New FNAWN writers residency, masterclasses
Thursday, 29 July 2021
The First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) has developed a new writers residency with the Regional Council of Goyder in South Australia. Due to current recent and ongoing Covid-19 lockdowns,...
MWF 2021 full program launched
Thursday, 29 July 2021
The program for the 2021 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which will run from 3–12 September, has been announced. In its 35th year, MWF will bring together celebrated figures in fiction,...
RAFFWU reports in principle agreement with BRTD
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
Better Read Than Dead (BRTD) management and members of the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) at the Newtown bookshop have reached an in principle agreement following union members’...
Ned Kelly Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Ned Kelly Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best crime fiction Consolation (Garry Disher, Text)...
QBD Books to open new WA store
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
QBD Books has announced it will be opening a new store in the Perth suburb of Midland. The new store is part of QBD's plan to continue its national expansion,...
Christmas in July: children’s and YA
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
Last week Books+Publishing brought you a round up of Australian publishers' top adult titles releasing time for Christmas 2021. Here are their children's and young adult picks. Picture books Scholastic’s...
Diana Reid on ‘Love & Virtue’
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
Diana Reid's debut novel Love & Virtue (Ultimo, October) explores feminism, power and sex through the lives of two young women at an Australian university. Reviewer Georgia Brough calls Love &...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Quebec’s Librairie Hannenorak
Wednesday, 28 July 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. In 2009,...
New Collins store Our Bookshop to open in Hawksburn
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
Collins Booksellers has announced the establishment of Our Bookshop in Hawksburn, Melbourne. The new store will be located in the former premises of My Bookshop, which owner Corrie Perkin recently...
NT Writers Fest launches 2021 program, new residency for NT writers
Tuesday, 27 July 2021
The program for the 2021 NT Writers Festival (NTWF), which will be held at the Olive Pink Botanic Garden in Mparntwe/Alice Springs from 26–29 August, has been announced. Storytellers from...
Taylor, Wasley receive 2022 KSP residencies
Tuesday, 27 July 2021
The Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP) Writers’ Centre in the Perth Hills has announced Josephine Taylor as its 2022 Emerging Writer-in-Residence and Sasha Wasley as its Established Writer-in-Residence. KSP’s residency program...
Booker Prize 2021 longlist announced
Tuesday, 27 July 2021
The longlist for the 2021 Booker Prize has been announced. The 13 books longlisted for the £50,000 (A$93,600) prize are: A Passage North (Anuk Arudpragasam, Granta) Second Place (Rachel Cusk,...
Mary Gilmore Award 2021 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 27 July 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Mary Gilmore Award, for the best first book of poetry published in the previous year, has been announced. The shortlisted books are: Cadaver Dog (Luke...
Scholastic sales down 13%
Monday, 26 July 2021
Scholastic has reported a 13% drop in sales for the year ending 31 May. Revenue declined US$186.8 million (A$253.6m) to US$1.3 billion (A$1.76b), due to lower sales through Scholastic’s book...
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival and Writing WA announce partnership festival
Monday, 26 July 2021
Writing WA and the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) have announced a partnership to bring the literary festival to Perth. The inaugural Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Perth will...
Davitt Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Monday, 26 July 2021
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the shortlists for the 2021 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The titles shortlisted in each category are: Adult crime...
Furphy Literary Award 2021 shortlists announced
Friday, 23 July 2021
The shortlists for this year’s Furphy Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted stories and writers in the open category are: ‘in vitro’ by Christine Fontana ‘Oranges’ by Thomas Alan...
Wakefield acquires Bellamy memoir ‘that perfectly suits our times’
Friday, 23 July 2021
Wakefield Press has acquired world rights to a memoir about mental illness, queerness and Jewish identity by Archer online editor Roz Bellamy. Mood, which was longlisted for the Kill Your...
Welbeck to establish Sydney subsidiary in Booktopia partnership
Friday, 23 July 2021
Welbeck Publishing Group (WPG), the UK-based company established by former Quarto Group CEO Marcus Leaver and former Bonnier Zaffre CEO Mark Smith, has announced it will establish a new standalone...
Scarlet Stilettos offer record prize money in 2021
Thursday, 22 July 2021
Sisters in Crime Australia's annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards are offering a record $11,910 in prize money this year. The competition, for short crime and mystery stories by women writers, has...
Affirm acquires Cox’s ‘So Many Beats of the Heart’
Thursday, 22 July 2021
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a novel by Perth-based journalist Carrie Cox via Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. So Many Beats of the Heart is ‘a wonderfully...
S&S acquires two McAlister rom-coms
Thursday, 22 July 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to two adult novels by Jodi McAlister, author of the YA series 'Valentine', via Alex Adsett from Alex Adsett Literary....
Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize 2021 shortlist announced
Thursday, 22 July 2021
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The shortlisted works and their authors are: 'The Enemy Asyndeton' by Camilla Chaudhary (NSW) 'A...
Christmas in July
Wednesday, 21 July 2021
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers' top local adult titles releasing in time for Christmas 2021. Literary highlights Hannah Kent’s hotly anticipated third novel Devotion (Picador, November), set in 19th-century South...
QBD Books named finalist in 2021 National Retail Awards
Wednesday, 21 July 2021
QBD Books is a finalist in the 2021 National Retail Awards for the title of Large Retailer of the Year. The Brisbane-based book retailer said in a statement that despite...
Simpson wins 2021 ALS Gold Medal for ‘Song of the Crocodile’
Wednesday, 21 July 2021
Nardi Simpson has won the 2021 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for Song of the Crocodile (Hachette). Song of the Crocodile is Simpson's debut novel, and was the winner...
NZ publishers, authors call for National Library to overturn agreement with Internet Archive
Wednesday, 21 July 2021
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc and the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) have criticised a decision...
Annie Raser-Rowland on ‘Let’s Eat Weeds!’
Tuesday, 20 July 2021
Annie Raser-Rowland is a Melbourne-based horticulturalist and artist. She is the co-author (with Adam Grubb) of Let's Eat Weeds (Scribble, September), a guidebook for young readers on which weeds are...
Ngaio Marsh Awards 2021 finalists announced
Tuesday, 20 July 2021
The finalists for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Awards for New Zealand crime, mystery or thriller writing have been announced. The titles longlisted in the best novel category are: The Stone...
PRH acquires Yu debut novel and essay collection
Tuesday, 20 July 2021
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired Australian rights to a debut novel and collection of essays from Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, in a four-way auction. The deal was struck between...
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