Carter’s ‘Prime Cut’ shortlisted for BBC Audio Drama Award
Friday, 24 November 2017
A radio adaptation of Australian author Alan Carter’s Prime Cut (Fremantle Press) has been shortlisted for a BBC Audio Drama Award. The adaptation was announced in 2016 as part of...
Coleman’s ‘Terra Nullius’ sold to North America
Friday, 24 November 2017
Hachette Australia has sold US and Canadian rights to Claire G Coleman’s debut speculative-fiction novel Terra Nullius to US independent publisher Small Beer Press. Small Beer Press publisher Gavin J...
Deborah Cass Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Friday, 24 November 2017
Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds. The shortlisted writers and their works are: Lur Alghurabi for ‘Letters from...
Fielding to direct Australian Academy of the Humanities arts advocacy program
Friday, 24 November 2017
The Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH) has appointed Kate Fielding as program director of its $1.65m arts advocacy initiative ‘A New Approach’, which aims to champion investment and return...
Alghurabi wins 2017 Scribe Nonfiction Prize
Friday, 24 November 2017
Lur Alghurabi has won the 2017 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers for her entry ‘Letters from the Grave’ . Alghurabi was selected from a shortlist of 12 writers and will...
Welch promoted to group head of PRH NZ
Friday, 24 November 2017
Penguin Random House (PRH) New Zealand sales director Carrie Welch has been promoted to the newly created role of group head of PRH New Zealand. Welch will take on responsibility...
‘Anaesthesia’ wins 2017 Waverley Library Award
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness by Melbourne journalist Kate Cole-Adams (Text) has won the Waverley Council’s Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award for 2017....
‘Their Brilliant Careers’ to publish in the UK in 2018
Thursday, 23 November 2017
UK independent publisher Eye Books will publish Ryan O’Neill’s novel Their Brilliant Careers (Black Inc.) in the UK in April 2018. Editor-at-large Scott Pack said he will present the first...
Laniyuk named ‘Overland’ writer-in-residence
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Melbourne-based writer Laniyuk Garcon-Mills has been selected for the 2017 Overland Writers Residency, which was open to Indigenous writers this year. As part of the three-month residency, Laniyuk, who prefers to...
BILBY Awards 2017 winners announced
Thursday, 23 November 2017
The winners for this year’s Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for Queensland, have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Early...
Pandiella to join Pantera Press
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Anabel Pandiella, marketing and publicity director for Simon & Schuster Australia, will join Pantera Press as its marketing and publicity director. Pandiella will commence the role on 29 January 2018. Pandiella has...
Amazon Australia to begin selling products on Thursday
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Amazon has told its Australian suppliers that it will begin selling products to ‘a small number of customers’ on Thursday 23 November. Amazon said in an email to suppliers: ‘To...
SWF 2018 schools program announced
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced the line-up for the 2018 Primary and Secondary School Days programs, to be held from 2 to 7 May. Former UK children’s laureate,...
Nielsen BookScan to merge trade, academic panels in 2018
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Nielsen BookScan Australia has announced it will merge its trade and academic book sales panels in 2018 ‘in order to report on all print book sales via one complete service’....
Siberry wins HGE Ampersand Prize for middle-grade novel ‘Gloop’
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Lisa Siberry has won Hardie Grant Egmont’s (HGE) Ampersand Prize for an unpublished manuscript for her middle-grade novel ‘Gloop’. ‘Gloop’ is a ‘funny and atmospheric middle-grade mystery’ about 12-year-old science...
Colpoys wins British Book Design Award
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker, designed by Scribe associate art director Allison Colpoys, has won the Best Jacket/Cover Design category at the British Book Design and Production Awards. Colpoys...
ACT Book of the Year 2017 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 ACT Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fighting Fit (Laura Dawes, Orion) Maps of Small Countries (Russell Erwin, Ginninderra...
Stella Prize launches Read Up resource
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
The Stella Prize has launched a series of reading lists for young people aged 15-24 ‘to help guide their thinking about sexuality, relationships, gender, minds and bodies, and diverse cultures’....
Copyright Agency files suit against NSW government
Monday, 20 November 2017
The Copyright Agency has filed a suit against the NSW government before the federal Copyright Tribunal alleging the government owes its members for copying up to 200 million pages of...
Horne Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Monday, 20 November 2017
The Saturday Paper and cosmetics company Aesop have announced the shortlist for the $15,000 Horne Prize for narrative nonfiction. The shortlisted writers are: Alice Bishop for ‘Coppering’, ‘on renewal of...
Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Awards 2017 winners announced
Monday, 20 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 Scarlet Stiletto Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime, have been announced. New South Wales writer Rowena Harding-Smith won the $1500 first prize for her short...
‘The Invisible War’ wins the 2017 Most Underrated Book Award
Friday, 17 November 2017
The graphic novel The Invisible War by Ailsa Wild, Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti, Ben Hutchings and Jeremy Barr (Scale Free Network) has won the Small Press Network’s Most Underrated Book...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2017 shortlists announced
Friday, 17 November 2017
The shortlists for the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Easy Way Out (Steven Amsterdam, Hachette) The Last Days...
‘Tincture’ literary journal to close
Friday, 17 November 2017
Australian online literary journal Tincture has announced that it will close at the end of the year. The quarterly journal was established in 2013 and has featured fiction, poetry and...
Hachette acquires ‘The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village’ in two-book deal
Friday, 17 November 2017
Hachette has acquired world rights to debut author Joanna Nell’s The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village in a two-book deal negotiated by Haylee Nash at The Nash Agency. The...
Kroetsch to step down as AWW director
Friday, 17 November 2017
Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) director Laura Kroetsch will step down from the role after the 2018 festival, which runs from 3-8 March. Kroetsch was appointed in 2010 to direct the...
‘The Town’ sold to US, European territories
Friday, 17 November 2017
Faber has sold the rights to Shaun Prescott’s novel The Town, published in Australia by Brow Books, into the US and several European territories. The novel has been sold to...
‘Overland’ Fair Australia Prize 2017 shortlists announced
Friday, 17 November 2017
Literary journal Overland has announced the shortlists for this year’s Fair Australia Prize. Shortlists have been released for the Essay Prize, Fiction Prize, Poetry Prize, and Cartoons and Illustrations Prize....
Laveau-Harvie wins 2018 Finch Memoir Prize for ‘Okotoks Erratic’
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Vicki Laveau-Harvie has won the 2018 Finch Memoir Prize for her manuscript ‘Okotoks Erratic’, a ‘gripping, black humoured drama’ about the power play between Laveau-Harvie’s parents and its ramifications. Judges...
Tony Birch wins 2017 Patrick White Award
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Author Tony Birch has been named the winner of the $20,000 Patrick White Literary Award for 2017. The annual award was established by Patrick White using the proceeds of his...
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