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Pivet-Marsh appointed EWF artistic director

Friday, 6 March 2020
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) has announced Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh as its new artistic director. Pivet-Marsh is a writer, producer and community organiser from Melbourne’s inner west, and has been a...

Blythe to leave Black Inc. 

Friday, 6 March 2020
Black Inc. publicity and marketing manager Marian Blythe is leaving the company to head to the UK. Blythe, who has been in the position since January 2018, said, ‘I've been...

Bottomley to give keynote at ABA conference

Thursday, 5 March 2020
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the full program for its 2020 conference, to be held at the Sofitel Wentworth in Sydney from 21–22 June. International guest Nic Bottomley,...

ViacomCBS looks to sell S&S

Thursday, 5 March 2020
In the US, mass media company ViacomCBS is planning to sell Simon & Schuster, reports Publishers Weekly. At a Morgan Stanley investor conference, ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish said it will...

‘WBN’ published Thursday next week

Wednesday, 4 March 2020
Please note that, due to the public holiday on Monday (Victoria, South Australia, ACT and Tasmania), the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday, 12 March. The deadline...

Affirm signs Sakr’s debut novel 

Wednesday, 4 March 2020
Affirm Press has acquired Sydney poet and writer Omar Sakr’s debut novel, White Flu. White Flu is a work of literary speculative fiction and the publisher says early copies will...

LBF to go ahead as publishers pull UK staff from fair

Wednesday, 4 March 2020
Penguin Random House (PRH), Pan Macmillan and Hachette Livre, as well as Curtis Brown parent company Original Talent, have withdrawn all staff—including UK employees—from the London Book Fair (LBF) due...

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2020 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 4 March 2020
The shortlists for the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Auē (Becky Manawatu, Mākaro Press) Pearly Gates (Owen Marshall, Vintage) A...

Book industry figures create climate action group

Tuesday, 3 March 2020
Writer Sophie Cunningham, children's author Lorna Hendry and Berbay sales and marketing manager Kirsty Wilson have founded an industry action group to address climate change. The Book Industry for Climate...

Big five US publishers, Amazon withdraw from LBF

Tuesday, 3 March 2020
Amazon and the US businesses of HarperCollins, Hachette and Penguin Random House are the latest publishers to withdraw staff from the London Book Fair (LBF) due to the coronavirus outbreak,...

Hachette UK revenue down 1.4% in 2019

Tuesday, 3 March 2020
Lagardère full-year results show that Hachette UK’s revenue was down 1.4% in 2019, reports the Bookseller. Hachette UK CEO David Shelley said that while 2019 was a strong year for...

New $30,000 historical fiction prize

Tuesday, 3 March 2020
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) and infrastructure and facilities service provider ARA Group have announced a new $30,000 award for an outstanding historical novelist. The award is open to...

ABIA 2020 longlists announced

Monday, 2 March 2020
The longlists for the 2020 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Bruny (Heather Rose, A&U) Call...

Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature winners announced

Monday, 2 March 2020
The winners of the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, presented biennially by the South Australian government, have been announced. The winning titles are: Premier’s Award for best overall published...

Clunes Booktown Festival 2020 program announced

Monday, 2 March 2020
The program has been announced for this year’s Clunes Booktown Festival, to be held from 2–3 May. Over 30 authors will appear at the festival, including Andy Griffiths, Garry Disher,...

S&S, Macmillan US pull out of LBF due to coronavirus

Monday, 2 March 2020
Several American publishing companies including Simon & Schuster US (S&S), Macmillan Trade US, Ingram Content Group and OverDrive have pulled out of the London Book Fair (LBF) due to the...

The elephant in the room: Chris Flynn on ‘Mammoth’

Friday, 28 February 2020
Chris Flynn’s third novel Mammoth (UQP, May) handles an ambitious conceit and makes it work, according to reviewer Brad Jefferies. Narrated by the fossil of a 13,000-year-old mammoth, the novel...

Azar longlisted for International Booker Prize 2020

Friday, 28 February 2020
Iranian-Australian writer Shokoofeh Azar has been longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize for her novel The Englightenment of the Greengage Tree (trans by Anonymous, Wild Dingo Press). Azar is...

 

 

 

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