New KYD program to focus on regional Victorian writers
Thursday, 4 July 2019
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced a new publishing program for regional Victorian writers. From August 2019 to June 2020, KYD will publish the work of regional Victorian writers every...
ABDA launches student prizes
Thursday, 4 July 2019
The Australian Book Design Association (ABDA) has announced it will award student prizes at the 2020 ABDA Awards. The inaugural student prizes will be judged in two categories: best cover...
Over 300 booksellers encouraged to ‘change the narrative’ at upbeat ABA conference
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
Almost 340 booksellers, publishers and other guests attended this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference, held in Melbourne from 23–24 June. ABA CEO Robbie Egan—who opened the conference by encouraging...
Book buyer spotlight: ALS Library Services’ Philippa Siebert
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
As a member of the acquisitions team at Adelaide-based ALS Library Services, Philippa Siebert has been helping libraries stock their shelves for over a decade. She spoke to Books+Publishing for our...
NSW libraries get $36.5m boost
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
The NSW state government has announced a funding boost of $36.5m to public libraries in 2019/20, as part of a total of $60m in additional funding over four years. NSW...
S&S latest publisher to change digital book lending terms
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
In the US, Simon & Schuster (S&S) has become the fourth of the Big Five publishers to change its digital book licensing terms for libraries in the past year, reports...
Is YA okay?: The state of Australian young adult literature
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
With reports from the UK showing a sharp decline in sales of YA fiction, Jackie Tang explores whether the Australian market is experiencing similar changes. When UK trade publication the...
Scribe, Varuna partner on new mentorship program
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
Scribe and Varuna, The Writers’ House, have partnered to offer a new mentorship program to three writers. The partnership combines a Varuna residency with an intensive mentorship with Scribe editors....
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Lebs (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette) A Sand Archive (Gregory Day, Picador) A Stolen...
Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2019 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
The shortlists for the 2019 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Birth to three years A Monster in...
Brown wins 2019 ALS Gold Medal
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
Pam Brown has won the 2019 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for her poetry collection click here for what we do (Vagabond). Brown’s collection was chosen from a shortlist...
Five Mile sells UK, US and Canadian rights to Love Your Body
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
Five Mile has sold UK, US and Canadian rights to Jessica Sanders’ picture book Love Your Body (illus by Carol Rossetti) to the Quarto Group. With the latest deal, made...
Boochani, Fidler, Winch announced in first line-up for Ubud 2019
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced its first guests for the 2019 festival, which will run from 23–27 October in Ubud, Indonesia. Headlining the festival is Kurdish-Iranian journalist...
A&U acquires local rights to C S Pacat YA trilogy
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to C S Pacat’s YA trilogy ‘Dark Rise’. In the trilogy, which is set in an alternate London, ‘the heroes and villains...
Thames & Hudson to open Sydney office; Heath to join as associate publisher
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
Thames & Hudson (T&H) has announced an expansion of its Australian publishing division, with former Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) executive publisher Sally Heath to join the company as associate publisher...
Locus Awards winners announced
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
In the US, the winners of the 2019 Locus Awards for science fiction and fantasy writing have been announced. Winners include: The Calculating Stars (Mary Robinette Kowal, Tor) in the...
Retailers to benefit from consolidated music licensing deal
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
From today, retailers will only need to secure one music license to play music in their stores, rather than two separate licenses from two rights management bodies. A new joint...
PRH announces inaugural recipients of Write It! program
Monday, 1 July 2019
Penguin Random House Australia has announced the inaugural recipients of its Write It! program for underrepresented writers. Chosen from a shortlist of 12, the four recipients are: Annie McCann for...
UK publishing employment up 3.9% in 2018
Monday, 1 July 2019
In the UK, publishing industry employment was up 3.9% in 2018, growing from 192,000 jobs in 2017 to 199,000 in 2018, reports the Bookseller. The figures from the Department for...
KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award longlist announced
Monday, 1 July 2019
The longlist for the 2019 Kill Your Darlings (KYD) Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The longlisted authors and their works are: Pamela Baker for ‘Dark Glass’ (fiction) Shelley Burr...
UK survey finds that older women feel misrepresented in fiction
Friday, 28 June 2019
In the UK, a survey of more than 1000 women over 40 has found that 51% of respondents feel that older women tend to fall into stereotyped roles in fiction,...
Create NSW implements changes to arts funding application processes
Friday, 28 June 2019
Create NSW has announced changes to its arts funding guidelines and processes. The new 2019/20 guidelines for the Arts and Cultural Funding Program consolidate the 14 previous individual funding rounds...
Overland announces shortlists for writing residencies
Friday, 28 June 2019
Literary journal Overland has announced the shortlists for two writing residencies that aim to address a lack of opportunities for underrepresented writers. The 2019 program has two categories: women writers...
ILF celebrates International Year of Indigenous Languages with bookshop fundraising program
Thursday, 27 June 2019
The Indigenous Literary Foundation (ILF) will mark the UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages with a revamped membership program for bookshops. Launched last year, the ILF member program asks member...
Two Australians longlisted for 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award
Thursday, 27 June 2019
In the UK, the longlist for the £30,000 (A$54,500) Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award has been announced, with Australian writers Paddy O'Reilly and Paul Dalla Rosa making the 18-strong...
Kill Your Darlings announces New Australian Fiction collection contributors
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced the contributors to its inaugural annual print collection of short stories, New Australian Fiction, due to published in October 2019. The contributors are: Tony...
Amazon responds to NYT feature alleging widespread sales of counterfeit books
Thursday, 27 June 2019
In the US, Amazon has responded to claims made in a New York Times (NYT) feature that the company takes a lax approach to policing counterfeit books, reports Publishers Weekly....
Black Inc. sells Anna Krien’s forthcoming novel to UK
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ and Canada) to Anna Krien’s debut novel Act of Grace (Black Inc., October) to Serpent’s Tail. Editor Hannah Westland acquired...
Sparrow wins 2019 Walkley-Pascall Prize for arts criticism
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Jeff Sparrow has won the 2019 Walkley-Pascall Prize for arts criticism for his essay ‘A Place of Punishment: No Friend But the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani’ (Sydney Review of Books). Sparrow was...
Owners of Lorne Beach Books to retire after 40 years in the trade
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
The owners of Lorne Beach Books in regional Victoria are selling their shop after 40 years in the book trade. David and Meryl Bartak owned and ran Black Mask Books...
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