Shawline Publishing opens The Independent Bookstore Archive
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....
Kellow elected APA president, new committee members elected Archive
Monday, 10 May 2021
Ultimo Press managing director James Kellow has been elected president of the Australian Publishers Association (APA). Kellow, who was elected at the APA’s AGM in April, replaces Oxford University Press...
Brisbane, Byron writers festivals receive RISE funding Archive
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 Archive
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...
Authors announced for Queenscliffe, Northern Beaches literary festivals Archive
Friday, 7 May 2021
Nearly 30 authors will appear at the inaugural Northern Beaches Readers Festival (NBRF), which will run at the Avalon Recreation Centre in NSW from 17–19 September. Michael Robotham and Judy...
Oseman wins YA Book Prize for ‘Loveless’ Archive
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...
Over 100 attend first BookUp, APA welcomes feedback on diversity and inclusion Archive
Thursday, 6 May 2021
After first being announced in late 2019 and cancelled in 2020, replaced with a series of online sessions, the Australian Publishing Association’s (APA) inaugural in-person BookUp conference was held in...
Lahiri, Nelson, Dabiri announced as first guests for MWF 2021 Archive
Thursday, 6 May 2021
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), to run from 3–12 September, has announced the first guests for its 2021 event, which will include a mix of digital and in-person sessions. Pulitzer...
Knight to retire from ADS Archive
Thursday, 6 May 2021
Phill Knight will retire as distribution director of Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) after more than 20 years in the role. Knight will step down in early January 2022, which allows...
50 years of publishing in Australia: Hachette looks back Archive
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Hodder & Stoughton was incorporated in Australia on 2 April 1971. On this, the 50th anniversary of the company’s permanent roots in Australia, Hachette Australia & New Zealand CEO Louise...
MWF 2021 schools program announced Archive
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
The schools program for the 2021 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has been announced. The primary school program, which will run 6 and 7 September, features Australian Children’s Laureate Ursula Dubosarsky;...
June reviews round-up Archive
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Winter 2021 yields new fiction from seasoned authors, including Briohny Doyle’s third book Echolalia, Kate Liston-Mills’s Dear Ibis, the follow-up to her 2017 collection The Waterfowl are Drunk! and Michael...
Sophie Overett on ‘The Rabbits’ Archive
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Sophie Overett's debut novel The Rabbits (Vintage, July), winner the 2020 Penguin Literary Prize, is a magic realist family saga centred around Delia Rabbit, a mother dealing with trauma from her...
Briggs awarded 2021 Janet Mackenzie Medal Archive
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Edwin (Ted) Briggs as the recipient of the second annual Janet Mackenzie Medal. The award, which honours the late founding member of...
Mascara announces new residency Archive
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Mascara Literary Review, in partnership with the Bundanon Trust, has announced the creation of the Mascara Bundanon Writer’s Residency. The residency, which is now open for submissions, is for First...
Thaker awarded 2021 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship Archive
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Torres Strait Islander storyteller Lenora Thaker has won the 2021 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship. Thaker is the first Torres Strait Islander writer to win the Boundless Indigenous Mentorship, which was launched in...
Push for EBA at Better Read Than Dead Archive
Monday, 3 May 2021
The Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU), representing staff at the independent Sydney bookshop Better Read Than Dead requesting an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA), has approached bookshop management to...
‘Now That I See You’ wins 2021 Vogel Archive
Monday, 3 May 2021
Now That I See You by Canberra author Emma Batchelor is the winner of this year's $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age...
Shortlist announced for £40k Wolfson History Prize Archive
Monday, 3 May 2021
In the UK, the shortlist for the £40,000 (A$76,200) Wolfson History Prize shortlist has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Survivors: Children’s lives after the Holocaust (Rebecca Clifford, Yale University Press)...
Day wins 2021 Nature Writing Prize Archive
Friday, 30 April 2021
Gregory Day has won the 2021 Nature Writing Prize for his work 'The Watergaw'. Dave Witty was highly commended for 'The Lone Tree of Mackay', and Michael Bradley received an...
Vogel Award 2021 shortlist announced, winner announced today Archive
Friday, 30 April 2021
The shortlist has been announced for the 2021 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under the age of 35. The three titles on this year’s shortlist are:...
Lagardère makes ‘peace agreement’ between shareholders Archive
Friday, 30 April 2021
In France, Hachette Livre parent company Lagardère has confirmed the group’s transformation into a joint-stock company as part of a ‘peace agreement’ to end all legal disputes between shareholders, reports...
Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 shortlist announced Archive
Thursday, 29 April 2021
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. Now in its 26th year, the £30,000 (A$53,600) prize is presented annually to the best...
Crawford’s ‘No Document’ sells to US Archive
Thursday, 29 April 2021
North American rights to Anwen Crawford’s nonfiction work No Document have been sold to Transit Books. Adam Levy and Ashley Nelson Levy from Transit acquired rights from Nick Tapper at Giramondo....
‘Phosphorescence’ wins 2021 ABIA Book of the Year Archive
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
The winners of the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. In the business awards, Penguin Random House Australia won publisher of the year while the University of...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Iowa City’s The Haunted Bookshop Archive
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookshops in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. In Iowa...
Baxter’s ‘New Animal’ sells to US, UK, optioned for TV Archive
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
US rights to Ella Baxter's debut novel New Animal (A&U) have been sold to independent publisher Two Dollar Radio by The Book Group on behalf of Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary....
Cameron Nunn on ‘Echo in the Memory’ Archive
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
The historical YA novel Echo in the Memory (Walker, June) took author Cameron Nunn 10 years and a PhD in the history of child convicts to write. The book features...
UK publisher consumer sales up 7% in 2020 Archive
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
In the UK, Publishers Association (PA) figures show UK book sales—particularly fiction and audiobooks—soared in 2020, with consumer sales up 7% on 2019 despite bookshop closures, reports the Guardian. The...
UWAP announces 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist Archive
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives a cash prize of $10,000, as well as manuscript development...
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