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Silcox awarded ‘ABR’ 40th anniversary fellowship

Tuesday, 27 February 2018
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced Beejay Silcox as the recipient of its $10,000 Fortieth Birthday Fellowship. Silcox will contribute several articles and review essays to ABR throughout 2018,...

Bloomsbury to release new Hosseini refugee book

Tuesday, 27 February 2018
Bloomsbury has announced it will publish a new book by Khaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Hosseini’s new book, Sea Prayer, takes the...

MidnightSun YA novel optioned for film

Tuesday, 27 February 2018
Adelaide-based writer Cameron Raynes’ novel First Person Shooter (MidnightSun) has been optioned for film by Perth production company Factor 30 Films. First Person Shooter is a coming-of-age story set in...

Gomides awarded 2018 Kat Muscat Fellowship

Tuesday, 27 February 2018
Melbourne-based writer Ana Maria Gomides has been awarded the 2018 Kat Muscat Fellowship. Gomides will use the fellowship to work on a book of short stories, personal essays and narrative...

Readings Children’s Book Prize 2018 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 27 February 2018
The shortlist for the Readings Children’s Book Prize for 2018 has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: Tarin of the Mammoths: The Exile (Jo Sandhu, Penguin) Nevermoor: The Trials...

Watts wins UWAP Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript

Monday, 26 February 2018
Western Australian poet Julie Watts has won the 2018 UWA Publishing (UWAP) Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript for her poetry manuscript, ‘Legacy’. Watts was chosen from a shortlist...

Pearson reports a return to profit; PRH revenue ‘slightly up’

Monday, 26 February 2018
UK educational publisher Pearson has posted its annual financial results, revealing pre-tax profits of £421 million (A$750 million), up from a £2.6 billion (A$4.6 billion) loss last year, sustained due...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now

Monday, 26 February 2018
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains nine reviews of books publishing in April. Holly Ringland's debut novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Fourth Estate) has already sold in 18 foreign...

Araluen wins ‘Overland’ Judith Wright Poetry Prize

Monday, 26 February 2018
Evelyn Araluen has been awarded the 2017 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets. Araluen won the prize for her poem ‘Guarded by birds’, with second place...

Farrell’s Bookshop celebrates 40 years

Monday, 26 February 2018
Farrell’s Bookshop in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Farrell’s was founded in 1978 by Roy and Liz Farrell, who set up the shop in Mornington’s...

Clarke to edit new anthology ‘Growing Up African in Australia’

Monday, 26 February 2018
Black Inc. has announced it will publish a new anthology in 2019, Growing up African in Australia, which will be edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke, with assistance from writers Ahmed...

Shortlist announced for 2018 Jhalak Prize for BAME writers

Friday, 23 February 2018
The shortlist for the UK’s Jhalak Prize for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Golden Legend (Nadeem Aslam, Faber) Kumukanda (Kayo...

PEN America Literary Awards 2018 winners announced

Friday, 23 February 2018
In the US, Pen America has announced the winners of its 2018 Literary Awards. Among the award winners are: PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Whereas (Layli Long Soldier, Graywolf Press) PEN/Robert...

Marriott wins Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal

Friday, 23 February 2018
Children’s author, editor and teacher Janice Marriott has won the 2018 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, presented annually for lifetime achievement and distinguished contribution to New Zealand children’s literature. Marriott is...

Screen Australia announces funding for new book-to-film adaptations

Friday, 23 February 2018
Films based on books by Hannah Kent, Alice Pung, Peter Goldsworthy and Tara Winkler are among the latest projects to receive funding from Screen Australia. Screen Australia announced yesterday that...

Feminist fairytale collection lands small press its first North American deal

Friday, 23 February 2018
Australian publisher Serenity Press has sold US and Canadian rights to Kate Forsyth’s collection of feminist fairytale retellings, Vasilisa the Wise and Other Tales of Brave Young Women (illus by...

UK consumer report finds fewer preschoolers being read to by parents

Thursday, 22 February 2018
A UK report has revealed just 51% of preschool-age children are read to on a daily basis, a drop from 69% in 2013, reports the Bookseller. The survey, which was...

‘Overland’ Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize 2017 shortlist announced

Thursday, 22 February 2018
The shortlist for Overland’s Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize for travel-themed short fiction has been announced. The 13 shortlisted entries are: ‘If there are zebra finches’ (Claire Aman) ‘Hot days’...

Yolngu artist Warrkatja wins inaugural Magabala illustrator award

Thursday, 22 February 2018
Yolngu artist Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr has won Magabala Books’ inaugural Kestin Indigenous Illustrator Award, reports the Australian. New to illustrating books, Warrkatja is a painter whose work draws on traditional...

McLean appointed acting CEO of UPLIT and BWF

Thursday, 22 February 2018
Ann McLean has been appointed acting chief executive officer for 2018 at UPLIT, the organisation responsible for the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF). McLean will serve in the role while the...

Taylor & Francis scraps licensing change after opposition from libraries

Wednesday, 21 February 2018
In the UK, Taylor & Francis has reversed its decision to charge extra for older journal material after more than 110 libraries in the UK and Ireland signed an open...

Concept plans released for ‘long-awaited’ Gosford library

Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Concept plans for the ‘long-awaited’ Gosford Regional Library have been released, reports the Daily Telegraph. Community residents are being asked to consider the two concept plans for the library and...

‘ABR’ Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2018 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 21 February 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poets are: Eileen Chong (Sydney) Katherine Healy (Adelaide) L K Holt (Melbourne)...

Creative Victoria announces new Diversity and Inclusion Program funding

Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Creative Victoria has announced new funding opportunities under its Diversity and Inclusion Program to ‘address barriers to participation by underrepresented groups in Victoria’s creative industries’. As part of the initiative,...