Griffith Review announces Long and the Short of It competition winners
Tuesday, 13 July 2021
Griffith Review has announced the recipients of its inaugural emerging voices writing competition. The four winning writers share in $15,000, courtesy of the Copyright Agency's cultural fund. The winners are:...
Kovats appointed Hachette head of sales
Monday, 12 July 2021
Lil Kovats has been promoted to head of sales at Hachette Australia, effective immediately. In the role, Kovats will lead the sales team, represent the sales department to the publisher’s...
US print book sales up 18.5% in first half of 2021
Monday, 12 July 2021
In the US, print book unit sales were up 18.5% in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2020, reports Publishers Weekly. All the major...
Text Prize 2021 shortlist announced
Monday, 12 July 2021
The shortlist for the $10,000 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been announced. The seven shortlisted manuscripts are: 'Dancing Barefoot’ by Alice Boyle (YA), a story about...
Nour, Barnette awarded Affirm Press Mentorships for Sweatshop Writers
Monday, 12 July 2021
Affirm Press and Sweatshop have announced the recipients of the second round of the Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers. The recipients of the 2021 mentorships are African American writer...
Bancroft named inaugural SLNSW Aboriginal Creative fellow
Friday, 9 July 2021
Bundjalung writer and artist Bronwyn Bancroft is the inaugural recipient of Create NSW’s State Library of NSW (SLNSW) NSW Aboriginal Creative Fellowship, worth $30,000. The fellowship supports a First Nations...
Aurealis Awards 2020 winners announced
Friday, 9 July 2021
The winners of the 2020 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. The winners are: Best horror novel None Shall Sleep (Ellie...
Online Storytime pilot extended, awarded $30,000 funding
Friday, 9 July 2021
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced its Online Storytime pilot will be extended by a further 12 months to December 2022, with the Australia Council providing $30,000...
US author Choi wins £30k Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award
Friday, 9 July 2021
US author Susan Choi has won the £30,000 ($A55,665) 2021 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award for her ‘luminous’ story ‘Flashlight’, reports the Bookseller. ‘Flashlight’ follows a 10-year-old girl who...
US supply chain struggles with high costs, service disruptions
Thursday, 8 July 2021
In the US, the book industry supply chain is struggling under the challenges of truck driver shortages, widespread port congestion and skyrocketing container costs, according to a Book Industry Study...
Tablo launches traditional publishing imprint
Thursday, 8 July 2021
Online self-publishing platform Tablo Publishing is launching a new physical book imprint called Tablo Tales, led by Tablo creative director Jemma Birrell. Distributed in Australia and New Zealand by NewSouth,...
West awarded 2021 Reading Australia Fellowship
Thursday, 8 July 2021
The Copyright Agency has named Edwina West, from Sydney’s Oakhill College, as the 2021 Reading Australia Fellow for Teachers of English Literacy. West receives a grant of $15,000, which will...
New owner for the Turning Page Bookshop
Wednesday, 7 July 2021
The Turning Page Bookshop, an independent bookshop in the Blue Mountains NSW, has been purchased by Peggy Miedlar. Previous owners Annie Sharkey and Alan Crooks had planned to transform the...
Four Centres Emerging Writers Publishing Program second round announced
Wednesday, 7 July 2021
Fremantle Press has announced the Four Centres Emerging Writers Publishing Program has received government funding for a further two years, following a successful pilot program. The initiative between Fremantle Press,...
Poppy Nwosu on ‘Road Tripping with Pearl Nash’
Wednesday, 7 July 2021
Road Tripping with Pearl Nash (Wakefield, September) is Poppy Nwosu's third romantic novel for young adults. It follows protagonist Pearl Nash on a road trip during the summer holidays before...
August reviews round-up
Wednesday, 7 July 2021
Several highly regarded debut works of fiction coming in August feature millennial protagonists, including Allee Richards’ VPLA Unpublished Manuscript Prize–shortlisted Small Joys of Real Life, which reviewer Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen...
‘Ginnie & Pinney, Learn & Grow’ series optioned for TV
Wednesday, 7 July 2021
Big Sky Publishing’s educational children's series Ginnie & Pinney, Learn & Grow has been optioned for development as a television series by Australian animation studio Moody Street Productions. Created by...
Samantha Rutter on founding new publisher Storytorch during Covid
Wednesday, 7 July 2021
After crowdfunding a successful 2020 children’s book, author Samantha Rutter sought a way to ‘pay it forward’ through a new publishing house focused on celebrating community. She tells Books+Publishing about...
Booktopia restructures marketing team
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
Booktopia has restructured its marketing division following recent changes to the business—including its ASX listing and the acquisition of tertiary retailer the Co-op—as well the growth of its Booktopia Publisher...
Griffith Review announces emerging voices competition longlist
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
Griffith Review has announced the longlist for its inaugural emerging voices writing competition. The longlisted writers are: Claire Aman Brendan Colley Sonja Dechian Nicholas Duddy Declan Fry Alison Gibbs Lucas...
ACT Book of the Year 2020 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
The shortlist for the 2020 ACT Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted books are: Acting Like a Girl (Sandra Renew, Recent Work Press) Bodies of Men...
New indie bookshop for Perth’s western suburbs
Monday, 5 July 2021
Open Book, a new independent bookshop, is opening in Mosman Park, Perth. The shop is situated on the main street of Mosman Park in a space that was previously a...
Centre for Stories announces Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Fellowship
Monday, 5 July 2021
Perth's Centre for Stories has announced a new fellowship, the Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Fellowship for Writers. Open to mid-career writers under the age of 40, the annual fellowship is awarded to...
‘A Kind of Spark’ wins Waterstones Children’s Book Prize
Friday, 2 July 2021
In the UK, Scottish author Elle McNicoll has won the overall £5000 (A$9215) Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for her debut novel A Kind of Spark (Knights of Media), reports the...
INSPIRE Writer in Residence initiative recipients 2021
Friday, 2 July 2021
The recipients of the 2021 INSPIRE Writer in Residence initiative, offered by the National Trust of Western Australia in partnership with the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries,...
Overington appointed literary editor at the Australian
Friday, 2 July 2021
Caroline Overington has been appointed literary editor at the Australian newspaper. Overington is a Walkley Award winning journalist and the author of several books of nonfiction, including Davitt Award-winner Last...
Robotham wins CWA Steel Dagger
Friday, 2 July 2021
Michael Robotham has won the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award for best thriller for his novel When She Was Good (Hachette). The judges praised Robotham’s...
Regional NSW literary festivals report success, StoryFest becomes biennial
Thursday, 1 July 2021
StoryFest 2021 was held on the South Coast of NSW between 18–20 June. In its second year, the festival invited readers and writers to the Milton-Mollymook-Ulladulla region for a weekend...
Sri Lankan writer D’Almeida wins overall Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Thursday, 1 July 2021
Sri Lankan writer Kanya D’Almeida has been named the overall winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story ‘I Cleaned The—'. D’Almeida’s story is about “‘dirty work’:...
‘The Animals in that Country’ shortlisted for Arthur C Clarke Award
Thursday, 1 July 2021
In the UK, The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay (Scribe) has been shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction. McKay’s novel, which won the...
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