Audible launches local ‘Listen to your book’ campaign
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Audiobook provider Audible has launched its first local original advertising campaign, with the theme ‘Listen to your book’. The campaign features a two-minute video starring actor Craig McLachlan and comedian...
Ferguson appointed PANZ director
Thursday, 16 February 2017
New Zealand Book Council CEO Catriona Ferguson has been appointed as Publishing Association of New Zealand (PANZ) director. Ferguson replaces outgoing director Anne de Lautour, who is stepping down from...
A&U, Books Illustrated to create Australian collective stand at Bologna
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Allen & Unwin and Books Illustrated will combine their stands at this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair to create an Australian collective stand. The Australian stand will also host four...
First ‘Librarians’ Choice’ top 10 list published
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
The first ‘Librarians’ Choice’ list of 10 highly recommended new-release titles has been published. The monthly listing aims to ‘harness the time-honoured value of “librarian’s picks” into a single nation-wide...
Seizure announces 2017 Viva la Novella shortlist
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 Seizure Viva La Novella competition has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Luke Horton for ‘The Peacock’ Amy Nicholls-Diver for ‘Falling Asleep’...
Rodriguez to leave Copyright Agency
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Copyright Agency cultural fund manager Zoë Rodriguez has announced her departure after 13-and-a-half years at the organisation. Rodriguez joined the Copyright Agency as a lawyer, first coordinating and then leading policy...
Ashurst Business Literature Prize 2016 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
The shortlist for the 2016 Ashurst Business Literature Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Hector (Rozzi Bazzani, Australian Scholarly Publishing) Minding Her Own Business: Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney...
Hardie Grant in two-book deal with ‘The Bachelor’ star Sam Wood
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Hardie Grant Books has acquired two books from former star of Channel 10’s The Bachelor and personal trainer Sam Wood. The first title, 28 by Sam Wood, will ‘combine over...
Slatter, McDermott awarded Copyright Agency funding for mid-to-late career authors
Tuesday, 14 February 2017
Brisbane author Angela Slatter, Melbourne historian and author Alex McDermott, and WA visual artist Pilar Mata Dupont have been awarded funding from the Copyright Agency’s Create Career Fund for mid-to-late...
Screen Australia to fund development of ‘The Drover’s Wife’ feature adaptation
Tuesday, 14 February 2017
A feature adaptation of playwright Leah Purcell’s Victorian Prize for Literature-winning The Drover’s Wife (Currency Press), a reimagining of Henry Lawson’s short story, is among the projects in Screen Australia’s...
APA announces editors for 2017 Residential Editorial Program
Tuesday, 14 February 2017
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the editors selected to attend the 2017 Residential Editorial Program (REP), which will be held at the Melbourne Business School Conference Centre in...
Morton, agent in NSW Supreme Court over alleged contract breach
Tuesday, 14 February 2017
Literary agent Selwa Anthony is suing author Kate Morton in the New South Wales Supreme Court over an alleged breach of contract, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Anthony took legal...
New service to improve arts workers’ mental health launched in Melbourne
Tuesday, 14 February 2017
Literary organisations are among the 83 arts groups participating in a new service working towards improving Victorian arts workers’ mental health. The Wheeler Centre, Writers Victoria, the Emerging Writers Festival...
OzCo draws on cash reserve to fund small-to-medium sector
Monday, 13 February 2017
The Australia Council will allocate $10m over two years from its reserves to provide grants to the small-to-medium sector. An Australia Council spokesperson told ArtsHub its board made the decision...
PRH to publish new McInerney novel in July
Monday, 13 February 2017
Penguin Random House will publish a new novel by Monica McInerney, The Trip of a Lifetime, in July. The novel is set in South Australia’s Clare Valley and Ireland. The...
McFarlane longlisted for £30,000 International Dylan Thomas Prize
Friday, 10 February 2017
Fiona McFarlane has been longlisted for the £30,000 (A$49,155) International Dylan Thomas Prize, run by Swansea University, for her short-story collection The High Places (Hamish Hamilton). McFarlane is one of...
