Australian author Peter Temple dies
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
Acclaimed crime author Peter Temple has died, aged 71. Temple was the first Australian writer to win the Gold Dagger, a major award from the UK's Crime Writers’ Association, for...
Dyer to step down from SWF, joins AWW as director
Friday, 9 March 2018
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced that CEO Jo Dyer will step down from the role in June 2018, following the upcoming festival which runs from 30 April to...
Hazel Rowley Fellowship Award 2018 winners announced
Friday, 9 March 2018
Writers Victoria has announced that author Jacqueline Kent has been awarded the $15,000 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her proposed biography of political campaigner and women's rights activist Vida Goldstein....
Translated kids’ fiction prize releases shortlist
Friday, 9 March 2018
In the UK, children’s reading charity BookTrust has released the shortlist for its children’s books in translation project, In Other Words. The promotion, which was launched in September 2016, is...
Hay Festival announces #VOTE100BOOKS campaign
Friday, 9 March 2018
In the UK, the Hay Festival has announced a campaign to select 100 books by women from the last 100 years to be celebrated at its festivals in the UK...
Schmidt longlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018
Friday, 9 March 2018
Australian author Sarah Schmidt has been longlisted for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, See What I Have Done (Hachette). Schmidt’s book takes as its subject...
No ‘Daily’ on Monday
Friday, 9 March 2018
Please note that, due to the public holiday on Monday (Labour Day in Victoria, Adelaide Cup Day in South Australia, Canberra Day in ACT and Eight Hours Day in Tasmania),...
Stella Prize 2018 shortlist announced
Thursday, 8 March 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Shokoofeh Azar, Wild Dingo Press) Terra Nullius (Claire G Coleman,...
ABIA 2018 longlists announced
Thursday, 8 March 2018
The longlists for the 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Force of Nature (Jane Harper,...
Eight authors win 2018 Windham-Campbell prizes
Thursday, 8 March 2018
Eight authors from around the world have received 2018 Windham-Campbell prizes. The recipients in each category are: Fiction Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Uganda/UK) John Keene (US) Nonfiction Olivia Laing (UK) Sarah...
Pantera acquires the Author People
Thursday, 8 March 2018
Pantera Press has acquired boutique publishing company the Author People from co-founder Lou Johnson. The purchase will see Pantera take on US rights to A Thousand Shards of Glass by...
PRH acquires journalist’s investigation into death of boxer Davey Browne
Thursday, 8 March 2018
Penguin Random House has acquired ANZ rights to a nonfiction title by journalist Stephanie Convery that investigates the 2015 death of boxer Davey Browne. Browne was knocked out in the...
NLA celebrates 50th anniversary with exhibition
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
The National Library of Australia (NLA) is holding an exhibition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the library building’s construction and to further explore the year 1968 in history. The...
Project Nepal to build new library to stop human trafficking
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Project Nepal, run by Canberra law student Christina Lee, is seeking funding to build a library in the Nepalese village of Batase in an attempt to stop human trafficking. With...
TurnItIn to identify third-party authorship with machine learning
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
University anti-plagiarism software company TurnItIn will bring out a new product that uses machine learning to tackle the prevalence of students engaging a third party to complete their assessments, sometimes...
ALIA announces 2018 grant for Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced it will award a grant to a current ALIA member to attend the Asia-Pacific Library and Information Conference this year. The...
Behind the marketing campaign: Kirstin Corcoran on ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Heather Morris’ debut novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Echo) is a fictionalised account of Austrian-Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor Ludwig ‘Lale’ Sokolov's experience of being a tattooist (tätowierer) in a prison camp...
Final diary of Miles Franklin to be donated to SLNSW
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
The final diary of author Miles Franklin will be donated to the State Library of NSW, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. The small, red pocket diary records the final year...
Atkins wins 2018 Romantic Novel of the Year
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
In the UK, author Dani Atkins has won the 2018 Goldsboro Books Romantic Novel of the Year award for her novel This Love (S&S). Facilitated by the Romantic Novelists' Association, the Romantic...
Kostakis nominated for Lammy award
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
YA author Will Kostakis has been announced as a finalist in the 30th annual Lambda Literary Awards—known as the ‘Lammys’—for his book The Sidekicks (Penguin). The Lammys celebrate achievement in...
20,000 attend PFWW; Beer tops bestsellers
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Twenty thousand people attended the 2018 Perth Festival Writer’s Week (PFWW), which ran from 19 to 25 February. Attendance was down on last year’s event, but a festival spokesperson said...
New spec fic festival announces headliners Kaufman, Kristoff and Canavan
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
The creators of the Morning Bell literary podcast have announced a new festival focusing on speculative fiction and ‘the craft of writing’. The Speculate Literary Festival will run on Saturday...
‘WBN’ published Thursday next week
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Please note that, due to the public holiday on Monday (Labour Day in Victoria, Adelaide Cup Day in South Australia, Canberra Day in ACT and Eight Hours Day in Tasmania),...
Pullman calls out publishers’ ‘damaging’ corporate approach
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Philip Pullman has called out 'the ecology of the book world', in which profit margins for publishers are rising, while the money authors are paid for their work is decreasing,...
NewSouth withdraws ‘Deadly Woman Blues’ from publication
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
NewSouth Publishing has withdrawn Clinton Walker’s recently released book Deadly Woman Blues from publication, after factual inaccuracies were brought to light by women who were featured in the book. The...
HarperCollins launches unpublished manuscript prize
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
HarperCollins has launched The Banjo Prize, an annual unpublished manuscript prize for Australian commercial fiction. The winner of the prize will receive a publishing contract with HarperCollins and an advance...
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
The shortlists for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The New Animals (Pip Adam, Victoria University Press) Salt Picnic...
Schmidt wins inaugural MUD Literary Prize for debut fiction
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Sarah Schmidt's See What I Have Done (Hachette) has won the inaugural MUD Literary Prize, awarded to a debut novelist. As part of the prize, Schmidt received a cash prize...
‘The Jade Lily’ sold into North America
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Australian author Kirsty Manning’s forthcoming historical-fiction novel, The Jade Lily (A&U), has sold in the US at auction to William Morrow in a two-book deal. The deal was negotiated by...
‘Overland’ Neilma Sidney Prize winners announced
Monday, 5 March 2018
The winner and runners-up for Overland’s second Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize for travel-themed short fiction have been announced. Laura Elvery’s story ‘Unspooling’—about a woman ‘overwhelmed by a pair of...
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