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Benjamin Alire Saenz wins PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize 

Tuesday, 7 May 2013
American author and poet Benjamin Alire Saenz has received the US$15,000 (A$14,600) PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize for Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, published by small Texas-based press Cinco Puntos. The annual...

Harper Lee sues literary agent 

Tuesday, 7 May 2013
In the US, author Harper Lee is suing her former literary agent, reports the Guardian. The 87-year-old author of Pulitzer prize-winning book To Kill a Mockingbird (various imprints), who normally avoids media...

Aurealis Awards moving to Canberra 

Tuesday, 7 May 2013
The Aurealis Awards will be held in Canberra over the next two years. Owner Chimaera Publications announced in a statement that the awards, which celebrate science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, will be administered in...

Hartnett novel ‘Of a Boy’ adapted to screen 

Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Sonya Hartnett’s novel Of a Boy (Penguin) has been adapted into a film. The Weight of Elephants was shot in Southland, New Zealand, in March 2012. It is the first feature...

RiP Gregory Rogers

Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Children’s book illustrator, author and teacher Gregory Rogers has died, aged 55. Erica Wagner, publisher of books for children and teenagers at Allen & Unwin, writes: ‘Gregory Rogers passed away...

Jane Curry Publishing launches digital-first imprint 

Monday, 6 May 2013
Independent publisher Jane Curry Publishing (JCP) has launched a new digital-first imprint called Storyworks.  The first title to be published under the Storyworks imprint is Partners, a debut novel by...

Wilderness Society children’s book award shortlist announced

Monday, 6 May 2013
The shortlist for the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature, which promotes ‘caring and responsibility for the environment’, has been announced. The shortlisted books in the Preschool category...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 6 May 2013
On top of the fastest movers chart this week is The Fast Diet (Mimi Spencer & Michael Mosley, Short Books), which recommends readers feast for five days a week and fast for two...

2013 Edgar Allen Poe Award winners announced 

Monday, 6 May 2013
In the US, the Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published...

Sessions to retire from Penguin

Monday, 6 May 2013
Penguin Australia has announced that Bob Sessions will retire from the company on 27 September. Sessions has worked for Penguin Australia for more than 27 years and was head of...

2013 BILBY Awards shortlist announced

Monday, 6 May 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for Queensland, has been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories...

Beckett wins 2013 Arthur C Clarke Award 

Friday, 3 May 2013
British author Chris Beckett has won the 2013 Arthur C Clarke Award for Dark Eden (Atlantic Books). Beckett’s novel, which tells the story of an abandoned colony on a distant...

Bloomsbury to launch digital-first YA imprint 

Friday, 3 May 2013
Bloomsbury will launch a digital-first imprint for young adult, teen and new adult fiction in the second half of this year. Bloomsbury Spark is currently accepting unsolicited submissions for a...

HarperCollins 360 program expands to UK 

Friday, 3 May 2013
HarperCollins has expanded its HarperCollins 360 program to the UK, reports Publishers Weekly. HarperCollins 360 aims to make all HarperCollins titles available through all of its subsidiaries, where it holds...

O’Reilly to end TOC conference 

Friday, 3 May 2013
US publisher O’Reilly has announced that it is ending its Tools of Change (TOC) conference and blog after seven years. Founder Tim O’Reilly wrote on the TOC blog that the...

Hartnett novel ‘Of a Boy’ adapted to screen 

Friday, 3 May 2013
Sonya Hartnett’s novel Of a Boy (Penguin) has been adapted into a film. The Weight of Elephants was shot in Southland, New Zealand, in March 2012. It is the feature film debut from New...

On tour: Meet the author Deborah Ellis 

Friday, 3 May 2013
Canadian writer Deborah Ellis is visiting Australia in August for the Melbourne Writers Festival’s Schools’ Program. Her latest book, the third in the ‘Parvana’ series, is Parvana’s Promise (A&U), the...

Whitcoulls to stop accepting Booksellers Tokens 

Friday, 3 May 2013
New Zealand bookselling chain Whitcoulls will stop redeeming Booksellers Tokens and Booksellers Exchange Cards at the end of July, reports Booksellers New Zealand. Booksellers NZ said that the tokens and...

International Library News 

Thursday, 2 May 2013
Hachette US to supply full ebook catalogue to libraries In the US, Hachette has announced that it will make its full catalogue of ebooks available to libraries, reports Publishers Weekly....

‘Ten Tiny Things’ wins SCBWI Crystal Kite Award

Thursday, 2 May 2013
Ten Tiny Things by Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers (Fremantle Press) has won the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards, presented by the...

Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2013 finalists announced 

Thursday, 2 May 2013
The finalists for the 2013 Sir Julius Vogel Awards for New Zealand science-fiction, horror and fantasy have been announced. The finalists in the best novel category are:        Dead Radiance (T G Ayer, Evolved...

Ubud Writers & Readers Festival annouces line-up 

Wednesday, 1 May 2013
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced a number of authors attending this year’s festival, which will run from 11-15 October. International authors include: Lionel Shriver (US); Irvine Welsh (UK); Danny Morrison...

Free ebook website Obooko launches in the UK 

Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Obooko, a website offering free ebooks, is set to launch in the UK, reports the Bookseller. A UK-based company that has operated in the US market for the past three years, Obooko.com offers thousands...

Stager wins Local Legends Award 

Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Fiona Stager, co-owner of Brisbane bookstore Avid Reader, has won a Creativity Award as part of the Local Legends Awards. Organised by Queensland Government Member for South Brisbane Jackie Trad and Brisbane...

Newtone Press acquires BPA Print Group 

Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Newtone Press has acquired BPA Print Group after the printer was placed into receivership in late March. According to Print21, Melbourne-based Newtone Press is taking on BPA Print Group’s operations...

 

 

 

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