Haywood wins UQ library’s Creative Writing Fellowship
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Poet and academic Ashley Haywood is the recipient of the University of Queensland library’s Creative Writing Fellowship. Haywood will draw on the Fryer Library’s Dorothy Hill collection for a book...
Griffiths wins 2017 ACT Book of the Year
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Tom Griffiths has won the 2017 ACT Book of the Year for his nonfiction book The Art of Time Travel (Black Inc.). Griffiths was chosen from a shortlist of five,...
Over half of book-industry survey respondents report sexual harassment
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Just over half (54%) of all respondents to Books+Publishing’s survey on sexual harassment in the Australian book industry have reported being sexually harassed. Books+Publishing received 213 responses to the survey....
Adaptations win at AACTA Awards 2017
Friday, 8 December 2017
The 2017 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards have been announced, with many of the awards going to book-to-screen adaptations. The feature film adaptation of Saroo Brierley’s...
‘Paris Review’ editor resigns amid questions over his conduct with women
Friday, 8 December 2017
Lorin Stein, the editor of the Paris Review, has resigned amid an internal investigation into his behaviour towards female employees and writers, reports the New York Times. Stein sent a...
Dymocks stores undergo extensive upgrades in 2017
Friday, 8 December 2017
Dymocks has announced it is making ‘significant upgrades’ to its network, with the bookseller refurbishing 15% of its stores in 2017. Upgrades have included introducing consistent signage across categories, additional...
Brio acquires O’Neill’s ‘The Drover’s Wife’ reinterpretations; acquires new debut novel by Vincent Silk
Friday, 8 December 2017
Xoum imprint Brio has acquired Ryan O’Neill’s The Drovers Wives, a collection of 99 remixes and reinterprations of Henry Lawson’s The Drover’s Wife. In the collection, O’Neill reimagines Lawson’s classic...
Rooney wins Young Writer of the Year award
Friday, 8 December 2017
In the UK, Irish writer Sally Rooney has won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for her ‘fearless, sensual’ debut novel Conversations with Friends (Faber), reports the...
Dymocks poll finds over half of all adults planning to give a book this Christmas
Friday, 8 December 2017
A Dymocks-commissioned OmniPoll survey of more than 1200 adults has found more than half of all Australians say they’re likely to give someone a book this Christmas, including about 62%...
Final ‘B+P Daily’ for 2017
Friday, 8 December 2017
This issue of the Books+Publishing Daily will be the last for 2017. The Daily will return on Monday 8 January. The Books+Publishing team wishes our subscribers all the best for...
Pham awarded NSW Writer’s Fellowship
Thursday, 7 December 2017
Cabramatta-based writer Stephen Pham has been awarded the NSW Writer’s Fellowship, worth $30,000. The fellowship, presented by NSW Minister for the Arts Don Harwin, includes an optional residency at Varuna,...
Radio National revamps arts programming for 2018
Thursday, 7 December 2017
ABC Radio National has announced its program for 2018, with its daily Books and Arts program to be replaced by a new arts program, The Hub. The Hub will be...
Booksellers respond to Amazon’s Australian launch
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Australian booksellers have reacted cautiously to the launch of Amazon’s online store in Australia, with some noting that the online retailer ‘has given very little away’ despite extensive media coverage of...
Christmas predictions: Gavin Williams from Matilda and Lindy Jones from Abbey’s
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
In a series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this instalment, Gavin Williams, owner...
Government to table Bill extending safe harbour to libraries
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Communications minister Mitch Fifield has told the Financial Review the federal government will introduce legislation extending safe harbour provisions to libraries, educational institutions and the disability, archive and culture sectors....
Library manager wins top gong at inaugural NT Digital Excellence Awards
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Alice Springs Town Council library services manager Georgina Davison has won the Minister’s gold award and community benefit award at the inaugural Northern Territory Digital Excellence Awards, reports Information Age....
Hong Kong rolls out library vending machines at train stations
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
In Hong Kong, vending machines stocked with up to 300 library books each are being installed at train stations, reports the South China Morning Post. Books in the machine can...
Christmas closing list 2017: Updated
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Company Last day of business in 2017 First day of business in 2018 Allen & Unwin Friday, 22 December (closing 1pm) Tuesday, 2 January Alliance Distribution Services Closed public holidays...
Winners of Emerging Writers’ Mentorships 2018 announced
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the winners of the 2018 Emerging Writers’ Mentorship program. The winners are: Adult fiction: Amanda Niehaus for ‘The Breeding Season’ H T...
Cengage launches unlimited subscription service
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
In the US, publisher and technology company Cengage is launching a ‘first-of its kind’ digital subscription service for students called Cengage Unlimited, reports the Bookseller. The service, launching in August...
Indie Book Awards 2018 longlists announced
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2018 Indie Book Awards for books published in 2017. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction A Long Way from...
Judges for inaugural Michael Gifkins Prize announced
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaitahu O Aotearoa and Text Publishing (Text) have announced the judges for the inaugural Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished novel. New...
Grattan Institute releases PM summer reading list
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Australian public policy think tank Grattan Institute has released its annual summer reading list for the Prime Minister. In a statement on its website announcing the six books included in...
Please complete our pre-Christmas survey: Last chance
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual pre-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. Booksellers If you are a bookseller, please complete...
Amazon Australia officially launches
Tuesday, 5 December 2017
Amazon’s Australian store has officially launched, and is selling print books and 22 other product categories through its own store and marketplace. Online retailers selling books through Amazon's marketplace include...
Online book club launches YA event
Tuesday, 5 December 2017
Online young adult book club the YA Room has programmed a one-day young adult (YA) event in Melbourne at the Wheeler Centre. ‘YA Day’, which will be held on 28...
O’Flynn wins 2017 Voss Literary Prize
Tuesday, 5 December 2017
Author Mark O’Flynn has won the 2017 Voss Literary Prize for The Last Days of Ava Langdon (UQP). The Voss Literary Prize is awarded to the best novel published in...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Monday, 4 December 2017
The 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction A New England Affair (Steven Carroll, HarperCollins) Australia Day (Melanie Cheng, Text) The Life to...
Bollen wins Bad S-x in Fiction Award
Monday, 4 December 2017
US author Christopher Bollen has received the 2017 Bad S-x in Fiction Award, the Literary Review’s annual prize for ‘poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern...
Herrmann named UK FutureBook Leader of the Year
Monday, 4 December 2017
Founder and co-CEO of Bolinda Rebecca Herrmann has been named Leader of the Year at the FutureBook awards, run by the Bookseller in the UK. As previously reported by Books+Publishing,...
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