‘Avoiding the Ageing Parent Trap’ wins AJA 2021 book award
Monday, 8 November 2021
Avoiding the Ageing Parent Trap (Brian Herd, Big Sky) has won the 2021 Australasian Journal on Ageing (AJA) Book Award. Brain Body Food (Ngaire Hobbins, self-published) received an honourable mention....
Woollahra Digital Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Friday, 5 November 2021
The shortlists for the Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Fiction ($2500) Understanding Almost Nothing of the World (James Hughes, Spineless Wonders)...
Kobo, Booktopia launch ebook subscription service
Friday, 5 November 2021
Kobo and Booktopia have launched Kobo Plus, an ebook subscription service available through the 'Booktopia by Rakuten' app and Kobo ereaders. Kobo Plus, which costs $13.99 a month, has a...
Stories we tell: 2022 fiction preview
Thursday, 4 November 2021
New novels from literary heavyweights Alexis Wright, Geraldine Brooks and Dervla McTiernan are among the Australian books releasing next year. Books+Publishing shares a sneak peek at Australian publishers’ 2022 fiction...
Jordan wins 2021 Richell Prize
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Simone Amelia Jordan has won the 2021 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for her memoir manuscript ‘Tell Her She’s Dreamin’’. An Australian journalist, writer, host and media consultant, Jordan founded...
Onus on Australian rights holders to opt out of Internet Archive donation
Thursday, 4 November 2021
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) is alerting Australian authors and publishers that the decision by the National Library of New Zealand (NLNZ) to donate more than 400,000 books to...
NZ Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement 2021 announced
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Creative New Zealand has announced the winners of the 2021 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, worth NZ$60,000 (A$57,634) each. Award-winning poet, fiction writer, screenplay editor and teacher Anne Kennedy...
APA residential editorial program to run in 2022, offer First Nations scholarships
Thursday, 4 November 2021
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced its Residential Editorial Program (REP) will run again in 2022 ‘after two years of COVID delays’. For the first time two scholarships are...
Galgut wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’
Thursday, 4 November 2021
South African author Damon Galgut has won the £50,000 (A$91,830) Booker Prize for his ninth novel The Promise (Chatto & Windus), reports the Bookseller. Galgut’s novel, set in South Africa during the...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Bucheon’s Yong Books
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookstores in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. Today we...
NEWC crowd-funds children’s publishing book
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
The New England Writers' Centre (NEWC) has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for the printing and marketing of Inside Story: the wonderful world of writing, illustrating and publishing...
Hachette acquires Bravery’s ‘The Patient Doctor’
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to ‘part memoir, part manifesto’ The Patient Doctor by cancer survivor turned doctor, Ben Bravery, in a deal brokered by agent Catherine Drayton at...
Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest award shortlist announced
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award for a collection of poems by an Australian woman poet has been announced. The seven shortlisted poets are: Michelle...
Inaugural Speculate Prize shortlist announced
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
The shortlist for the inaugural Speculate Prize, for an unpublished speculative fiction manuscript, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: ‘Let’s Talk Trojan Bee: Stories’ by Alex Cothren ‘The Best...
US DoJ sues to block Bertelsmann’s acquisition of S&S
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has sued to block Penguin Random House (PRH) parent company Bertelsmann’s proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster (S&S), reports Publishers Weekly. The lawsuit, filed...
Souhami, Zaidi win 2021 Polari Prizes
Monday, 1 November 2021
In the UK, writers Diana Souhami and Mohsin Zaidi have won the 2021 Polari Prizes for work that explores the LGBT experience, reports the Bookseller. Souhami won the £2000 (A$3642)...
Speech Pathology 2021 Book of the Year winners announced
Monday, 1 November 2021
The winners of the 2021 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Birth to three years Look, Baby! (Janeen Brian, illus by...
‘The Unforgiven’ wins Cricket Society & MCC Book of the Year
Monday, 1 November 2021
Ashley Gray’s The Unforgiven (Pitch Publishing) has won the Cricket Society and MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) Book of the Year award, presented at a ceremony at Lords Cricket Ground in London on...
Books in the media this weekend
Friday, 29 October 2021
This week’s round-up will be updated as data is available. National The Saturday Paper How to End a Story (Helen Garner, Text) The Magpie Wing (Max Easton, Giramondo) Wild Abandon...
Parliamentary inquiry recommends increased ABS funding, PLR/ELR review, minimum Aus content
Friday, 29 October 2021
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts has released its report on Australia’s cultural and creative industries and the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the...
Books among Victorian Community History Awards winners
Friday, 29 October 2021
The 2021 winners of the Victorian Community History Awards have been announced. The following books were among the winners and commended entries: Judges special prize (joint winners): Under the Rainbow:...
‘Waves Across the South’ wins British Academy Book Prize
Thursday, 28 October 2021
In the UK, Cambridge historian Sujit Sivasundaram has won the £25,000 (A$46,750) British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for Waves Across the South: A new history of revolution...
IBBY Australia names 2022 Honour List selections
Thursday, 28 October 2021
IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Australia has selected writer Vikki Wakfield and artist Philip Bunting for the 2022 IBBY Honour List. Wakefield, who is based in South...
Deborah Cass Prize 2021 shortlist announced
Thursday, 28 October 2021
Writers Victoria and the Deborah Cass Prize Committee have announced the shortlist for the 2021 Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds. The shortlisted works and their authors...
The road not taken: One year on from the 2020 Beatrice Davis Fellowship report
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Following her 2020 Beatrice Davis Fellowship report 'It’s hard to be what you can’t see: Diversity Within Australian Publishing', Radhiah Chowdhury reflects on the experiences of those in the First...
Moriarty, de Kretser, Allende among first AWW guests
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Adelaide Writers' Week (AWW), which runs as part of Adelaide Festival, has announced the first guests for its 2022 festival, to take place 5–10 March at the Pioneer Women’s Memorial...
Bonnier UK to launch ‘disruptive’ new publisher
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
In the UK, Bonnier Books is launching a new ‘independently run, disruptive publisher of literary fiction and narrative nonfiction’, Footnote Press, in partnership with founders Vidisha Biswas and Sujoy Roy,...
WBN published Thursday next week
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
The Weekly Book Newsletter (WBN) will be published on Thursday, 4 November, next week due to the Melbourne Cup public holiday on Tuesday, 2 November The deadline for classifieds and...
A&U acquires debut middle-grade novel ‘A Girl Called Corpse’
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to A Girl Called Corpse: An Elston-Fright tale, the debut middle-grade novel by Reece Carter. The book was acquired by A&U children’s...
Josh Pyke & Ronojoy Ghosh on ‘Family Tree’
Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Singer–songwriter and children's book author Josh Pyke celebrates Australia's diverse and multicultural society in his latest picture book Family Tree (Scholastic, January) with illustrations by Ronojoy Ghosh. Reviewer Romi Sharp said...
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