Audible partners with arts bodies for new Australian content
Monday, 12 October 2020
Audiobook publisher Audible has partnered with Create NSW and Screen NSW to offer a new $240,000 podcast opportunity. The Frequency program will ‘support the development of up to eight new...
Word for Word nonfiction festival 2020 program launched
Friday, 9 October 2020
The Word for Word National Nonfiction Festival has launched its 2020 program. The event, which usually runs in Geelong, Victoria, will this year take place online due to Covid-19 restrictions....
Booktopia set for December IPO: report
Friday, 9 October 2020
Online bookseller Booktopia is planning for an initial public offering (IPO) in December, reports the Australian. According to the Australian, Booktopia was holding early investor education meetings earlier this month,...
Pan Mac UK sells Jaku’s memoir in 22 languages
Friday, 9 October 2020
Pan Macmillan UK has sold rights in 22 languages to Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku’s memoir The Happiest Man on Earth, with ‘multi-publisher auctions in many territories’, reports the Bookseller. Pan...
Bragg Prize for Science Writing 2020 shortlist announced
Thursday, 8 October 2020
The shortlist for this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘True Grit’ by Ceridwen Dovey (Wired) ‘Case of the missing frogs’...
Affirm acquires Rees children’s book
Thursday, 8 October 2020
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a children’s book by ABC children’s television presenter Jimmy 'Giggle' Rees, via Red Mgmt. Rees’s debut, to be illustrated by Briony Stewart, will...
Hachette acquires Wilson picture book series
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a ‘funny and heartfelt’ picture book series by Australian comic actress Rebel Wilson. The ‘Bella the Brave’ series, to be published in hardback...
Victorian literary orgs to receive Creative Vic funding
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
Creative Victoria has announced the 78 arts and cultural organisations that will share in $7.85 million in grants in stage two of its Strategic Investment Fund. The funding is ‘focused...
Inaugural $50k Historical Novel Prize longlist announced
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the longlist for the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize. The HNSA has also confirmed sponsor ARA has doubled its funding for the...
ALIA welcomes library budget announcement
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has welcomed the ‘positive outcomes’ for library and information workers announced in the Federal government’s 2020-21 budget. The federal government announced $31.2 million...
QPF receives funding for digital adaptation
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
The Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) is among 52 arts projects to receive funding under the Queensland Government’s Digital Adaptation stream of its Arts and Cultural Recovery Package. QPF receives $9,651...
Richell Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) have announced the shortlist for the 2020 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The shortlisted writers and their works are: ‘The Boy Who...
Black Inc. acquires Wear’s ‘Recovery’
Monday, 5 October 2020
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to Recovery by Andrew Wear, via Jeanne Ryckmans at the Cameron Creswell Agency. Recovery, which follows on from Wear’s first book Solved!, will examine the calamities...
Booktopia announces senior appointments
Monday, 5 October 2020
Online bookseller Booktopia has appointed chief financial officer Wayne Baskin as executive director, and named Geoff Stalley as the retailer’s new CFO. As executive director Baskin joins the Booktopia board,...
Affirm Press acquires Chatfield’s ‘So Let’s Unpack That’
Friday, 2 October 2020
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to ‘feminist handbook’ So Let’s Unpack That by reality television star Abbie Chatfield, via her management, Stage Addiction. With the acronym ‘SLUT’, Chatfield’s book...
Fenster wins 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize
Friday, 2 October 2020
Gigi Fenster has won the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel for ‘A Good Winter’. Chosen from a shortlist of three, the winning manuscript was announced during an...
Barbara Jefferis Award 2020 shortlist announced
Friday, 2 October 2020
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the $50,000 Barbara Jefferis Award. The shortlisted novels are: The White Girl (Tony Birch, UQP) Too Much Lip (Melissa...
Big Issue announces 2020 fiction edition line-up
Thursday, 1 October 2020
The Big Issue has announced the authors that will appear in its 16th annual fiction edition. The 2020 edition features 14 stories from Australian writers, including new commissioned work from...
UQP acquires Thunig’s ‘Tell Me Again’
Thursday, 1 October 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Indigenous academic, writer and media commentator Amy Thunig’s first book, Tell Me Again. UQP said the collection of essays...
The Turning Page Bookshop to become co-op
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
The owners of the Turning Page Bookshop in the Blue Mountains suburb of Springwood, NSW are in the process of transforming the business into a co-operative, after putting the shop...
Affirm acquires Bontempelli picture book
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a children’s picture book by Western Bulldogs AFL player Marcus Bontempelli, via Tom Petroro of TLA. To be co-authored with Fiona Harris, the...
Pan Macmillan acquires Rushton’s ‘The Most Important Job in the World’
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Pan Macmillan has acquired ANZ rights to The Most Important Job in the World by journalist Gina Rushton. The book, a blend of reportage, memoir and essay exploring ‘the most pressing...
Australian Short Story Festival 2020 cancelled
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
The organising committee of the Australian Short Story Festival (ASSF) has announced the 2020 festival will not go ahead in October in Adelaide as planned, due to the Covid-19 pandemic....
Little Pink Dog Books announces Authorstrator Prize
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Independent children's publisher Little Pink Dog Books has announced a new annual prize for picture book author/illustrators. The Authorstrator Prize recognises picture book creators who 'work their magic with both...
Scribe acquires Sparrow’s ‘A Secret History of Climate Change’
Monday, 28 September 2020
Scribe has acquired world rights to Jeff Sparrow’s A Secret History of Climate Change, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom said: ‘Jeff is one of Australia’s...
New $10.2m Arts Recovery Fund for SA
Monday, 28 September 2020
South Australian premier Steven Marshall has announced a new $10.2 million funding package for the state’s arts and culture sector. The Arts Recovery Fund, which is focused on creating employment...
Davitt Awards 2020 winners announced
Monday, 28 September 2020
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2020 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The winning titles in each category are: Adult crime...
Vic Prem’s History Award 2020 shortlist announced
Friday, 25 September 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Victorian Premier’s History Award and Community History Awards has been announced. A total of 48 projects and publications have been shortlisted for prizes ranging from...
WestWords, Booktopia launch ‘Booktober’ fundraiser
Friday, 25 September 2020
In partnership with Booktopia, WestWords has launched Booktober, a new annual event ‘to encourage people in reading more books’ and raise funds for WestWords’ work providing books and literacy programs...
Hachette announces $2.5m investment in ADS capacity
Thursday, 24 September 2020
Hachette Australia has announced it is making a 'major infrastructure investment' of $2.5 million in its distribution business Alliance Distribution Services (ADS), based in Tuggerah, New South Wales. ADS director...
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