Carter to be adapted for BBC radio’s ‘Crime Down Under’ season
Friday, 18 November 2016
Fremantle Press has sold radio dramatisation rights to Alan Carter’s first book in the ‘Cato Kwong’ series, Prime Cut, to BBC radio drama in the UK. The deal will see...
Booktopia makes ‘BRW’ Fast 100 for the seventh time
Friday, 18 November 2016
Online bookseller Booktopia has made the Business Review Weekly’s (BRW) annual Fast 100 for the seventh time. Booktopia’s revenue grew from $12m in 2011 to $80.7m in 2016. It came...
Drury, Hannam and Walsh awarded NSW Sales Rep of the Year awards
Friday, 18 November 2016
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the winners of its 2016 NSW Sales Rep of the Year awards. Simon & Schuster’s Kay Drury and Allen & Unwin’s Mark Hannam...
Harry Hartog opens seventh store
Friday, 18 November 2016
Independent bookselling chain Harry Hartog has opened its seventh store at Warringah Mall in Brookvale in Sydney’s northern beaches. The bookstore, which opened on 17 November, is one of around...
Former Pan Mac commissioning editor launches agency
Thursday, 17 November 2016
Former Pan Macmillan fiction commissioning editor Haylee Nash has launched The Nash Agency, offering editing services and representation to aspiring and established authors. Nash told Books+Publishing she’s been ‘blown away’...
Hall wins Charlotte Waring Barton Award for an unpublished children’s author
Thursday, 17 November 2016
Danika Hall has won the 2016 Charlotte Waring Barton Award, presented annually by the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) NSW branch to an unpublished NSW author of children’s or...
Attendance up at SPN conference; small presses remain strong in nonfiction, reports Nielsen
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) fifth Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 9-12 November, with an extra half day of programming this year for...
IPEd urges government to reconsider removal of student loans for writing, editing courses
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has urged the federal government to reconsider its decision to remove tertiary writing and editing courses’ eligibility for students loans, saying it will have...
‘Lost & Found’, ‘Foal’s Bread’ among book-to-film projects to receive Screen NSW funding
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Screen NSW has announced development funding for a number of book-to-film projects. Four Australian novels received adaptation funding. They are: Lost and Found by Brooke Davis (Hachette), Foal’s Bread by...
Alice appointed MWF program manager
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Editor Jessica Alice has joined the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) as the festival’s program manager. Alice replaces former program manager Jo Case, who has moved into the role of schools’...
Minford wins inaugural Medal for Excellence in Translation
Tuesday, 15 November 2016
John Minford has won the inaugural Medal for Excellence in Translation for his Chinese-to-English translation of I Ching (Yijing): The Book of Change (Viking). A judging panel comprising Brian Nelson,...
Redgum to publish winners of 2016 Young Writers’ Award
Tuesday, 15 November 2016
Children’s book imprint Redgum will publish the winners of its 2016 Young Writers’ Award this month. The two books are Heart of a Home, an ‘emotional short story’ by 11-year-old...
Catton, Horrocks among NZ Art Awards winners
Monday, 14 November 2016
The 2016 New Zealand Art Awards winners have been announced, with a number of writers among those honoured. Writer Eleanor Catton and cartoonist and graphic novelist Dylan Horrocks are among...
Govt releases draft bill imposing GST on low-value goods
Monday, 14 November 2016
The federal government has released the draft of a bill that will impose a GST on goods worth under $1000 that are purchased online from international vendors. The proposed legislation...
‘Creating Cities’ wins 2016 Most Underrated Book Award
Friday, 11 November 2016
Marcus Westbury’s Creating Cities (Niche Press), a book about the transformation of the city of Newcastle, has won the 2016 Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA). The winner was announced in...
Wheeler Centre and Audiocraft launch Australian Audio Guide
Friday, 11 November 2016
The Wheeler Centre and radio-making and podcasting community Audiocraft have jointly launched the Australian Audio Guide, an ‘online companion to the best Australian podcasts and radio features’. Curated and edited...
Hay wins 2016 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
Friday, 11 November 2016
Ashley Hay has won the 2016 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her piece ‘The forest at the edge of time’, first published in the Australian Book Review....
Author wins $30,000 NSW Aboriginal Arts Fellowship
Friday, 11 November 2016
Author Cathy Craigie has been awarded the $30,000 NSW Aboriginal Arts Fellowship for 2016. Craigie will use the fellowship to research the northern NSW story of the Seven Sisters, in collaboration...
Australian Romance Readers Convention authors announced
Friday, 11 November 2016
Over 70 authors will participate in the 2017 Australian Romance Readers Convention (ARRC), which runs from 24-26 February in Melbourne. Headlining the festival are US authors Courtney Milan and Kristen Callihan,...
McGuire appointed SWF artistic director
Thursday, 10 November 2016
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has appointed Michaela McGuire as its artistic director, taking over the curation of the 2017 festival. McGuire will leave her role as director and co-CEO...
Macquarie Uni announces new poetry prize for young writers
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Macquarie University has announced the inaugural Sophia Nugent-Siegal Poetry Prize for writers aged 30 and under. The prize is in honour of poet Sophia Nugent Siegal, who died in 2014...
KROC Awards 2016 winners announced
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
The winners of this year’s Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for the Northern Territory, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Pig...
Kindle Unlimited launches in Australia
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Amazon’s ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited has been made available in Australia. Amazon is charging A$13.99 per month for the Australian Kindle Unlimited service, which has a library of almost...
TitlePage to return to the APA
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Direct management of the Australian book industry’s price and availability service TitlePage will return to the Australian Publishers Association (APA), the organisation has announced in a statement. TitlePage has been...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2016 winners announced
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
The winners of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced on 8 November in Canberra. The winners in each category are: Fiction (joint winners) The Life of Houses (Lisa...
Booksellers NZ proposes World Booksellers Conference for Dunedin in 2018
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Booksellers NZ has made a formal proposal for the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) to hold its 2018 conference in Dunedin, New Zealand. The two-day conference would be held...
Booktopia wins ‘Smart Company’ top retailer award
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Online bookseller Booktopia has won the top retailer award at the Smart Company Smart50 category awards. Booktopia was chosen from a shortlist that also included: Noosa Chocolate, Factory, Adore Beauty,...
Macquarie Dictionary launches podcast
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Macquarie Dictionary has launched a new podcast that investigates the histories behind Australian words and phrases. Word for Word will go behind-the-scenes with dictionary editors and interview some of Australia’s...
Sales, acquisitions successes for Australian publishers at Frankfurt
Monday, 7 November 2016
‘New voices in literary fiction’, crime fiction, nature writing and ‘narrative nonfiction for female readers’ were among the trends observed by Australian attendees at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, which...
Oz, NZ authors and illustrators on 2016 White Ravens list
Monday, 7 November 2016
A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors and illustrators have been included in the 2016 White Ravens list for international children’s and youth literature. The Australian titles...
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