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Winners of State Library of Queensland’s 2017 Memory Awards announced

Wednesday, 7 June 2017
The winners of the State Library of Queensland’s (SLQ) 2017 Memory Awards, which celebrate excellence in research and new knowledge about the state’s history, were announced at a ceremony on 1...

New Zealand Book Awards for Children and YA 2017 finalists announced

Wednesday, 7 June 2017
The finalists for the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: Picture Book Award Fuzzy Doodle (Melinda...

Cengage introduces certification seal to fight piracy

Wednesday, 7 June 2017
In the US, Cengage has introduced a certification seal on its course materials in a bid to combat piracy, reports Publishers Weekly. The certification seal includes a QR code and...

Minimum wage to rise 3.3% following Fair Work Commission’s annual wage review

Wednesday, 7 June 2017
The Fair Work Commission has announced a 3.3% increase to minimum wages effective from 1 July 2017, lifting the minimum wage from $17.70 per hour to $18.29 per hour. The...

Scribe to publish former ABC journalist’s account of fatal police-shooting of mentally ill man

Wednesday, 7 June 2017
Scribe has acquired world rights to former ABC journalist Kate Wild’s narrative nonfiction account of the fatal police-shooting of a mentally ill man, 24-year-old Elijah Holcombe, in NSW in 2009....

Slater, McCulloch and Maling receive Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships

Wednesday, 7 June 2017
Writers Rebecca Slater and Scott McCulloch and poet Caitlin Maling are among the 12 recipients of the 2017 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, worth $50,000 each. Maling will use the scholarship...

‘WBN’ published Thursday next week

Tuesday, 6 June 2017
Please note that, due to the Queen’s Birthday holiday on Monday in all states except Queensland and Western Australia, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 15 June. The deadline...

Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2017 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 6 June 2017
The Wilderness Society has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. The shortlisted books in each category are: Picture fiction Circle (Jeannie Baker, Walker Books) The...

Penalty rate changes to be phased in over four years

Tuesday, 6 June 2017
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that planned cuts to weekend penalty rates for retail workers will be phased in over four years. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, in February...

Shortlist for ‘Lip’ magazine’s Rachel Funari prize announced

Tuesday, 6 June 2017
The shortlist for Lip magazine’s annual Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their works are: ‘Aftermath’ by Alice Bishop ‘Burning Day’ by Kristin Meachem...

Fox, Spicer nominated for Walkley’s Women’s Leadership in Media Award

Monday, 5 June 2017
Catherine Fox and Tracey Spicer have been selected as finalists for the Walkley Foundation’s Women’s Leadership in Media Award. Fox was cited for her nonfiction book Stop Fixing Women (NewSouth),...

Audies 2017 winners announced

Monday, 5 June 2017
In the US, the winners of the 2017 Audies, presented by the Audio Publishers Association, have been announced. The Audiobook of the Year award went to Hamilton: The Revolution (Lin-Manuel...

Affirm acquires debut novel by Tony Martin

Monday, 5 June 2017
Affirm Press has acquired the debut novel by comedian and broadcaster Tony Martin. The publisher said Deadly Kerfuffle is ‘inspired by letters to the local newspaper’, and is ‘set in...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now

Friday, 2 June 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 22 reviews of books publishing in July and August. The two highest-scoring titles, with five stars each, were the YA novels Because of You by...

Gaming app wins $5000 Dymocks Innovation challenge

Friday, 2 June 2017
An app that ‘gamifies’ reading and encourages literacy development has won the University of Sydney’s second Dymocks Innovation challenge. Stephanie Ryan and Swetha Das won the $5000 prize for their DymQuest...

‘Orangeboy’ wins 2017 ‘Bookseller’ YA Book Prize

Friday, 2 June 2017
In the UK, Patrice Lawrence has won the Bookseller’s 2017 YA Book Prize, worth £2000 (A$3491), for her debut novel Orangeboy (Hodder). Orangeboy tells the story of 16-year-old Marlon, who...

ABA Booksellers of the Year 2017 finalists announced

Friday, 2 June 2017
The finalists for the 2017 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Booksellers of the Year awards have been announced. The finalists for the Bookseller of the Year are: Nadine Allan (Better Read...

Over 110,000 attend SWF 2017; poetry tops festival bestsellers list

Thursday, 1 June 2017
This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has recorded over 110,000 attendances and 59,322 ticketed sales worth over $1.5m—the second-highest box office in the organisation’s history. Attendances include the festival’s series of...