Wilson awarded 2018 Lloyd O’Neil award; Covernton awarded Pixie O’Harris
Monday, 30 April 2018
Independent bookseller and Indigenous literacy advocate Suzy Wilson and Working Title Press publisher Jane Covernton will be inducted into the ABIA Hall of Fame at the Australian Book Industry Awards...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars: Cate Blake
Monday, 30 April 2018
In recognition of the Australian Book Industry Awards' (ABIA) inaugural Rising Star of the Year Award, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees ahead of the winner's announcement...
Edwards named patron of Society of Women Writers Victoria
Monday, 30 April 2018
Author Hazel Edwards has been named as the next patron of the Society of Women Writers Victoria (SWWVic). Edwards was announced as patron at the SWWVic committee meeting on 27...
ALS Gold Medal 2018 shortlist announced
Monday, 30 April 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: A Long Way from Home (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton) The Agonist (Shastra...
Norma K Hemming Award 2018 shortlists announced
Monday, 30 April 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Norma K Hemming Award have been announced. The award is presented by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation for a work of speculative fiction published in...
Come out swinging: Christian White on ‘The Nowhere Child’
Friday, 27 April 2018
Christian White’s The Nowhere Child (Affirm, July) tells the story of a Melbourne woman caught up in the investigation of a decades-old kidnapping in Kentucky. Reviewer Deborah Crabtree spoke to...
Waterstones sold to hedge fund Elliott Advisors
Friday, 27 April 2018
British bookstore chain Waterstones has been sold to hedge fund Elliott Advisors for an undisclosed amount, reports the Bookseller. Following exclusive talks that began in January 2018, Elliott Advisors bought...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars: Patrizia di Biase-Dyson
Friday, 27 April 2018
In recognition of the Australian Book Industry Awards' (ABIA) inaugural Rising Star of the Year Award, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees ahead of the winner's announcement...
Kenwood wins 2018 Text Prize
Friday, 27 April 2018
Melbourne-based writer Nina Kenwood has won the 2018 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for her YA manuscript 'It Sounded Better in My Head'. The ‘tender, funny and joyful...
Tusk Books gains representation by The Rights Hive
Friday, 27 April 2018
Animal rights publisher Tusk Books has gained international rights representation through rights agency The Rights Hive. Director of The Rights Hive Natasha Solomun said that two Tusk Books picture books—titled...
US Senate to consider Marrakesh Treaty on book accessibility for the print disabled
Thursday, 26 April 2018
The United States Senate is poised to pass the Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act, which, if passed, will make an additional 350,000 books available to the blind and print disabled. A...
Podcast spotlight: The Morning Bell
Thursday, 26 April 2018
Established in 2014, the Morning Bell is a literary podcast recorded live at the Brunswick Street Bookstore every second Wednesday. For each episode, a guest joins host Joel Martin and co-hosts...
ALIA board election results announced
Thursday, 26 April 2018
The results of the Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) 2018 board election have been announced. Helen Ebsworth and Paula Kelly Paull have been elected as directors and will take...
black&write! Writing Fellowship 2018 winners announced
Thursday, 26 April 2018
The 2018 black&write! Fellowships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers have been awarded to Gold Coast writer Lystra Bisschop and Sydney-based writer Nardi Simpson. Bisschop, a descendant of the...
North Fitzroy Library nominated for 2018 Melbourne Design Awards
Thursday, 26 April 2018
The City of Yarra’s Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library and Community Hub has been nominated for the 2018 Melbourne Design Awards. The library building’s new $15+ million design, which was...
Nasrallah wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Thursday, 26 April 2018
Jordanian-Palestinian author Ibrahim Nasrallah has won the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his novel The Second War of the Dog (Arab Scientific Publishers). The Second War of...
O’Neill’s forthcoming ‘Drover’s Wives’ sold to UK
Thursday, 26 April 2018
Prime Minister’s Literary Award-winner Ryan O’Neill has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Australia and New Zealand) to his Henry Lawson-inspired short-story collection, The Drover’s Wives, to UK publisher Lightning...
Edinburgh Exchange recipients announced
Thursday, 26 April 2018
Creative Victoria has announced the recipients of the Edinburgh Exchange, an exchange program between the Melbourne and Edinburgh Cities of Literature. The six Victorian delegates are: Marian Blythe (Homecooked Comics...
PEN America launches Online Harassment Field Manual
Thursday, 26 April 2018
PEN America has created an online field manual resource to address the rapid rise in the harassment and trolling of US writers and journalists. The manual was created in response...
Up for promotion: Digital marketing strategies
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Danielle Binks investigates how publishers and authors are using digital marketing and promotional strategies to reach new readers. Word-of-mouth, it has been said, sells books. But the question remains: how...
Books+Publishing magazine Issue 1 2018
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Books+Publishing magazine’s first issue for 2018 is out now! It features 26 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing in April to June. Reviews: Of the 13 adult books reviewed in this...
O’Grady wins Vogel for ‘The Yellow House’
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Brisbane writer Emily O’Grady has won the 2018 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for The Yellow House (A&U), a story about ‘the legacies of violence and the possibilities of redemption’, set in...
Black Inc. sells ‘Nobel Prize’ middle-grade in seven territories
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Nobel Prize-winner Barry Marshall and Lorna Hendry’s middle-grade time-travel adventure, How to Win a Nobel Prize (illus by Bernard Caleo, Black Inc.), has sold into seven territories, including to Oneworld...
Shortlist announced for Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: The Idiot (Elif Batuman, Penguin) The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock (Imogen Hermes Gowar,...
Sandhu wins Readings Children’s Book Prize 2018
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Jo Sandhu has won the 2018 Readings Children’s Book Prize for her middle-grade novel Tarin of the Mammoths: The Exile (Puffin), the first book in a trilogy. Sandhu’s title was...
No ‘Daily’ on Wednesday
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
The Books+Publishing Daily newsletter will not be published on Wednesday 25 April due to the Anzac Day holiday. The next Daily will be published on Thursday 26 April.
UK academics vote on most influential books in history written by women
Monday, 23 April 2018
In the UK, academics, booksellers, publishers and librarians have voted on a list of the top 20 ‘books by women that changed the world’. Covering a variety of topics such...
Creative Victoria forms working group to combat harassment and misconduct
Monday, 23 April 2018
Creative Victoria has formed a working group of industry leaders to combat sexual harassment, bullying and misconduct in Victoria’s creative industries. Formed at the request of Victorian minister for creative...
Personal growth: 2017’s fastest growing categories
Friday, 20 April 2018
This year Books+Publishing will publish a regular column from Nielsen BookScan Australia associate director Julie Winters on book data trends. In her first column, Winters looks at the fastest-growing subject...
Prime location: thriving in sobering times at Avenue Elsternwick
Friday, 20 April 2018
When Melbourne’s Avenue Bookstore owner Chris Redfern opened a second store in Elsternwick in 2012, the year after the REDgroup collapse, some were sceptical. Bookseller Savannah Indigo explains how the...
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