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Chadwick, McMillan win 2019 Polari Prizes

Wednesday, 23 October 2019
In the UK, writers Angela Chadwick and Andrew McMillan have won the 2019 Polari Prizes for work that explores the LGBT experience, reports the Bookseller. Now in its ninth year,...

Film rights to Mostafa’s ‘Offshore’ optioned

Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Filmmaker Partho Sen-Gupta has optioned the film rights to Joshua Mostafa’s novella Offshore (Seizure). Mostafa was joint winner of Seizure’s seventh annual Viva La Novella competition, with Carly Cappielli for...

Deborah Cass Prize 2019 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 23 October 2019
The shortlist for Writers Victoria’s Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Deniz Agraz for ‘Rosewater’ Michelle Almiron...

Twelve Australians nominated for 2020 Astrid Lindgren Award

Tuesday, 22 October 2019
Twelve Australian authors, illustrators and organisations have been announced as candidates for the 2020 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's richest prize for children's literature. The Australian candidates are: Randa...

wāni wins 2019 Australian Poetry Slam

Tuesday, 22 October 2019
Melbourne-based poet wāni has won the 2019 Australian Poetry Slam, held in Sydney on 20 October. wāni beat 15 other finalists at the national grand final after qualifying by coming...

Inaugural Scribe & Varuna residency fellows announced

Tuesday, 22 October 2019
The recipients of the inaugural Scribe & Varuna residency and mentorship program have been announced. The writers and their projects are: Liana Joy Christensen, for ‘See the Islands’ Francesca Rendle-Short,...

Gentill, Grills, Bennet Daylight awarded Create grants 

Tuesday, 22 October 2019
Four writers and two visual artists have received Create grants, worth a total of $80,000, from the Copyright Agency. The grants were awarded to the following writers, alongside playwright Daniel...

Amazon Australia makes Farrow book available for sale

Monday, 21 October 2019
Amazon Australia has reversed its decision not to stock investigative reporter Ronan Farrow’s book Catch and Kill (Hachette), with the book available on its Australian store as of Sunday, reports...

‘Message in a Sock’ wins children’s book award

Monday, 21 October 2019
Picture book Message in a Sock (Kaye Baillie, illus by Narelda Joy, MidnightSun) has won a Northern Lights Book Award for children’s books that ‘excel in aesthetic and literary qualities...

Benson’s ‘Vertigo & Ghost’ wins Forward Poetry Prize

Monday, 21 October 2019
Fiona Benson’s poetry collection Vertigo & Ghost (Cape Poetry) has won the £10,000 (A$18,846) Forward Prize for best poetry collection, reports the Guardian. Vertigo & Ghost explores vulnerability and rage,...

LEB to hold 2020 conference in Brisbane

Monday, 21 October 2019
Leading Edge Books (LEB) will hold its annual conference on 22–24 March at the Sofitel Brisbane Central. The conference program for Sunday, 22 March includes member forums, a keynote presentation,...

US$75k Cundill History Prize 2019 finalists announced

Friday, 18 October 2019
The three finalists for the Cundill History Prize have been announced. Chosen from a shortlist of eight, the finalists are: Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi persecution and the quest for justice (Mary...

Walkley Book Award 2019 longlist announced

Friday, 18 October 2019
The Walkley Book Award longlist for 2019 has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up (Gabrielle Chan, Vintage) Banking Bad (Adele Ferguson, ABC Books) The Hunt...

‘Dark Emu’ to be adapted for TV documentary series

Friday, 18 October 2019
Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu (Magabala) will be adapted as a television documentary series by Blackfella Films, a Sydney-based documentary production company founded by Rachel Perkins. Screen Australia has announced...

S&S to reissue Trioli’s ‘Generation F’ 

Thursday, 17 October 2019
Simon & Schuster (S&S) will reissue journalist Virginia Trioli’s Generation F in November, with a new foreword and afterword by the author. Originally published by Heinemann imprint Minerva in 1996, Generation...

Noni moves to PRH after eight-way auction

Thursday, 17 October 2019
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to a new series from YA author Lynette Noni titled 'The Prison Healer'. Rights were acquired in an eight-way auction via...

Self-published books in the US grew by 40% in 2018

Thursday, 17 October 2019
Self-publishing in the US grew by 40% in 2018, according to a report published by Bowker. In total 1.68 million print and ebooks were self-published in 2018, up from 1.19...

‘Supper Club’ wins 2019 Not the Booker

Thursday, 17 October 2019
English writer Lara Williams has won the Guardian’s 2019 Not the Booker Prize for her debut novel Supper Club (Hamish Hamilton). For the second year running, the judges overruled the public...

Owners of The Hobart Bookshop to retire

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
The owners of The Hobart Bookshop, Christopher Pearce and Janet Grecian, have decided to retire after almost 30 years of owning the business. In the early 1970s, after graduating with...

Brisbane libraries ban Extinction Rebellion protestors

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Brisbane's LNP City Council has banned Extinction Rebellion activists from using the city's libraries to plan protests, reports the Brisbane Times. Lord mayor Adrian Schrinner put forward an 'urgency motion'...

Scribe acquires book on Hong Kong protest movement

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom has acquired world rights to City on Fire: The fight for Hong Kong by Antony Dapiran, an Australian writer and lawyer who has lived in Hong...

 

 

 

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