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Affirm reprints ‘The Silver Sea’; projects $40,000 in profits for Royal Children’s Hospital

Tuesday, 1 May 2018
Affirm Press has ordered a reprint of ‘profit-for-purpose’ picture book The Silver Sea (Alison Lester, Jane Godwin & the children at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne), after selling out the...

Wilson awarded 2018 Lloyd O’Neil award; Covernton awarded Pixie O’Harris

Monday, 30 April 2018
Independent bookseller and Indigenous literacy advocate Suzy Wilson and Working Title Press publisher Jane Covernton will be inducted into the ABIA Hall of Fame at the Australian Book Industry Awards...

Edwards named patron of Society of Women Writers Victoria

Monday, 30 April 2018
Author Hazel Edwards has been named as the next patron of the Society of Women Writers Victoria (SWWVic). Edwards was announced as patron at the SWWVic committee meeting on 27...

ALS Gold Medal 2018 shortlist announced

Monday, 30 April 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: A Long Way from Home (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton) The Agonist (Shastra...

Norma K Hemming Award 2018 shortlists announced

Monday, 30 April 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Norma K Hemming Award have been announced. The award is presented by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation for a work of speculative fiction published in...

Kenwood wins 2018 Text Prize

Friday, 27 April 2018
Melbourne-based writer Nina Kenwood has won the 2018 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for her YA manuscript 'It Sounded Better in My Head'. The ‘tender, funny and joyful...

Tusk Books gains representation by The Rights Hive

Friday, 27 April 2018
Animal rights publisher Tusk Books has gained international rights representation through rights agency The Rights Hive. Director of The Rights Hive Natasha Solomun said that two Tusk Books picture books—titled...

black&write! Writing Fellowship 2018 winners announced

Thursday, 26 April 2018
The 2018 black&write! Fellowships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers have been awarded to Gold Coast writer Lystra Bisschop and Sydney-based writer Nardi Simpson. Bisschop, a descendant of the...

O’Neill’s forthcoming ‘Drover’s Wives’ sold to UK

Thursday, 26 April 2018
Prime Minister’s Literary Award-winner Ryan O’Neill has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Australia and New Zealand) to his Henry Lawson-inspired short-story collection, The Drover’s Wives, to UK publisher Lightning...

Edinburgh Exchange recipients announced

Thursday, 26 April 2018
Creative Victoria has announced the recipients of the Edinburgh Exchange, an exchange program between the Melbourne and Edinburgh Cities of Literature. The six Victorian delegates are: Marian Blythe (Homecooked Comics...

O’Grady wins Vogel for ‘The Yellow House’

Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Brisbane writer Emily O’Grady has won the 2018 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for The Yellow House (A&U), a story about ‘the legacies of violence and the possibilities of redemption’, set in...

Black Inc. sells ‘Nobel Prize’ middle-grade in seven territories

Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Nobel Prize-winner Barry Marshall and Lorna Hendry’s middle-grade time-travel adventure, How to Win a Nobel Prize (illus by Bernard Caleo, Black Inc.), has sold into seven territories, including to Oneworld...

Sandhu wins Readings Children’s Book Prize 2018

Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Jo Sandhu has won the 2018 Readings Children’s Book Prize for her middle-grade novel Tarin of the Mammoths: The Exile (Puffin), the first book in a trilogy. Sandhu’s title was...

Creative Victoria forms working group to combat harassment and misconduct

Monday, 23 April 2018
Creative Victoria has formed a working group of industry leaders to combat sexual harassment, bullying and misconduct in Victoria’s creative industries. Formed at the request of Victorian minister for creative...

Kibble and Dobbie Awards 2018 longlists announced

Friday, 20 April 2018
The longlists for the 2018 Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced. The eight longlisted titles for the $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award for an established author are:...

Subbed In Chapbook Prize expands in 2018

Friday, 20 April 2018
Sydney-based literary organisation Subbed In is expanding its Chapbook Prize—previously open to NSW residents only—to writers across Australia. Launched last year, the Subbed In Chapbook Prize aims to support emerging...

EWF announces inaugural fellowship for emerging writers

Friday, 20 April 2018
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced it is partnering with State Library Victoria (SLV) to offer a new fellowship for emerging writers. The Emerging Writers’ Fellowship offers one recipient...

Fraillon shortlisted for CrimeFest Awards

Friday, 20 April 2018
Australian author Zana Fraillon has been shortlisted in the young adult category of the UK CrimeFest Awards, for her book The Ones that Disappeared (Lothian). Joining Fraillon on the shortlist...

Belgrave wins 2018 Ernest Scott Prize

Friday, 20 April 2018
Michael Belgrave has won the 2018 Ernest Scott Prize for history for his book Dancing with the King: The Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864-1885 (Auckland University Press). Belgrave’s...

New Frontier signs first licensing deal for new early years imprint

Friday, 20 April 2018
Children’s publisher New Frontier has signed the first licensing deal for its new baby and early years imprint, Catch a Star. The five-year publishing contract will see New Frontier publish...

CBCA announces recipients of 2018 Maurice Saxby Creative Development Program

Thursday, 19 April 2018
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Victoria Branch has announced the successful applicants for the 2018 Maurice Saxby Creative Development Program, which provides emerging children’s writers and illustrators with...