Harry Hartog to open stores in SA, QLD and campus store at ANU Archive
Friday, 14 September 2018
Bookselling chain Harry Hartog plans to open stores at Glenside in South Australia, Maroochydore in Queensland and Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, bringing its total number of stores to...
Digital Book World Awards finalists announced Archive
Thursday, 13 September 2018
The finalists of the Digital Book World (DBW) Awards have been announced. The awards are presented as part of the DBW conference, and recognise 'worldwide achievement in publishing'. Finalists in...
Dymocks launches education business Potentia Archive
Thursday, 13 September 2018
Australian bookselling chain Dymocks has launched a new education business called Potentia. Potentia will run tutoring programs for school students across a broad range of subjects including maths and English....
Three book companies make the 2018 Top 500 list Archive
Thursday, 13 September 2018
Three Australian book industry companies have made the Top 500 Private Companies List, reports the Australian Financial Review (AFR). Book retailer The Co-Op and Australian Geographic ranked 330th, slightly down from last...
Scotland launches national strategy for school libraries Archive
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
A new national strategy has been launched for school libraries in Scotland, after consultation with over 30 schools, reports BBC News. The recently published strategy is the first of its...
NZ author Salmond shortlisted for UK Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize Archive
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
New Zealand author Anne Salmond’s Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds (Auckland University Press) has been shortlisted for the British Academy’s 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize. Salmond's book examines the early encounters...
Maitland councillors lodge rescission motion over public library funding Archive
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
In NSW's Lower Hunter Valley region, three Liberal councillors from Maitland City Council have lodged a motion to reverse council support for public library funding, following the state government’s announcement of a $60...
$132k granted to regional NSW mobile library for upgrades Archive
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
The Clarence Valley Council has upgraded its mobile library service after being granted $132,000 by the NSW state government for a new van, reports the Daily Examiner. The more ‘cost-efficient’...
Consenting adults: Kate Cuthbert on the romance novel and representations of sexuality after #MeToo Archive
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
Escape Publishing managing editor Kate Cuthbert gave the keynote address at this year’s Romance Writers of Australia conference. This is an edited extract of her speech. I’d like to begin...
Dennis Jones & Associates: staff owed $170,000, secured creditor owed $250,000 Archive
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
The liquidators of Dennis Jones & Associates (DJA) held a creditors’ meeting in Melbourne on Monday, 10 September. Liquidators Scott Howell and Steven Kugel from The Insolvency Experts told the Melbourne...
Melbourne Prize for Literature finalists announced Archive
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
Finalists have been announced for this year's Melbourne Prize for Literature, as well as the Best Writing Award and the Readings Residency Award. The finalists for the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for...
IPA condemns issue of international arrest warrant for exiled Turkish publisher Archive
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
In Turkey, a court has issued an Interpol red notice for exiled Turkish publisher and human rights activist Ragip Zarakolu, reports Turkish newspaper Ahval. Zarakolu is the director of Belge Publishing House,...
Australian publishers report interest in parenting, children’s titles in Beijing Archive
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
Independent Australian publishers attending the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), running from 22-26 August, have reported interest in the categories of children's, parenting, and education. Ventura Press director Jane Curry...
MWF reports ‘strongest first day’ in ticket sales; Boochani tops bestseller chart Archive
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
This year's Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which ran from 24 August to 2 September, attracted audiences that were 'excited by the fresh offer' of a more performance-based program, according to festival...
Queer literature festival to launch in India Archive
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
In India, a new literary festival for LGBTIQIA+ readers and writers will be hosted by the city of Lucknow in November, reports the Times of India. Organised by the the Awadh...
Writers, literary orgs among latest OzCo funding recipients Archive
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
Twenty-nine writers and literary organisations are among the recipients of the latest Australia Council grants round, which awarded $6.3 million to more than 200 projects. Grants in the literary category...
Harper wins Barry Award for Best First Novel Archive
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
Jane Harper has won the Barry Award for Best First Novel for her 2017 novel The Dry (Pan). The annual literary crime awards, named for American critic and crime fiction...
Lush announced as SWF head of children’s & YA programs Archive
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
The Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) has appointed Amelia Lush as its new head of children's and YA programs. Lush has been a children's and YA bookseller in Sydney for 10...
McLean’s debut mystery novel sold in four territories Archive
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
Australian author Felicity McLean’s forthcoming debut novel The Van Apfel Girls are Gone (HarperCollins, April 2019) has been sold in four territories, including to Algonquin Books in North America and...
Orr, Groth named as finalists in Canadian children’s book awards Archive
Monday, 10 September 2018
Two Australian authors are among the finalists of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s (CCBC) children’s book awards. Dragonfly Song (A&U) by Canadian-born Australian author Wendy Orr has been shortlisted for the...
Waterstones buys Foyles Archive
Monday, 10 September 2018
British bookshop chain Waterstones has acquired independent bookselling chain Foyles, reports the Bookseller. Foyles has been a family-run business for 115 years, and currently operates four shops in London, and...
Puncher & Wattmann launches First Poetry Book Prize Archive
Monday, 10 September 2018
Independent publisher Puncher & Wattmann (P&W) has announced the inaugural First Poetry Book Prize (FPBP). Open to Australian citizens and writers who have lived in Australia for at least three...
Jackson-Bourke named inaugural Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence Archive
Monday, 10 September 2018
Auckland-based playwright Leki Jackson-Bourke has been announced as the inaugural Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence. Run by the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) at Victoria University of Wellington, the...
Hunter wins $10,000 for 2018 ACU poetry prize Archive
Monday, 10 September 2018
Australian Catholic University (ACU) has announced Castlemaine-based poet Annie Hunter as the winner of the 2018 ACU Prize for Poetry, worth $10,000, for her poem ‘Athene noctua’. Judge Chris Wallace-Crabbe...
Over 30,000 take part in ILD; Fill a Bookshelf campaign raises over $51,000 Archive
Friday, 7 September 2018
Over 30,000 students, libraries and other organisations have taken part in the Great Book Swap campaign for Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD), held this year on 5 September. The Indigenous Literacy...
Vietnamese publisher recalls book with disputed Chinese map Archive
Friday, 7 September 2018
In Vietnam, Hanoi-based publisher the Gioi (World) Publishing House and its partner Dinh Ti Books Company have recalled an educational book, after readers spotted the controversial Chinese 'nine-dash line' on...
Subbed In 2018 Chapbook Prize finalists announced Archive
Friday, 7 September 2018
The finalists for the 2018 Subbed In Chapbook Prize have been announced. The 14 manuscripts selected as finalists are: ‘Plunge the Mirkwood’ (Sumudu Samarawickrama) ‘Unicorns with Unibrows’ (Brianna Bullen) ‘Friends...
Australian Centre Literary Awards 2018 winners announced Archive
Friday, 7 September 2018
The winners of the University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre Literary Awards have been announced. Wesley Michel Wright Prize ($4000) On the Outskirts (John Kinsella, UQP) Commended: Towards Light & Other...
Clan Destine Press acquires Ngaio Marsh winner Archive
Friday, 7 September 2018
Clan Destine Press has acquired world (ex NZ) rights to Australian-born New Zealand-based author Jennifer Lane's debut novel All Our Secrets (Rosa Mira Books NZ). All Our Secrets recently won the...
Copyright Agency awards Create grants to five writers Archive
Friday, 7 September 2018
Five writers and one visual artist have received Create grants, worth a total of $105,000, from the Copyright Agency. The grants went to the following writers: Peggy Frew ($20,000) Jennifer Mills...
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