City of Literature announces Known Bookshops grant recipients
Thursday, 1 September 2016
The Melbourne City of Literature office has announced the first recipients of its Known Bookshops grants. The stores and their projects are: Blarney Books in Port Fairy will host spoken-word...
Rowe wins 2016 ‘ABR’ Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Thursday, 1 September 2016
Josephine Rowe has won the 2016 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Glisk’. Rowe was awarded the $7000 prize at a ceremony during the Melbourne...
Role reversal: Nova Weetman on ‘Everything is Changed’
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Nova Weetman’s Everything is Changed (UQP) follows the unravelling of a friendship between two boys, told from alternating perspectives in reverse. Reviewer Jordi Kerr spoke to the author. What drove...
Poetry in action: Van T Rudd on ‘The Patchwork Bike’
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
The Patchwork Bike (Hachette, November) is the first collaboration between author Maxine Beneba Clarke and artist Van T Rudd, as well as being Rudd’s first picture book. His ‘stark but...
Small publisher spotlight: Harbour Publishing House
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Harbour Publishing House, based on the South Coast of NSW, began publishing in 2014 and specialises in children’s literature. Director Garry Evans spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’...
Melbourne to relocate City Library by 2020
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Melbourne City Council will relocate the City Library on Flinders Lane in the CBD by 2020, reports the Age. Melbourne Library Service manager Anne-Maree Pfabe told the Age that the...
‘Multi-literacy’ discussed at 35th IBBY International Congress
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Centre of Youth Literature program manager Adele Walsh describes attending her first IBBY International Congress, held in Auckland from 18-21 August, as ‘incredibly familiar and yet entirely new’. She reports...
Pearson the largest book publisher in 2015 despite ‘challenges’
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Pearson has been ranked as the world’s largest book publisher in 2015, despite revenue falling from over US$7bn (A$9.31bn) in 2014 to US$6.6bn (A$8.8bn) last year due to asset sales...
Colin Roderick Award 2016 shortlist announced; prize money doubles to $20,000
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
The finalists for the Colin Roderick Award and H T Priestley Memorial Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, have been announced. The seven...
Newnham wins ‘The Lifted Brow’ & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize 2016
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Writer W J P Newnham has won The Lifted Brow’s (TLB) Prize for Experimental Nonfiction for his piece ‘Trashman Loves Maree’. Newnham was selected from a shortlist of eight entries. A...
Narellan Harry Hartog the third to open since July
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Independent bookselling chain Harry Hartog will open a new store at Narellan Town Centre in southwest Sydney on 15 September. The store will become the third Harry Hartog shop to...
Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature 2016 winners announced
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
The winners of the 2016 Australian Family Therapists’ Awards for Children’s Literature have been announced. Risk by Fleur Ferries (Random House) has won the $1500 Older Readers Award. The book was cited...
Xoum announces romance writers’ prize to launch new imprint
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
Xoum Publishing has announced a $5000 romance prize for an unpublished manuscript to mark its new imprint, XO Romance. Xoum publisher director Rod Morrison told Books+Publishing the imprint will start...
Hachette US sues author Grahame-Smith
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
In the US, Hachette Book Group is suing Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author Seth Grahame-Smith for breach of contract, reports Locus Magazine. The publisher filed papers in New York...
Hares & Hyenas to mark 25th anniversary with events series
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
Melbourne’s sexuality and gender diverse bookshop Hares & Hyenas will run a season of events from November to December to mark its 25th anniversary. The store received Melbourne City of Literature...
NetGalley simplifies access for ALIA members
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
A new initiative by digital proofs provider NetGalley will give Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) members faster access to new titles by validating members with digital badges. Publishers will...
ACT Book of the Year shortlist announced
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
The shortlist for the 2016 ACT Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Locust Girl (Merlinda Bobis, Spinifex) The Eighties (Frank Bongiorno, Black Inc.) The...
The Co-op buys Australian Geographic stores
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
The Co-op has bought the Australian Geographic retail chain from its owner, Myer Family Investments. The Co-op will take over the chain’s 66 stores and its online shop on 5 September....
CHASS Australia Prize 2016 longlist announced
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the 2016 Australia Book Prize longlist. The prize, worth $3500, is part of the CHASS Australia Prizes program,...
Robinson wins 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Monday, 29 August 2016
US author Marilynne Robinson has been named the winner of the Richard C Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award as part of the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The award is presented...
Davitt Awards 2016 winners announced
Monday, 29 August 2016
Sisters in Crime announced the winners of the 2016 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women at an event in Melbourne on 27 August. The winning titles...
Cleave wins third Ngaio Marsh Award; Berard wins Best New Novel
Monday, 29 August 2016
Paul Cleave’s Trust No One (Upstart Press) has won the 2016 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. This is the third time Cleave has won the Ngaio Marsh Award, after...
Warner, Viskic, Haigh win 2016 Ned Kelly Awards
Monday, 29 August 2016
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) announced the winners of this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing at the Melbourne Writers Festival on 28 August. The winner in the...
Patrić wins 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award for ‘Black Rock White City’
Friday, 26 August 2016
A S Patrić has won the 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel Black Rock White City (Transit Lounge). Patrić was announced as the winner at the opening night...
New Books+Publishing reviews out now
Friday, 26 August 2016
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 14 reviews of books publishing in October and November 2016. Julia Baird’s ‘thoroughly contemporary biography’ Victoria the Queen (HarperCollins, November) is one of three books...
Keil and Bos appointed commissioning editors at Five Mile
Friday, 26 August 2016
Bonnier Publishing Australia has appointed Melissa Keil and Samone Bos as commissioning editors at Five Mile Press. Keil has been promoted from senior children’s editor at Five Mile. She is...
‘Overland’ Victoria University Short Story Prize 2016 winners announced
Friday, 26 August 2016
The winners of the 2016 ‘Overland’ Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced. The first prize, worth $8000, was awarded to Melbourne writer Julia...
PRH opens Toronto bookstore
Friday, 26 August 2016
In Canada, Penguin Random House (PRH) has opened a ‘Penguin Shop’ on the ground floor of the tower housing its Toronto officers, reports Publishers Weekly. The 158 square-foot bookstore sells...
On tour: Justin Cronin
Thursday, 25 August 2016
US novelist Justin Cronin is the author of the apocalyptic vampire trilogy The Passage, The Twelve and The City of Mirrors (all Orion). Cronin will be appearing at the Melbourne...
On tour: Molly Crabapple
Thursday, 25 August 2016
US artist and writer Molly Crabapple is the author of the memoir Drawing Blood (HarperCollins). She is appearing at the Melbourne Writers Festival and the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in...
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