CBCA Book of the Year 2020 winners announced
Friday, 16 October 2020
The winners of the 2020 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles and honour books in each category are: Older...
Varuna announces recipients of 2021 Residency Fellowships
Friday, 16 October 2020
Varuna, the Writers House, has announced the recipients of the 2021 Varuna Residency Fellowships. The writers and their projects are: The Mick Dark flagship fellowship Rachael Mead, for her literary...
Missingham to deliver keynote as SPN annual conference goes online
Friday, 16 October 2020
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced that Sam Missingham, founder of the UK-based marketing agency The Empowered Author, will be the keynote speaker at its 2020 Independent Publishing Conference,...
Deacon in the running for US award
Friday, 16 October 2020
Australian writer Desley Deacon is in the running for the US Theatre Library Association’s 2020 George Freedley Memorial Award. Deacon’s book Judith Anderson: Australian Star First Lady of the American...
Davies, Al-Kadhi win 2020 Polari Prizes
Friday, 16 October 2020
In the UK, writers Kate Davies and Amrou Al-Kadhi have won the 2020 Polari Prizes for work that explores the LGBT experience, reports the Bookseller. Davies won the £2000 (A$3640) Polari...
Arnott wins inaugural $30,000 Hedberg residency
Friday, 16 October 2020
Robbie Arnott has won the inaugural University of Tasmania Hedberg Writer-in-Residence Program. Arnott said the program, which carries a stipend of $30,000, would give him the time and space needed...
PRH acquires Edgar’s ‘The Coffin Confessor’
Thursday, 15 October 2020
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to The Coffin Confessor by ‘funeral crasher’ Bill Edgar. Edgar's memoir was acquired by PRH commissioning editor Brandon VanOver, who said...
Walkley Book Award 2020 longlist announced
Thursday, 15 October 2020
The Walkley Book Award longlist for 2020 has been announced. The longlisted titles are: After the Count (Stephanie Convery, Viking) City On Fire (Antony Dapiran, Scribe) Hazelwood (Tom Doig, Viking)...
Study finds CBCA early childhood category shortlisted books overwhelmingly white
Thursday, 15 October 2020
A study of books shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year Award in the early childhood category since 2001 has found that only 12% of human main characters in...
Ned Kelly Awards 2020 winners announced
Thursday, 15 October 2020
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners of this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The winning works and authors in each category are: Best...
New $10k Albert Ullin Award for children’s book creators
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
The Victorian branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) will administer a new $10,000 award for children's book creators, established with a bequest from the late Albert Ullin,...
HarperCollins acquires Benns’s ‘The Dying Diplomats’ Club’
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to The Dying Diplomats’ Club, a ‘Nick and La Contessa novel’ written by the Daily Telegraph editor-at-large Matthew Benns. Benns began the serialised mystery novel Dangerous...
Meet UQP rights and contracts manager Kate McCormack
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
In the lead up to this year's virtual Frankfurt Book Fair, Books+Publishing’s sister publication Think Australian profiled UQP rights and contract manager Kate McCormack about her rights list and how Covid-19 has...
BookUp: APA announces online panels
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
The Australian Publishers Association (APA), which in March postponed its planned one-day BookUp conference due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will instead present a series of online panel and conversation sessions...
Celebrating in a pandemic: Thames & Hudson Australia turns 50
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
Several publishers had big plans for significant birthdays this year, until Covid came along. In the second of a series of birthday profiles, we hear about 50 years of Thames...
Christmas buyers’ picks: the Booktopia team
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
In the lead-up to Christmas 2020, Books+Publishing is asking book buyers across the country to share which titles they’re investing in for the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar....
ABA, APA launch #ShopEarly #ShopLocal Christmas campaign
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) have partnered on a new campaign encouraging Australians to do their Christmas shopping early 'to avoid disappointment when shopping...
Morton to edit ‘Growing Up in Country Australia’
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Black Inc. has announced the latest addition to its 'Growing Up' nonfiction anthology series, Growing Up in Country Australia, to be edited by journalist Rick Morton. Morton is the Saturday Paper's...
Lucas-Pennington wins 2020 Nakata Brophy prize
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Grace Lucas-Pennington has won the 2020 Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Superposition’. Lucas-Pennington receives $5000 and a three-month writing residence at Trinity College at the...
Deborah Cass Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
The shortlist for Writers Victoria’s Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds has been announced. The shortlisted works and their authors are: ‘Oluwale, My God Has Come Home’...
Bad Sydney Crime Writers Fest in-person program announced
Monday, 12 October 2020
The full program for the 2020 Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival, which will run in-person on 7–8 November at the State Library of NSW, has been announced. Festival guests appearing...
Australia Reads campaign to host live YouTube events
Monday, 12 October 2020
Australia Reads will host a series of live YouTube events as part of this year’s campaign, which runs from 1–12 November. Australia Reads will broadcast its main event at 12.30pm...
Audible partners with arts bodies for new Australian content
Monday, 12 October 2020
Audiobook publisher Audible has partnered with Create NSW and Screen NSW to offer a new $240,000 podcast opportunity. The Frequency program will ‘support the development of up to eight new...
Glück awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature
Friday, 9 October 2020
American poet Louise Glück has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature, reports Publishers Weekly. Glück was named winner at a ceremony at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on...
Word for Word nonfiction festival 2020 program launched
Friday, 9 October 2020
The Word for Word National Nonfiction Festival has launched its 2020 program. The event, which usually runs in Geelong, Victoria, will this year take place online due to Covid-19 restrictions....
Booktopia set for December IPO: report
Friday, 9 October 2020
Online bookseller Booktopia is planning for an initial public offering (IPO) in December, reports the Australian. According to the Australian, Booktopia was holding early investor education meetings earlier this month,...
Pan Mac UK sells Jaku’s memoir in 22 languages
Friday, 9 October 2020
Pan Macmillan UK has sold rights in 22 languages to Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku’s memoir The Happiest Man on Earth, with ‘multi-publisher auctions in many territories’, reports the Bookseller. Pan...
Bragg Prize for Science Writing 2020 shortlist announced
Thursday, 8 October 2020
The shortlist for this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘True Grit’ by Ceridwen Dovey (Wired) ‘Case of the missing frogs’...
Affirm acquires Rees children’s book
Thursday, 8 October 2020
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a children’s book by ABC children’s television presenter Jimmy 'Giggle' Rees, via Red Mgmt. Rees’s debut, to be illustrated by Briony Stewart, will...
Hachette acquires Wilson picture book series
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a ‘funny and heartfelt’ picture book series by Australian comic actress Rebel Wilson. The ‘Bella the Brave’ series, to be published in hardback...
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