Victorian independent bookstore Book Bonding up for sale
Thursday, 12 July 2018
The owners of Gisborne-based independent bookshop Book Bonding have put the shop up for sale amid plans to return to Melbourne next year. Husband-and-wife duo Natasha Boyd and Mark Neicho...
Pantera appoints Hirst publisher
Thursday, 12 July 2018
Lex Hirst has joined Pantera Press in the newly created role of publisher. Hirst, who was most recently commissioning editor at Penguin Random House Australia, starts in the new role...
PRH seeks contributions from young writers in children’s anthology
Thursday, 12 July 2018
Penguin Random House is seeking submissions from young writers for a new humorous short story collection, Total Quack Up! (October 2018), edited by children's authors Sally Rippin and Adrian Beck, and...
Over 250 attend EWF National Writers’ Conference; writing prizes, pitching and podcasts discussed
Wednesday, 11 July 2018
More than 250 writers, publishers, performers and guests attended the 2018 Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) National Writers’ Conference, which ran from 23-24 June in Melbourne at the State Library of...
‘Good Reading’ launches podcast
Wednesday, 11 July 2018
Good Reading magazine has launched a new books podcast aimed at helping readers ‘discover [their] next favourite read’. The Good Reading podcast comprises weekly episodes featuring author interviews and book...
Indie Publishing Forums launched
Wednesday, 11 July 2018
A number of Australian book industry organisations have joined together to launch the Indie Publishing Forums, a series of events aimed at small publishers, self-publishers, aspiring writers, established authors, students of publishing...
Ngaio Marsh Award 2018 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 11 July 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Best crime novel Marlborough Man (Alan Carter,...
PRH sells North American rights to 13-year-old slam poet’s debut
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has sold North American rights to Limelight by 13-year-old slam poet Solli Raphael to Andrews McMeel Universal (AMU). AMU executive editor Patty Rice acquired the rights...
Walker Books to publish YA anthology by LGBTQIA+ authors
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to an anthology of YA short stories by LGBTQIA+ Australian authors. Due to be published in June 2019, Kindred: A Queer #LoveOzYA Anthology...
Australian Historical Association 2018 awards announced
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
The Australian Historical Association (AHA) has announced the winners of the 2018 W K Hancock Prize and the Kay Daniels Award. The $2000 W K Hancock prize, which recognises an...
Shortlist announced for National Biography Award 2018
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the 2018 National Biography Award, worth $25,000. The shortlisted works are: Songs of a War Boy (Deng...
‘Nevermoor’ tops Dymocks Kids’ Top 51 list
Monday, 9 July 2018
Dymocks Booklovers members have cast a combined 5500 votes for their favourite children’s book of all time, with Queensland writer Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Lothian) taking...
‘Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts’ and ‘Reported Missing’ win 2018 Gold Ledger Awards
Monday, 9 July 2018
The winners of the 2018 Ledger Awards for excellence in Australian comics and graphic novels were announced in Sydney on 6 July. Two works received Gold Ledger Awards: Giants, Trolls,...
BILBY Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Monday, 9 July 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards—the children’s choice book awards for Queensland—have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Early readers Do...
‘Freedom Swimmer’ optioned for film
Monday, 9 July 2018
Wai Chim’s YA novel Freedom Swimmer (A&U) has been optioned for film by writer and director Ben Ockrent at Micro Productions UK. Agent Brian Cook, of literary agency The Authors’...
McAlinden wins 2018 ‘KYD’ unpublished manuscript award
Monday, 9 July 2018
Literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced Nicole McAlinden as the winner of its 2018 unpublished manuscript award for her manuscript ‘Little Did I Know’. McAlinden receives $5000 and...
Ned Kelly Awards 2018 longlists announced
Friday, 6 July 2018
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the longlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The longlisted titles in each category are: Best crime Marlborough...
Davitt Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Friday, 6 July 2018
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted works in each category are: Adult novel The...
BWF 2018 program announced
Friday, 6 July 2018
The program has been announced for the 2018 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs from 6-9 September. More than 200 writers will appear at the festival, including human rights barrister...
Tsiolkas announced as final judge for The Next Chapter
Friday, 6 July 2018
The Wheeler Centre has announced author Christos Tsiolkas as the final judge for its $150,000 initiative for developing writers, The Next Chapter. Tsiolkas joins previously announced judges Benjamin Law, Maxine...
La Trobe University invests $200,000 in ‘The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka’ adaptation
Thursday, 5 July 2018
La Trobe University has invested $200,000 in a TV series adaptation of Clare Wright's book The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, reports the Age. Money from the university's Strategic Innovation Fund...
Creative Victoria announces VicArts recipients
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Several literary projects and writers have been included among the recipients in the latest round of Creative Victoria’s VicArts Grants. The program will provide over $1.5 million in funding for...
Deo wins 2018 ALS Gold Medal
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Shastra Deo’s debut poetry collection The Agonist (UQP) has won the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal. Deo’s collection was chosen from a shortlist of six that included Peter Carey,...
Wright awarded 2018 Magarey Medal
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Alexis Wright has won the biennial Magarey Medal for Biography for Tracker (Giramondo). Wright’s biography of Aboriginal leader, thinker and entrepreneur Tracker Tilmouth was chosen from a shortlist of five...
UQP sells ‘The Geography of Friendship’ to UK
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold UK and Irish rights to Sally Piper’s The Geography of Friendship and 2014 debut novel Grace’s Table to Legend Press, in a two-book...
Australian Christian Book of the Year 2018 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Australian Christian Book of the Year been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Mr Eternity: The Story of Arthur Stace (Roy Williams & Elizabeth Meyers, Acorn...
Eades wins 2018 Mary Gilmore Award
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Quinn Eades has won the 2018 Mary Gilmore Award for his poetry collection Rallying (UWA Publishing). The award was presented by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) at its...
‘Luminescent Threads’ wins 2018 Locus Award
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
An anthology by Australian speculative-fiction publisher Twelfth Planet Press has won a 2018 Locus Award for science-fiction and fantasy, announced at a ceremony in Seattle, in the US, on 23...
Tucker announced as new Stella executive director
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
The Stella Prize has announced it has appointed Michelle Scott Tucker as its new executive director. Tucker is the author of Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the...
Inaugural Shoalhaven Readers’ & Writers’ Festival announces program
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
A new readers’ and writers’ festival will be held in Nowra, in the Shoalhaven region of the NSW south coast, on Saturday, 4 August 2018. The inaugural one-day festival will...
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