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Bavyka awarded 2025 Peter Blazey Fellowship

Thursday, 28 November 2024
Writer, visual artist, museum worker and community organiser Ju Bavyka has won the 2025 Peter Blazey Fellowship. Bavyka will use the fellowship to work on their debut work ‘Just a...

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...

Wheelers to match Wheeler Centre donations

Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Lonely Planet co-founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler have pledged to match all donations to the Wheeler Centre (TWC) for the next three years, up to $1 million. TWC—a key component...

Hardie Grant acquires Baker-Finch biography

Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world print, ebook and audiobook rights to the authorised biography Ian Baker-Finch: To Hell and Back by Geoff Saunders. In the book, Saunders has charted the...

Bloomsbury audiobook catalogue added to Spotify

Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Bloomsbury had announced its catalogue of audiobook titles will be available through Spotify’s ‘Audiobooks in Premium’ limited-streaming offer. Spotify’s Premium subscribers in the UK, US, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and...

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...

Hepworth’s ‘The Family Next Door’ adaptation currently in production

Monday, 25 November 2024
A screen adaptation of Sally Hepworth’s novel The Family Next Door (Macmillan) will be produced as a television series for ABC TV. The six-part drama series follows a stranger as...

‘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...

Dymocks returns to Penrith

Thursday, 21 November 2024
Dymocks will return to Sydney’s western suburbs with a new franchise store in Westfield Penrith opening on Friday, 22 November. In a statement, Dymocks said new franchisee Farshid Kamal, a...

Australian bookshops sign up for Global Book Crawl initiative

Thursday, 21 November 2024
Local booksellers in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania are planning to take part in the Global Book Crawl, ‘a dynamic, community-centred event’ planned for the last week 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...

Flanagan declines Baillie Gifford prize money

Thursday, 21 November 2024
Richard Flanagan, who was yesterday announced the winner of the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction for his book Question 7 (Knopf), has declined to accept the £50,000 (A$97,227) cash...

‘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...

Lloyd, Hart to launch Pink Shorts Press

Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Co-founders Margot Lloyd and Emily Hart have announced the establishment of new publishing venture Pink Shorts Press, which will launch in Adelaide during Adelaide Writers' Week in March 2025. Lloyd...

QBD to open Ballarat store

Tuesday, 19 November 2024
QBD Books has announced it will open a new bookstore at Stockland Wendouree in Ballarat, Victoria. Authors appearing at the grand opening on 23 November will include Amy Doak with...

Australian authors launch Summer Reading for MPs campaign

Tuesday, 19 November 2024
A group of over 90 Australian authors and other members of the literary community have given Australian federal parliamentarians a ‘carefully curated package of books on the Middle East to...

Diversity Works outlines ‘areas for improvement’ in PANZ member ‘baseline’ survey report

Monday, 18 November 2024
In Aotearoa New Zealand, the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ), in collaboration with Diversity Works, has released a report communicating findings from a diversity baseline...

Yen Press joins Hachette, ADS for ANZ sales and distribution

Monday, 18 November 2024
Hachette Australia, Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand, and Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) have announced Yen Press has partnered with the organisations for their sales and distribution services throughout Australia and Aotearoa...