German thriller ‘Fear’ generates international interest for Text Archive
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Text Publishing has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding ANZ and Canada) to Dirk Kurbjuweit’s Fear to Orion in an eight-publisher auction, brokered by Sarah Lutyens at Lutyens & Rubinstein....
Oxford Literary Festival commits to paying authors after backlash Archive
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
In the UK, the Oxford Literary Festival has ‘rebalanced its budgets’ and will pay authors £150 to speak at its 2017 festival and for all future festivals, reports the Bookseller....
UWAP announces Dorothy Hewett Award 2016 shortlist Archive
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
UWA Publishing has announced the shortlist for the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Anne-Marie Priest for ‘A Free Flame’, a...
Campus Bookselling Award winners announced Archive
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
The Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) has announced the recipients of its annual booksellers awards. Supplier Customer Service Person of the Year Awards (joint winners) Nick Evgenias (Oxford University Press)...
Pizzinga wins 2016 ABA Vic Rep of the Year Archive
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Anthony Pizzinga from Penguin Random House was named as this year’s Victorian Rep of the Year at the Australian Booksellers Association’s (ABA) Victorian booksellers and publishers Christmas party on 29...
Ireland to roll out 23 more ‘staffless’ libraries Archive
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Ireland will expand its ‘staffless’ library scheme to a further 23 libraries in 2017, reports the Irish Times. Under the ‘My Open Library’ initiative, libraries will remain operating without staff...
Children’s book sales up 15% in China; publishers warn of overcrowded market Archive
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
In China, sales of children’s books are up 15% year-on-year in value terms in 2016 to date, on the back of double-digit surges in recent years, reports the Bookseller. Book...
New Zealand Education Awards winners 2016 announced Archive
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
The winners of the New Zealand Content Counts Education Awards 2016 have been announced. The winners in each category are: Primary Toitoi: A Journal for Young Writers and Artists (ed...
Publishing software company Typefi wins Australian Export Award Archive
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Queensland-based publishing software company Typefi has won the Small Business category at the Australian Export Awards, which were hosted by Austrade and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in...
‘Overland’ Story Wine Prize winners announced Archive
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
The winners of the 2016 Overland Story Wine Prize have been announced. Melbourne-based writer Cameron Watson won the $4000 first prize for his piece ‘Sweeping’, a story exploring the role...
Pollock appointed CEO of BWF organisation UPLIT Archive
Monday, 28 November 2016
Zoe Pollock has been appointed CEO of UPLIT, the new name of the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) organisation. Pollock, who was previously head of development at Sydney Living Museums and...
Finnegan wins Sports Book of the Year Award for ‘Barbarian Days’ Archive
Monday, 28 November 2016
In the UK, US journalist and author William Finnegan has won the £28,000 (A$46,900) William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for his surfing memoir, Barbarian Days (Little, Brown),...
Inaugural Writing NSW grants announced Archive
Monday, 28 November 2016
The NSW Writers’ Centre has announced the recipients of its inaugural Writing NSW Grants for early career writers, an emerging writing organisation, and a writer and technologist working on a...
Bloomsbury hosts character performances for ‘Harry Potter’ book events Archive
Monday, 28 November 2016
Bloomsbury Australia will mark the 20th anniversary of ‘Harry Potter’ in 2017 with a series of book events and festival performances by theatre artist Nadia Sunde in the role of...
Essay collection by BAME writers voted Britain’s favourite book of 2016 Archive
Friday, 25 November 2016
The Good Immigrant (ed by Nikesh Shukla), an essay collection written by emerging black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers, has been voted Britain’s favourite book of 2016 at the...
Lonely Planet increases turnover in 2015 Archive
Friday, 25 November 2016
Lonely Planet has released its full-year results for the 2015, revealing a 6.7% growth in turnover from £16.1m (A$27.1m) in 2014 to £17.2m (A$28.9m) in 2015, reports the Bookseller. Operating...
Holland-Batt awarded Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship Archive
Friday, 25 November 2016
Poet Sarah Holland-Batt has been awarded a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, worth $160,000 tax-free over two years. Holland-Batt is the author of two poetry collections, Aria and The Hazards (both...
Authors with ‘common themes’ form writers collective Subterranean Ink Archive
Friday, 25 November 2016
Four Australian authors whose work shares ‘common themes’ have created a writers collective to improve their chances of reaching bookstores. Brendan Murphy, who is contracted to US-based Assent Publishing for...
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ tops A&R readers poll Archive
Thursday, 24 November 2016
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird finished on top of Angus & Robertson Bookworld’s ‘Top 130 Books Ever’ readers’ poll, run for the first time since 2010 to mark A&R’s...
‘Financial Times’ Business Book of the Year winner announced Archive
Thursday, 24 November 2016
In the UK, Sebastian Mallaby’s The Man Who Knew (Bloomsbury) has won the 2016 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award. Chosen from a shortlist of six,...
Lucashenko wins Copyright Agency fellowship; $115m distributed to members in 2015-16 Archive
Thursday, 24 November 2016
Melissa Lucashenko has been named the 2016 Copyright Agency Cultural Fund Author Fellow, worth $80,000 after the prize money doubled from its inaugural year in 2015. Lucashenko will use the...
Costa Book Awards 2016 shortlists announced Archive
Thursday, 24 November 2016
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2016 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The four titles shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award are: This Must be the Place (Maggie...
Melbourne CBD building to include ‘highly curated’ street-level public library Archive
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
A 70-storey residential and commercial building approved for the Melbourne CBD will include a street-level public library run in collaboration with Victoria University, reports Architecture Australia. Architect Jean Nouvel said the...
Sydney Uni library offers fine amnesty by donating to Koori Centre Archive
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
The University of Sydney is offering a reduction in fines on overdue library items, with the proceeds being donated to the Koori Centre to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
Woman paid $1500 to read ‘Don Quixote’ at the NLA Archive
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
Canberra woman Moira Christie will be paid $1500 to read Don Quixote as part of the National Library of Australia’s (NLA) Money to Read program, reports ABC News. In an...
Steed awarded 2016 Dromkeen Librarian’s Award Archive
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has presented this year’s Dromkeen Librarian’s Award to Sarah Steed, senior manager of content and engagement for Libraries ACT. Steed has worked for more...
Deakin academics to research teen reading habits Archive
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
A team of seven researchers at Melbourne’s Deakin University is working on a study of Australian adolescents’ recreational reading habits in the digital era. Researcher Leonie Rutherford told Books+Publishing that the pilot...
Scarlet Stiletto Short Story Award 2016 winners announced Archive
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
True crime author Ruth Wykes has won the 2016 Scarlet Stiletto Short Story Award, presented at Sisters in Crime’s 25th anniversary convention in Melbourne on 19 November. Wykes was awarded...
‘How Machines Work’ wins Royal Society young people’s book prize Archive
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
In the UK, David Macaulay’s How Machines Work (Dorling Kindersley) has won the Royal Society young people’s book prize for the best science books for children, reports the Guardian. Macaulay’s...
Landers wins 2016 Waverley Library Award Archive
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
Filmmaker and historian Rachel Landers has won the 2016 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as the ‘Nib’, for her book Who Bombed the Hilton? (NewSouth). Landers was presented with the...
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