Rights deals up at 2018 Beijing International Book Fair
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
The Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) has reported a 7.9% increase in rights deals at this year’s fair compared with deals made at the 2017 fair. Organisers say that a...
Writers Vic to launch digital writers-in-residence program for carers in 2019
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
Writers Victoria will launch a new digital writers-in-residence program for carers in 2019, after it received an arts grant from the City of Melbourne in its recent funding round. The...
Melbourne writers, literary organisations receive council arts grants
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
Several writers and literary organisations have received a share of more than $830,000 in funding from the City of Melbourne as part of its annual arts grants program. Writers Victoria...
Ford’s ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ optioned for TV
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
Clementine Ford's forthcoming Boys Will Be Boys: An Exploration of Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship (Allen & Unwin, October) has been optioned for television by Perth-based production company Metamorflix. Rights were...
US arts agency awards US$325,000 in translation grants
Tuesday, 4 September 2018
US federal arts-funding agency National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced the 25 recipients of its Literature Translation Fellowships worth US$325,000 (A$451,000) in total. The fellowships enable American and...
Ebook marketer ordered to pay Amazon US$75,000
Tuesday, 4 September 2018
Amazon has won US$75,000 (A$104,000) in an arbitration case against ebook marketer Thomas Glenn of the Dominican Republic, reports GeekWire. The case was one of five arbitration demands that the company...
‘Birth of the Plantagenets’ series optioned for screen
Tuesday, 4 September 2018
Five historical novels in Blanche d'Alpuget's ‘Birth of the Plantagenets’ series (Ventura) have been optioned for television/film by Ironbark Media. Rights were sold via Jeanne Ryckmans at the Cameron Creswell...
Richell Prize 2018 longlist announced
Tuesday, 4 September 2018
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival have announced the longlist for the 2018 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The longlisted works are: ‘She Is Bright Light and All Brilliance’...
City of Fremantle extends support and increases prize money for T A G Hungerford Award
Tuesday, 4 September 2018
The City of Fremantle has renewed its sponsorship of the T A G Hungerford Award, a biennial prize recognising the first full-length, unpublished work of fiction or creative nonfiction by an...
Audible UK revenue grows by 45%
Monday, 3 September 2018
Audible UK has reported a 45% growth in revenue in 2017 to £97 million (A$174.4m), up from £67.1 million (A$120.7m) in the previous year, reports the Bookseller. According to accounts filed...
Queensland Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Monday, 3 September 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Queensland Literary Awards (QLAs) have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance ($25,000) The...
Winners of the 2018 NSW Premier’s History Awards announced
Monday, 3 September 2018
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the winners of the 2018 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The winning works in each category are: Australian History Prize ($15,000) The Battle...
Odgers wins Alice Literary Award
Monday, 3 September 2018
The Society of Women Writers has awarded the 2018 Alice Literary Award to author Sally Odgers. The Alice Literary Award is presented in the form of a trophy to 'an Australian woman...
‘Last King of the Cross’ wins inaugural Danger Prize
Monday, 3 September 2018
John Ibrahim’s memoir Last King of the Cross (Pan) has won the inaugural Danger Prize, awarded for the best book, film or TV drama about Sydney and crime. Open to...
Ngaio Marsh Award 2018 winners announced
Monday, 3 September 2018
Alan Carter’s Marlborough Man (Fremantle Press) has won the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. The novel, about an ex-undercover agent from England trying to distance himself from his...
Books+Publishing magazine Issue 3 2018
Friday, 31 August 2018
Books+Publishing magazine’s third issue for 2018 is out now! It features 30 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing from September to November. Reviews: Of the 17 adult books reviewed in this issue, four...
NYWF 2018 program launched
Friday, 31 August 2018
The full program for the National Young Writers' Festival (NYWF), which runs from 27-30 September in Newcastle, has been announced. Presented by This is Not Art (TiNA), the NYWF presents...
Waverley Library Award 2018 longlist announced
Friday, 31 August 2018
The longlist for the 2018 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Relatively Famous (Roger Averill, Transit Lounge) The Trauma Cleaner:...
Alternative Nobel literature prize shortlist announced
Friday, 31 August 2018
In Sweden, the New Academy has announced a shortlist of four authors for a new prize in literature, reports the Guardian. The shortlisted authors are French-Caribbean novelist Maryse Condé, British fantasy author...
‘Overland’ Victoria University Short Story Prize 2018 winners announced
Friday, 31 August 2018
Katerina Gibson has won the 2018 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for new and emerging writers for her story ‘How to disappear into yourself (in 8 steps)’. Chosen from...
PRH acquires Leah Purcell’s ‘The Drover’s Wife’
Friday, 31 August 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired world rights to Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, a novel based on Purcell’s play of the same name. The...
Slee wins inaugural Banjo Prize
Friday, 31 August 2018
HarperCollins Australia has announced journalist Tim Slee as the winner of the inaugural Banjo Prize for an unpublished work of Australian commercial fiction for his manuscript ‘Burn’. Slee’s work was chosen...
Jackson, Jones win Viva la Novella
Friday, 31 August 2018
Seizure has announced New Zealand authors Anna Jackson and Avi-Duckor Jones as the winners of this year's Viva la Novella competition. They are the first New Zealanders in the competition's six-year...
Bridging borders: Philippa Donovan on working between Australia, the UK and the US
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Literary consultant and book-to-film/TV scout Philippa Donovan has recently returned to Australia after working in the UK and the US. She shares her career journey. In 2002 I was broke...
Season’s readings: 2018 Christmas highlights
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Sarah Farquharson and Nathania Gilson round up this year’s Christmas highlights. Fiction as you like it This Christmas features new offerings from several bestselling Australian authors: Rosalie Ham returns with...
Tracking changes: Jacqueline Kent on ‘A Certain Style’
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Seventeen years after A Certain Style was first published, Jacqueline Kent’s biography of Australia’s first full-time book editor Beatrice Davis is being reissued for a new generation of publishing aficionados....
Mapping the future: The state of travel guidebooks
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Jackie Tang talks to Lonely Planet’s Chris Zeiher, APA Publications’ Agnieszka Mizak and former Dymocks category manager Ali Hammond about the state of the travel guidebook. Australians are travelling more...
From Bega to the big city: Myoung Jae Yi discusses Book Expo 2018
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Candelo Books owner Myoung Jae Yi embarked on a trip to the 2018 Book Expo in New York City as part of a prize sponsored by Simon & Schuster Australia....
Shelf talk: Page to screen
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Pour some hot chocolate and get a bowl of popcorn ready before digging into these film and television tie-in editions. Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (A&U, September)...
Shelf talk: Get a clue
Thursday, 30 August 2018
A thrill awaits those readers on the lookout for whodunits, stories of transgression, and real-life cases to solve. On the fiction front, Jane Harper’s latest, The Lost Man (Macmillan, October),...
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