Garner awarded 2023 ASA Medal
Thursday, 19 October 2023
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Helen Garner is the recipient of the 2023 ASA Medal. Established in 2003, the ASA Medal is awarded biennially to an Australian...
Barnes wins Wesley Michel Wright Prize
Thursday, 19 October 2023
Stuart Barnes has won the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize for his poetry collection Like to the Lark (Upswell). The prize selection committee described Barnes’ work as filled with ‘extraordinary...
Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2023 shortlist announced
Thursday, 19 October 2023
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘Buried treasure’ by Jo Chandler ‘Point of view’ by Lauren Fuge...
MEAA surveys publishing employees
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) has created a survey for publishing industry employees. The survey considers age, gender, diversity factors, employment status and number of years in the...
Affirm acquires Hills novel
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to the novel The Desert Knows Her Name by Lia Hills, via InkWell Management. The Desert Knows Her Name revolves around a girl who...
Nielsen: LYBD sales down on last year, up on 2021
Monday, 16 October 2023
Nielsen BookData has reported a decline in book sales during Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) week 2023, compared to the same week last year, although there was a considerable increase...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award prize money increases to $50k
Monday, 16 October 2023
The winner of next year’s Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award will receive $50,000, up from $30,000 in 2023. The increase in prize money is due to an annual contribution...
QBD, My Little Bookshop among National Retail Awards finalists
Monday, 16 October 2023
Bookstore chain QBD and West Australian indie bookstore My Little Bookshop—as well as a QBD bookseller—are among the 2023 finalists for the National Retail Association’s National Retail Awards. QBD is...
Australian Political Book of the Year 2023 shortlist revealed
Friday, 13 October 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year award has been announced. This year’s shortlist includes four titles: Australia’s China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear (James Curran, NewSouth)...
Walkley Book Award longlist announced
Friday, 13 October 2023
The longlist for the Walkley Book Award has been announced. The longlisted works are: The Great Dead Body Teachers (Jackie Dent, Ultimo Press) Ghosts of the Orphanage (Christine Kenneally, Hachette Australia) The...
Robinsons Bookshop celebrates 60th anniversary
Friday, 13 October 2023
Independent chain Robinsons Bookshop is celebrating its 60th anniversary this month. Philip and Moira Robinson opened the first Robinsons Bookshop in Frankston, Victoria, in 1963. The shop moved in 1992...
Inaugural Varuna Ann Moyal Nonfiction Fellowship winners
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Varuna, the National Writers’ House, has announced Sarah Holland-Batt, Cathy Perkins and Geordie Williamson as the recipients of the inaugural Ann Moyal Nonfiction Fellowship. Holland-Batt, Perkins and Williamson were chosen...
Womersley, Mullins, Limbrick awarded Copyright Agency fellowships
Thursday, 12 October 2023
The 2023 Copyright Agency Author Fellowship and Fellowship for Nonfiction Writing have been awarded to Chris Womersley and Patrick Mullins respectively, while Scott Limbrick is the inaugural recipient of the...
How to Be Remembered to be adapted to film
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Michael Thompson’s novel How to Be Remembered (A&U) will be adapted as a feature film by MRC Film in the US. According to Deadline, the novel will be adapted for...
‘The Sitter’ rights sold, awarded Joan C Bell Prize
Thursday, 12 October 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American rights to Angela O’Keeffe’s latest novel, The Sitter, to Jim Gauer at Zerogram, in a deal brokered by UQP rights and...
Affirm Press acquires Duckor-Jones coming-of-age novel
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Max, a coming-of-age novel by Avi Duckor-Jones, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. The titular protagonist is ‘grappling with questions about his birth parents and...
Local editors shortlisted for International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Julie Ganner and Agata Mrva-Montoya, both University of Sydney Master of Publishing lecturers and Institute of Professional Editors Limited (IPEd) members, have been shortlisted for the Accessible Books Consortium’s (ABC)...
QBD takes over former Dymocks Broadway site, adds vinyl offering
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
QBD has announced it will take over operations of the former Dymocks store in Sydney's Broadway Shopping Centre, which closed on 18 September. QBD announced it will hold a grand...
Larrikin House acquires two graphic novels
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to two graphic novels set for release in 2024. One title is Ultra Violet by Cristy Burne, illustrated by Rebel Challenger, which ‘follows Violet, a science...
Hachette acquires Blakiston and Hawkins nonfiction debut
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Hachette has acquired ANZ rights to Make It Make Sense, a debut nonfiction book from Shit You Should Care About (SYSCA) writers Lucy Blakiston and Bel Hawkins, via Abigail Bergstrom...
Tighe wins 2023 Varuna-NEWC Fellowship
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
The New England Writers’ Centre (NEWC)—in partnership with Varuna, the National Writers’ House—has announced Matthew Tighe as the winner of the 2023 Varuna-NEWC Fellowship. Tighe will work on his steampunk...
Rainbow Road board books recalled
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Eight books in the Rainbow Road board book series, published by Make Believe Ideas, are being recalled because of concerns they could cause a choking hazard. In a statement published...
Writing WA to present 2024 Perth Writers Weekend
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Perth Festival has formed a partnership with Writing WA to present the Perth Writers Weekend at Perth Festival 2024. To be held on 23–25 February 2024, the revamped Writers Weekend...
Kayser appointed Murdoch Books publisher
Monday, 9 October 2023
Murdoch Books has appointed Melissa Kayser as publisher, in a newly created position. Kayser, who will be based in Melbourne, joins Murdoch from Hardie Grant, where she was most recently...
Fearnley awarded NZ$10,000 NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship
Monday, 9 October 2023
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) has announced Laurence Fearnley as the recipient of the 2023 NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship,...
Doig wins NZ$25,000 CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award
Monday, 9 October 2023
Tom Doig has been awarded the 2023 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Writers’ Award,...
Holland-Batt wins 2023 Margaret and Colin Roderick Award
Monday, 9 October 2023
Sarah Holland-Batt has won the $30,000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award for her poetry collection, The Jaguar (UQP). ‘It’s rare for a volume of poetry to be so coherent:...
Leane wins 2023 David Harold Tribe Poetry Award
Monday, 9 October 2023
Jeanine Leane has won the University of Sydney's 2023 David Harold Tribe Poetry Award, worth $20,000. Leane's poem 'Water under the bridge' was chosen from a record of 522 poems,...
Bendigo moves back to August
Friday, 6 October 2023
Bendigo Writers Festival has announced it will return to an August time slot for its 2024 event, with festival director Rosemary Sorensen leaving the role. The three-day festival will next...
Love Your Bookshop Day to celebrate ‘Giving the Gift of Imagination’
Friday, 6 October 2023
This year’s Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) is taking place this Saturday, 7 October, under the theme ‘Giving the Gift of Imagination’. BookPeople is encouraging Australian communities to support and...
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