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Wellcome Book Prize 2018 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
The shortlist for this year’s Wellcome Book Prize, presented for books about health, medicine and illness, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Stay with Me (Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Canongate) The...

Brow Books sells UK rights to ‘Apple and Knife’

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Brow Books has sold UK and Commonwealth rights to Sydney-based Indonesian author Intan Paramaditha’s short-fiction collection Apple and Knife to Harvill Secker, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK. Harvill Secker...

Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses winner announced

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
In the UK, Eley Williams’ short-story collection Attrib. and Other Stories (Influx Press) has won the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, reports the Bookseller. The £5000 (A$9110) prize...

Scholastic acquires Rogers’ ‘Girltopia’

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Scholastic Australia has acquired a middle-grade fiction trilogy, 'Girltopia', written by former Hardie Grant Egmont publishing director Hilary Rogers. Book one in the trilogy, Girltopia, marks Rogers’ debut as an...

PRH acquires 13-year-old slam poet Solli Raphael’s debut

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Penguin Random House Australia’s Young Readers division has acquired 13-year-old slam poet Solli Raphael’s first book, a collection of slam poetry paired with inspirational writing techniques. Scheduled for publication on...

ALS Gold Medal 2018 longlist announced

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
The longlist for the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc (Ali Alizadeh, Giramondo) Common People (Tony Birch, UQP) A...

Wong wins Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2018

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Hong Kong-based poet Nicholas Wong has won the Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize for his poem ‘101 Taipei’. Wong’s poem was chosen for the $5000 prize from...

Pearson UK reports 21% mean gender pay gap

Tuesday, 20 March 2018
In the UK, Pearson has reported an overall median gender pay gap of 15% in 2017, and a mean gap of 21%, reports the Bookseller. Pearson’s median gender pay gap of 15%...

New bookstore Collaroy Books to open in northern Sydney

Tuesday, 20 March 2018
A new bookstore, Collaroy Books, is set to open in the northern Sydney suburb of Collaroy at the start of May. The new store will be located at Collaroy Beach...

Perimeter Editions wins Cornish Family Book Prize

Tuesday, 20 March 2018
Melbourne publisher Perimeter Editions has won the Cornish Family Book Prize for Art and Design Publishing for To Note: Notation Across Disciplines (edited by Hannah Mathews, designed by Ziga Testen...

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 20 March 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) Common People (Tony Birch, UQP)...

HGE sells US rights to Henseleit debut

Monday, 19 March 2018
Hardie Grant Egmont has sold US rights to debut author Jack Henseleit’s middle grade fiction books The Witching Hours: The Vampire Knife and its sequel, The Troll Heart, to Little, Brown...

Longlist announced for 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

Monday, 19 March 2018
The longlist for the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature has been announced. Considered 'the leading literary award for Caribbean writers', the prize recognises books by Caribbean authors published...

Shortlist announced for inaugural Perimeter Small Book Prize

Monday, 19 March 2018
The shortlist for the inaugural Perimeter Small Book Prize has been announced. The shortlisted entrants are: Michael Garbutt Luke Van Aurich Saskia Pandji Sakti Jacob Raupach Kathryn McCool Ross Taylor...

Black Inc. to end ‘Best Australian Essays, Stories and Poems’; announces new collection

Monday, 19 March 2018
Black Inc. has announced it will no longer publish its series of Best Australian Essays, Stories and Poems, but will publish a new annual short story collection instead. Beginning in...

SWF 2018 program announced

Friday, 16 March 2018
The program has been announced for this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which runs from 30 April to 6 May. Sixty international guests and 400 Australian writers, academics and public...

Shortlists announced for 2018 Carnegie, Greenaway medals

Friday, 16 March 2018
In the UK, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals. The eight shortlisted titles for the...

Australian book industry orgs release joint statement on ‘safe workplaces’

Friday, 16 March 2018
The Australian Publishers Association (APA), the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA), the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) have released a joint statement promoting...