2016 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellows announced
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
New Zealand writers Diana Wichtel and Breton Dukes are the recipients of the 2016 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship. Wichtel and Dukes will each receive NZ$20,000 (A$17,711) and tenure at the Sargeson...
Readings Children’s Book Prize 2016 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
The shortlist for the Readings Children’s Book Prize for 2016 has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: 88 Lime Street (Denise Kirby, Omnibus) The Bad Guys (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic) The...
Spinifex Press celebrates 25th anniversary
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Melbourne-based independent feminist publisher Spinifex Press is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Founded by Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein in 1991, Spinifex has published around 250 poetry, fiction and...
LoveOzYA launches website
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
The grassroots Australian youth literature advocacy movement LoveOzYA has launched its official website. The new site features news about Australian YA authors, book deals, awards, competitions and bookstores; an events...
Harper Lee’s estate bans cheap US paperback edition of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
In the US, Hachette has told booksellers that Harper Lee’s estate will no longer allow publication of the mass-market paperback of To Kill a Mockingbird, reports the New Republic. The...
Storylines NZ awards Else Margaret Mahy Medal, releases 2016 Notable Books List
Friday, 11 March 2016
The Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand has awarded Barbara Else the 2016 Margaret Mahy Medal, presented annually for ‘lifetime achievement and an outstanding contribution to New Zealand...
No ‘Daily’ on Monday
Friday, 11 March 2016
The Books+Publishing Daily newsletter will not be published on Monday 14 March due to the public holiday in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and the ACT. The next Daily will be...
Shortlist for 2016 UK YA Book Prize announced
Friday, 11 March 2016
In the UK, the shortlist for the Bookseller’s second annual YA Book Prize has been announced. The 10 books on the shortlist are: Concentr8 (William Sutcliffe, Bloomsbury), One (Sarah Crossan,...
International authors dominate book sales at Adelaide Writers’ Week
Friday, 11 March 2016
Attendance and book sales were up again at this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week (27 February to 3 March), with international authors dominating book sales at the event. Festival director Laura...
Man Booker International Prize 2016 longlist announced
Thursday, 10 March 2016
The longlist for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: A General Theory of Oblivion (José Eduardo Agualusa, trans by Daniel Hahn, Harvill Secker)...
Stella Prize 2016 shortlist announced
Thursday, 10 March 2016
The shortlist for the 2016 Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Six Bedrooms (Tegan Bennett Daylight, Vintage) Hope Farm (Peggy Frew, Scribe) A Few Days in the...
Inaugural ‘Overland’ Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize shortlist announced
Thursday, 10 March 2016
The shortlist for Overland’s inaugural Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize for travel-themed short fiction has been announced. The eight shortlisted entries are: ‘Budapest’ (Kieran Cash) ‘The republic’ (Laura Elvery) ‘K-K-K’...
BBC to screen Zadie Smith, Evelyn Waugh adaptations
Thursday, 10 March 2016
In the UK, the BBC has announced it will screen adaptations of Zadie Smith’s NW (Penguin) and Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall (various imprints) later this year, reports the Bookseller....
Lamb wins 2016 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship
Thursday, 10 March 2016
Matthew Lamb has won the 2016 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for his proposed cultural biography of the Australian writer Frank Moorhouse. Lamb, the founder and editor of the Review of...
Nonfiction dominates at Taipei International Book Exhibition
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
A delegation of Australian rights sellers recently attended the Taipei International Book Exhibition. Nerrilee Weir, rights manager for Penguin Random House Australia, reports: The vibrant and energetic Taipei International Book...
WA libraries to lose 62k books
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Western Australia’s 232 public libraries will receive 62,000 fewer books over the next two years due to state government funding cuts, reports Perth’s Community News. Around $1.6m allocated to purchasing...
NSW council proposes downsizing mobile library
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
The Clarence Valley Council in regional NSW has prepared a report recommending its mobile library service be downsized and eventually transformed into a digital-only service, reports the Daily Examiner. The...
Stella Prize partners with Vic govt, Australian Writers’ Week in China
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
The Stella Prize has announced two partnerships, one with the Victorian government to run literature workshops for secondary schools and the other with the Australian Writers’ Week program in China....
Birchalls bookshop up for sale
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Australia’s oldest bookshop Birchalls in Launceston is up for sale. Managing director Graeme Tilley said in a statement that the Tilley family has decided to sell the business after running...
Amazon to open second bookstore in San Diego
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
In the US, Amazon will open its second bricks-and-mortar bookstore in San Diego, California in mid-2016, reports Publisher’s Weekly. The San Diego store will be located in an ‘upscale mall’...
‘WBN’ published Thursday next week
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Please note that, due to the public holiday on Monday 14 March (in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, ACT), the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 17 March. The deadline...
Brooks, Barrett longlisted for Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Australian authors Geraldine Brooks and Shirley Barrett have been longlisted for the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Brooks is longlisted for her novel The Secret Chord (Hachette) and Barrett...
Two reprints ordered for ‘The Road to Ruin’
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Scribe has announced two reprints of Niki Savva’s The Road to Ruin after heavy demand for the title led to stock running out on the day of its release. Scribe...
Australia, NZ businesses shortlisted for LBF International Excellence Awards
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
A number of Australian and New Zealand businesses have been shortlisted for the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards. Independent Melbourne bookseller Readings is in the running for Bookstore of...
Steinem to headline SWF
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Writer, activist and feminist Gloria Steinem will be one of the headline guests at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF). Appearing at an event at the Sydney Town Hall on...
New Zealand Book Awards 2016 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
The shortlists for the New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlists in each category are: Fiction The Back of His Head (Patrick Evans, Victoria University Press) Chappy (Patricia...
US Supreme Court rejects Apple ebook price-fixing appeal
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
The US Supreme Court has rejected Apple’s appeal in its ebook price-fixing case, reports Publisher’s Weekly. The denial effectively ends the case and upholds Judge Denise Cote’s 2013 finding that...
‘SRB’ to offer Emerging Critics Fellowships
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
The Sydney Review of Books (SRB) is offering three fellowships to emerging Australian critics. The inaugural CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowships, which are supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, will...
A&U launches cover design competition for Clementine Ford book
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Allen & Unwin is running a competition to the design the cover of feminist writer Clementine Ford’s forthcoming book Fight Like a Girl. The publisher is offering the designer with...
Giovannoni wins inaugural Deborah Cass Prize
Monday, 7 March 2016
Moreno Giovannoni has won Writers Victoria’s inaugural Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds for his manuscript extract ‘Tales from San Ginese’. Giovannoni’s work was chosen from a...
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