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Income tax returns and your Books+Publishing subscription

Wednesday, 26 June 2024
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) provides information on its website about work-related income tax deductions for digital information services, such as Books+Publishing. The ATO website says: 'To claim a deduction...

Farr wins NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize

Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Tracy Farr has won the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) (NZSA) Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize for Wonderland, an alt-history set on...

APA announces Children’s Editorial Program

Tuesday, 25 June 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced a new Children’s Editorial Program, following the model of the existing Residential Editorial Program, with a picture book editing intensive to run for...

New ‘Basic’ US Spotify plan drops audiobooks

Tuesday, 25 June 2024
In the US, Spotify has increased the price of its Premium subscription offer to US$11.99 (A$18) a month and introduced a new ‘Basic’ plan that costs US $10.99 (A$16.50) and...

Coelho, Becker win Yoto Carnegie medals

Monday, 24 June 2024
In the UK, the winners of the Yoto Carnegie medals for writing and illustration for children and young people have been announced. Joseph Coelho, the UK’s current Children’s Laureate, won...

APA Rising Star 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 20 June 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlist for its 2024 Rising Star award. The shortlisted professionals, who each began their publishing careers in the past 10 years, are:...

Byron Writers Festival full program announced

Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Byron Writers Festival has announced its full program for the 2024 festival, which will take place from 9 to 11 August on Bundjalung Country in Bangalow, in northern New South...

Vale Lynne Spender

Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Feminist writer and legal advocate Lynne Spender has died, aged 77. Spinifex Press director Susan Hawthorne writes: I met Lynne Spender in 1987 through my role as an editor at...

Designer (contract, children’s publishing), Sydney

Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd For over thirty years, Walker Books Australia has published award-winning and outstanding children’s books for readers of all ages. We have an exciting opportunity for...

Editor (children’s publishing), Sydney

Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd For over thirty years, Walker Books Australia has published award-winning and outstanding children’s books for readers of all ages. We have an exciting opportunity for...

Bookseller, children’s specialist, Melbourne

Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Readings We are looking for a skilled bookseller to join our Doncaster shop. The ideal candidate will have expertise in children’s literature and will serve as our dedicated Children’s Specialist....

Change for Signs Publishing

Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Publisher: Signs Publishing New distributor: Simon & Schuster Australia Changeover date: 1 October 2024

Income tax returns and your Books+Publishing subscription

Wednesday, 19 June 2024
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) provides information on its website about work-related income tax deductions for digital information services, such as Books+Publishing. The ATO website says: 'To claim a deduction...

Ross wins final Vogel

Tuesday, 18 June 2024
First Year by Kristina Ross has won this year’s $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. First Year follows Maeve, a...

Ortiz wins 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award

Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Kaya Ortiz has won the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award for their unpublished manuscript, Past and Parallel Lives. Ortiz receives a publishing contract and manuscript development with UWA Publishing, and $10,000...

Ganeshananthan, Klein win Women’s Prizes

Monday, 17 June 2024
In the UK, Brotherless Night by US author V V Ganeshananthan (Viking) has won the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and Doppelganger: A trip into the mirror world by Canadian...

Zheng wins 2024 Island Nonfiction Prize

Monday, 17 June 2024
Island has announced that Cherry Zheng is the winner of the 2024 Island Nonfiction Prize for the piece ‘Fucking with Chineseness’. Zheng is a writer of Cantonese heritage, who was...

Saleh wins Anne Elder Award 2023

Monday, 17 June 2024
Australian Poetry has announced Sara M Saleh as the winner of the Anne Elder Award 2023 for a first book of poetry for The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat (UQP, 2023)....

Stills wins 2024 Text Prize

Photograph of Caroline Stills Monday, 17 June 2024
Melbourne writer Caroline Stills has won the 2024 Text Prize for her debut middle-grade novel A Gift from the Birds. Chosen from a shortlist of five announced earlier this month,...

‘Hungry Ghosts’ wins 2024 Walter Scott Prize

Friday, 14 June 2024
Kevin Jared Hosein has won the £25,000 (A$47,648) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for the novel Hungry Ghosts (Bloomsbury), reports the Bookseller. Set in Trinidad during the 1940s, Hungry...

Island Nonfiction Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 13 June 2024
Island has announced the shortlist for its annual nonfiction prize. Shortlisted essays for the prize include: ‘A Story-Shaped Life’ (Gan Ainm) ‘Writing Task 1’ (Suri Matondkar) ‘seeing Ningaloo’ (Jenny Sinclair)...

Vale Michael Mosley

Wednesday, 12 June 2024
British television personality, medical journalist and author Michael Mosley has died, aged 67. As an advocate for intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate diets, Mosley wrote the Fast 800 series of books...

 

 

 

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