EWF 2016 program launched
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
The program for the 2016 Emerging Writers’ Festival, to be held in Melbourne from 14-24 June, has been announced. The 2016 festival will open with a ‘Storytelling Slam’ featuring four...
British Book Industry Awards 2016 winners announced
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
In the UK, the annual British Book Industry Awards have been announced, including the inaugural Books of the Year Awards, reports the Bookseller. Andrew Michael Hurley’s gothic debut The Loney...
Former Lantern designers open studio OetomoNew
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Former Lantern designers Daniel New and Evi Oetomo have opened a Sydney-based studio ‘devoted to designing beautiful books’, called OetomoNew. New was previously art director and Evi Oetomo was senior...
Daisley wins New Zealand Book Award for fiction
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Novelist Stephen Daisley has won the NZ$50,000 (A$46,135) fiction prize at the New Zealand Book Awards for his novel Coming Rain (Text), announced at a ceremony in Auckland on 10...
Roy Morgan survey: fewer adults reading books than five years ago; kids more likely to enjoy reading
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
A lower proportion of Australian adults are reading books than they were five years ago, but kids aged six to 13 are now slightly more likely to enjoy reading, according...
Christian wins 2016 Text Prize
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Playwright and former teacher Claire Christian has won the 2016 Text Prize for YA and Children’s Writing for her manuscript Beautiful Mess. The winning manuscript, which was shortlisted under the...
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Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Books+Publishing is currently conducting a reader survey to help us improve our publications. . Tell us what you think of Books+Publishing for the chance to one of two prize packs of...
Between the lines: Observations on the trade by Gladys Bembo
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Ah, writers festivals (or writer’s festivals, or writers’ festivals, take your pick)—where authors and readers and publishing industry types all meet and mingle in marvellous displays of public culture and...
Feminist Writers Festival announced for Melbourne
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
A new Feminist Writers Festival (FWF) has been established and will partner with the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) in its inaugural year. The festival, co-founded by academic Cristy Clark and...
Australia Council February grants announced
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Seventeen literary organisations and almost 40 writers and writing groups have received Australia Council grants as part of its $11.2m February grants round. The 17 literary organisations received a combined...
SWF receives $460k grant in second Catalyst funding round
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has received a $461,350 Catalyst grant for its Western Sydney and regional NSW touring program to ‘boost accessibility to reading and literature’ among children of...
Little Rebels Children’s Book Award 2016 winner announced
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
In the UK, I am Henry Finch by Viviane Schwarz and Alexis Deacon (Walker Books) has won this year’s Little Rebels award for radical children’s fiction, reports the Bookseller. The...
Bonnier acquires nonfiction publisher John Blake
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Swedish-owned Bonnier Publishing has bought UK nonfiction publisher John Blake for an undisclosed sum, reports the Bookseller. John Blake, which specialises in commercial nonfiction, including bestsellers such as Being Jordan...
Neighbourhood watch: Strengthening ties between Oz and NZ publishing
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Why are there not stronger ties between the Australian and New Zealand publishing scenes? asks Jo Case. While there are key differences between Australia and New Zealand (particularly our relationship...
Remaking history: Kate Mildenhall on ‘Skylarking’
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Kate Mildenhall’s Skylarking (Black Inc., August) is a historical novel about an intense female friendship. Reviewer Angela Andrewes spoke to the author. Skylarking is based on historical events. What drew...
Editor’s picks: Andrea Hanke’s winter reading list
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
The Girls, Roxane Gay and Neil Gaiman. Andrea Hanke’s editor’s picks are brought to you by the letter G. In an essay in the Paris Review about the inspiration for...
Rethinking business: The market for business books
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Books on leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation are attracting new readers to the business books category, while a strong backlist remains essential to sales, writes Andrea Hanke. For the past two...
Retail rewards: An interview with Len Vlahos
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
US book-industry insider Len Vlahos will deliver the keynote at this year’s Australian Booksellers Association conference. Vlahos is the new owner of Denver bookstore chain Tattered Cover, former executive director...
Expounding and expanding: On Wellington’s Unity Books
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Books, people, ideas and a strong sense of community are at the heart of Unity Books in Wellington, writes co-owner and manager Tilly Lloyd. I doubt many Australian sports people,...
Your store: Non-book item of the month
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
This pack of three acrylic coffee templates from DOIY Design helps spruce up your morning coffee whether you’ve got a barista’s skills or not. Each come with three shapes—a love...
Your store: Strictly business
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
To sell business books successfully you need to invest time in selection, says Boffins Books co-owner Bill Liddelow. ‘Don’t fall into the trap of just having some “Dummies” or “Idiot’s...
Your store: Strong foundations
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Melbourne bookseller Readings was named the inaugural Bookstore of the Year at the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards in April. The judges highlighted Readings’ events program and its two...
Grant designs: Bookstores on their James Patterson grant projects
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Carody Culver looks at how five recipients of the Australian Booksellers Association James Patterson grants are faring with their proposals, and what they’ve learnt from the process. What do you...
Behind the Mike: Profile of Mike Shuttleworth
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Mike Shuttleworth is the campaign manager for the Australian Children’s Literature Alliance, which administers the Australian Children’s Laureateship. He has also worked as an events programmer, curator and reviewer. He...
Unstuck in the middle: Middle-grade fiction in Australia
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Middle-grade children’s fiction is underrepresented—and often misunderstood—in Australian publishing, writes Danielle Binks. When people talk about younger readers, the language often invokes building and architecture—gateway literature, foundation years—and for good...
Book bites: A taste of books to come
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
In the picture Move over wombats. Koalas take a starring role in two forthcoming picture books from Scholastic. Don’t Call Me Bear by Pig the Pug author Aaron Blabey (August)...
Shelf talk: Good sports
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Every Anzac Day commentators make a false equivalence between the efforts of Australia’s troops and the men paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to chase a ball around some grass....
Shelf talk: Memorable memoirs
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Foreign Soil author Maxine Beneba Clarke’s forthcoming memoir The Hate Race (Hachette, August) is surely one of the most anticipated of the year. It tells the story of Clarke’s life...
Shelf talk: Crime pays
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
The winter months will be big for crime lovers with both the Davitt Awards and Ned Kelly Awards scheduled to be announced, and a swathe of new titles due to...
Shelf talk: The write stuff
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Writers looking for tips or a way to procrastinate under the guise of productivity can look forward to writing guides from two of Australia’s funniest authors. Catherine Deveny’s Use Your...
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