Ubud releases 2016 festival program Archive
Thursday, 25 August 2016
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has released the full program for its 2016 festival, which will run from 26-30 October in Ubud, Indonesia. Among the newly announced international...
‘Child, Arise!’ wins Australian Christian Book of the Year Award Archive
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Child, Arise! The Courage to Stand by Jane N Dowling (David Lovell Publishing) has won the 2016 Australian Christian Book of the Year Award. Chosen from a shortlist of 10, the...
Oz academics receive funding to study popular fiction; Melb Uni to hold popular fiction symposium Archive
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
A group of Australian academics have received an Australian Research Council grant to study contemporary Australian popular fiction and its methods of publishing. The project, ‘Genre Worlds: Australian Popular Fiction...
Inaugural Chinese Writers Festival releases full program Archive
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Writers Victoria has released the full program for the inaugural Chinese Writers Festival, to be held in Melbourne on 28 August. The program features a line-up of international Chinese and...
Readings announces 2016 New Australian Writing Award shortlist Archive
Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Readings has announced the shortlist for its New Australian Writing Award. The shortlisted titles are: Portable Curiosities (Julie Koh, UQP) The High Places (Fiona McFarlane, Hamish Hamilton) Music and Freedom...
NSW govt funding targets emerging Western Sydney writers Archive
Tuesday, 23 August 2016
The NSW state government has announced it will provide $75,000 in funding to the Western Sydney University’s (WSU) Writing and Society Research Centre to support emerging Western Sydney writers in...
A&U acquires debut crime novel ‘The Dark Lake’ Archive
Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Allen & Unwin has acquired Melbourne author Sarah Bailey’s debut novel The Dark Lake via Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. The Dark Lake is a crime novel set in...
Lonely Planet announces food imprint Archive
Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Lonely Planet has announced a new imprint for food-themed titles, called Lonely Planet Food. The imprint follows the launch of Lonely Planet’s recipe book series ‘From the Source’ last year,...
RWA awards 2016 winners announced Archive
Monday, 22 August 2016
The winners of the 2016 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the ‘RUBYs’, were announced on 20 August at the RWA’s 25th national...
NYWF 2016 program announced Archive
Monday, 22 August 2016
The full program for the 2016 National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF) has been announced. The festival, which runs from 29 September to 2 October in Newcastle, will include over 114...
CBCA Awards 2016 winners announced Archive
Friday, 19 August 2016
The winners of this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are: Older Readers...
Horswood wins 2016 Scribe Nonfiction Prize Archive
Friday, 19 August 2016
Deserae Horswood has won the 2016 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers for her entry, ‘My Parents’ Ashes are in the Boot of My Car’. Horswood was selected from a...
PANZ calls on members to share revenue data for industry report Archive
Friday, 19 August 2016
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has called on its members to share revenue data to reinforce to the New Zealand government ‘the importance of the book publishing sector...
Adsett partners with US agency Wolf Literary Archive
Thursday, 18 August 2016
Alex Adsett Publishing Services (AAPS) has announced a partnership with former UQP marketing coordinator Rachel Crawford at Wolf Literary Services in New York. The deal will see Crawford represent AAPS...
Williams calls for government to reject PC report recommendations Archive
Thursday, 18 August 2016
Copyright Agency chair Kim Williams has called on the government to reject the Productivity Commission’s recommendations on intellectual property reform in a speech at the Melbourne Press Club on 17...
Text acquires Macarthur biography Archive
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Text has acquired world rights to a biography of Anglo-Australian settler and pioneer Elizabeth Macarthur by writer Michelle Scott Tucker in a two-book deal negotiated by Jacinta Di Mase Management....
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2016 shortlists announced Archive
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
The shortlists for the 2016 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Australian History Prize ($15,000) The Eighties: The Decade that...
Fairfax to host #SaveOzStories debates Archive
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Fairfax newspapers the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald will host panel discussions in Melbourne and Sydney next week to debate how the Productivity Commission’s proposed changes to Australian intellectual...
Inky Awards 2016 shortlists announced Archive
Tuesday, 16 August 2016
The shortlists for the 2016 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria for local and international...
National Bookshop Day 2016 the ‘most successful ever’ Archive
Tuesday, 16 August 2016
Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) CEO Joel Becker has described this year’s National Bookshop Day, held on 13 August, as the ‘most successful ever’, with unprecedented support from the Australian Publishers...
NZ$800,000 raised to secure Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship Archive
Tuesday, 16 August 2016
A successful fundraising campaign has secured the future of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, which enables a New Zealand writer to live for up to six months in Menton, France,...
New combined website for PRH Archive
Tuesday, 16 August 2016
Penguin Random House (PRH) has launched its redesigned joint website. The site at www.penguin.com.au combines the previously separate Penguin and Random House websites under the one URL, with all previous...
‘KYD’ to end print publication, launch new awards Archive
Monday, 15 August 2016
Literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced that it will move to digital-only publishing in 2017. The journal, which launched in March 2010, will release its final print edition...
Text acquires 2016 Vic Prem’s Unpublished Manuscript winner Archive
Monday, 15 August 2016
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to the short-story collection Australia Day by Melanie Cheng, the winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, in a...
Robinsons to open eighth store Archive
Monday, 15 August 2016
Independent bookselling chain Robinsons Bookshop will open its eighth store at Fountain Gate shopping centre in Narre Warren in Melbourne’s outer south-east in October. Co-owner Susanne Horman told Books+Publishing the...
Bloomsbury announces plans for ‘Fantastic Beasts’ titles Archive
Friday, 12 August 2016
Bloomsbury Children’s Books has acquired the rights to several movie tie-in books for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and ‘J K Rowling’s Wizarding World’, ahead of the film’s...
‘Overland’ Victoria University Short Story Prize 2016 shortlist announced Archive
Friday, 12 August 2016
The shortlist for the 2016 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced. The shortlisted stories are: ‘The Way to Amalthea’ by Michalia Arathimos ‘Satellite ride’...
‘The 78-Storey Treehouse’ sets new records for Australian title Archive
Thursday, 11 August 2016
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 78-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has sold more copies on its first day than any other Australian book, according to Dymocks and Booktopia. At Dymocks, sales...
‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ sells 212k copies in Oz in its first week Archive
Thursday, 11 August 2016
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child playscript (J K Rowling, John Tiffany & Jack Thorne, Hachette) has sold 211,898 copies valued at $5.49m in its first week of release in Australia,...
Bookstores prepare for National Bookshop Day Archive
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Preparations are underway for the sixth annual National Bookshop Day this Saturday 13 August, with stores around the country hosting events and promotions. The theme of this year’s National Bookshop...
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