The longlists for the 2016 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria for local and international... Read more
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the program for this year’s conference, to be held at the QT hotel in Canberra from 29-30 May. Author Stan Grant will give... Read more
The Publishers’ Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has written to the NZ government claiming it has vastly overestimated the projected increase to royalties under the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade... Read more
The Storylines Children’s Literature Trust of New Zealand has announced the shortlists for its three national writers’ awards. The shortlists are: Joy Cowley Award for picture book text ‘The Boy... Read more
This year’s Digital Book World conference was held in New York from 7-9 March. Books+Publishing’s Andrew Wrathall reports from the event: Digital Book World (DBW) organiser and The Idea Logical... Read more
In the UK, David Solomons’ My Brother is a Superhero (Nosy Crow) has won the 2016 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, reports the Bookseller. Waterstones children’s buyer Florentyna Martin described the... Read more
