Australian Historical Association 2018 awards announced
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
The Australian Historical Association (AHA) has announced the winners of the 2018 W K Hancock Prize and the Kay Daniels Award. The $2000 W K Hancock prize, which recognises an...
Shortlist announced for National Biography Award 2018
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the 2018 National Biography Award, worth $25,000. The shortlisted works are: Songs of a War Boy (Deng...
‘Nevermoor’ tops Dymocks Kids’ Top 51 list
Monday, 9 July 2018
Dymocks Booklovers members have cast a combined 5500 votes for their favourite children’s book of all time, with Queensland writer Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Lothian) taking...
‘Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts’ and ‘Reported Missing’ win 2018 Gold Ledger Awards
Monday, 9 July 2018
The winners of the 2018 Ledger Awards for excellence in Australian comics and graphic novels were announced in Sydney on 6 July. Two works received Gold Ledger Awards: Giants, Trolls,...
BILBY Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Monday, 9 July 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards—the children’s choice book awards for Queensland—have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Early readers Do...
‘Freedom Swimmer’ optioned for film
Monday, 9 July 2018
Wai Chim’s YA novel Freedom Swimmer (A&U) has been optioned for film by writer and director Ben Ockrent at Micro Productions UK. Agent Brian Cook, of literary agency The Authors’...
McAlinden wins 2018 ‘KYD’ unpublished manuscript award
Monday, 9 July 2018
Literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced Nicole McAlinden as the winner of its 2018 unpublished manuscript award for her manuscript ‘Little Did I Know’. McAlinden receives $5000 and...
Ned Kelly Awards 2018 longlists announced
Friday, 6 July 2018
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the longlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The longlisted titles in each category are: Best crime Marlborough...
Davitt Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Friday, 6 July 2018
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted works in each category are: Adult novel The...
BWF 2018 program announced
Friday, 6 July 2018
The program has been announced for the 2018 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs from 6-9 September. More than 200 writers will appear at the festival, including human rights barrister...
Tsiolkas announced as final judge for The Next Chapter
Friday, 6 July 2018
The Wheeler Centre has announced author Christos Tsiolkas as the final judge for its $150,000 initiative for developing writers, The Next Chapter. Tsiolkas joins previously announced judges Benjamin Law, Maxine...
La Trobe University invests $200,000 in ‘The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka’ adaptation
Thursday, 5 July 2018
La Trobe University has invested $200,000 in a TV series adaptation of Clare Wright's book The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, reports the Age. Money from the university's Strategic Innovation Fund...
Creative Victoria announces VicArts recipients
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Several literary projects and writers have been included among the recipients in the latest round of Creative Victoria’s VicArts Grants. The program will provide over $1.5 million in funding for...
Deo wins 2018 ALS Gold Medal
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Shastra Deo’s debut poetry collection The Agonist (UQP) has won the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal. Deo’s collection was chosen from a shortlist of six that included Peter Carey,...
Wright awarded 2018 Magarey Medal
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Alexis Wright has won the biennial Magarey Medal for Biography for Tracker (Giramondo). Wright’s biography of Aboriginal leader, thinker and entrepreneur Tracker Tilmouth was chosen from a shortlist of five...
UQP sells ‘The Geography of Friendship’ to UK
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold UK and Irish rights to Sally Piper’s The Geography of Friendship and 2014 debut novel Grace’s Table to Legend Press, in a two-book...
Australian Christian Book of the Year 2018 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Australian Christian Book of the Year been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Mr Eternity: The Story of Arthur Stace (Roy Williams & Elizabeth Meyers, Acorn...
Eades wins 2018 Mary Gilmore Award
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Quinn Eades has won the 2018 Mary Gilmore Award for his poetry collection Rallying (UWA Publishing). The award was presented by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) at its...
‘Luminescent Threads’ wins 2018 Locus Award
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
An anthology by Australian speculative-fiction publisher Twelfth Planet Press has won a 2018 Locus Award for science-fiction and fantasy, announced at a ceremony in Seattle, in the US, on 23...
Tucker announced as new Stella executive director
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
The Stella Prize has announced it has appointed Michelle Scott Tucker as its new executive director. Tucker is the author of Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the...
Inaugural Shoalhaven Readers’ & Writers’ Festival announces program
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
A new readers’ and writers’ festival will be held in Nowra, in the Shoalhaven region of the NSW south coast, on Saturday, 4 August 2018. The inaugural one-day festival will...
Five delegates receive OzCo funding to attend Shanghai book fair
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
The Australia Council has announced the five Australian publishing recipients it is sponsoring to attend the China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) in November. The five delegates are: Jacinta...
‘Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables’ sold to US in three-book deal
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has sold North American rights to Tim Harris’ children’s book series ‘Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables’ (illus by James Hart, Random House) to Sourcebooks in a three-book...
Regency Media acquires Five Mile
Monday, 2 July 2018
Former Bonnier Publishing Australia children’s imprint Five Mile has been acquired by local electronic media and distribution business Regency Media. Under Regency Media ownership, the new iteration of Five Mile...
Pengelly buys ‘Books+Publishing’; Tang steps down as EIC
Monday, 2 July 2018
Thorpe-Bowker general manager Gary Pengelly has started a new company, Books and Publishing Pty Ltd, and has purchased the Books+Publishing business from a local subsidiary of its US-based parent company,...
Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2018 shortlist announced
Monday, 2 July 2018
The Wilderness Society has announced the shortlist for the 2018 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. The shortlisted books in each category are: Picture fiction Can You Find Me? (Gordon Winch,...
ABC Books signs gardening book by Costa Georgiadis
Monday, 2 July 2018
ABC Books has acquired the first book by landscape architect and Gardening Australia host Costa Georgiadis. The as-yet-untitled gardening book will possess Georgiadis’ ‘unique, inimitable and delightful approach to nurturing...
Higgins appointed GM of Dymocks Books
Monday, 2 July 2018
Dymocks has announced that Sophie Higgins, current head of marketing and merchandise, has been promoted to the role of Dymocks Books general manager, effective from 1 July. In her new...
Hachette signs FitzSimons for six-book deal
Monday, 2 July 2018
Hachette Australia has signed a six-book deal with author Peter FitzSimons. Negotiated directly with FitzSimons, the six-book deal will begin with Mutiny on the Bounty, which tells the story of...
S&S, Gibbs partner with Fairfax on ‘Good Food Guide’
Monday, 2 July 2018
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) and former Lantern publishing director Julie Gibbs will partner with Fairfax Media to publish the 2019 edition of the Good Food Guide. Released in October...
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