Podcast spotlight: Better Reading Podcast
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Established in 2017, Better Reading Podcast is a weekly bookish podcast where Better Reading founder and director Cheryl Akle holds in-depth conversations with both Australian and international authors. Spanning over...
Online library launches to digitally preserve at-risk heritage sites
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
A new online library has launched to digitally preserve major cultural heritage sites to prevent them from being lost in the future, reports Smithsonian.com. Named Open Heritage, the online library...
Australian publishers report ‘optimistic’ Bologna; feminism and diversity remain points of interest
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Australian publishers have reported a busy and ‘positive’ Bologna Children’s Book Fair (26-29 March), with ongoing demand for middle-grade fiction, books with a focus on feminism and diversity, and illustrated...
Library closures at NZ university prompt fears of book burnings
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Staff members at the University of Auckland fear the institution will burn thousands of books if it goes ahead with plans to close down specialist libraries, reports Radio NZ. The...
SLV awarded for events industry excellence
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
State Library Victoria (SLV) has won awards in three categories at the Meetings and Events Australia (MEA) 2017 Victoria Industry Awards, which recognise excellence in the events industry. For the...
NLA launches ambassador program for 50th anniversary
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has launched an ambassador program to help celebrate the library’s 50th anniversary, reports the Canberra Times. Authors Kaz Cooke, Benjamin Law, Anita Heiss, Garth...
Come together: Jemma Birrell’s career journey
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Tablo creative director Jemma Birrell has spent her career connecting audiences with books, whether it be in bookshops, at festivals or online. She shares her career journey. I started working...
Water Scott Prize 2018 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
In the UK, the Water Scott Prize 2018 shortlist has been announced. The titles shortlisted for the £25,000 (A$46,000) prize for historical fiction are: Manhattan Beach (Jennifer Egan, Corsair) Sugar Money (Jane...
Giles’ adult debut optioned by Hollywood production company
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
US production company New Regency has acquired film rights to Australian author Stephen Giles’ debut adult novel, The Boy at the Keyhole. Penguin Australia pre-empted Australian rights to the novel...
Tablo launches paperback publishing; expands distribution to 40,000 retailers
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Australian online publishing platform Tablo has announced the launch of a paperback publishing service, alongside an expansion of its distribution network to 40,000 online and physical retailers worldwide. Tablo’s new...
Varuna announces 2018 Publisher Introduction Program recipients
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
The recipients of Varuna’s 2018 Publisher Introduction Program have been announced. The program offers writers a one-week residency at Varuna and the opportunity to have their manuscript considered for publication...
Increase in prize money for 2018 Queensland Literary Awards
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Prize money for the Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) and Queensland Writers Fellowships will be boosted this year, with total prize money increasing from $205,000 to $240,000. The QLA aims to...
‘WBN’ published Thursday next week
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Please note that, due to the Anzac Day holiday on Wednesday 25 April, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 26 April. The deadline for classifieds and job...
ABDA Book Design Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Book Design Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover Deadly Kerfuffle...
Wheeler Centre 2018 Hot Desk Fellowships announced
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
The Wheeler Centre has announced the successful applicants for its 2018 Hot Desk Fellowships. The recipients are: Asiel Adan Sanchez Amanda Anastasi Rachel Ang Alistair Baldwin Candy Bowers Shu-Ling Chua...
George Robertson Award 2018 winners announced
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
The winners of the 2018 George Robertson Award, which recognises long and distinguished service to the publishing industry, were announced by the Australian Publishers Association (APA) on 5 April. The...
Greer wins 2018 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
In the US, Andrew Sean Greer has won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel, Less (Lee Boudreaux Books). Less is the comic story about the misbegotten adventures...
Schlosberg appointed new editor of ‘Voiceworks’
Monday, 16 April 2018
Express Media has announced it has appointed Mira Schlosberg as editor of its Voiceworks journal for a two-year period. Schlosberg—a writer, editor and comics artist—will replace previous editor Lucy Adams....
Sun Bookshop celebrates 20 years
Monday, 16 April 2018
The Sun Bookshop in the Melbourne suburb of Yarraville is celebrating its 20th anniversary this May with a party, book launch and giveaway. The shop, which opened on 2 May...
Educational publishers win multimillion-dollar counterfeit textbook lawsuit
Monday, 16 April 2018
In the US, Book Dog Books—an importer and reseller of counterfeit textbooks—has been found guilty of multiple counts of copyright and trademark infringement, and in breach of a previous cease...
Lancaster wins ‘Overland’ Nakata Brophy Prize
Monday, 16 April 2018
Raelee Lancaster has won this year’s Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for Young Indigenous Writers for her poem ‘haunted house’. Lancaster wins $5000, publication in Overland’s print magazine and...
‘The Dry’ longlisted for Theakston Crime Novel of the Year
Monday, 16 April 2018
Jane Harper has been longlisted for the UK's Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for her debut The Dry (Pan). Also longlisted for the £3000 (A$5500) prize...
Memory trick: Margot McGovern on ‘Neverland’
Friday, 13 April 2018
Debut author Margot McGovern was inspired by her favourite childhood reads to create Neverland (Random House, April), ‘a dark and compelling examination of memory, self-determination and the dangers of romanticising...
New York Rights Fair partners with BookExpo
Friday, 13 April 2018
BookExpo and the inaugural New York Rights Fair (NYRF) have formed a partnership that will make NYRF the official rights fair of BookExpo. BookExpo will move its rights centre to...
TitlePage affected by DDoS attack
Friday, 13 April 2018
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) announced yesterday that the industry’s pricing and availability service TitlePage was affected by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which caused multiple, but short,...
Man Booker International Prize 2018 shortlist announced
Friday, 13 April 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Vernon Subutex 1 (Virginie Despentes, trans by Frank Wynne, MacLehose Press) The White Book (Han Kang,...
‘The Book Ninja’ sells in Europe
Friday, 13 April 2018
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has sold German rights to The Book Ninja in a six-way auction to Blanvalet. The debut novel, by Books on the Rail founders Ali Berg and...
‘Second Sight’ wins inaugural Perimeter Small Book Prize
Friday, 13 April 2018
Melbourne-based photographer and artist Sarah Walker has won the inaugural Perimeter Small Book Prize for her submission ‘Second Sight’. Walker will work alongside Perimeter’s editors and designers to develop a...
Wright wins 2018 Stella Prize for ‘Tracker’
Thursday, 12 April 2018
Alexis Wright has won the 2018 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, for her ‘collective memoir’ Tracker (Giramondo). Judging panel chair Fiona Stager said the winning book—a biography of Aboriginal leader, thinker...
Text Prize 2018 shortlist announced
Thursday, 12 April 2018
The shortlist has been announced for the 2018 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing. The five shortlisted manuscripts are: 'The End of the World is Bigger Than Love' by...
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