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CBCA Awards 2020 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 31 March 2020
The shortlists for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Older readers The Boy Who Steals Houses...

Oz writing bodies call for additional ‘disaster response’ funding, ELR/PLR to expand to digital

Tuesday, 31 March 2020
Australia’s writing organisations and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) are calling on the federal government to provide additional funding to the Australia Council ‘to boost capacity for an effective...

Bookshops, publishers eligible for wage subsidy scheme

Tuesday, 31 March 2020
Bookshop and publishing house staff are among the workers who could be eligible for the federal government’s $130 billion JobKeeper wage subsidy scheme. Under the scheme, the Australian Tax Office...

CBCA shortlist announced at 12pm today

Tuesday, 31 March 2020
The CBCA will announce its 2020 Book of the Year Shortlist online at midday AEDT on Tuesday March 31. CBCA national executive officer Kate Flamsteed told Books+Publishing that, in place...

French peasant saga wins Republic of Consciousness Prize

Tuesday, 31 March 2020
In the UK, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo has won this year’s Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses for his novel Animalia (trans by Frank Wynne, Text), reports the Bookseller. Del...

Gardners suspends new orders

Tuesday, 31 March 2020
UK-based distributor Gardners has suspended taking new orders for physical products, citing the safety and wellbeing of its workforce as the reason for the decision. An announcement on the Gardners...

Add your Covid-19 response to our list of bookshops

Monday, 30 March 2020
Things are changing rapidly as state and federal governments continue to update their advice regarding Covid-19 measures. We are continuing to update our list of bookshop responses to the outbreak,...

B&N closes 400 shops temporarily

Monday, 30 March 2020
In the US, bookselling chain Barnes & Noble (B&N) has temporarily closed about 400 stores to the public, reports Publishers Weekly. The chain is working with state and local governments...

Bothroyd wins ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize

Monday, 30 March 2020
Sally Bothroyd has won the inaugural ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for her manuscript ‘Brunswick Street Blues’. Bothroyd, who is a director of the Northern Territory Writers Centre and former journalist,...

Hussein appointed Voiceworks editor

Monday, 30 March 2020
Express Media has appointed Adalya Nash Hussein as editor of Voiceworks journal for a two-year period. Hussein—a writer, editor and co-editor at Liminal magazine—will replace previous editor Mira Schlosberg. Hussein...

PRH, BA back crowdfunding campaign for booksellers

Friday, 27 March 2020
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) and the Booksellers Association (BA) are backing a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for booksellers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, reports the Bookseller....

Aurealis Awards 2019 finalists announced

Friday, 27 March 2020
The finalists for the 2019 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. The finalists are: Best science fiction novel The Subjects (Sarah...

Besliev joins Affirm Press as kids publisher

Friday, 27 March 2020
Five Mile commercial director Tash Besliev will join Affirm Press in the newly created role of kids publisher, where she will oversee an expansion of Affirm’s children’s list. Besliev has...

Van Neerven wins inaugural UQP Quentin Bryce Award

Friday, 27 March 2020
Ellen van Neerven has been named the winner of The University of Queensland Press' (UQP) inaugural Quentin Bryce Award, for their poetry collection Throat. The Quentin Bryce Award recognises a...

OzCo suspends grant programs to support arts sector during pandemic

Thursday, 26 March 2020
The Australia Council has suspended many of its investment programs to concentrate on providing a response package to support artists, arts practitioners, arts groups and arts organisations coping with the...

US publishers consider moving pub dates

Thursday, 26 March 2020
In the US, major publishers are struggling with whether or not to move publication dates of forthcoming titles in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). Publishers are...

Brow Books to reissue Tumarkin’s ‘Traumascapes’

Thursday, 26 March 2020
Brow Books has acquired world rights to Maria Tumarkin's nonfiction book Traumascapes, which was originally published by Melbourne University Press in 2005. Tumarkin recently won a Windham Campbell prize for...

Books Create Australia announces agreement for digital library storytimes

Thursday, 26 March 2020
Books Create Australia, the joint industry group comprised of the Australian Booksellers Association, the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), the Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Australian Society of...