Van Neerven awarded Civitella Ranieri Center Fellowship in Italy
Friday, 26 June 2020
Ellen van Neerven has been awarded a Civitella Ranieri Center Fellowship in Italy. Van Neerven, the only Australian selected for the coming three years of the Fellowship, was awarded the...
Text acquires four additional Text Prize-shortlisted books
Friday, 26 June 2020
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to four manuscripts that were shortlisted for the 2020 Text Prize, in addition to the winner, middle-grade novel Rainfish (Andrew Paterson). From the shortlist...
Wakefield acquires Haghdoosti’s debut YA novel ‘Sunburnt Veils’
Friday, 26 June 2020
Wakefield Press has acquired ANZ and UK rights to Sara Haghdoosti's debut YA novel Sunburnt Veils. Sunburnt Veils is a character-based exploration of Islamophobia through a heroine who’s the kind...
Australian publishing workers share salaries to promote wage transparency
Thursday, 25 June 2020
A spreadsheet inviting Australian publishing workers to share their salaries is circulating on social media. At the time of writing, 42 staff have entered information including their job title, wage,...
UK book sales up 30% as bookshops reopen
Thursday, 25 June 2020
In the UK, almost 4 million books were sold in the first six days after bookshops reopened last week, an almost 30% jump on the same week last year, reports...
ABA 2020 Bookseller of the Year shortlists announced
Thursday, 25 June 2020
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the shortlists for 2020 ABA Bookseller of the Year. The shortlisted booksellers in each category are: Bookseller of the Year Michael Earp, The...
Copyright Agency announces recipients of $350k in Cultural Fund grants
Thursday, 25 June 2020
Twenty-five arts organisations have received a total of $352,773 in the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. The grants cover the first two rounds of funding...
Shaw runner-up in 2020 Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction
Thursday, 25 June 2020
New Zealand writer Jenah Shaw has been named a runner-up for the Madrid-based Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction for her story 'Goodness and the Tiger', while fellow Wellington writer...
Community cup: Rawah Arja on ‘The F Team’
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Rawah Arja is a writer and teacher from Punchbowl, Sydney. In her debut YA novel The F Team (Giramondo, September), which is set in her home suburb, Arja explores family,...
Career Path: Middle Grade Mavens
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Pamela Ueckerman and Julie Grasso are two self-described ‘author mums’ and the hosts of the podcast Middle Grade Mavens. They review children’s books, interview industry experts and discuss all things...
Taylor & Francis acquires A&U academic lists
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Taylor & Francis Books has acquired Allen & Unwin’s (A&U) academic and professional books lists, which represent over 700 titles in the humanities and social science disciplines. In a statement,...
Hardie Grant acquires Ablett autobiography
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to AFL player Gary Ablett Jr’s autobiography. The fully illustrated book will include guest chapters from his father Gary Ablett Sr, Geelong captain...
White wins 2020 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Emily White has won the 2020 Lip magazine Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction for their short story ‘Swampy’. 'The unique and immediately engaging archival formatting of this story effortlessly, humorously...
Age/SMH seeks ‘greater diversity of applicants’ for book critic roles
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
The Nine-owned Age and Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) newspapers will reopen applications for two book critics, following the resignation of Jack Callil and Bec Kavanagh. Kavanagh and Callil jointly resigned from...
Macmillan US sets up inclusive management team; CEO steps back
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
In the US, Macmillan Publishing will establish a 13-member trade management committee to set goals and objectives for its trade publishers, divisions and departments, reports Publishers Weekly. In a letter...
Kavanagh and Callil resign as emerging critics over lack of diversity
Tuesday, 23 June 2020
Book critics Bec Kavanagh and Jack Callil have jointly announced their resignation from the Copyright Agency-funded emerging critics initiative, due to the lack of diversity of the applicants selected for...
UK publishing staff share salaries to promote pay transparency
Tuesday, 23 June 2020
In the UK, a document inviting publishing staff to share their salaries is circulating in the industry, reports the Bookseller. Nearly 900 staff have entered their salary, experience, ethnicity, sexual...
Footprint Books to close
Tuesday, 23 June 2020
Distributor Footprint Books has announced it is closing at the end of October 2020. 'It is with great sadness that we announce the closure of Footprint Books,' co-director Kate O'Reilly...
Bertrams enters administration
Monday, 22 June 2020
In the UK, wholesaler Bertrams has gone into administration and will be making company-wide redundancies, reports the Bookseller. As previously reported, Bertrams was put up for sale in May after...
First Nations and People of Colour Writers Count research commences
Monday, 22 June 2020
The organisers of the First Nations and People of Colour Writers Count have announced that research for the project has commenced. Following a successful crowdfunding campaign that raised $26,559, the...
BWF appoints Runcie as CEO, confirms festival will run in May 2021
Monday, 22 June 2020
Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has appointed Sarah Runcie as CEO and confirmed the festival will run in May 2021. Runcie, formerly strategy and policy manager at the Australian Publishers Association,...
Fremantle Press acquires ‘Unlimited Futures’ anthology
Monday, 22 June 2020
Fremantle Press will publish a new anthology, Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak+Black Fiction, to provide ‘the chance for established and emerging First Nations writers and Black writers to share the...
Hind wins £10,000 Betty Trask Prize for ‘Hitch’
Friday, 19 June 2020
Kathryn Hind has been awarded the £10,000 (A$18,100) UK Society of Authors’ Betty Trask Prize for her novel Hitch (Hamish Hamilton). Judge Elanor Dymott said the book was ‘an extraordinary...
White departs UWA Publishing
Friday, 19 June 2020
UWA Publishing director Terri-ann White has left the publisher after 14 years, as the future direction of the organisation remains unconfirmed. ‘I finished my fourteen years as publisher at UWA...
Tan wins 2020 Kate Greenaway Medal
Thursday, 18 June 2020
In the UK, Australian artist and author Shaun Tan has won the 2020 Kate Greenaway Medal for distinguished illustration in a book for children and young people for his picture...
Sales of Bluey books hit 1 million copies
Thursday, 18 June 2020
Sales of Bluey children's books have reached 1 million copies in Australia, the series’ publisher Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced. The first three Bluey titles, which launched in...
Juchau wins 2020 Walkley-Pascall Prize for arts criticism
Thursday, 18 June 2020
Novelist, essayist and critic Mireille Juchau has won the 2020 Pascall Prize for arts criticism for her essays ‘How Dreams Change Under Authoritarianism’ (The New Yorker), 'Twilight Knowing: Jenny Offill’s...
Hachette acquires Lau’s ‘Gunk Baby’
Thursday, 18 June 2020
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the novel Gunk Baby by Jamie Marina Lau. Hachette head of literary Robert Watkins said he is excited to be publishing the novel,...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 17 June 2020
The shortlist for the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 has been announced. The six longlisted novels are: The White Girl (Tony Birch, UQP) Islands (Peggy Frew, A&U) No One (John Hughes, UWA...
Every unhappy family: S L Lim on ‘Revenge’
Wednesday, 17 June 2020
S L Lim's second novel Revenge: Murder in Three Parts (Transit Lounge, September) follows teenage Yannie, who is bound by familial obligations to care for her parents instead of going...
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