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Windham-Campbell Prize recipients announced

Tuesday, 23 March 2021
In the US, the recipients of the 2021 Windham-Campbell Prizes, worth US$165,000 (A$213,000) each, have been announced. This year’s recipients are US playwrights Michael R Jackson and Nathan Alan Davis...

Inaugural Poetry Month set for August

Monday, 22 March 2021
Red Room Poetry will present the inaugural Poetry Month in August this year. The program will include daily poetic commissions by high-profile poets, a poetry-meets-songwriting competition, an international First Nations...

Push for EBA at Readings

Monday, 22 March 2021
The Retail and Fast Food Workers Union, representing staff at the Readings bookselling chain in Melbourne requesting an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA), has approached the company to open negotiations for...

Imlah leaves Pan Macmillan 

Monday, 22 March 2021
Picador publisher Mathilda Imlah has left the role to move to Melbourne. Imlah was promoted from commissioning editor at Pan Macmillan to publisher of the Picador imprint in 2017. Before...

Brisbane Writers Festival 2021 program announced

Friday, 19 March 2021
The program for the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which will this year run from Friday 7 May to Sunday, 9 May, has been announced. ‘Starting this year, the First Word...

Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand name change

Friday, 19 March 2021
Hachette New Zealand has announced its name change to Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand. ‘Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand acknowledges the whakapapa of the country we live in and the groundswell of...

Greenaway, Carnegie Medal shortlists announced

Friday, 19 March 2021
In the UK, the shortlists for this year's CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, celebrating outstanding achievement in children’s writing and illustration respectively, have been announced, reports the Bookseller. The works...

Papathanasiou debut novel sells to MacLehose Press

Thursday, 18 March 2021
Transit Lounge has sold world English-language rights (ex North America/ANZ) to Peter Papathanasiou's forthcoming debut novel The Stoning to Katharina Bielenberg at MacLehose Press/Quercus, in a deal brokered by Martin...

Scribd launches in Australia

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
US-based reading subscription service Scribd has launched in Australia. The platform, which charges $13.99 per month for unlimited access, offers access to two million ebooks and over a million audiobook...

Text signs Sheppard in two-book deal 

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to The Brink, the second YA novel by Holden Sheppard, in a two-book deal via Gaby Naher of Left Bank Literary Agency. The Brink follows a...

Lift-off: Non-profit Parachute Press launches in regional Vic

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Parachute Press is a new children’s publisher based in Castlemaine, regional Victoria. Co-founded by award-winning author Martine Murray and artist, ceramicist and musician Anna Read, Parachute Press is described by...

Scribner acquires Hooper’s ‘Bedtime Story’ 

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia’s Scribner imprint has acquired ANZ rights to Bedtime Story, a new work of nonfiction by Chloe Hooper, from Andrew Wylie at The Wylie Agency. When her...

Jacqueline Bublitz on ‘Before You Knew My Name’

Tuesday, 16 March 2021
Jacqueline Bublitz's debut novel Before You Knew My Name (A&U, May) takes the crime fiction trope of a jogger discovering a dead body and turns it on its head. Bublitz's novel...

Madden to deliver BookUp keynote

Tuesday, 16 March 2021
Social researcher Claire Madden will deliver a presentation on future Australian demographic trends as the keynote at the Australian Publisher’s Association’s BookUp conference, which will run online and in-person in...

Vucic awarded 2021 Kat Muscat Fellowship

Monday, 15 March 2021
Dženana Vucic, a Bosnian-Australian writer, editor, critic and 2020 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow, is the recipient of the 2021 Kat Muscat Fellowship, which ‘offers support and development to a...

Egmont rebrands as Farshore

Monday, 15 March 2021
HarperCollins standalone children’s division Egmont Books has rebranded as Farshore. The publisher said the rebrand ‘reflects the company’s mission to make every child a proud reader through a broad and...

Brexit hits UK book orders to EU

Friday, 12 March 2021
Orders from the EU for UK books are down by around 43% since the outbreak of Covid-19 and Brexit, a freight forwarding company has told the IPG International Publishing Forum,...

Penguin Literary Prize 2021 shortlist announced

Penguin Literary Prize logo Friday, 12 March 2021
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize, worth $20,000. The shortlisted writers are: Jane Carrick, for ‘So Far No Father’ Alicia Carter, for ‘Songs...

Wheeler Centre to receive federal Covid funding 

Friday, 12 March 2021
The Wheeler Centre is among four arts organisations who will receive funding under the second batch of the federal government’s $35 million Covid-19 Arts Sustainability Fund, designed to assist significant...

SWF 2021 program announced

Friday, 12 March 2021
The program for the 2021 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) program has been released. The festival, which runs from Monday, 26 April to Sunday, 2 May, will host 231 live events...

 

 

 

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