‘La Belle Sauvage’ selected as Waterstones Book of the Year
Friday, 1 December 2017
UK bookselling chain Waterstones has selected Philip Pullman’s La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One (Penguin) as its Book of the Year for 2017. The title was chosen...
Wagner awarded 2017 Dromkeen Medal
Friday, 1 December 2017
The State Library Victoria (SLV) has awarded the 2017 Dromkeen Medal to Erica Wagner, publisher of books for children and young adults at Allen & Unwin. Wagner has worked as...
Heyman wins 2017 Copyright Agency Fellowship
Friday, 1 December 2017
Kathryn Heyman has won the Copyright Agency’s 2017 fellowship for mid-to-late career authors, worth $80,000. Heyman received the fellowship for her forthcoming memoir Words to Live By. The memoir explores how...
Filming starts on adaptation of Jensen’s ‘Acute Misfortune’
Friday, 1 December 2017
A film adaptation of Erik Jensen’s biography of painter Adam Cullen, Acute Misfortune (Black Inc.), has begun production in the Blue Mountains. The film will track the volatile relationship between...
RMIT professional writing staff awarded $20,000 teaching prize
Friday, 1 December 2017
The teaching team for the Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing at Victoria’s RMIT University has won the university’s Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. The team, which comprises Penny Johnson, Stephanie Holt,...
Renamed Writers SA announces plans to expand program
Friday, 1 December 2017
The SA Writers Centre has changed its name to Writers SA, adopted a new logo and announced plans to expand its events program. Writers SA chair Amy Matthews said the...
‘Overland’ Fair Australia Prize 2017 winners announced
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Literary journal Overland has announced the winners for this year’s Fair Australia Prize. The winners are: Poetry: Andrew Sutherland for ‘East Perth [imagined nation]’, a ‘response to citizenship, love, distance...
Italy to offer tax breaks for bookstores
Thursday, 30 November 2017
The Italian government will introduce tax breaks for bookstores to help stem the number of store closures, reports the Bookseller. The government will cut property and local services taxes for...
Pan Mac UK acquires Cassandra Clare adult fantasy titles in seven-figure deal
Thursday, 30 November 2017
YA author Cassandra Clare has signed a two-book, seven-figure deal with Pan Macmillan UK for her first fantasy novels for adults, reports the Guardian. The first book Sword Catcher will follow ‘a...
Milligan wins 2017 Walkley Book Award for ‘Cardinal’
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Investigative journalist Louise Milligan has won the 2017 Walkley Book Award for Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell (MUP). Milligan’s book was chosen from a shortlist of three....
Pullman, Gaiman back UK school library campaign
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
In the UK, authors Philip Pullman, Neil Gaiman and Malorie Blackman are among more than 150 book industry figures who are supporting a campaign to halt the decline of libraries...
Sydney libraries fitted out with robotic kits
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The City of Sydney will supply more than 180 new robotic and electronic kits to its libraries’ ‘makerspaces’, giving students and library patrons the opportunity to explore a range of...
Christmas predictions: Kym Bagley and Rivis Donnelly from Dymocks Melbourne
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
In a new 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 our latest instalment, Dymocks...
Where popular meets the professional: Genre Con 2017
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
GenreCon 2017 was the conference’s biggest yet. The biennially-staged writers conference aimed at genre writers sold out its registrations with 240 attendees, up from 190 in 2015. Fantasy writers were...
Middle Park residents fight council over library plans
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
A group of Middle Park residents are opposing the City of Port Phillip’s plan to remove hundreds of books from their local library, reports the Age. Middle Park resident James...
Christmas closing list 2017
Wednesday, 29 November 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...
Atlantic’s revenue drops in 2016 due to ebook sales ‘squeeze’
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
UK publisher Atlantic’s revenue has dropped in 2016 with ebook sales down 20%, reports the Bookseller. Atlantic’s revenue in 2016 was £5.5m (A$9.7m), down £0.5m (A$0.9m) on the previous year,...
HQ to publish actress McGowan’s memoir in ANZ
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
HarperCollins Australia imprint HQ will publish US actress Rose McGowan’s memoir Brave in Australia and New Zealand in January 2018. McGowan’s ‘memoir/manifesto’ will be a ‘pull-no-punches’ account of her life as an...
Australia Council publishing delegation to travel to US
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The Australia Council will select a delegation of up to six Australian rights sellers, literary agents and publishers to visit the US in 2018. The New York Publishers Program 2018...
Readings Foundation announces 2018 grant recipients
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The Readings Foundation has chosen 15 Victorian organisations to share in $184,692 worth of grants in 2018. The grant recipients are: Ardoch Youth Foundation: $10,000 to run four writer-in-residence programs...
Splatt selected for Australia Council’s Kolkata publishing residency
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Melbourne-based author and editor Sophie Splatt has been selected for the Australia Council’s inaugural Seagull School of Publishing residency in Kolkata, India. Splatt will travel to Kolkata in January 2018...
New Zealand Book Awards 2018 longlists announced
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The longlists for the 2018 New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles are: Fiction The New Animals (Pip Adam, Victoria University Press) The Beat of the Pendulum...
Christmas closing list: Final chance to submit dates
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Publishers and distributors have one more chance to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by 5pm this Friday 1 December. If your business doesn’t appear on this week’s list, please...
Please complete our pre-Christmas survey
Wednesday, 29 November 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...
Attendance up at SPN conference; children’s books a growth area for small publishers
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) sixth Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 16-18 November. With attendance up on last year, SPN general manager Matthia...
Wright named Melbourne Uni’s Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Author Alexis Wright has been appointed as the second Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne, following Richard Flanagan’s inaugural appointment in 2015. The Boisbouvier Chair was...
Hachette Australia announces promotions in publishing division
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Hachette Australia has promoted several of its publishers to newly created roles within the publishing division. Vanessa Radnidge has been promoted to head of nonfiction, and will focus on growing...
Waterstones to open five stores before Christmas
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
UK bookselling chain Waterstones will open five new bookstores before Christmas, including three that are named after their local area in the style of an independent bookshop, reports the Bookseller....
Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes 2017 winners announced
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Tasmania Book Prize for best book with Tasmanian content in any...
QWC’s #8WordStory campaign attracts over 10,000 entries
Monday, 27 November 2017
The Queensland Writers Centre’s (QWC) #8WordStory campaign has ‘surpassed all expectations with over 10,000 entries submitted’, the organisation has announced. QWC invited members of the public to the submit stories...
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