Mckenzie wins inaugural Affirm Press/Tablo crime writing competition
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Dinuka Mckenzie, a Sydney-based writer and environmental planner, has won the inaugural Affirm Press/Tablo ‘The Perfect Crime’ competition for her manuscript 'Flood Debris'. Mckenzie receives an editorial and publishing mentorship...
Lothian acquires two books in YA fantasy series by Kostakis
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Lothian head of children’s publishing Jeanmarie Morosin has acquired ANZ/UK rights to two books in a fantasy series by Australian YA author Will Kostakis, via Sarah Williams at Sophie Hicks...
Greer’s ‘On Rape’ sold to Bloomsbury UK
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has sold UK and Irish rights to Germaine Greer’s On Rape to Bloomsbury UK. Bloomsbury won the rights at auction after 12 UK publishers reviewed the submission....
Hosein wins Commonwealth Writers’ Short Story Prize 2018
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Kevin Jared Hosein, from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, has won the 2018 Commonwealth Writers’ Short Story Prize for the short story 'Passage'. Hosein's short story explores 'a midlife crisis-ridden protagonist...
‘Forbes’ pulls opinion piece arguing Amazon should replace libraries after public backlash
Wednesday, 25 July 2018
US business magazine Forbes has removed an opinion piece headlined ‘Amazon Should Replace Local Libraries to Save Taxpayers Money’ after backlash from American libraries and their communities, reports Quartz. The...
Kibble and Dobbie Awards 2018 winners announced
Wednesday, 25 July 2018
The winners of the 2018 Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards were announced at a ceremony at the State Library of New South Wales on 25 July. The $30,000 Nita B...
Finch, Loo awarded J S Battye Creative Fellowship
Wednesday, 25 July 2018
State Library of Western Australia (SLWA) has awarded the James Sykes Battye Creative Fellowship, valued at $10,000, to writer Steven Finch and illustrator Gabby Loo for their interactive community project Oracle...
Tasmania’s LINCs to be called ‘libraries’ again
Wednesday, 25 July 2018
The Tasmanian government will begin rebranding the state’s 52 Learning and Information Centres (LINCs) starting mid-year, reports the Advocate. Tasmania’s libraries have been called LINCs since 2009 but the Liberal...
Beijing government to invest millions to increase number of bookstores
Wednesday, 25 July 2018
In China, the Beijing municipal government announced it will invest RMB 50 million (A$10m) per year to support 150 brick-and-mortar bookstores in the city, reports the China Daily. The government aims...
‘Amelia Westlake’ wins 2018 Readings YA book prize
Wednesday, 25 July 2018
Erin Gough has won the 2018 Readings Young Adult Book Prize for her novel Amelia Westlake (Hardie Grant Egmont). Gough’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of six for the...
Dymocks Subiaco wins top award at Dymocks conference
Wednesday, 25 July 2018
Dymocks Subiaco in Perth has won the Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at the 2018 Dymocks national conference, which was held on the Gold Coast from 22-24 July. Dymocks managing...
Man Booker Prize 2018 longlist announced
Tuesday, 24 July 2018
The longlist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize has been announced. The 13 books longlisted for the £50,000 (A$88,800) prize are: Snap (Belinda Bauer, Bantam) Milkman (Anna Burns, Faber) Sabrina...
US sales declined slightly in 2017; 5.4% rise in adult nonfiction sales
Tuesday, 24 July 2018
US publishers’ total industry sales fell slightly in 2017 to US$26.23 billion (A$35.5bn), down from US$26.27 billion (A$35.6bn) in 2016, according to results released by the Association of American Publishers...
Fantasy imprint Talem Press seeks submissions
Tuesday, 24 July 2018
Online writers’ platform and small publisher Writer’s Edit is seeking manuscript submissions for fantasy fiction imprint Talem Press. The imprint focuses on fantasy fiction, featuring unlikely heroines, mysterious magic and...
