Gibson fined $410,000 for ‘misleading and deceptive conduct’ Archive
Monday, 2 October 2017
The Federal Court has ordered Belle Gibson to pay the state of Victoria $410,000, after earlier finding she had engaged in ‘misleading and deceptive conduct’, reports the Guardian. Gibson was...
Zable awarded 2017 Australia Council Fellowship Archive
Friday, 29 September 2017
Writer Arnold Zable has been awarded the 2017 Australia Council Fellowship for literature, worth $80,000. Zable is the author of several memoirs, short story collections and novels, including Jewels and...
‘The 78-Storey Treehouse’ tops Australian children’s bestsellers charts Archive
Thursday, 28 September 2017
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 78-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has topped the Australian children’s bestsellers chart for July 2016-June 2017, selling 342,000 titles over this period. This is the sixth...
‘Truly Madly Guilty’, ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top 2016-17 Australian adult bestsellers charts Archive
Thursday, 28 September 2017
Liane Moriarty’s Truly Madly Guilty (Pan) and Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor (John Wiley) have topped the Australian adult fiction and nonfiction bestsellers charts for July 2016-June 2017, respectively. Truly...
Bailey’s ‘The Dark Lake’ optioned for screen Archive
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Hopscotch Features has optioned the film and TV rights to Sarah Bailey’s crime thriller The Dark Lake (A&U), via Lyn Tranter of Australian Literary Management. The Dark Lake, which was...
writingWA to promote WA books at Frankfurt Book Fair Archive
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
writingWA CEO Sharon Flindell will attend this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair to promote 25 new books by WA writers and publishers. Flindell told Books+Publishing that she will be promoting a...
Varuna announces recipients of 2018 Residency Fellowships Archive
Tuesday, 26 September 2017
Varuna, the Writers House, has announced the recipients of the 2018 Varuna Residency Fellowships. The writers and their projects are: The Mick Dark flagship fellowship Donna Mazza for her short...
Affirm Press sells White’s VPLA-winning novel into nine territories Archive
Tuesday, 26 September 2017
Affirm Press has sold rights to Christian White’s forthcoming The Nowhere Child, previously called Decay Theory, into nine overseas territories. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Affirm acquired the rights to...
Over 100 Australian writers, artists sign ‘ABR’ open letter supporting marriage equality Archive
Tuesday, 26 September 2017
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has published an open letter in support of marriage equality, which has been signed by more than 100 writers, artists and public figures. ABR editor...
Sports Writers Festival 2017 program launched Archive
Monday, 25 September 2017
The program has been announced for this year’s Sports Writers Festival, which runs in Melbourne from 28 October to 4 November. Among the guests speaking at the event are broadcaster...
Hardie Grant acquires Pembroke’s ‘well-timed’ book on Korea Archive
Monday, 25 September 2017
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights (excluding the US and Canada) to Australian historian Michael Pembroke’s ‘well-timed’ book on Korea, to be published next year. In Korea: Where the American...
Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature 2017 winners announced Archive
Monday, 25 September 2017
The winners of the 2017 Australian Family Therapists’ Awards for Children’s Literature have been announced. Saving Jazz by Kate McCaffrey (Fremantle Press) has won the $1500 Older Readers Award, and...
‘Guardian Australia’ expands books coverage Archive
Monday, 25 September 2017
Guardian Australia is expanding its book coverage with two new series of commissioned works on established and emerging Australian writers, launched under a dedicated section on its website called Reading...
Blanchard wins inaugural Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award Archive
Friday, 22 September 2017
Jacqueline Blanchard has won the Institute of Professional Editors’ (IPEd) inaugural Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as The Rosie, for her editorial work on All Fall Down (Matthew Condon, UQP)....
2017 Australian Short Story Festival program announced Archive
Friday, 22 September 2017
The program for the 2017 Australian Short Story Festival has been announced. Founded by Margaret River Press director Caroline Wood and MidnightSun publisher Anna Solding, this year’s festival will run...
Spec-fic specialists IFWG expands as it seeks growth as ‘middle-tier independent publisher’ Archive
Friday, 22 September 2017
Spec-fiction specialists IFWG Publishing has signed a distribution deal with Dennis Jones & Associates (DJA), as it looks to entrench its brand in the industry ‘with an emphasis on quality...
CHASS Australia Book Prize 2017 shortlist announced Archive
Thursday, 21 September 2017
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Australia Book Prize. The prize, worth $3500, is part of the CHASS Australia...
Educational Publishing Awards 2017 winners announced Archive
Thursday, 21 September 2017
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2017 Educational Publishing Awards Australia. The graphic novel The Invisible War: A Tale on Two Scales (Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti,...
Pantera and Books on the Rail partner on nationwide ‘Rowland Sinclair’ campaign Archive
Thursday, 21 September 2017
Pantera Press and Books on the Rail are partnering on a nationwide campaign for book eight of Sulari Gentill’s ‘Rowland Sinclair’ series, A Dangerous Language, to coincide with its release...
Scholastic acquires Kelly Gardiner middle-grade time-travel series Archive
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Scholastic has acquired world rights to ‘The Fire Watcher Chronicles’, a new middle-grade fantasy trilogy by historical fiction and YA author Kelly Gardiner. ‘The Fire Watcher Chronicles’ is a ‘time-slip’...
Waverley Library Award 2017 shortlist announced Archive
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
The shortlists for the 2017 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as ‘the Nib’, and the Military History Prize, have been announced. The shortlisted titles for the Waverley Library Award for...
Fine wins 2017 Royal Society Science Book Prize Archive
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Melbourne-based British author Cordelia Fine has won the £25,000 (A$42,185) Royal Society Prize for Science Book of the Year for her book Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of our Gendered...
HGE acquires four-book adventure series by Sydney bookseller in six-figure deal Archive
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has acquired world rights to four books in a new adventure series by Sydney bookseller and debut author Jeremy Lachlan, in a six-figure deal that followed...
Parliamentary Friends of Australian Books and Writers launched Archive
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
The Parliamentary Friends of Australian Books and Writers (PFABW) was launched at Parliament House in Canberra on 12 September. The group is co-chaired by Liberal senator Linda Reynolds and Labor...
APA to run Christmas ‘Book Industry Tipping’ competition Archive
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
The Australian Publishers Association is running a Christmas tipping competition Each week, participants will be asked to choose which one of two titles will sell more than the other and...
Australian, NZ poets shortlisted for $20,000 Montreal International Poetry Award 2017 Archive
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Eight Australian and two New Zealand poets have been shortlisted for the C$20,000 (A$20,440) Montreal International Poetry Award 2017. Australians shortlisted for the award are S K Kelen for ‘Soldiers’;...
Scribe acquires true-crime book ‘Trace’ Archive
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Scribe has acquired world rights at auction to ABC journalist Rachael Brown’s true-crime book Trace, based on the podcast of the same name. The Trace podcast investigated the unsolved murder...
Voss Literary Prize 2017 longlist announced Archive
Monday, 18 September 2017
The longlist for the 2017 Voss Literary Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: All These Perfect Strangers (Aoife Clifford, S&S) Dodge Rose (Jack Cox, Text) Our Magic Hour...
2017 WestWords Varuna writers in residence announced Archive
Friday, 15 September 2017
Western Sydney youth literature centre WestWords has announced the recipients of the 2017 Western Sydney Residential Program, run in partnership with Varuna, the Writers House in the Blue Mountains. This...
Shortlists for Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes announced Archive
Friday, 15 September 2017
The shortlists for the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The shortlisted works and their authors are: Tasmania Book Prize for the best book with Tasmanian content in any...
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