New Ingram Melbourne plant to open by September Archive
Tuesday, 7 July 2020
Ingram Content Group, parent company of Lightning Source Australia, has announced it is building a new printing plant in Melbourne which it expects to be operational in the Australian spring....
‘Taking Tom Murray Home’ optioned for screen Archive
Tuesday, 7 July 2020
Sydney-based production company Soft Tread Enterprises has optioned Tim Slee's novel Taking Tom Murray Home (HarperCollins) for the screen. Taking Tom Murray Home was the inaugural winner of the Banjo...
‘Inclusive Publishing in Australia’ publisher survey launched Archive
Monday, 6 July 2020
A new research project is seeking to better understand the issues affecting the production of accessible content in Australia and asking publishers to contribute by completing a survey. ‘Inclusive Publishing...
UQP acquires new Chong poetry collection Archive
Monday, 6 July 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired Eileen Chong’s poetry collection A Thousand Crimson Blooms. Chong is the author of nine books, including her most recent poetry collection Rainforest, which...
Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2020 shortlists announced Archive
Friday, 3 July 2020
The shortlists for the 2020 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Birth to three years Are These Hen's...
Owusu wins 2020 £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize Archive
Friday, 3 July 2020
Derek Owusu has won the Desmond Elliott Prize for first-time novelists for his verse novel That Reminds Me (#Merky Books). Owusu’s book, the semi-autobiographical story of a British-Ghanaian boy called...
Queensland Poetry Festival Awards 2020 shortlists announced Archive
Friday, 3 July 2020
The shortlists for the 2020 Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) awards have been announced. The shortlisted poets in each category are: Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript Hailey Bonner...
Write-ability fellowships 2020 recipients announced Archive
Thursday, 2 July 2020
Writers Victoria has announced the recipients of its 2020 Write-ability fellowships. The organisation this year awarded two additional fellowships: a poetry fellowship supported by an anonymous donor, and a one-off...
KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award 2020 longlist announced Archive
Thursday, 2 July 2020
The longlist for the 2020 Kill Your Darlings (KYD) Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The longlisted authors and their works are: 'Mood' by Roz Bellamy (nonfiction) 'Abomination' by Ashley Goldberg...
Bookselling during the ‘new normal’ Archive
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
The financial effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Australian booksellers are varied, but the sense that bookselling is about more than simply selling books has been highlighted, with booksellers finding...
Witnessing the future: Kate Mildenhall on ‘The Mother Fault’ Archive
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
The Mother Fault (S&S, September), Kate Mildenhall's genre-bending follow-up to her 2016 debut Skylarking (Black Inc.), portrays a 'spine-tingling vision of a future Australia—eerie in its potential realism' as seen...
Indian writer Pandey named overall winner of 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Archive
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
Indian writer Kritika Pandey has been named the overall winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story ‘The Great Indian Tee and Snakes’. Pandey’s story explores forbidden...
John Marsden prize renamed Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers Archive
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
Hachette and Express Media have confirmed YA author Will Kostakis will take over from John Marsden as mentor of the 2020 John Marsden/Hachette Australia Prize for Young Australian Writers, which...
Ballarat Books, Warrnambool Books, Link Educational to rebrand as Campion Education Archive
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
Following its acquisition of Victorian educational specialists Ballarat Books, Warrnambool Books and Mount Waverley-based Link Educational last year, the Campion Group will rebrand all three businesses as Campion Education. Ballarat...
WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced Archive
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
The shortlists for this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an emerging writer ($15,000) Fabulous Lives (Bindy Pritchard,...
Ngaio Marsh Award 2020 longlist announced Archive
Tuesday, 30 June 2020
The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Shadow of Doubt (S L Beaumont, Paperback Writers) Trust Me,...
Colin Roderick Award 2020 longlist announced Archive
Tuesday, 30 June 2020
The longlist for the 2020 Colin Roderick Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Turn Left at...
Pan Mac and Nosy Crow win at 2020 British Book Awards; ‘Queenie’ wins book of the year Archive
Tuesday, 30 June 2020
In the UK, the winners of the 2020 British Book Awards, known as the ‘Nibbies’, have been announced. In the trade section of the awards, Pan Macmillan was named publisher...
Papertalk Green wins 2020 ALS Gold Medal Archive
Tuesday, 30 June 2020
Charmaine Papertalk Green has won the 2020 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for her poetry collection Nganajungu Yagu (Cordite). Papertalk Green’s work was chosen from a shortlist that included...
Llewellyn appointed Wheeler Centre CEO Archive
Tuesday, 30 June 2020
The Wheeler Centre has announced the appointment of Caro Llewellyn as CEO. Llewellyn, whose memoir Diving into Glass (Hamish Hamilton) was shortlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize, was announced as...
Furloughed UK staff return to work Archive
Monday, 29 June 2020
In the UK, major publishers are planning for furloughed staff to return to work, with most saying they have no plans to make redundancies, reports the Bookseller. As previously reported,...
OverDrive acquires RBmedia’s library business Archive
Monday, 29 June 2020
Library provider OverDrive has announced it is acquiring RBmedia’s library business. The deal will see OverDrive acquire the RBdigital platform in the UK, US and Australia. RBmedia's other businesses, including...
Van Neerven, Sakr to host new UQP poetry podcast Archive
Monday, 29 June 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) will launch its new monthly poetry podcast Extraordinary Voices for Extraordinary Times on 10 July. The podcast, supported by Copyright Agency funding, will be...
Federal government announces $250 million creative support package Archive
Friday, 26 June 2020
The federal government has announced a $250 million package to support the cultural and creative industries following the Covid-19 pandemic. The support comprises four components: $75 million in grants of...
Hachette acquires two new Lester books Archive
Friday, 26 June 2020
Hachette has acquired ANZ rights to two books by Natasha Lester to be published in 2022 and 2023. Hachette Australia acquired local rights as part of a global deal made...
Van Neerven awarded Civitella Ranieri Center Fellowship in Italy Archive
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 Archive
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’ Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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...
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