Overland Story Wine Prize 2015 winners announced
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
The winners of Overland’s Story Wine Prize 2015 have been announced. Melissa Manning received the $4000 first prize for her story ‘Woodsmoke’, which will be published in the next issue of...
‘Fishnet’ wins 2015 Not the Booker Prize
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Kirstin Innes’ debut novel Fishnet (Freight Books) has won this year’s Not the Booker Prize, which is run by the Guardian in the UK. Chairman of the judges Sam Jordison...
Two thirds of Australian rights managers and literary agents report income growth, according to survey
Monday, 12 October 2015
The rights market has taken a positive turn over the past year, according to Books+Publishing’s annual survey of Australian literary agents and rights managers, published in its Frankfurt Book Fair...
Samuel Johnson Prize 2015 shortlist announced
Monday, 12 October 2015
The shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles, chosen from a longlist of 12, are: Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life (Jonathan Bate,...
Queensland Literary Awards 2015 winners announced
Monday, 12 October 2015
The winners of this year’s Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) were announced at a ceremony at the State Library of Queensland on 9 October. The winners in each category are: Fiction...
UK booksellers predict Christmas bestsellers on ‘Super Thursday’
Monday, 12 October 2015
In the UK, booksellers have nominated books by Jonathan Bate, Jamie Oliver, David Walliams and Zoe Sugg as the most likely Christmas bestsellers, reports the Bookseller. An industry-wide ‘Books Are My...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 12 October 2015
Two cookbooks, I Quit Sugar: Simplicious (Sarah Wilson, Macmillan) and Fast Food for Busy Families (Pete Evans, Plum), have debuted in the top 10 bestsellers chart this week. Wilson’s follow-up...
NZ$630,000 to PANZ for overseas promotion, internships
Monday, 12 October 2015
Creative New Zealand has awarded NZ$540,000 (A$493,637) to the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) for a range of programs to increase international sales of New Zealand authors. The funding...
Svetlana Alexievich awarded 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature
Friday, 9 October 2015
Belarusian journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time’. Alexievich was born...
ABC’s ‘The Book Club’ launches 2015 best books poll
Friday, 9 October 2015
ABC’s The Book Club is conducting a poll to select the five best books of 2015.Readers are invited to select their favourite book published in 2015 from a shortlist of...
Bonnier developing new ebook subscription service
Friday, 9 October 2015
Publisher Bonnier is developing a new ebook and audiobook subscription service in its native Sweden, with plans to expand the service internationally, reports the Bookseller. The Bookbeat service is still in the...
Iran to boycott FBF over Rushdie speech
Friday, 9 October 2015
Iran has announced it will boycott this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) after organisers invited author Salman Rushdie to deliver a keynote speech, reports the Guardian. Iran’s foreign ministry said...
New survey offers insights into small publishers’ ebook businesses
Friday, 9 October 2015
London-based Australian ebook producer Simon Collinson has published the results of his survey of international small publishers on their ebook businesses. Collinson gathered data from 59 publishers from nine countries,...
Buckley wins £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award
Thursday, 8 October 2015
In the UK, novelist Jonathan Buckley has won the £15,000 ($A31,890) BBC National Short Story Award for his story ‘Briar Road’. Mark Haddon was named the runner-up and received £3000...
Debut self-published poetry collection sold to the UK
Thursday, 8 October 2015
Rights to self-published poet Koraly Dimitriadis’ debut collection of poetry have been sold to the UK. Dimitriadis’ collection Love & F**k Poems will be published by Honest Publishing in the UK...
Canongate reports ‘extremely disappointing’ 2014 results
Thursday, 8 October 2015
Scottish independent publisher Canongate has reported ‘extremely disappointing’ results for 2014, with turnover down 24% to £7.9m (A$16.8m), according to the Bookseller. CEO Jamie Byng has blamed the results on...
Surreal deal: Leanne Hall on ‘Iris and the Tiger’
Thursday, 8 October 2015
Leanne Hall’s new novel for younger readers Iris and the Tiger is infused with ‘a kind of magical realism that is unusual in children’s and YA fantasy’, writes reviewer Jarrah Moore....
Talk of the town: Christopher Currie on ‘Clancy of the Undertow’
Thursday, 8 October 2015
Christopher Currie’s first YA novel, Clancy of the Undertow, follows 16-year-old misfit Clancy as she juggles a dysfunctional family, a hostile town and a crush on ‘the local hot girl’....
On tour: Meet the author Sarah J Maas
Thursday, 8 October 2015
Sarah J Maas is the author of the ‘Throne of Glass’ series, including the latest instalment, Queen of Shadows (Bloomsbury, September). She will be touring Melbourne and Sydney, and attending...
On tour: Meet the author Jeff Kinney
Thursday, 8 October 2015
Jeff Kinney is the author of the ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ series, including the latest instalment Old School (Penguin, November). He will join Andy Griffiths for a two-hour event...
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now
Thursday, 8 October 2015
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains reviews of nine children’s and YA books publishing in December 2015 to February 2016. Christopher Currie’s first YA novel Clancy of the Undertow (Text, December)—which...
Queensland Writers on the International Stage program releases first multimedia project
Thursday, 8 October 2015
Former Queensland Writers Centre CEO and crime and thriller writer Meg Vann’s short story ‘Provocation’ has been adapted into an online multimedia verse project, exploring the themes of female agency...
Margaret River Press directors launch Perth’s Centre for Stories
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
Margaret River Press directors John and Caroline Wood have launched a new literary events organisation in Perth. The Centre for Stories, located in the inner-city suburb of Northbridge, will run...
Waterstones pulls Kindles from stores after ‘pitiful’ sales
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
UK bookselling chain Waterstones is removing Amazon’s Kindle devices from many of its stores due to ‘pitiful’ sales, reports the Bookseller. Waterstones MD James Daunt said the experience ‘feels very...
Hachette releases new ‘Twilight’ book with characters’ genders swapped
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
Hachette Australia has announced the release of a new ‘Twilight’ novel by author Stephanie Meyer, in which the genders of the two main characters are swapped, to mark the 10th...
Macquarie University author survey finds authors earn on average $12,900
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
Macquarie University has revealed key findings from a February 2015 survey of more than 1000 Australian authors of trade and educational titles. The report is part of the university’s three-year...
International library news
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
Argentina proposes 100-year extension on copyright for photography Copyright for photographic works may be extended from 20 years after publication to 70 years after the photographer’s death—an extension of an...
NLA announces 2016 fellows
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced the nine recipients of its 2016 fellowships. The fellowships, which are open to both emerging and established Australian and international scholars, were...
Mullane and Twyford-Moore to launch The Melbourne Agency in 2016
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
Kill Your Darlings editor Brigid Mullane and former Emerging Writers’ Festival CEO Sam Twyford-Moore have formed The Melbourne Agency, a literary and creative talent agency for emerging and new writers....
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
‘I suspect this is the heyday of [writers’] festivals, and they will, in fact, evolve into something else’—Bendigo Writers Festival director Rosemary Sorensen responds to author Luke Carmen’s critique of...
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