Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival have announced the longlist for the 2018 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The longlisted works are: ‘She Is Bright Light and All Brilliance’... Read more
The City of Fremantle has renewed its sponsorship of the T A G Hungerford Award, a biennial prize recognising the first full-length, unpublished work of fiction or creative nonfiction by an... Read more
Five historical novels in Blanche d’Alpuget’s ‘Birth of the Plantagenets’ series (Ventura) have been optioned for television/film by Ironbark Media. Rights were sold via Jeanne Ryckmans at the Cameron Creswell... Read more
Books+Publishing magazine’s third issue for 2018 is out now! It features 30 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing from September to November. Reviews: Of the 17 adult books reviewed in this issue, four... Read more
US federal arts-funding agency National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced the 25 recipients of its Literature Translation Fellowships worth US$325,000 (A$451,000) in total. The fellowships enable American and... Read more
Amazon has won US$75,000 (A$104,000) in an arbitration case against ebook marketer Thomas Glenn of the Dominican Republic, reports GeekWire. The case was one of five arbitration demands that the company... Read more
