Hickey wins Walter Scott Prize for ‘The Narrow Land’
Tuesday, 16 June 2020
Irish author Christine Dwyer Hickey has won the £25,000 (A$45,450) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for her novel The Narrow Land (Atlantic). Hickey, whose novel explores the marriage of...
Overett wins Penguin Literary Prize 2020
Tuesday, 16 June 2020
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced that the winner of the 2020 Penguin Literary Prize is The Rabbits by Sophie Overett. Victoria-based Overett wins $20,000 (which acts as an...
Harper, McKinty shortlisted for Theakston Old Peculier crime award
Monday, 15 June 2020
Australian author Jane Harper has been shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier 2020 Crime Novel Award for a crime novel published in paperback by authors from the UK or Ireland....
Revenue up, profit down at Wiley
Monday, 15 June 2020
In the UK, Wiley has reported a marginal gain in revenue and a drop in profit in the year to April 2020, reports the Bookseller. Wiley reported revenue of US$1.83...
Roff wins 2020 Peter Carey Short Story Award
Monday, 15 June 2020
Andrew Roff has won the Peter Carey Short Story Award for his story ‘Bock Bock’. Announcing the winner via YouTube, judge Elizabeth Tan said the story, which follows an ‘investigator...
Australia Council announces Cherish Fund to support First Nations creatives
Friday, 12 June 2020
The Australia Council has announced a new fund of approximately $500,000 to ‘support and invest in First Nations arts and cultural groups experiencing disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic’. The...
US publishing sales down 16% in April
Friday, 12 June 2020
In the US, total publishing sales fell 16% in April compared to the same month in 2019 according to the AAP’s Statshot program, reports Publishers Weekly. The drop in total...
New online Book Clubs Hub undertakes national survey
Friday, 12 June 2020
The organisers of Clunes Booktown Festival have established a free online platform for book clubs to connect and share information, and are undertaking a national survey of Australian book clubs....
The Book Grocer celebrates 20th anniversary
Friday, 12 June 2020
The Book Grocer is celebrating 20 years since establishing its first store. In a letter to staff and customers, founder Karl Slotte described opening the first of the chain’s stores...
Magabala Books announces First Nations’ publishing cadetship
Thursday, 11 June 2020
Magabala Books has announced it will create a new cadetship for First Nations publishing professionals. The cadetship program will provide on-the-job training, professional development and sustainable employment, with mentorship from...
Illustrating the truth: Charmaine Ledden-Lewis on ‘Found’
Thursday, 11 June 2020
Bundjalung artist Charmaine Ledden-Lewis was the recipient of the 2019 Kestin Indigenous Illustrator Award, which offered a mentorship and the opportunity to illustrate Bruce Pascoe's first picture book. The result...
Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction 2020 shortlist announced
Thursday, 11 June 2020
Lip magazine has announced the shortlist for the 2020 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction. The shortlisted stories are: 'Plant Life' by Tanya Vavilova 'Arrow' by Mia-Francesca McAuslan 'Baby Season' by...
The Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter
Thursday, 11 June 2020
Two years after the Wheeler Centre established its The Next Chapter writers scheme, books by two of its inaugural fellows—Adam Thompson and Evelyn Araluen—have been acquired by the University of Queensland Press. As applications...
United Publishers of Armidale receives OzCo Resilience Fund grant
Wednesday, 10 June 2020
The Australia Council has awarded a Resilience Fund grant to United Publishers of Armidale (UPA), a collaboration between children’s book publishers Christmas Press and Little Pink Dog Books. UPA was...
Perlman’s ‘Maybe the Horse Will Talk’ to be adapted for US TV
Wednesday, 10 June 2020
Paramount Television Studios in the US has optioned Australian author Elliot Perlman’s novel Maybe the Horse Will Talk (Vintage) for adaptation into a TV series, with Perlman to adapt and...
Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 10 June 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award has been announced. Chosen from 80 submissions, including short story collections and novellas up to 30,000 words, the nine shortlisted...
US publishers pledge to increase diversity
Wednesday, 10 June 2020
In the US, three of the Big Five publishers have pledged to diversify their workforce and publish more Black authors, following a collective action to protest the industry’s role in...
Lit orgs, writers receive Create NSW funding
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
A number of literary organisations and writers are among the recipients of the second round of Create NSW’s annual organisation, project and Creative Koori Projects arts funding program, which has...
Australian authors and industry figures recognised in 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
The recipients of the 2020 Queens Birthday Honours have been announced. Among the recipients were Australian authors and industry figures including Marcia Langton, Sean Dorney, Herb Wharton, Karen Williams, Scott...
US publishing staff take collective action to protest industry’s role in systemic racism
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
In the US, more than 1100 workers in the publishing and media industries took a day off from work to spend time in service of the Black community on June...
Perlego book ‘streaming’ service launches in Australia and New Zealand
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Textbook ‘streaming’ service Perlego, first established in 2016 by London-based founders Gauthier Van Malderen and Matt Davis, has launched in Australia and New Zealand. Van Malderen told Books+Publishing Australian demand...
UQP acquires debut essay collection by Nyuon
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired a collection of essays on identity by South Sudanese–Australian lawyer, community advocate, writer and public speaker Nyadol Nyuon. Nyuon is a lawyer...
Booksellers’ Choice 2020 Book of the Year Awards shortlists announced
Friday, 5 June 2020
The shortlists for the Australian Booksellers Association’s (ABA) 2020 Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles for the 2020 awards are: Adult fiction book...
NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2020 finalists announced
Friday, 5 June 2020
The finalists for the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced. The shortlists in each category, chosen from a record 178 entries, are: Picture...
Wright hosts new web series
Friday, 5 June 2020
The State Library of Victoria and University of Melbourne have partnered to present a new three-part web series hosted by award-winning author Alexis Wright. Signposts: Stories for our fragile times...
S&S acquires Pickett life story ‘Belief’
Friday, 5 June 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired Belief, the life story of Richmond Tigers player Marlion Pickett from the Jane Novak Literary Agency via Pickett’s agent, Anthony Van Der Wielen...
No ‘Daily’ on Monday
Friday, 5 June 2020
Please note that, due to the Queen’s Birthday holiday on Monday in all states except Queensland and Western Australia, the next Daily newsletter will be published on Tuesday, 9 June.
REAL Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Thursday, 4 June 2020
The shortlists for the 2020 Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards—which act as shortlists for children’s choice book awards in New South Wales (KOALAs), Northern Territory (KROC Awards) and...
ASA calls for JobKeeper extension amid ‘slow and long’ Covid fallout
Thursday, 4 June 2020
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has called for an extension of the federal government’s JobKeeper payments beyond the end of September for creators who currently can't access the scheme due...
Hachette, S&S, Bloomsbury latest publishers to skip Frankfurt
Thursday, 4 June 2020
Hachette, Simon & Schuster and Bloomsbury are the latest publishers to announce they won’t exhibit at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. HarperCollins, Bonnier Books UK and Pan Macmillan UK, as...
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