Chidgey wins NZ$50,000 fiction prize at New Zealand Book Awards
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
The winners of the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards were announced at a ceremony at the Auckland Writers Festival on 16 May. Catherine Chidgey won the NZ$50,000 (A$46,380) fiction prize...
RWA releases 2017 conference program ‘Love Gone Wild’
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
The Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has released the program for its 2017 conference, to be held in Brisbane from 11-13 August under the theme ‘Love Gone Wild’. International guests...
Juchau, Valentine awarded $100,000 Charles Perkins Centre fellowships
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Author Mireille Juchau and playwright Alana Valentine have been awarded Writer in Residence fellowships at the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre. Both writers will receive $100,000 and will spend...
Writers, literary orgs among OzCo grant recipients
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Thirty-seven writers, publishers and other literary organisations have been awarded a total of $938,117 in the Australia Council’s first grants round for 2017. Nineteen writers received arts projects grants of...
‘Ruby’ romance awards 2017 finalists announced
Tuesday, 16 May 2017
The finalists for the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year award, known as ‘the Ruby’, have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Long Romance...
Better Reading introduces author podcast
Tuesday, 16 May 2017
Book recommendation website Better Reading has launched a new podcast featuring interviews with authors. Participating authors so far have included Nikki Gemmell, Candice Fox, Rebecca Huntley, Caroline Overington, John Safran...
Australian authors shortlisted for Locus Awards
Monday, 15 May 2017
Several Australian authors and illustrators have been named as finalists for the Locus Awards for science-fiction and fantasy writing. Garth Nix is a finalist in the young adult category for...
George Robertson Award 2017 winners announced
Monday, 15 May 2017
The winners of the 2017 George Robertson Award, which recognises long and distinguished service to the publishing industry, were announced by the Australian Publishers Association (APA) on 27 April. The...
ABA Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award 2017 shortlist announced
Friday, 12 May 2017
The shortlist for this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Birdman’s Wife (Melissa Ashley, Affirm Press) Words in...
18,000 attend Clunes Booktown Festival 2017; sellout sessions with Kent, Ford
Friday, 12 May 2017
Around 18,000 visitors attended this year’s Clunes Booktown Festival in Victoria, which ran from 6-7 May. The number of visitors is about the same as the previous two festivals. A...
Melbourne’s Books in Print to close in June
Friday, 12 May 2017
Books in Print in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern will close at the end of June. The store has been run by Chris Harrington and Deborah Holland for the past...
PRH Australia announces new literary division; Ball promoted
Friday, 12 May 2017
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia will establish a Penguin Random House Literary division in June. The division, led by Ben Ball in the newly created role of publishing director of...
Red Room Poetry announces shortlist for inaugural fellowship
Friday, 12 May 2017
The shortlist has been announced for the inaugural Red Room Poetry fellowship, launched to recognise the achievements and artistic goals of contemporary Australian poets. The 10 shortlisted poets are: Ali...
Echo acquires historical novel from Meg Keneally
Friday, 12 May 2017
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to Meg Keneally’s historical novel Fled in a two-book deal. The novel, which is based on the life of convict Mary Bryant, will be...
McFarlane wins £30,000 International Dylan Thomas Prize
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Fiona McFarlane has won the £30,000 (A$52,772) International Dylan Thomas Prize for her short-story collection The High Places (Hamish Hamilton), reports the Guardian. McFarlane was selected from a shortlist of...
Russell Prize for Humour Writing 2017 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
The State Library of NSW has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Russell Prize for Humour Writing. The shortlisted titles are: Going Out Backwards: A Grafton Everest Adventure (Ross Fitzgerald...
Federal government extends $20,000 tax write-off for small business
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
The federal government will extend its $20,000 ‘instant’ tax deduction threshold for small businesses for another 12 months. The scheme, which was first introduced in the 2015 federal budget, allows...
PRH acquires ‘subversive’ boarding school YA debut
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Penguin Random House Australia has acquired the rights to Margot McGovern’s contemporary YA debut Neverland. Random House Young Readers publisher Zoe Walton acquired ANZ rights and English-language rights in Asia via Jacinta...
Budget confirms return of Catalyst funding to OzCo
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
The 2017-18 federal budget has confirmed the return of Catalyst funding to the Australia Council, first announced in March this year. The budget papers show that the government is directing...
EWF 2017 program launched
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced its full 2017 program, which runs from 14-23 June in venues across Melbourne’s CBD, Footscray and Dandenong. The festival will open with ‘an...
ASA conducting pay-rate survey; plans to update ‘rates schedules’
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) is conducting a survey of pay rates for writers and illustrators ‘as a first step towards updating the rates schedules’. The ASA said in...
Winder promoted to MD of Hachette NZ; plans for local publishing program
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Hachette New Zealand’s sales and marketing director Mel Winder has been promoted to managing director of the New Zealand business. Winder has run Hachette’s New Zealand office since 2013, when...
New ILF app to help children in remote WA community read in their first language
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has launched a new app in Ngaanyatjarra and English languages for the Warburton community in Western Australia. The app, which was developed as part of...
Affirm acquires ‘The Uncollected Plays of Shaun Micallef’
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Affirm Press has acquired a collection of playscripts by comedian Shaun Micallef, to be published next year. In a statement, Affirm publishing director Martin Hughes said the company wants to...
‘A Court of Wings and Ruin’ sets Dymocks’ record for fastest selling book this year
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
US YA author Sarah J Maas’ A Court of Wings and Ruin sold over 1300 units across Dymocks stores on its 2 May release date, making it the chain’s fastest...
Copyright Agency defends Future Fund
Monday, 8 May 2017
The Copyright Agency has defended its $15m Future Fund, to be used for advocacy and litigation in response to the threat of changes to the Copyright Act. The fund was...
CBCA partners with party supplies company
Monday, 8 May 2017
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has partnered with Australian party supplies company The Party People to promote Children’s Book Week. The CBCA said the partnership will enable it...
Ditmar Awards 2017 ballot announced
Friday, 5 May 2017
The ballot for the 2017 Ditmar Awards was announced on 10 April. The shortlisted works include: Best Novel The Grief Hole (Kaaron Warren, IFWG) The Lyre Thief (Jennifer Fallon, HarperCollins)...
Wheeler Centre receives $300,000 for new podcasting centre
Friday, 5 May 2017
The Victorian government has allocated $300,000 to the Wheeler Centre in its 2017-18 state budget for a new podcasting centre. The Wheeler Centre will use the funds for the ‘creation, publication...
Hawthorne, Henke and Richards receive Vic Supreme Court Inspire Awards
Thursday, 4 May 2017
Writers Susan Hawthorne, Frances Henke and Kate Richards have been presented with Inspire Awards for Best Achievement in Writing, administered by the Victorian Supreme Court’s Funds in Court Division. The...
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