The federal government has announced the terms of reference for the Book Council of Australia and that Australian Publishers Association (APA) president and Melbourne University... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors’ (ASA) second biennial National Writers Congress was held at Luna Park in Sydney from 11-12 September. Dwindling author incomes and... Read more |
More than 30,000 visitors attended the Brisbane Writers’ Festival, which ran from 2 to 6 September, the first under new creative director and CEO Julie... Read more |
The shortlists for this year’s Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction A Short History of Richard Kline (Amanda Lohrey,... Read more |
The shortlists for the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes were announced at the opening of the Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival on 11 September. The shortlisted... Read more |
Pan Macmillan has acquired The Dry by Jane Harper, the winner of the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, in a three-book deal... Read more |
South Australian author Cath Kenneally has been chosen as the inaugural Copyright Agency J M Coetzee Writing Fellow at the University of Adelaide. The $30,000... Read more |
The Copyright Agency has awarded its inaugural $40,000 Author Fellowship to Mark Henshaw. The fellowship, aimed at mid-to-late career authors, is one of several fellowships established... Read more |
Marcus Westbury’s Creating Cities, a crowdfunded, self-published book about the transformation of the city of Newcastle, has topped its Amazon ebook sales category several days... Read more |
The Australia Council has announced its Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program will run alongside the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) in May next year. Australia Council... Read more |
The State Library of NSW has announced a new biennial Indigenous Writers Prize, to be part of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. The $30,000 prize... Read more |
The winners of the 2015 Australian Family Therapists’ Awards for Children’s Literature have been announced. Crashing Down by Kate McCaffrey (Fremantle Press) has won the $1500 Older... Read more |
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the 2015 Australia Book Prize shortlist. The prize, worth $3500, is part of... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘Why Aren’t We Dead Yet’ by... Read more |
Affirm Press has announced the winners of the inaugural Affirm Mentorship Award, run in partnership with Varuna, the Writers’ House. Three writers were chosen from... Read more |
Scribe has announced the longlisted titles for its third annual nonfiction prize for young writers. The prize, run in conjunction with Express Media, offers the... Read more |
SBS has programmed a new seven-part podcast series featuring stories written and read by early-career Australian writers. The ‘True Stories’ series is based on the... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Fremantle Press has sold French rights to Prime Cut (Alan Carter) to Editions Bragelonne. UQP has sold Polish rights to The Anatomy of Wings... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James, Oneworld Publications),... Read more |
Pearson is likely to maintain its stake in Penguin Random House (PRH) until at least 2017, according to statements from Pearson CEO John Fallon, reports Bloomberg... Read more |
In the US, a new Authors Guild survey has found the median writing-related income of its members has declined 24% in the past five years,... Read more |
In the US, Perseus Books Group (PBG) has hired investment banking firm Greenhill & Co to initiate ‘a formal process to explore a potential sale... Read more |
Amazon has appointed a director of social responsibility amid recent criticism of its business practices, reports the Bookseller. Christine Bader, the author of The Evolution... Read more |
Lee Child’s latest ‘Jack Reacher’ novel Make Me (Bantam) has unseated The 65-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths, illus by Terry Denton, Pan) to claim top spot... Read more |
Janis Brown, bookseller at Abbey’s Bookshop in Sydney, Pulp Fiction in Brisbane and Reader’s Companion Bookshop in Armidale, has died, aged 55. Brown’s colleagues at... Read more |
Madeline St John’s 1993 novel The Women in Black has been adapted into a stage musical Ladies in Black. The musical will premiere with the... Read more |
The University of Otago in New Zealand has announced the recipients of its 2016 fellowships for literature and children’s writing. The Robert Burns Fellowship, which is... Read more |
The State Library of Victoria has received $10m from the Ian Potter Foundation as a contribution to the refurbishment and reopening of Queen’s Hall, which... Read more |
Whyalla Public Library has launched a free English Conversation program for people learning English as a second language, reports Whyalla News. City librarian Catherine McIntyre... Read more |
Vodafone Romania expands digital books initiative to schools In Romania, Vodafone is delivering its Digital Public Library to 300 schools via wallpaper resembling bookshelves, reports... Read more |
The three winning novellas in the 2015 Seizure Viva La Novella competition were published last month. Books+Publishing spoke to the winners about their novellas and... Read more |
Publishers are urged to send entries for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2016 as soon as possible. Entry forms can be downloaded from... Read more |
The Society of Editors (NSW) Inc. will host a meeting on markup languages presented by Linda Nix on Tuesday, 6 October. A good working knowledge... Read more |
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Australia’s only creative writing school inside a publishing house, Faber Writing Academy at Allen & Unwin, will offers its flagship course in two phases in 2016.
Writing a Novel: First Draft starting in February (3 months) will be followed by Writing a Novel: Second Draft starting in June (3 months) in both Sydney and Melbourne. For those who already have a draft novel, the Second Draft course will also be available in Sydney in February. The Second Draft course can also be completed the following year, allowing more time to complete a first draft, and spread out the financial investment if required.
The Writing a Novel course is renowned for the careful selection of tutors (experienced, acclaimed authors who are also excellent teachers) and the direct input of Allen & Unwin’s publishers.
2016’s directors are Kathryn Heyman (following her sell-out writing workshops at the Sydney Writers’ Festival) and James Bradley in Sydney; and Toni Jordan, Paddy O’Reilly and Carrie Tiffany in Melbourne. These multi-award winning novelists consistently receive outstanding student feedback and students will also benefit from the structure of regular workshops and one-on-one consultations.
2016 will be a golden year for the Academy with three novels by alumni hitting bookstores.
Faber Writing Academy is offering one scholarship in both Sydney and Melbourne for the Writing a Novel: First Draft courses. Visit www.faberwritingacademy.com.au for details.
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Scribe congratulates Chigozie Obioma on being shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize for his outstanding debut novel The Fishermen (ISBN: 9781925106442; RRP: $29.99). A reprint will be available by the end of the month from United Book Distributors: orders@unitedbookdistributors.com.au or 1800 338 836.
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