Australian authors Emma Viskic and Sherryl Clark have been shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2018 Dagger awards. Viskic’s Resurrection Bay (Echo) has been shortlisted in two categories:... Read more
The winners of the 2018 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. New China Eyewitness: Roger Duff, Rewi Alley and the Art of Museum Diplomacy... Read more
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the shortlist for the 2018 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The shortlisted works and their authors are: ‘Vasco’ by Claire Aman (NSW) ‘Between... Read more
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) will hold its 2019 conference and trade show in Melbourne at Pullman Melbourne on the Park on 23-24 June. ABA CEO Joel Becker said, ‘We’re... Read more
Text Publishing has acquired two fiction debuts from Melbourne-based writers. Text acquired world rights to Alice Bishop’s debut short-story collection, A Constant Hum, which explores the Black Saturday bushfires and... Read more
In the UK, a new literature events company called Story Machine Productions (SMP) has launched, with plans to create ‘immersive performances’ at festivals inspired solely by book content, reports Book... Read more
