ALA finds highest book censorship in 20 years
Monday, 27 March 2023
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has found the highest ever number of attempted book bans were made during the year 2022. ALA has released data showing 1269 demands...
BookTok drives about 3% of UK book sales: Nielsen
Friday, 24 March 2023
Consumers inspired by BookTok accounted for 90 million book purchases in the UK last year, according to Nielsen’s latest Books & Consumers survey, reports the Bookseller. The monthly survey asks...
Auckland Writers Festival reveals 2023 program
Friday, 24 March 2023
Auckland Writers Festival has revealed its full 2023 program, featuring over 25 international guests alongside 200 New Zealand writers across 160 events running 16–21 May. This year’s festival marks the...
Arnott shortlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize
Friday, 24 March 2023
Tasmanian writer Robbie Arnott has been shortlisted for Swansea University's Dylan Thomas Prize, awarded for the best literary work published in English and written by an author aged 39 or...
MWF announces 2023 program
Thursday, 23 March 2023
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced its 2023 program, which will run from 4–7 May 2023 and be held predominately at State Library Victoria (SLV) and the Capitol theatre. Opening...
Buckley, De Marcken win 2022 Novel Prize
Thursday, 23 March 2023
Publishers Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions have announced UK author Jonathan Buckley and US author Anne de Marcken as the joint winners of the 2022 Novel Prize, for their...
ASAL announces pilot fellowship program recipients
Thursday, 23 March 2023
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the recipients of a pilot program of Copyright Agency-funded writers’ fellowships. Luisa Mitchell and Fiona Murphy are the winners...
Mikhail wins Waterstones Children’s Book Prize
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
In the UK, Nadia Mikal has been named the £5000 (A$9160) overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for her debut novel, The Cats We Meet Along the Way...
Baker steps down at OUP, joins Copyright Agency
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Oxford University Press ANZ managing director Arthur Baker has resigned from his role. Baker, who was appointed to the position in 2017, will join the Copyright Agency as director: strategy...
HarperCollins acquires Ringland book on unblocking creativity
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Holly Ringland’s book The House That Joy Built: The pleasure and power of giving ourselves permission to create, via Benython Oldfield of Zeitgeist...
Screen Australia funds ‘Eggshell Skull’ adaptation development
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Screen Australia has announced story development funding for a feature film adaptation of Eggshell Skull (Bri Lee, A&U), as one of 20 projects sharing in $700,000 development funding. Actor Mia...
Jess Racklyeft recommends
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
I am a huge fan of Claire Saxby’s work (I have been honoured to work on the books Iceberg and Whisper on the Wind [both A&U] with her) and recently read Tasmanian...
Jess Racklyeft on Bologna
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft was the winner of one of two Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) International Bologna Scholarships to attend this year’s Bologna Book Fair....
Key hearing for publishers, Internet Archive case due to start
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
In the US, a federal judge was due to hear cross motions for summary judgement in a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Internet Archive’s program to scan and lend...
Hachette Australia acquires Unreich memoir of mother’s Holocaust survival
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired the ANZ rights to A Brilliant Life: My mother’s inspiring story of surviving the Holocaust by Australian journalist Rachelle Unreich. In Australia, Hachette head of literary...
‘Runt’ wins 2023 Indie Book of the Year
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Runt by Craig Silvey (Allen & Unwin) has been named Book of the Year at the 2023 Indie Book Awards. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Horse (Geraldine...
Crismani wins 2023 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship
Monday, 20 March 2023
Wiradjuri writer and filmmaker Edoardo Crismani has been awarded the 2023 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship for the manuscript ‘Finding Billy Brown’ and will be mentored by Wiradjuri author Tara June...
Pantera sells ‘The Deadly Daylight’ to Holiday House
Monday, 20 March 2023
Pantera Press has sold World English rights (excluding ANZ) to Ash Harrier’s The Deadly Daylight to New York-based independent publisher Holiday House. The first Alice England Mysteries book, The Deadly...
AWW 2023 audience ‘informed, provoked and entertained’
Monday, 20 March 2023
The 2023 Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) drew crowds of 17,000 people to the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden from 4–9 March. The event hosted 158 writers and authors across 130 sessions...
Open Book expands to three internships
Monday, 20 March 2023
The Open Book: Australian Publishing Internship program, which ran as a pilot program offering two internships in 2022, has expanded to offer three paid internships this year, with one an...
BookPeople announces 2023 conference program
Friday, 17 March 2023
BookPeople has released a draft of program for its 2023 conference and trade exhibition, to be held on 18-19 June in Adelaide. Keynotes include journalist and author Julia Baird on...
Affirm acquires Ham debut nonfiction ‘The Lucky Ones’
Friday, 17 March 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the debut nonfiction work by journalist and activist Melinda Ham, via Rochelle Fernandez of Alex Adsett Literary. The Lucky Ones is about refugees...
NZ book review website to be launched
Thursday, 16 March 2023
A new book review website, the Aotearoa NZ Review of Books (ANZRB) will be launched on 22 March, according to New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa....
SWF 2023 program announced
Thursday, 16 March 2023
The program for the 2023 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which runs 22–28 May, has been announced. Themed 'Stories for the Future', this year’s SWF is the first to be programmed...
Holland-Batt longlisted for 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize
Thursday, 16 March 2023
Sarah Holland-Batt’s poetry collection The Jaguar (UQP) has been longlisted for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize, worth C$130,000 (A$142,700). The Griffin Poetry Prize is awarded annually for the best collection of poetry...
Vivendi in negotiations to sell Editis
Thursday, 16 March 2023
French media company Vivendi is in exclusive negotiations for the 100% takeover of its subsidiary Editis—France’s second largest publisher—by International Media Invest (IMI), reports the Bookseller. Last year, Vivendi said...
Giramondo sells US, UK rights to Wright titles
Thursday, 16 March 2023
Giramondo has sold international rights to several Alexis Wright books. In North America, New York-based independent press New Directions will publish Alexis Wright's forthcoming novel Praiseworthy (April) and her novel...
Moriarty’s ‘Apples Never Fall’ to be adapted for screen
Thursday, 16 March 2023
Liane Moriarty’s novel Apples Never Fall (Macmillan) will be adapted as a limited series. Apples Never Fall centres on the Delaneys, who appear to be a contented family. Former tennis coaches...
Australian Reading Hour digital event attracts 17,000
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
The 2023 Australian Reading Hour on Thursday 9 March involved more than 250 events across the country. Over 17,000 students watched the The Magic of Storytelling live digital event, held...
Judith Wright Poetry Prize, Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize 2022 winners announced
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Overland has announced the winners of the 2022 Judith Wright Poetry Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Abbra Kotlarczyk has won the $6000 Judith Wright Poetry Prize for outstanding...
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