NSW Premier’s History Awards 2020 winners announced Archive
Monday, 7 September 2020
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the winners of the 2020 NSW Premier’s History Awards, worth $15,000 each. The winning works in each category, chosen from shortlists announced...
Banjo Prize 2020 shortlist announced Archive
Monday, 7 September 2020
HarperCollins has announced the shortlist for the 2020 Banjo Prize for an unpublished work of commercial fiction. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'The List' (Megan Albany) 'The Tuesday Afternoon Murder Club'...
Queensland Literary Awards 2020 winners announced Archive
Monday, 7 September 2020
The winners of the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in August, are: Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work...
More than 3500 tune in live to Indigenous Literacy Day on YouTube Archive
Friday, 4 September 2020
More than 3500 viewers tuned in live to the Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) ‘visual event’ streamed on YouTube on 2 September, and almost 17,000 viewers have now watched it. The...
Hardie Grant acquires full ownership of children’s publishing division Archive
Friday, 4 September 2020
Hardie Grant has acquired full ownership of the former joint venture Hardie Grant Egmont, creating Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing. In a statement, Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing said it now plans...
Educational Publishing Awards 2020 winners announced Archive
Friday, 4 September 2020
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2020 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA). Promoting Literacy Development (PLD) was awarded the 2020 Publisher of the Year for...
Australian Geographic acquires ‘Deadly Science’ series Archive
Friday, 4 September 2020
Australian Geographic has acquired world rights to an eight-book 'Deadly Science' nonfiction series aimed at primary school readers. Developed in conjunction with Deadly Science founder Corey Tutt, who will edit...
Blake Poetry Prize 2020 shortlist announced Archive
Friday, 4 September 2020
The shortlist for the Blake Poetry Prize has been announced. The eight shortlisted poems are: 'History of Sadness' by Louise Carter 'On Finding Charlotte in the Anthropological Record' by Judith...
EWF announces At Home Residencies Archive
Thursday, 3 September 2020
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) has launched a new remote residency program, the EWF At Home Residencies. Four successful applicants will each receive $1600 to commit to spending two weeks...
UQP acquires McQuire’s ‘Black Witness: The power of Indigenous media’ Archive
Thursday, 3 September 2020
UQP has acquired world rights to Black Witness: The power of Indigenous media, an updated collection of Darumbal and South Sea Islander journalist Amy McQuire's work. McQuire has been reporting...
YA trilogy ‘Valentine’ optioned for screen Archive
Thursday, 3 September 2020
Jodi McAlister's supernatural YA trilogy 'Valentine' (Penguin) has been optioned for screen by Like A Photon Creative via Alex Adsett of Alex Adsett Publishing Services. McAlister's trilogy features a team...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2020 shortlists announced Archive
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
The shortlists for the 2020 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best illustrated book Crafting Aotearoa (ed...
APA Books From Australia website to promote titles at Frankfurt Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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’ Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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...
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