Australia Council publishing delegation to travel to US
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The Australia Council will select a delegation of up to six Australian rights sellers, literary agents and publishers to visit the US in 2018. The New York Publishers Program 2018...
Readings Foundation announces 2018 grant recipients
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The Readings Foundation has chosen 15 Victorian organisations to share in $184,692 worth of grants in 2018. The grant recipients are: Ardoch Youth Foundation: $10,000 to run four writer-in-residence programs...
Splatt selected for Australia Council’s Kolkata publishing residency
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Melbourne-based author and editor Sophie Splatt has been selected for the Australia Council’s inaugural Seagull School of Publishing residency in Kolkata, India. Splatt will travel to Kolkata in January 2018...
New Zealand Book Awards 2018 longlists announced
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The longlists for the 2018 New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles are: Fiction The New Animals (Pip Adam, Victoria University Press) The Beat of the Pendulum...
Attendance up at SPN conference; children’s books a growth area for small publishers
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) sixth Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 16-18 November. With attendance up on last year, SPN general manager Matthia...
Wright named Melbourne Uni’s Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Author Alexis Wright has been appointed as the second Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne, following Richard Flanagan’s inaugural appointment in 2015. The Boisbouvier Chair was...
Hachette Australia announces promotions in publishing division
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Hachette Australia has promoted several of its publishers to newly created roles within the publishing division. Vanessa Radnidge has been promoted to head of nonfiction, and will focus on growing...
Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes 2017 winners announced
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Tasmania Book Prize for best book with Tasmanian content in any...
QWC’s #8WordStory campaign attracts over 10,000 entries
Monday, 27 November 2017
The Queensland Writers Centre’s (QWC) #8WordStory campaign has ‘surpassed all expectations with over 10,000 entries submitted’, the organisation has announced. QWC invited members of the public to the submit stories...
Dark Mofo festival announces new ‘literature, film and ideas’ program
Monday, 27 November 2017
Tasmania’s midwinter festival Dark Mofo will incorporate a new ‘literature, film and ideas’ program into its June 2018 festival. The Dark and Dangerous Thoughts (DDT) program will ‘comprise a curated...
NZ Book Council enlists celebrities for reading campaign
Friday, 24 November 2017
The New Zealand Book Council has selected nine New Zealand celebrities to participate in its new reading campaign. The #ReadToSucceed campaign will run in the lead-up to Christmas and will...
Carter’s ‘Prime Cut’ shortlisted for BBC Audio Drama Award
Friday, 24 November 2017
A radio adaptation of Australian author Alan Carter’s Prime Cut (Fremantle Press) has been shortlisted for a BBC Audio Drama Award. The adaptation was announced in 2016 as part of...
Coleman’s ‘Terra Nullius’ sold to North America
Friday, 24 November 2017
Hachette Australia has sold US and Canadian rights to Claire G Coleman’s debut speculative-fiction novel Terra Nullius to US independent publisher Small Beer Press. Small Beer Press publisher Gavin J...
Deborah Cass Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Friday, 24 November 2017
Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds. The shortlisted writers and their works are: Lur Alghurabi for ‘Letters from...
Fielding to direct Australian Academy of the Humanities arts advocacy program
Friday, 24 November 2017
The Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH) has appointed Kate Fielding as program director of its $1.65m arts advocacy initiative ‘A New Approach’, which aims to champion investment and return...
Alghurabi wins 2017 Scribe Nonfiction Prize
Friday, 24 November 2017
Lur Alghurabi has won the 2017 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers for her entry ‘Letters from the Grave’ . Alghurabi was selected from a shortlist of 12 writers and will...
Welch promoted to group head of PRH NZ
Friday, 24 November 2017
Penguin Random House (PRH) New Zealand sales director Carrie Welch has been promoted to the newly created role of group head of PRH New Zealand. Welch will take on responsibility...
‘Anaesthesia’ wins 2017 Waverley Library Award
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness by Melbourne journalist Kate Cole-Adams (Text) has won the Waverley Council’s Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award for 2017....
‘Their Brilliant Careers’ to publish in the UK in 2018
Thursday, 23 November 2017
UK independent publisher Eye Books will publish Ryan O’Neill’s novel Their Brilliant Careers (Black Inc.) in the UK in April 2018. Editor-at-large Scott Pack said he will present the first...
Laniyuk named ‘Overland’ writer-in-residence
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Melbourne-based writer Laniyuk Garcon-Mills has been selected for the 2017 Overland Writers Residency, which was open to Indigenous writers this year. As part of the three-month residency, Laniyuk, who prefers to...
BILBY Awards 2017 winners announced
Thursday, 23 November 2017
The winners for this year’s Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for Queensland, have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Early...
Pandiella to join Pantera Press
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Anabel Pandiella, marketing and publicity director for Simon & Schuster Australia, will join Pantera Press as its marketing and publicity director. Pandiella will commence the role on 29 January 2018. Pandiella has...
Amazon Australia to begin selling products on Thursday
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Amazon has told its Australian suppliers that it will begin selling products to ‘a small number of customers’ on Thursday 23 November. Amazon said in an email to suppliers: ‘To...
SWF 2018 schools program announced
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced the line-up for the 2018 Primary and Secondary School Days programs, to be held from 2 to 7 May. Former UK children’s laureate,...
Nielsen BookScan to merge trade, academic panels in 2018
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Nielsen BookScan Australia has announced it will merge its trade and academic book sales panels in 2018 ‘in order to report on all print book sales via one complete service’....
Siberry wins HGE Ampersand Prize for middle-grade novel ‘Gloop’
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Lisa Siberry has won Hardie Grant Egmont’s (HGE) Ampersand Prize for an unpublished manuscript for her middle-grade novel ‘Gloop’. ‘Gloop’ is a ‘funny and atmospheric middle-grade mystery’ about 12-year-old science...
Colpoys wins British Book Design Award
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker, designed by Scribe associate art director Allison Colpoys, has won the Best Jacket/Cover Design category at the British Book Design and Production Awards. Colpoys...
ACT Book of the Year 2017 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 ACT Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fighting Fit (Laura Dawes, Orion) Maps of Small Countries (Russell Erwin, Ginninderra...
Stella Prize launches Read Up resource
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
The Stella Prize has launched a series of reading lists for young people aged 15-24 ‘to help guide their thinking about sexuality, relationships, gender, minds and bodies, and diverse cultures’....
Copyright Agency files suit against NSW government
Monday, 20 November 2017
The Copyright Agency has filed a suit against the NSW government before the federal Copyright Tribunal alleging the government owes its members for copying up to 200 million pages of...
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