Indie Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Leading Edge Books has announced the 2019 Indie Book Awards shortlists, for the best Australian books published in 2018. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Lost Man (Jane...
Full program announced for 2019 Perth Writers Week
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
The full program has been announced for the 2019 Perth Festival Writers Week, which runs from 18-24 February. International guests attending the festival include Man Booker Prize-winning Nigerian novelist and...
Echo sells Meg Keneally’s solo debut to US
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Echo Publishing has sold North American rights to Meg Keneally’s debut historical novel Fled to Arcade Publishing. The novel, which is based on the life of convict Mary Bryant, is...
Liminal magazine establishes short fiction prize, partners with Brow Books
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Liminal magazine has established a short fiction prize for Australian writers of colour. The Liminal Fiction Prize seeks to ‘promote fiction by writers whose voices are often ignored or elided’. It...
Presser wins at US National Jewish Book Awards
Monday, 14 January 2019
In the US, Melbourne-based author Bram Presser has won the debut fiction award at the 2018 National Jewish Book Awards for his novel The Book of Dirt (Text). Established in 1950 by the...
Updated format revealed for WA Prem’s awards
Monday, 14 January 2019
The Western Australian state government has revealed the new format for the WA Premier’s Book Awards, which has been reinstated as an annual event. The awards will feature three separate...
Copyright Agency announces recipients of $1.049m funding grants
Monday, 14 January 2019
Thirty-seven arts organisations have received a total of $1.049 million in the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Literary organisations and projects that received funding in...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
The shortlists for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction Flames (Robbie Arnott, Text) Ironbark (Jay Carmichael, Scribe) The Fireflies of Autumn: And...
Saleh, Abdel-Fattah to edit anthology about growing up Arab in Australia
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Picador has announced it will publish a new anthology in 2019 about growing up Arab in Australia, to be co-edited by activist and poet Sara Saleh, and author and academic...
Book industry figures among OzCo’s arts leaders
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Several literary arts workers have been selected for the 2019 Australia Council leadership programs. Participants in the 2019 Future Leaders program include former Black Inc. marketing and publicity coordinator Christina...
IPEd announces keynotes for 2019 conference
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced four keynote presentations for its ninth National Editors Conference, held in Melbourne on 8-10 May 2019. Keynotes include: Macquarie Dictionary former editor Susan Butler will...
Agent ordered to pay $514k after losing lawsuit against Morton
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Literary agent Selwa Anthony has lost her lawsuit in the NSW Supreme Court against former client Kate Morton, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Anthony has been ordered to pay Morton...
HarperCollins acquires McKinnon’s second novel
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Catherine McKinnon’s second novel, The Great Time, via Jeanne Ryckmans at the Cameron Creswell Agency. Set during World War II, The Great Time follows...
Collis wins 2018 ACT Book of the Year for ‘Dancing Home’
Monday, 10 December 2018
Paul Collis has won the 2018 ACT Book of the Year for his novel Dancing Home (UQP). Dancing Home, which won the 2016 David Unaipon Award for an unpublished manuscript,...
James wins Horne Prize
Monday, 10 December 2018
The Saturday Paper and cosmetics company Aesop announced writer Daniel James as the winner of the $15,000 Horne Prize 2018 for his essay ‘Ten More Days’. An account of intergenerational...
Presser wins 2018 Voss Literary Prize for ‘The Book of Dirt’
Friday, 7 December 2018
Author Bram Presser has won the 2018 Voss Literary Prize for The Book of Dirt (Text). The Voss Literary Prize is awarded to the best novel published in Australia in the...
Adaptations win at AACTA Awards 2018
Friday, 7 December 2018
The 2018 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards have been announced, with many of the awards going to book-to-screen adaptations. The award for best adapted screenplay went...
Ko wins Deborah Cass Prize 2018
Friday, 7 December 2018
Writer Karina Ko has won the 2018 Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds for her manuscript extract ‘Things I used to Believe’. Chosen from a shortlist of...
Readings Foundation announces 2019 grant recipients
Thursday, 6 December 2018
The Readings Foundation has chosen nine Victorian organisations to share in $146,700 worth of grants in 2019. The grant recipients are: Aboriginal Literacy Foundation: $20,000 to start an after-school program...
NewSouth sells Gordon-Smith debut to US, UK
Thursday, 6 December 2018
NewSouth has sold North American rights to Australian academic Eleanor Gordon-Smith’s forthcoming debut Stop Being Reasonable to PublicAffairs. The nonfiction book (previously titled What Makes You So Sure You’re Not...
Winners announced for PM’s literary awards 2018
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
The winners of the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Border Districts (Gerald Murnane, Giramondo) Australian history John Curtin’s War:...
Indie Book Awards 2019 longlists announced
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2019 Indie Book Awards for books published in 2018. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Lost Man (Jane...
Rights People to represent Affirm Press kids list
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Affirm Press has engaged international agency Rights People to represent its kids list. Affirm sales and marketing director Keiran Rogers says he is anticipating more international rights sales as a...
$20k unpublished manuscript award launched for WA young writers
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Fremantle Press is partnering with social-purpose organisation the Fogarty Foundation to launch an unpublished manuscript award for young writers in Western Australia, worth $20,000. The biennial award, called the Fogarty Literary...
Online store for self-published kids’ books runs as pilot project
Tuesday, 4 December 2018
A new online store for self-published Australian picture books has launched as a pilot project. Self-published author Suzanne Barton launched the retail pilot, called Top Indie Kids’ Books, as a...
PRH sells ‘Kensy and Max’ series to US in four-book deal
Tuesday, 4 December 2018
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has sold North American rights to Jacqueline Harvey’s children’s book series ‘Kensy and Max’ to Kane Miller Publishers. The four-book deal was brokered by Rights...
Findlay to edit ‘Growing Up Disabled in Australia’
Monday, 3 December 2018
Blogger and appearance activist Carly Findlay will edit the forthcoming anthology Growing Up Disabled in Australia, to be published by Black Inc. in 2020. Black Inc. is seeking first-person submissions that...
Davey appointed head of category at Leading Edge
Monday, 3 December 2018
Leading Edge Group has appointed Charlie Davey as head of category. Davey has held senior positions at Big W and WHSmith, and has more than 27 years’ experience working in...
‘Deep Time Dreaming’ wins John Mulvaney Book Award
Monday, 3 December 2018
Billy Griffiths’ Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia (Black Inc.) has won the John Mulvaney Book Award, which recognises significant contributions to the publication of Australian archaeology. Deep Time Dreaming,...
Paper prices to increase in February
Friday, 30 November 2018
Australian paper prices are set to increase in February 2019, following price rises by paper suppliers in 2018, reports Print21. Three major Australian paper suppliers, Ball & Doggett, Spicers, and...
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