Margaret River Short Story Competition 2017 winner announced
Friday, 10 February 2017
Laura Elvery has won the 2017 Margaret River Short Story Competition for her story ‘Joiner Bay’. Competition judge Ellen van Neerven described ‘Joiner Bay’ as a ‘tender story about running...
MidnightSun celebrates fifth birthday
Friday, 10 February 2017
Adelaide-based small press MidnightSun is celebrating its fifth birthday on 10 February. The publisher began in 2012 with the launch of founder Anna Solding’s novel The Hum of Concrete. ‘Because...
Program announced for second Rock & Roll Writers Festival; new Melbourne event
Friday, 10 February 2017
The program for the second Rock & Roll Writers Festival, to be held at the Old Museum in Brisbane from 1-2 April, has been announced. Organisers have also announced a...
ACT government to provide extra $230,000 in arts funding after protest
Thursday, 9 February 2017
The ACT government has announced it will provide an additional $230,000 for arts projects in 2017 after artists protested the drop in funding from the previous year. In December, ACT arts...
Australian publisher, NZ bookseller shortlisted for LBF International Excellence Awards
Thursday, 9 February 2017
Australia’s CSIRO Publishing and New Zealand’s Time Out Bookstore have been shortlisted for the London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence Awards. CSIRO Publishing is shortlisted for the Academic and Professional...
NZ poet Tusitala-Marsh receives Society of Authors’ Waitangi Day Honours
Thursday, 9 February 2017
Poet and scholar Selina Tusitala-Marsh has been made an honorary literary fellow as part of the New Zealand Society of Authors’ (NZSA) annual Waitangi Day Honours. NZSA president Kyle Mewburn...
Tonner wins Finch Memoir Prize for ‘Cold Vein’
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Anne Tonner has won the 2017 Finch Memoir Prize for her manuscript ‘Cold Vein’, an account of her daughter’s battle with anorexia. Judge Maggie Mackellar said Tonner’s memoir had a...
Stella Prize 2017 longlist announced
Tuesday, 7 February 2017
The longlist for the 2017 Stella Prize has been announced. This year’s longlisted titles are: Victoria: The Queen (Julia Baird, HarperCollins) Between a Wolf and a Dog (Georgia Blain, Scribe)...
NZ online children’s books magazine ‘Sapling’ reaches crowdfunding goal
Tuesday, 7 February 2017
A New Zealand online magazine about children’s books has reached its NZ$10,000 (A$9546) crowdfunding goal just over a week into its month-long campaign. The Sapling project is run by Sarah...
Wheelers receive Lifetime Achievement Award from UN tourism agency
Tuesday, 7 February 2017
The United Nations Tourism Organisation has awarded Lonely Planet founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler its annual Lifetime Achievement Award. The Wheelers are the 13th recipient of the award, which is...
Whittaker, Isemonger win ‘Overland’ Judith Wright Poetry Prize
Monday, 6 February 2017
Alison Whittaker and Holly Isemonger have been jointly awarded the 2016 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets. Whittaker won the prize for her poem ‘Many Girls...
Magabala to release teaching resources for Indigenous stories
Monday, 6 February 2017
Indigenous publisher Magabala Books has used a $33,550 grant from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund to create teaching resources for Indigenous stories, to be delivered via the Copyright Agency’s Reading...
WAYRBA 2017 shortlists announced
Friday, 3 February 2017
The shortlists for the 2017 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Picture books Thelma the Unicorn (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic)...
Buck Mulligan’s to host ‘Writers Under the Influence’ author series
Friday, 3 February 2017
Melbourne bar and bookshop Buck Mulligan’s will host a monthly author reading called ‘Writers Under the Influence’, with local writers reading from their favourite authors and their own work. Store...
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