Set in the Wimmera Mallee in Victoria’s north-west, award-winning author Craig Sherborne’s second novel Tree Palace is about a group of street smart survivors living on society’s... Read more |
Ash’s flight out of Auckland is grounded by an erupting volcano, so she heads back into the city. With her new friends, she visits the... Read more |
The inaugural Death in July festival for Australian women’s crime writing will be held at the Museum of Australian Democracy in Ballarat, Victoria from 4-5... Read more |
Author and poet Alison Wong will take part in an inaugural writers’ exchange in China this year, reports Booksellers NZ. Wong, a New Zealand writer... Read more |
Auckland mayor Len Brown has announced a new writers’ grant worth NZ$10,000 (A$9266) per year, reports Scoop. Speaking at the Auckland Writers Festival on 15 May,... Read more |
New Zealand author Sean Monaghan has won the 2014 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest for his short story ‘Low Arc’. The award, which is presented in... Read more |
The NSW Writers’ Centre will hold a Kids & YA Festival on 28 June with panels, workshops and discussions on children’s writing and publishing, to be... Read more |
New biannual literary journal Gargouille has announced it is open for submissions. Founded by Sarah Wreford and Adriane Howell, the publication seeks ‘short stories, poetry, scripts,... Read more |
OverDrive to distribute Smashwords titles In the US, ebook provider OverDrive will distribute titles from self-publishing platform Smashwords, reports Publishers Weekly. As part of a... Read more |
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced the winners of the Australia’s Favourite Library competition. Sandringham Library in Victoria was named the overall... Read more |
Organisations warn EU on treaty for library copyright exceptions International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO) has written an open letter to European Commission President... Read more |
Shoalhaven City Library in New South Wales is running a book club entitled ‘I Hate this Book’, reports the South Coast Register. According to the... Read more |
The Federal Government has outlined its plans to consolidate the back-office functions of Canberra-based collecting organisations including the National Library of Australia (NLA) in the... Read more |
Bookshop owner and former president of the American Bookseller’s Association Mitchell Kaplan gave the keynote speech at this year’s Australian Bookseller’s Association conference in Melbourne.... Read more |
Non-book items can improve customers’ in-store experience and offer tempting financial benefits for booksellers, but planning and visual merchandising are critical. Richard Harling, retail consultant... Read more |
The Sydney Writers’ Festival has appointed Peter Collins to the festival’s board of directors. In a statement announcing Collins’ appointment, the festival said Peter Shergold... Read more |
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Margaret Whiskin has been appointed regional engagement officer at WritingWA, beginning in early June. Whiskin is currently publisher at Magabala Books. (See news.)
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Lesley Halm has been appointed editor at Scribe Publications, replacing Ian See, who has taken up a position as editor at the University of Queensland... Read more |
The newly-formed Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) is now open for individual and company membership. ABDA exists to support Australian book designers, including hosting the... Read more |
Author Patty Jansen leads a discussion on the role of the editor in self-publishing, and asks do self published books benefit from structural analysis, copyediting... Read more |
MUP would like to advise booksellers that due to popular demand:
- Notebooks by Betty Churcher (2011) has been reprinted and is back in stock
Notebooks: ISBN 9780522858426
Print RRP $44.99
- Australian Notebooks by Betty Churcher (2014) is now reprinting and will be back in stock on 23 June 2014
Australian Notebooks: ISBN 9780522864199
Print RRP $44.99
- Dangerous Allies by Malcolm Fraser (2014) is now reprinting and will back in stock from 26 May 2014. The RRP has decreased to $49.99
Dangerous Allies: ISBN 9780522862652
Print RRP $49.99
Booksellers order now with RHA 1800 222 444
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