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Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 longlist announced

Tuesday, 18 May 2021
The longlist for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The 12 longlisted novels are: Amnesty (Aravind Adiga, Picador) The Rain Heron (Robbie Arnott, Text) At the...

Brio Books becomes part of Booktopia 

Tuesday, 18 May 2021
Booktopia has announced independent publisher Brio Books will become part of its publishing business. Booktopia will continue publishing books under the Brio imprint as part of its Booktopia Publishing division,...

Melbourne Prize announces new categories

Tuesday, 18 May 2021
The Melbourne Prize Trust has announced two new award categories in the triennial Melbourne Prize for Literature. In addition to the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature, which was won by...

Beijing Book Fair to run as hybrid event

Tuesday, 18 May 2021
This year’s Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), which runs from 25­–29 August, will be held as a hybrid fair, with physical presence limited to Chinese and China-based publishers. International publishers...

Google bans ebooks on Shopping ads 

Monday, 17 May 2021
Google has announced that as of 18 May, the platform will no longer allow the advertising of ebooks on Google Shopping ads. ‘This means that all Shopping ads for digital...

Leilani wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘Luster’

Monday, 17 May 2021
In the UK, American writer Raven Leilani has won the £20,000 (A$36,240) Dylan Thomas Prize for her debut novel Luster (Picador). Luster follows Edie, a young Black woman who begins...

Creative Victoria announces latest VicArts recipients

Monday, 17 May 2021
Several writers and literary projects have been included among the recipients in the latest round of Creative Victoria’s VicArts grants. The program will provide over $2.5 million in funding for...

‘How to Make a Bird’ wins SCBWI Crystal Kite Award

Friday, 14 May 2021
Children’s picture book How to Make a Bird (Meg McKinlay, illus by Matt Ottley, Walker) has won the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards, presented...

NewSouth acquires Foster bushranger history 

Friday, 14 May 2021
NewSouth has acquired world rights to Boundary Crossers: The hidden history of Australia’s other bushrangers by historian Meg Foster. ‘For too long, bushranging has been cast as the exclusive domain of...

Affirm acquires ‘After Australia’ companion anthology 

Thursday, 13 May 2021
Affirm Press will publish Another Australia, a new speculative fiction companion anthology to last year's After Australia, again in partnership with Diversity Arts Australia and the Western Sydney literacy movement Sweatshop....

UK’s CMA clears Bertelsmann’s S&S acquisition

Thursday, 13 May 2021
In the UK, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared Penguin Random House (PRH) owner Bertelsmann’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster (S&S) following an investigation, reports the Bookseller. Bertelsmann...

Fogarty Literary Award shortlist announced

Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Fremantle Press has announced the shortlist for the $20,000 Fogarty Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'The Glass House' by Brooke Dunnell 'A Horse Held at...

EWF 2021 program announced

Wednesday, 12 May 2021
The program for the 2021 Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), running 16–26 June 2021,  has been announced. After being held entirely online in 2020, EWF will in 2021 be a hybrid...

Gilligan wins Ondaatje Prize for ‘The Butchers’

Wednesday, 12 May 2021
In the UK, Ruth Gilligan has won the £10,000 (A$18,000) Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for The Butchers (Atlantic), a literary thriller set in the Irish Borderlands during the 1996...

Andrew Paterson on ‘Rainfish’

Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Andrew Paterson's debut middle-grade novel Rainfish (Text, July) won the 2020 Text Prize. Set in Far North Queensland, the book follows narrator Aaron, who breaks the law to impress an...

Avid Reader shortlisted for LBF Bookstore of the Year

Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Brisbane bookshop Avid Reader has been shortlisted for the bookstore of the year award at the London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence Awards. Avid Reader, which was recently named bookshop...

Shawline Publishing opens The Independent Bookstore 

Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Publishing services provider Shawline Publishing has announced it has opened The Independent Bookstore in Ballarat, Victoria, and plans to open more than 20 new outlets in the next two years....

Brisbane, Byron writers festivals receive RISE funding 

Monday, 10 May 2021
The Brisbane and Byron writers festivals have received funding from the federal government’s Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) fund, as announced in the third round of RISE recipients...

Reece YA novel ‘Mice’ to be adapted for film

Friday, 7 May 2021
Gordon Reece's 2010 young adult novel Mice (A&U) will be adapted into a feature film by Nicole Kidman’s production company Blossom Films and Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories. Mice is a psychological...

Oseman wins YA Book Prize for ‘Loveless’

Friday, 7 May 2021
Alice Oseman has won the Bookseller’s 2021 YA Book Prize for Loveless (HarperCollins), a ‘joyful’ coming out story about a romance-obsessed teenager who realises she is aromantic and asexual. Loveless tells the...

 

 

 

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