Saunders wins 2020 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Friday, 14 August 2020
Mykaela Saunders has won the 2020 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘River Story’. Saunders receives $6000. C J Garrow was placed second for...
NCACL launches First Nations children’s book resource
Thursday, 13 August 2020
The National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature (NCACL) has produced a new, freely accessible database of children’s books by and about Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Stage one,...
NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2020 winners announced
Thursday, 13 August 2020
The winners of the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced. New Zealand poet laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh’s first book for children, Mophead, took...
Auckland booksellers enter stage three lockdown
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
In New Zealand, Auckland bookshops have entered stage three lockdown for at least three days as the country responds to four new cases of Covid-19 contracted from an unknown source....
CBCA Book Week 2020 postponed to October
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
This year's CBCA Book Week, which usually runs in late August during term three, will now take place in term four, from October 17–23. The rescheduled dates are due to...
Ngaio Marsh Award 2020 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
The shortlists for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best novel Whatever it Takes (Paul Cleave,...
Arab-Australian writers auction signed books for Beirut
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
An online auction has been established by Arab-Australian authors, academics and artists to raise funds for Impact Lebanon, a charity providing disaster relief for the victims of the Beirut explosion....
Guidelines for $75m RISE and $35m Arts Sustainability funds released
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
The federal government has released guidelines for the $75 million Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund and $35 million Arts Sustainability Fund announced in June in response to...
Create NSW funding recipients announced; future of Writing NSW ‘at risk’
Monday, 10 August 2020
Create NSW has announced the recipients of its Multi-Year Organisations Funding. In the literature category, four organisations received combined funding of $570,000: Red Room Poetry ($125,000): To support its vision for...
Hardie Grant acquires Ellis’ ‘Sex, Lies and Question Time’
Monday, 10 August 2020
Hardie Grant Books has acquired Sex, Lies and Question Time: The successes and struggles of women in Australia’s parliament by former Australian politician Kate Ellis. The publisher said Ellis’ book...
Magabala acquires Reid’s ‘Our Matriarchs Matter’
Monday, 10 August 2020
Magabala Books has acquired Our Matriarchs Matter by Wiradjuri and Wailwan activist, lawyer and co-founder of Instagram account Blackfulla Bookclub, Teela May Reid. The publisher acquired the work of junior...
Scott joins WA Writers Hall of Fame, WA Prem’s Book Award winners announced
Monday, 10 August 2020
The winners of the 2019 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced, with Kim Scott inducted into the Western Australian Writers Hall of Fame. Scott's works include the award-winning...
A&U announces new crime fiction prize
Monday, 10 August 2020
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced a new prize for an unpublished crime or thriller manuscript, with the winner to receive a publishing contract and advance against royalties of $25,000....
Changes to JobKeeper, Victorian business grants
Friday, 7 August 2020
Businesses will now only need to show their GST turnover has fallen in the June quarter to qualify for the extended JobKeeper scheme, reports the ABC. Previously businesses needed to...
UQP acquires Walker’s ‘The First Time I Thought I was Dying’
Friday, 7 August 2020
UQP has acquired world rights to The First Time I Thought I was Dying, a collection of personal essays and cultural criticism on ‘the unruly body in late capitalism’ from...
S&S acquires Rogers autobiography
Friday, 7 August 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired the autobiography of rugby player Mat Rogers. The book, scheduled for Christmas 2021, is the first major acquisition by new S&S nonfiction publisher...
Parritt joins ABA
Thursday, 6 August 2020
Former Lonely Planet Asia Pacific marketing manager David Parritt has joined the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) as product and member services assistant. The ABA said Parritt brings with him ‘a...
Woodley purchases ALS Library Services
Thursday, 6 August 2020
Patricia Genat has sold ALS Library Services to managing director Simon Woodley. Genat, who has owned the business for 13 years, said, ‘It was a privilege to own and run...
Shortlists for 2020 NSW Premier’s History Awards announced
Wednesday, 5 August 2020
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2020 NSW Premier’s History Awards, worth $15,000 each. The shortlisted works in each category are: Australian history prize...
Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 5 August 2020
The shortlists for the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance ($25,000) Heartland:...
HarperCollins acquires Mattinson’s ‘We Were Not Men’
Wednesday, 5 August 2020
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Campbell Mattinson's debut novel We Were Not Men, from Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown. ‘It only took the first 22 pages of this novel—which...
Byron Writers Fest releases digital program, Langton delivers 2020 Thea Astley Address
Wednesday, 5 August 2020
The annual Byron Writers Festival (BWF) Thea Astley Address, presented by Marcia Langton this year, will be available as a podcast, and the festival is offering free digital sessions in...
Wakefield acquires Parker’s ‘Endo Days’
Wednesday, 5 August 2020
Wakefield Press has acquired world rights to journalist Libby Trainor Parker’s debut nonfiction book, which has the working title Endo Days: Life, love and laughs with endometriosis. Endo Days is...
Black Inc. acquires ‘We’ve Got This’ anthology
Tuesday, 4 August 2020
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to We've Got This: Parenting with a disability, an anthology to be edited by journalist and disability advocate Eliza Hull, creator of the ABC...
Melbourne booksellers enter stage four lockdown
Tuesday, 4 August 2020
On Sunday, 2 August Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced that the state has enacted a state of disaster due to the continued rise in Covid-19 cases. Subsequently, metropolitan Melbourne has...
Digital Australian Government Style Guide in public beta
Tuesday, 4 August 2020
The Australian government has released the draft digital version of its Australian Government Style Manual in beta for public testing. The digital edition being developed will be the first edition...
Murphy receives inaugural IPEd Janet Mackenzie Medal
Tuesday, 4 August 2020
Elizabeth Manning Murphy has won the inaugural Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) Janet Mackenzie Medal. The award, which honours the late founding member of Editors Victoria and lifetime IPEd member...
NZ Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2020 winners announced
Monday, 3 August 2020
The 2020 winners of the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for New Zealand Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror have been announced The winners include: Best novel—adult The Dawnhounds (Sascha Stronach, Little...
Queensland Poetry Festival awards 2020 winners announced
Monday, 3 August 2020
The winners of the 2020 Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) awards have been announced. The winning poets in each category are: Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript ($2000 and...
Colin Roderick Award 2020 shortlist announced
Monday, 3 August 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Colin Roderick Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Peace (Garry Disher, Text)...
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