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‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ wins Audie award

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
The audiobook edition of Heather Morris' novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz (narrated by Richard Armitage, Bolinda, released in the US by HarperAudio) has won the 2019 Audie Award for fiction....

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
The shortlists for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The New Ships (Kate Duignan, Victoria University Press) The Cage...

HarperCollins acquires book on Lawyer X

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Herald Sun reporters Anthony Dowsley and Patrick Carlyon’s book on Lawyer X, who can now be revealed as Nicola Gobbo. On 1 March Gobbo's...

A&U acquires Morris-Marr book on Pell

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to a book by investigative journalist and broadcaster Lucie Morris-Marr, who broke the story in the Herald Sun that Cardinal George Pell...

SLV ‘retires’ Centre for Youth Literature

Tuesday, 5 March 2019
State Library Victoria (SLV) has announced that it will be 'retiring the Centre for Youth Literature sub-brand' and will bring its teen programming under general SLV programming. SLV says that...

Inky Awards 2019 longlists announced

Tuesday, 5 March 2019
The longlists for the 2019 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by State Library Victoria (SLV) for local and international fiction, poetry, anthologies and graphic novels written...

Hogan wins Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2019

Tuesday, 5 March 2019
Writers Victoria has announced that author and academic Eleanor Hogan has been awarded the $15,000 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her proposed biography of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates. Her...

‘From the Earth’ honoured in NYRF visual books competition

Tuesday, 5 March 2019
From the Earth: World’s Great, Rare and Almost Forgotten Vegetables (Peter Gilmore, photography by Brett Stevens, Hardie Grant) has been honoured at the New York Rights Fair’s (NYRF) Talking Pictures:...

Garner honoured for Lifetime Achievement in Literature

Monday, 4 March 2019
Helen Garner has won the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. The Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over...

UNSW academic wins international book award

Monday, 4 March 2019
Robin Derricourt’s Unearthing Childhood: Young Lives in Prehistory (Manchester University Press) has won the Archaeology and Ancient History PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Unearthing Childhood is...

Clunes Booktown Festival 2019 program announced

Friday, 1 March 2019
The program for the 2019 Clunes Booktown Festival, to be held from 4-5 May in Clunes, Victoria, has been announced. Around 25 writers will appear at the festival, including Robbie...

Plunkett receives ABR Patrons’ Fellowship

Friday, 1 March 2019
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced poet and critic Felicity Plunkett as the recipient of its $10,000 ABR Patrons' Fellowship. Plunkett will contribute several articles to ABR over the...

S A Jones’ ‘The Fortress’ sells to US

Friday, 1 March 2019
Natasha Solomun of The Rights Hive has sold North American rights to S A Jones' novel The Fortress to US-based Erewhon Books, a new independent publisher of speculative fiction. The...

Hamad’s ‘White Tears/Brown Scars’ sold to US

Friday, 1 March 2019
North American rights to journalist and academic Ruby Hamad’s forthcoming book White Tears/Brown Scars (MUP) have been sold via auction to US publisher Catapult. Rachel Crawford at MacKenzie Wolf sold...

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced

Thursday, 28 February 2019
The shortlists for the 2019 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) Man Out of Time (Stephanie...

‘Penguin Bloom’ adaptation receives Screen Australia funding

Thursday, 28 February 2019
A feature film adaptation of Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive's nonfiction book Penguin Bloom (ABC Books) has received production funding from Screen Australia. Set on Sydney's Northern Beaches, Penguin...

Amazon Australia creates 500 permanent jobs after criticism of casual workforce

Thursday, 28 February 2019
Amazon will create 500 permanent jobs in its Australian fulfilment centres following criticism about the insecure casual employment of its labour hire workers, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. The permanent...

Affirm focuses on children’s/YA manuscripts in 2019 mentorship award

Thursday, 28 February 2019
This year’s Affirm Press Mentorship Award will focus exclusively on young adult and middle-grade fiction submissions, says the publisher. Writers of the three winning submissions will receive a week-long residency...

CBCA 2019 Notable Books announced

Wednesday, 27 February 2019
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its list of Notable Books for 2019. The books in each category are: Older readers Between Us (Clare Atkins, Black Inc.)...

‘Cardinal’ available in Victoria after suppression order lifts

Wednesday, 27 February 2019
After court suppression orders relating to the trial of Cardinal George Pell were lifted yesterday, 26 February, ABC journalist Louise Milligan’s book Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell...

Overland announces Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize shortlist

Wednesday, 27 February 2019
The shortlist for Overland’s Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize for travel-themed short fiction has been announced. The shortlisted entries are: ‘Kátharsis’ (George Haddad) ‘Folie à Deux’ (Mairead O’Neill) ‘Paper boats’ (Angela...