ABA announces 2017 Vic, NSW reps of the year
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Mandy Wildsmith from Hardie Grant Books has been named Victorian Rep of the Year by the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA), while Nicky Luckie from Hachette has been named NSW Rep...
‘Boy’ wins 2017 Children’s Peace Literature Award
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Phil Cummings and Shane Devries’ picture book Boy (Scholastic) has won the Australian Psychological Society’s (APS) 2017 Children’s Peace Literature Award. Boy, which tells the story of a young deaf...
Staff changes at the Wheeler Centre
Thursday, 16 November 2017
The Wheeler Centre has announced a number of staff changes. Head of programming Emily Sexton, general manager Jaclyn Booton and series producer Gemma Rayner are leaving the organisation in December....
UWAP announces 2018 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
UWA Publishing has announced the shortlist for the 2018 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Teresa Bell for ‘Lunation’, an ‘ambitious’ novel...
A&U, Hachette to release new Shaun Tan books in 2018
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Allen & Unwin and Hachette will be releasing new books by award-winning author Shaun Tan in 2018. Allen & Unwin will publish Tales from the Inner City, a companion volume...
Lamond to leave Little Hare
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Margrete Lamond has stepped down as publisher of Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) imprint Little Hare Books. HGE said in a statement that it will not replace the publisher role, and...
A&U pulls Clive Hamilton’s China book citing threat of legal action
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Allen & Unwin has decided not to publish Clive Hamilton’s book Silent Invasion: How China is Turning Australia into a Puppet State, citing the threat of legal action from the...
Finch Memoir Prize 2018 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
The shortlist for the 2018 Finch Memoir Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: ‘Tin Gypsy’ (Alan Sampson), a ‘heartfelt’ account of a father’s relationship with his son who...
Booktopia makes ‘AFR’ Fast 100 for the eighth time
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Online bookseller Booktopia has made the Australian Financial Review (AFR) annual Fast 100, formerly the BRW Fast 100, for the eighth time. Booktopia came in 75th place on the list,...
ASA announces winners of 2017 Ray Koppe Residency, ASA Medal
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the winners of the 2017 Ray Koppe Residency Award and ASA Medal. Western Australian writer Holden Sheppard has won the Ray Koppe...
OzCo report finds Australian artists working more, earning less
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
The Australia Council has released a new report that examines the economic conditions faced by practising professional artists in Australia. One of the key findings of Making Art Work by...
Asher Award 2017 winners announced
Monday, 13 November 2017
Ruth Clare’s memoir Enemy (Viking) and Libby Hathorn’s picture book A Soldier, a Dog and a Boy (illus by Phil Lesnie, Lothian) have jointly won the 2017 Asher Award. Clare and...
Walkley Book Award 2017 shortlist announced
Monday, 13 November 2017
The Walkley Book Award shortlist for 2017 has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Victoria: The Queen (Julia Baird, HarperCollins) Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia...
First authors announced for 2018 Perth Writers Week
Monday, 13 November 2017
The first authors have been announced for the 2018 Perth Writers Week, which runs from 19-25 February. The guests include UK author Alan Hollinghurst, Canadian author Louise Penny and local...
KOALAs 2017 winners announced
Monday, 13 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), the children’s choice book awards for New South Wales, have been announced. The winners and honour books in each...
Hardie Grant Egmont, Pantera partner with Tablo for NaNoWriMo
Friday, 10 November 2017
Publishers Pantera Press and Hardie Grant Egmont have partnered with Australian online publishing platform Tablo to review a selection of manuscripts published on the Tablo platform for National Novel Writing...
Rushdie-headlined Global Atheist Convention cancelled
Friday, 10 November 2017
The Atheist Foundation of Australia (AFA) has cancelled the 2018 Global Atheist Convention, which was set to run from 9-11 February at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, due to...
Copyright Agency, Viscopy merger given the green light
Friday, 10 November 2017
The Copyright Agency and Viscopy will formally merge on 30 November 2017 after a five-year ‘services agreement’. Members of the two rights management organisations voted overwhelmingly in support of the...
Oz genre anthology wins 2017 World Fantasy Award
Friday, 10 November 2017
Dreaming in the Dark (Jack Dann, PS Australia), an anthology of Australian genre fiction, has won a 2017 World Fantasy Award in the anthology category. The hardback volume is a...
‘Extinctions’ sold to UK, North America following Miles Franklin win
Thursday, 9 November 2017
UWA Publishing has sold UK and North American rights to Josephine Wilson’s Miles Franklin Award-winning novel Extinctions. UK & Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ and Canada) were sold to Serpent’s Tail and US...
SPN to offer free childcare at Independent Publishing Conference
Thursday, 9 November 2017
The Small Press Network (SPN) is offering free childcare at its 2017 Independent Publishing Conference, which runs at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne from 16-18 November. The boardroom at the...
Production on ‘True History of the Kelly Gang’ to start in early 2018
Thursday, 9 November 2017
Production on the film adaptation of Peter Carey’s Booker Prize-winning novel The True History of the Kelly Gang will begin in Victoria in March 2018, reports Inside Film. Justin Kurzel will...
Australian, NZ authors on 2018 International Dublin longlist
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Ten books by Australian authors and three by New Zealand authors have been nominated for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award. Longlisted books by Australian authors are: The Last Painting...
Australians nominated for 2018 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Several Australian authors and illustrators have been nominated for the 2018 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals. Zana Fraillon’s The Ones That Disappeared (Lothian) and Garth Nix’s Goldenhand and Frogkisser (both...
Gorman wins 2017 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Alice Gorman has won the 2017 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her piece ‘Trace Fossils: The Silence of Ediacara, the Shadow of Uranium’, first published in the...
KROC Awards 2017 winners announced
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for the Northern Territory, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Do...
Text acquires Flannery’s ecological history of Europe
Monday, 6 November 2017
Text has acquired world rights to Tim Flannery’s Land at the Crossroads: An Ecological History of Europe for publication in Australia in August 2018. Rights were acquired by Text publisher...
Verso Books to open in regional Victoria
Monday, 6 November 2017
A new bookstore, Verso Books, is set to open in the Victorian regional town of Healesville. Owner Nina Sturgess said she is aiming to open the store in early November...
Zusak, Fox top 2016-17 lending rights surveys
Friday, 3 November 2017
Books by Markus Zusak and Mem Fox have topped the lists of the highest scoring books in the most recent Public Lending Rights (PLR) and Educational Lending Rights (ELR) report....
Better Reading launches food spinoff, Cooking the Books
Friday, 3 November 2017
Book recommendation website Better Reading has launched a new food-focused Facebook page, called Cooking the Books. Better Reading director Cheryl Akle said Cooking the Books is ‘a new take on...
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