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KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award longlist announced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The longlist for the 2019 Kill Your Darlings (KYD) Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced.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...
Christchurch’s Tūranga library wins NZ property industry awards
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Christchurch's central library, Tūranga, has won two awards at the 2019 New Zealand Property Industry Awards. Opened in October last year after six years of development and construction, the NZ$93...
ABR announces Behrouz Boochani Fellowship
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced its inaugural $10,000 Behrouz Boochani Fellowship, presented in association with the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at the University of Melbourne. The fellowship...
Natural habitat: Kate Goldsworthy shares her career journey
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Over the past 10 years, Victoria-based editor Kate Goldsworthy has worked for a wide range of publishers, both in-house and as a freelancer. She shares her career journey. Since early...
Shortlist for 2019 National Biography Award announced
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the 2019 National Biography Award, worth a total of $42,000. The shortlisted works are: No Friend But...
UK publishing revenue down two percent in 2018
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
The UK Publishers Association (PA) has found the UK publishing industry’s revenues in 2018 fell two percent on the previous year, with a five percent drop in print book sales,...
Keefe, Burns win 2019 Orwell Prize
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
In the UK, two authors writing about the conflict in Northern Ireland have been awarded £3000 each (A$5470) as part of the Orwell Prize, reports the Guardian. Patrick Radden Keefe,...
Hachette acquires local rights to debut thriller
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Gold Coast-based author Allie Reynolds' debut novel Shiver, in partnership with Headline UK. Headline’s fiction publishing director Jennifer Doyle won a 10-way auction...
Dr Karl returns to ABC Books in three-book deal
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
ABC Books has acquired three new books by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki in a deal negotiated by Jeanne Ryckmans of the Cameron Creswell Agency. The deal marks Kruszelnicki’s move back to...
O’Sullivan wins 2019 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Jane O'Sullivan has won the 2019 Lip magazine Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction for her short story 'Limpet Teeth'. Judge Melanie Joosten said O'Sullivan's piece, chosen from a shortlist of 10,...
US book market contracts slightly for fifth year in a row
Tuesday, 25 June 2019
The Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) annual StatShot report on the US book industry, published on 21 June, found the total US book market to have contracted slightly for the...
‘A Room Called Earth’ sold to US, Canada
Tuesday, 25 June 2019
North American rights to Victoria-based writer Madeleine Ryan's forthcoming debut novel A Room Called Earth have been sold to Penguin Random House USA imprint Penguin Press. Rights were sold by...
The Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Nonfiction longlist announced
Tuesday, 25 June 2019
Melbourne-based literary magazine The Lifted Brow and RMIT's non/fictionLab have announced the longlist for their Prize for Experimental Nonfiction. The longlisted writers and their works are: Warwick Newnham, for ‘The Mash’...
Former Finch staff launch Bad Apple Press
Tuesday, 25 June 2019
Two former Finch Publishing staff have launched Bad Apple Press, a ‘boutique’ publisher of local nonfiction specialising in memoir. Bad Apple Press was founded by former Finch managing editor Samantha...
Scholastic acquires two books by Rove McManus
Monday, 24 June 2019
Scholastic Australia has acquired world rights to two children’s books by TV personality Rove McManus. Scholastic will publish the picture book Disgusting McGrossface in September and Rocky Lobstar, the first...
MWF reveals first international guests
Monday, 24 June 2019
Sonic Youth co-founder and author of the memoir Girl in a Band (Faber) Kim Gordon, Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt, and Black Lives Matter activist and author DeRay Mckesson are the...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ wins ABA book of the year; booksellers of the year announced
Monday, 24 June 2019
Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe (Fourth Estate) has won the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Booksellers Choice Award at the 2019 ABA conference awards night, held in Melbourne on 23 June. Boy...
BWF 2019 program announced
Friday, 21 June 2019
The program has been announced for the 2019 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs from 5–8 September. Over 160 writers will appear at the festival, which in recognition of the...
A&U acquires rights to International Man Booker winner ‘Celestial Bodies’
Friday, 21 June 2019
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies, winner of the 2019 International Man Booker Prize, from Claire Roberts at Claire Roberts Global Literary Mangement,...
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