Book-industry figures sign open letter in support of ABC
Tuesday, 24 July 2018
Australian Book Review (ABR) has published an open letter against privatisation, political interference and funding cuts to the ABC, which has been signed by 100 people including various book-industry figures....
A&U to publish Thai cave rescue book in October
Tuesday, 24 July 2018
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to The Great Cave Rescue: The Extraordinary Story of the Thai Boy Soccer Team Trapped in a Cave for 18 Days by journalist...
Kampot Readers & Writers Festival cancelled for 2018
Monday, 23 July 2018
In Cambodia, the 2018 Kampot Readers & Writers Festival (KRWF) has been cancelled, but festival organisers say it will return in 2019 as a biennial event. Festival founder and director...
Isaac, Kelly win 2018 RITA Awards
Monday, 23 July 2018
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2018 RITA Awards, which recognise excellence in romance novels and novellas. Among the winners were two New Zealand...
‘Scrublands’ optioned for TV
Monday, 23 July 2018
Chris Hammer’s crime-fiction debut Scrublands (Allen & Unwin) has been optioned for television by producers Ian Collie of Easy Tiger and Martha Coleman of RevLover, via Grace Heifetz at Curtis...
‘The Intrusions’ wins 2018 Theakston Crime Novel of the Year
Monday, 23 July 2018
Stav Sherez’s The Intrusions (Faber) has won the 2018 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, reports the Guardian. The winning novel follows detectives Jack Carrigan and Geneva...
UK book sales up 5% in 2017
Friday, 20 July 2018
British publishing sales rose 5% to £5.7 billion (A$10bn) in 2017, according to the Publishers Association’s (PA) annual yearbook, reports the Bookseller. Export sales drove the growth, and were up...
Colin Roderick Award 2018 shortlist announced
Friday, 20 July 2018
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Soon (Lois Murphy, Transit...
Harbour partners with University of the Sunshine Coast to publish students’ work
Friday, 20 July 2018
Small publisher Harbour Publishing House has announced a partnership with the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) to publish one book each year from students within its creative writing program....
NYWF announces artists for 2018 festival
Friday, 20 July 2018
The National Young Writers Festival (NYWF) has announced the artists appearing on its 2018 program, which runs from 27-30 September in Newcastle. Guests announced on this year’s program include Alison...
Tuffield joins UQP
Thursday, 19 July 2018
UQP has announced the appointment of Aviva Tuffield to the publishing team. Tuffield joins UQP this week but will remain based in Melbourne. She will acquire fiction and nonfiction for the Brisbane-based publisher, and will...
Charnock wins 2018 Arthur C Clarke Award
Thursday, 19 July 2018
Anne Charnock’s Dreams Before the Start of Time (Amazon Publishing) has won the 2018 Arthur C Clarke Award for science-fiction, reports the Guardian. Set in London in 2034, Dreams Before the...
Caro, Coslovich, Falconer win in Walkley Mid-Year Awards
Thursday, 19 July 2018
The winners of the Walkley Mid-Year Awards have been announced. Jane Caro won the Walkley Foundation’s Women’s Leadership in Media Award for the nonfiction book she edited Unbreakable: Women Share...
‘Terry’s Dumb Dot Story’ raises over $140k for charity
Thursday, 19 July 2018
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, in partnership with Pan Macmillan Australia, have donated $141,613 to charity from the sale of their short story Terry’s Dumb Dot Story. Published on 27 February,...
HarperCollins signs Treasure for two-book deal
Wednesday, 18 July 2018
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to White Horses by commercial fiction author Rachael Treasure in a two-book deal, via Margaret Connolly at Margaret Connolly and Associates. White Horses tells the...
Podcast spotlight: Quickie
Wednesday, 18 July 2018
With its first episode debuting in 2017, Quickie has been described by founder and host Nevena Spirovska as a 'feminist podcast that shoots straight from the lip'. Each episode is recorded...
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