Australian Political Book of the Year Award for the book Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes (A&U). Prize judges said Flawed Hero ‘addresses...

Jones receives Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature; Flanagan wins Baillie Gifford Prize; Wright, Tiffany 2024 Melbourne Prize winners

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Headlining awards news, Gail Jones won the Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature; Alexis Wright won the Melbourne Prize for Literature, and Carrie Tiffany won the Writers Prize;...

Submit your Christmas closing dates

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
To be included in Books+Publishing’s annual list of publishers’ and distributors’ trade closing dates for the holiday period, please complete our Christmas closing dates survey by noon on Tuesday, 26...

Flanagan wins 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
In the UK, Question 7 by Australian author Richard Flanagan (Knopf) has won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, worth £50,000 (A$96,097), becoming the first author to win both this...

‘Nuked’ wins 2024 Walkley Book Award

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Andrew Fowler has won the 2024 Walkley Book Award for Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty (MUP). Walkley judges said: ‘Andrew Fowler’s razor-sharp analysis uses extensive research and interviews...