APA Books From Australia website to promote titles at Frankfurt
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) will promote members’ titles to international publishers on a new export-focused website. According to the APA, the Books from Australia website will be ‘coordinated free...
Inaugural Write North residency recipients announced
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Create NSW and Byron Writers Festival have announced the recipients of the inaugural Write North Writers’ Group Residency, worth almost $40,000. The successful mid-career and established NSW writers' group comprises...
New parliamentary inquiry into Covid-19 impact on arts
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts will report on Australia’s cultural and creative industries and the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the sector in...
HarperCollins acquires four Hawkins novels
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to two adult novels and world rights to two children’s novels by Kelli Hawkins via Melanie Ostell at Melanie Ostell Literary. Hawkins' debut Other...
Scribner acquires new Falconer nonfiction work
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Delia Falconer’s new nonfiction work Signs and Wonders from Jane Novak at the Jane Novak Literary Agency. Building on Falconer’s essays ‘Signs and Wonders’...
Nib Literary Award 2020 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Mark and Evette Moran Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: After the Count: The death of Davey Browne...
City of Fremantle Hungerford Award 2020 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award has been announced. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘The Silence of Water’, a work of historical fiction by Sharron Booth ‘Still...
Affirm acquires Layton memoir ‘No Apologies’
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights No Apologies, a memoir by former elite netballer and current All-Australian AFLW player Sharni Layton. In 2016 Layton was named International Netball Player of...
New ‘profit for purpose’ bookshop to open in Noosa Heads
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
Melbourne-based social enterprise Wise Foundation will open Village Bookshop in Noosa Heads in October, following the closure of Mary Ryan's Noosa, the only bookshop in the area. Chaired by Graeme...
SCBWI announces new awards for Australian illustrators
Monday, 31 August 2020
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has announced three new awards for Australian illustrators, with support from the Copyright Agency. The SCBWI Australian Picture Book Illustrator Awards...
‘Tiberius with a Telephone’ wins National Biography Award
Monday, 31 August 2020
Patrick Mullins has won the 2020 National Biography Award for Tiberius with a Telephone: The life and stories of William McMahon (Scribe). Mullins receives $25,000, while the other shortlisted authors...
UQP acquires second novel for children by Carnavas
Friday, 28 August 2020
UQP has acquired My Brother Ben, the second novel for children by Peter Carnavas. ‘Offering a rich narrative that centres on sibling relationships, the story follows brothers Luke and Ben...
MWF Digital: a ‘balm’ for challenging times
Friday, 28 August 2020
The digital edition of the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which ran from 7–16 August during Melbourne's stage four lockdown, attracted around 34,200 attendees. MWF sold 27,500 tickets to 41 online,...
Mary Ryan’s Noosa to close
Thursday, 27 August 2020
Mary Ryan's Noosa will close in October 2020. Owners Ross and Susan Burgess purchased the business in June 2010, and are closing the store due to illness. A spokesperson for...
ASA: government ‘failed to adequately respond’ to calls for PLR/ELR digital expansion
Thursday, 27 August 2020
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) is calling on its membership to contact their local members as part of a campaign to have ebooks included in the PLR/ELR scheme, after...
Ned Kelly Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The shortlisted works in each category are: Best crime fiction...
OzCo report: more Australians reading for pleasure
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
The number of Australians reading for pleasure has increased over the three years to 2019, according to the Australia Council’s fourth National Arts Participation Survey, while a Covid-19-specific survey commissioned...
Hardie Grant, RMIT announce new narrative nonfiction prize
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Hardie Grant Books and RMIT Writing and Publishing have established a new biennial developmental prize for narrative nonfiction. Open to published and unpublished Australian writers, the Spark Prize offers $2000...
RWA awards 2020 winners announced
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
The winners of the 2020 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the Ruby Awards, have been announced. The winners include: Contemporary romance The...
Affirm acquires Williams’ ‘The Bookbinder of Jericho’
Tuesday, 25 August 2020
Affirm Press has acquired Pip Williams' second novel The Bookbinder of Jericho, set in the same world as her bestselling debut The Dictionary of Lost Words. The Bookbinder of Jericho...
Readings announces 2020 New Australian Fiction Prize shortlist
Tuesday, 25 August 2020
Readings has announced the shortlist for its 2020 New Australian Fiction Prize. The shortlisted books are: The Animals In That Country (Laura Jean McKay, Scribe) Dolores (Lauren Aimee Curtis, W&N)...
CWF 2020: All live events sold out; ‘strong uptake’ for streaming
Monday, 24 August 2020
This year’s Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) included a mix of live and online-only events with over 60 artists. All events were streamed, with 34 writers and moderators appearing in-person and...
Epstein’s ‘Small Spaces’ optioned for film
Monday, 24 August 2020
Small Spaces (Sarah Epstein, Walker Books) has been optioned for film by Triptych Pictures and US producer Rebecca Green via Alex Adsett. Triptych produced feature film The Babadook and TV...
Lui to curate new A&U imprint
Monday, 24 August 2020
Writer, actor and director Nakkiah Lui will curate a new imprint, Joan, at Allen & Unwin (A&U). Named for Lui’s grandmother, the imprint will commission books across all genres, with...
ABDA 2020 winners announced
Friday, 21 August 2020
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the winners of the 2020 Australian Book Design Awards. Chosen from shortlists announced in April, the winners in each category are: Best...
Magabala announces fellowship for mid-career writers
Friday, 21 August 2020
Magabala Books has launched a new fellowship for mid-career First Nations writers and storytellers, worth $10,000. The Magabala Fellowship, supported by the Serp Hills Foundation, is open to Aboriginal and...
ILF to hold Indigenous Literacy Day YouTube event
Thursday, 20 August 2020
This year, in lieu of its usual celebration at the Sydney Opera House, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) will post a 45-minute 'visual event' on its YouTube channel to celebrate...
Fry, Tu appointed Age/SMH emerging book critics
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Book critics Declan Fry and Jessie Tu have been appointed to write for Nine’s newspapers, replacing Jack Callil and Bec Kavanagh, who resigned from the Copyright Agency/Judith Neilson Institute-funded emerging...
Synchronicity Australia options FitzGerald’s ‘Ash Mountain’ for screen
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Synchronicity Australia, the new Melbourne-based arm of Glasgow production company Synchronicity Films, has acquired screen rights to Helen FitzGerald's forthcoming novel Ash Mountain (Affirm, March 2021). Affirm Press described Ash Mountain...
Hachette announces paid summer internship program
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Hachette Australia has announced it will run a new annual paid internship program ‘for anyone interested in a career in publishing’. The Hachette Australia Summer Internship Program will run for...
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