Sales down but community spirit up: Melbourne booksellers enter second lockdown
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
As Melbourne enters its second week of renewed lockdown, booksellers across the city are feeling disappointed yet buoyed by community support. On Thursday, 9 July Melbourne re-entered stage three restrictions...
Shortlist for inaugural Matilda Children’s Literature Prize announced
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
HarperCollins Australia has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Matilda Children’s Literature Prize. The three shortlisted manuscripts are: 'Exposed' by Sandy Bigna, about a teenager who starts having strange flashbacks...
Fuller, Woods win 2020 Readings YA, children’s book prizes
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Readings has announced the winners of its YA and children's book prizes for 2020. Lisa Fuller was named the winner of the Readings Young Adult Book Prize for her debut...
Wakefield to publish #LoveOzYA horror anthology
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Wakefield Press will publish YA fiction anthology Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales, described as ‘the brainchild of acclaimed YA author and Wakefield Press staff member Poppy Nwosu, who will curate...
Scribe acquires nonfiction anthology on class in Australia
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Scribe has acquired world rights to Cop this Lot: Writers on growing up class-conscious in Australia, an anthology of essays on the theme of social class in Australia. Rights were...
ABA: Nielsen reports pre-lockdown sales surge, predicts rebound
Tuesday, 21 July 2020
Book sales in Australia in the week prior to Australia’s first Covid-19 lockdown increased by 35% in volume and 10% in value on the same time in 2019, according to...
Pantera acquires Liminal anthology ‘Collisions’
Tuesday, 21 July 2020
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to Liminal magazine anthology Collisions: Fictions of the Future (ed by Leah Jing McIntosh, Adalya Nash Hussein, Cher Tan & Hassan Abul). The anthology...
Griffith Review Novella Project 2020 winners announced
Tuesday, 21 July 2020
The winners of the Griffith Review’s Novella Project competition have been announced. The winning writers are: Rhianna Boyle Claire G Coleman Mikele Prestia Kate Veitch. The four winners share the $25,000...
UK customers unsure about returning to bookshops
Monday, 20 July 2020
In the UK, a Nielsen survey has found 35% of regular bookshop customers are unsure about returning to bricks and mortar shops now that lockdown has eased, reports the Bookseller....
McGuire appointed MWF artistic director
Monday, 20 July 2020
Michaela McGuire has been appointed artistic director of the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF). McGuire, who has been artistic director of Sydney Writers Festival (SWF) since late 2016, will take up...
Publishers donate books for children in Melbourne public housing towers
Friday, 17 July 2020
Not-for-profit organisation AMSSA Youth Connect has worked with Readings to facilitate the donation of more than 1000 children's books from publishers including Hachette, Hardie Grant and Walker Books to residents...
Davitt Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Friday, 17 July 2020
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the shortlists for the 2020 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The titles shortlisted in each category are: Adult crime...
McKinty, Pomare shortlisted for US-based Macavity Award
Friday, 17 July 2020
In the US, Irish-Australian author Adrian McKinty and New Zealand author J P Pomare have been shortlisted for the Mystery Readers International’s Macavity Awards. McKinty was shortlisted for the Best...
Winch wins 2020 Miles Franklin for ‘The Yield’
Thursday, 16 July 2020
Tara June Winch has won the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her second novel, The Yield (Hamish Hamilton). Winch, a Wiradjuri woman, is the fourth First Nations writer to...
KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award 2020 shortlist announced
Thursday, 16 July 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Kill Your Darlings (KYD) Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The shortlisted writers and their works are: ‘Abomination’ by Ashley Goldberg (fiction) ‘The Dead Falls’ by...
Frankfurt reveals virtual program details
Thursday, 16 July 2020
The organisers of the Frankfurt Book Fair, which will run from 12–18 October, have revealed the details of the fair’s virtual program, reports the Bookseller. As previously reported, in May...
S&S acquires two new Blanchard novels
Thursday, 16 July 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to two new books by historical fiction author Tania Blanchard. The first book in the new contract, like Blanchard's previous novels,...
EK Books acquires picture book from Exisle Academy participant
Thursday, 16 July 2020
Exisle Publishing has acquired Cookie, a debut picture book by 18-year-old writer Isabelle Duff. Duff was part of the first intake of students to participate in 'Exisle Academy', an author...
Green dream: Ketan Joshi on ‘Windfall’
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Windfall: Unlocking a fossil-free future (NewSouth, September) is renewable energy industry insider Ketan Joshi's account of two decades’ worth of climate wars in Australia. 'The minutiae of climate science can...
Scribe acquires Doig’s ‘We Are All Preppers Now’
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Scribe has acquired world English-language rights to Tom Doig’s third full-length book, We Are All Preppers Now, a narrative nonfiction work that examines the practices of survivalism and doomsday prepping...
ACT Writers publishes open letter regarding CWF 2020
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
ACT Writers has stated in an open letter published Sunday, 12 July that ‘as it currently stands, [it] cannot support or promote’ the 2020 Canberra Writers Festival (CWF). However, in...
Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the shortlist for the 2020 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The shortlisted works and their authors are: 'Egg Timer' by C J Garrow (Vic) 'Hieroglyph'...
HarperCollins announces Books Bring Us Together campaign
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
HarperCollins Australia is launching Books Bring Us Together, a campaign aimed at celebrating 'the power of reading and the importance of local booksellers to our communities'. The campaign will include...
McKinty, McTiernan win 2020 Thriller Awards
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
Adrian McKinty and Dervla McTiernan have won in their respective categories at the International Thriller Writers’ Thriller Awards 2020. McKinty's The Chain (Hachette) was named best hardcover novel, while McTiernan's...
BA welcomes Gardners expansion
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
In the UK, the Booksellers Association (BA) has welcomed the news that wholesaler Gardners has bought assets of Bertrams, the book wholesaler that went into administration earlier this year. Last...
Yager awarded 2020 Reading Australia Fellowship
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
The Copyright Agency has announced Karen Yager, deputy head at Knox Grammar School in New South Wales, is the 2020 recipient of the Reading Australia Fellowship for Teachers of English...
Affirm acquires Grills’ ‘big beautiful female theory’
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to big beautiful female theory, an illustrated collection of 'memoir–essays' by comics artist, critic and poet Eloise Grills, in a deal brokered by Martin...
Booksellers establish new literary journal
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
In Victoria, Mornington Peninsula booksellers Celeste Deliyiannis and Emily Westmoreland have created a new annual literary journal in response to Covid-19. PENinsula will incorporate photography, short fiction, nature writing and...
US half-year print book sales up 2.8%
Monday, 13 July 2020
In the US, print book sales in the first half of 2020 were up 2.8% on the same period in 2019 according to NPD BookScan, reports Publishers Weekly. In the...
Paterson de Heer receives Writers SA Varuna Fellowship for Young Writers
Monday, 13 July 2020
Phoebe Paterson de Heer is the recipient of this year’s Writers SA Varuna Fellowship for Young Writers. Paterson de Heer receives seven nights accommodation at Varuna, a $300 travel subsidy...
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