Writers awarded OzCo international residencies for 2020–21
Thursday, 16 January 2020
The Australia Council has announced eight writers as recipients of international development residencies as part of its latest grants round. Lisa Gorton, Robert Lukins, Fiona McGregor and Sandra Thibodeaux will...
German book market revenue up 1.4% in 2019
Thursday, 16 January 2020
German trade publication Börsenblatt has reported that revenue in the German book market in 2019 grew by 1.4% on the previous year. According to an English-language report in Publishing Perspectives,...
UQP acquires Christopher Raja memoir in ‘spirited’ auction
Thursday, 16 January 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to a memoir by Melbourne-based author Christopher Raja, in what literary agent Martin Shaw of Alex Adsett Publishing Services described...
Australian Romance Readers Awards 2019 finalists announced
Thursday, 16 January 2020
The finalists for the 2019 Australian Romance Readers Awards have been announced. Six authors have been shortlisted for the favourite Australian romance author category. They are: Alissa Callen Kelly Hunter...
#AuthorsForFireys raises hundreds of thousands for bushfire relief
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
The #AuthorsForFireys campaign closed on the evening of Saturday 11 January, raising an estimated hundreds of thousands of dollars for bushfire relief across the nation, according to reports from the...
CBCA, Little Bookroom organise book drives for bushfire-affected children
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) in November announced a partnership with the not-for-profit Givit to raise money to buy books for children and young adults affected by the bushfire...
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Wednesday, 15 January 2020
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Lit orgs, writers receive Create NSW funding
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
A number of literary organisations and writers are among the recipients of round one of Create NSW’s annual organisation, project and Creative Koori Projects arts funding program, which has allocated...
Text celebrates Coetzee’s 80th birthday with special collection
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Text Publishing will celebrate J M Coetzee’s 80th birthday with a special collection of writings in honour of the South Africa-born, Australian writer. Coetzee’s partner of more than 40 years,...
Robinson wins 2019 T S Eliot Prize
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
In the UK, writer and performer Roger Robinson has won the 2019 T S Eliot Prize for poetry for his collection A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press), reports the Bookseller....
US publishers reach settlement with Audible in Captions lawsuit
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
In the US, Audible and the seven publishing houses suing the company for copyright infringement over the proposed Captions program have reached an undisclosed settlement, reports Publishers Weekly. The Captions...
Indie Book Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Leading Edge Books has announced the shortlists for the 2020 Indie Book Awards for the best Australian books published in 2019. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction There...
Ventura sells UK rights to ‘Paris Savages’
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Ventura Press has sold UK rights to Katherine Johnson’s novel Paris Savages to independent publisher Allison and Busby. Paris Savages, which was written as part of Johnson’s PhD, is based...
A&U acquires ANZ rights to Marney’s new YA novel
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to a new YA thriller by Ellie Marney. None Shall Sleep, which A&U described as a YA Silence of the Lambs, is...
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Wednesday, 15 January 2020
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Tumarkin shortlisted for National Book Critics Circle Awards
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
In the US, Australian author Maria Tumarkin is a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Awards for her book Axiomatic (Brow Books), published in the US by Transit Books....
ABR announces Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2020 shortlist
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poems are: ‘Precision Signs’ (Lachlan Brown) ‘That Wadjela Tongue’ (Claire G Coleman)...
Books+Publishing office move
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
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Writers, literary orgs among latest OzCo funding round recipients
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
Twenty writers and seven literary organisations are among the 186 recipients of the Australia Council’s latest grants round, worth a total of $6.5 million. Funding in the literature category totalled...
ACT Book of the Year 2019 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
The shortlist for the 2019 ACT Book of the Year Award was announced in December. The shortlisted titles are: Made by Humans: The AI Condition (Ellen Broad, MUP) Book of...
UWAP announces 2020 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
In December, UWA Publishing announced the shortlist for the 2020 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted authors and their works are: ‘The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette’...
US print sales down 1.3% in 2019
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
US print sales in 2019 fell by 1.3% in volume compared to the previous year, reports Publishers Weekly. Volume sales for the year totalled 689.5 million units, down from 698.4...
MWF appoints Nair as program manager
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has appointed writer and critic Sonia Nair as program manager, taking over the role from Gene Smith, who has moved into the role of associate director...
Pearson sells remaining 25% stake in PRH to Bertelsmann
Monday, 13 January 2020
Pearson is selling its remaining 25% stake in Penguin Random House (PRH) to Bertelsmann, giving the German corporation 100% ownership of the world’s largest trade publisher, reports the Bookseller. The...
MacDonald joins MUP as senior director of marketing and sales
Monday, 13 January 2020
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has appointed Brian MacDonald as its new senior director of marketing and sales. MacDonald has moved to Melbourne from Canada, where he was the business development...
Book sales value down three percent in 2019: Nielsen
Monday, 13 January 2020
After five consecutive years of marginal growth in the Australian book market, book sales fell three percent in value in Australia in 2019, down $36 million to $1.14 billion, according...
Costa Book Awards 2019 category winners announced
Monday, 13 January 2020
In the UK, the five category winners for the 2019 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The five winners were chosen from shortlists announced in November 2019. The winning authors each...
Whitmont joins Booktopia Publisher Services
Monday, 13 January 2020
Booktopia has announced that Scott Whitmont will be joining Booktopia's distribution division Booktopia Publisher Services (BPS), in the role of business development and relationship manager. Whitmont was previously the owner...
UWAP staff given six-month extensions; university to reconsider publishing model
Monday, 13 January 2020
Staff at the University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP) have been given six-month extensions of their contracts, amid the university’s plans to reconsider the publishing model of the press. The...
2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced
Friday, 20 December 2019
The shortlists have been announced for the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, presented biennially by the South Australian government. The shortlisted titles are: Children’s literature award ($15,000) The Elephant...
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