Five Islands Press to wind up
Friday, 14 September 2018
Specialist poetry publisher Five Islands Press has announced the company will wind up in 2020. The small press announced last week that it is no longer accepting new manuscripts, and...
Harry Hartog to open stores in SA, QLD and campus store at ANU
Friday, 14 September 2018
Bookselling chain Harry Hartog plans to open stores at Glenside in South Australia, Maroochydore in Queensland and Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, bringing its total number of stores to...
Dymocks launches education business Potentia
Thursday, 13 September 2018
Australian bookselling chain Dymocks has launched a new education business called Potentia. Potentia will run tutoring programs for school students across a broad range of subjects including maths and English....
Three book companies make the 2018 Top 500 list
Thursday, 13 September 2018
Three Australian book industry companies have made the Top 500 Private Companies List, reports the Australian Financial Review (AFR). Book retailer The Co-Op and Australian Geographic ranked 330th, slightly down from last...
NZ author Salmond shortlisted for UK Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
New Zealand author Anne Salmond’s Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds (Auckland University Press) has been shortlisted for the British Academy’s 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize. Salmond's book examines the early encounters...
Dennis Jones & Associates: staff owed $170,000, secured creditor owed $250,000
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
The liquidators of Dennis Jones & Associates (DJA) held a creditors’ meeting in Melbourne on Monday, 10 September. Liquidators Scott Howell and Steven Kugel from The Insolvency Experts told the Melbourne...
Melbourne Prize for Literature finalists announced
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
Finalists have been announced for this year's Melbourne Prize for Literature, as well as the Best Writing Award and the Readings Residency Award. The finalists for the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for...
Australian publishers report interest in parenting, children’s titles in Beijing
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
Independent Australian publishers attending the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), running from 22-26 August, have reported interest in the categories of children's, parenting, and education. Ventura Press director Jane Curry...
MWF reports ‘strongest first day’ in ticket sales; Boochani tops bestseller chart
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
This year's Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which ran from 24 August to 2 September, attracted audiences that were 'excited by the fresh offer' of a more performance-based program, according to festival...
Writers, literary orgs among latest OzCo funding recipients
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
Twenty-nine writers and literary organisations are among the recipients of the latest Australia Council grants round, which awarded $6.3 million to more than 200 projects. Grants in the literary category...
Harper wins Barry Award for Best First Novel
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
Jane Harper has won the Barry Award for Best First Novel for her 2017 novel The Dry (Pan). The annual literary crime awards, named for American critic and crime fiction...
Lush announced as SWF head of children’s & YA programs
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
The Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) has appointed Amelia Lush as its new head of children's and YA programs. Lush has been a children's and YA bookseller in Sydney for 10...
McLean’s debut mystery novel sold in four territories
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
Australian author Felicity McLean’s forthcoming debut novel The Van Apfel Girls are Gone (HarperCollins, April 2019) has been sold in four territories, including to Algonquin Books in North America and...
Orr, Groth named as finalists in Canadian children’s book awards
Monday, 10 September 2018
Two Australian authors are among the finalists of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s (CCBC) children’s book awards. Dragonfly Song (A&U) by Canadian-born Australian author Wendy Orr has been shortlisted for the...
Jackson-Bourke named inaugural Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence
Monday, 10 September 2018
Auckland-based playwright Leki Jackson-Bourke has been announced as the inaugural Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence. Run by the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) at Victoria University of Wellington, the...
Hunter wins $10,000 for 2018 ACU poetry prize
Monday, 10 September 2018
Australian Catholic University (ACU) has announced Castlemaine-based poet Annie Hunter as the winner of the 2018 ACU Prize for Poetry, worth $10,000, for her poem ‘Athene noctua’. Judge Chris Wallace-Crabbe...
Over 30,000 take part in ILD; Fill a Bookshelf campaign raises over $51,000
Friday, 7 September 2018
Over 30,000 students, libraries and other organisations have taken part in the Great Book Swap campaign for Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD), held this year on 5 September. The Indigenous Literacy...
Subbed In 2018 Chapbook Prize finalists announced
Friday, 7 September 2018
The finalists for the 2018 Subbed In Chapbook Prize have been announced. The 14 manuscripts selected as finalists are: ‘Plunge the Mirkwood’ (Sumudu Samarawickrama) ‘Unicorns with Unibrows’ (Brianna Bullen) ‘Friends...
Australian Centre Literary Awards 2018 winners announced
Friday, 7 September 2018
The winners of the University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre Literary Awards have been announced. Wesley Michel Wright Prize ($4000) On the Outskirts (John Kinsella, UQP) Commended: Towards Light & Other...
Clan Destine Press acquires Ngaio Marsh winner
Friday, 7 September 2018
Clan Destine Press has acquired world (ex NZ) rights to Australian-born New Zealand-based author Jennifer Lane's debut novel All Our Secrets (Rosa Mira Books NZ). All Our Secrets recently won the...
Copyright Agency awards Create grants to five writers
Friday, 7 September 2018
Five writers and one visual artist have received Create grants, worth a total of $105,000, from the Copyright Agency. The grants went to the following writers: Peggy Frew ($20,000) Jennifer Mills...
RMIT students to host 2018 Odyssey Literary Festival on genre
Thursday, 6 September 2018
Students from RMIT University’s Professional Writing and Editing program will host the Odyssey Literary Festival in Melbourne on 13 September. This year’s festival, which is held at RMIT's Kaleide Theatre,...
New short story prize launched for adults writing for children
Thursday, 6 September 2018
Australian children’s literature electronic magazine Buzz Words has launched a new short story prize for adults writing for children. The Buzz Words Short Story Prize ‘celebrates excellence in short story writing...
CHASS Australia Book Prize 2018 longlist announced
Thursday, 6 September 2018
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the longlist for the 2018 Australia Book Prize. The prize, worth $3500, is part of the CHASS Australia...
Writers Vic to launch digital writers-in-residence program for carers in 2019
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
Writers Victoria will launch a new digital writers-in-residence program for carers in 2019, after it received an arts grant from the City of Melbourne in its recent funding round. The...
Melbourne writers, literary organisations receive council arts grants
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
Several writers and literary organisations have received a share of more than $830,000 in funding from the City of Melbourne as part of its annual arts grants program. Writers Victoria...
Ford’s ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ optioned for TV
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
Clementine Ford's forthcoming Boys Will Be Boys: An Exploration of Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship (Allen & Unwin, October) has been optioned for television by Perth-based production company Metamorflix. Rights were...
‘Birth of the Plantagenets’ series optioned for screen
Tuesday, 4 September 2018
Five historical novels in Blanche d'Alpuget's ‘Birth of the Plantagenets’ series (Ventura) have been optioned for television/film by Ironbark Media. Rights were sold via Jeanne Ryckmans at the Cameron Creswell...
Richell Prize 2018 longlist announced
Tuesday, 4 September 2018
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival have announced the longlist for the 2018 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The longlisted works are: ‘She Is Bright Light and All Brilliance’...
City of Fremantle extends support and increases prize money for T A G Hungerford Award
Tuesday, 4 September 2018
The City of Fremantle has renewed its sponsorship of the T A G Hungerford Award, a biennial prize recognising the first full-length, unpublished work of fiction or creative nonfiction by an...
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