The finalists for the 2015 Aurealis Awards, presented for science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. Among the categories are: Fantasy novel... Read more |
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A new Canberra Writers Festival, to be held from 26-28 August 2016, has been announced. Organisers said in a statement that the festival has the... Read more |
Melbourne-based Hindsight Literary Agency has begun pitching its clients’ manuscripts to publishers after opening in September last year. The agency is run by editorial director... Read more |
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A new bookshop specialising in children’s books and art supplies has opened in Fremantle. The Paper Bird is located in the Moores Art Building on... Read more |
The first Australian Short Story Festival will be held at the Centre for Stories and other inner-city venues in Perth from 21-23 October. The festival... Read more |
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Bob Graham’s How the Sun Got to Coco’s House (Walker Books) is one of 20 books longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal for distinguished illustration... Read more |
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Australian anthology Letters to Tiptree (ed by Alexandra Pierce & Alisa Kranostein, Twelfth Planet) has been shortlisted for the 2016 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA)... Read more |
The winners of the 2015 writingWA Awards, which support emerging writers based in regional Western Australia, have been announced. Marc Simojoki was awarded the Curtin... Read more |
UK author Richard Dawkins has cancelled his upcoming Australian and New Zealand tour after suffering a ‘minor stroke’ in the UK. Dawkins was scheduled to... Read more |
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced a new fellowship for women writers. The Maher Fellowship for Women Writers will be awarded to three recipients,... Read more |
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced a number of international guests appearing at its 2016 conference. They are: Diana Broccardo, sales and... Read more |
The program for Canberra’s second Noted ‘experimental’ writing festival, running from 16-20 March, has been announced. The festival program includes a literary bar hop, multi-art... Read more |
The ballot for the 2016 Ditmar Awards has been announced. The shortlisted works include: Best Novel The Dagger’s Path (Glenda Larke, Orbit) Day Boy (Trent... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2015 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets has been announced. The eight shortlisted poems are: ‘In civilization... Read more |
Melbourne-based Express Media will host ‘pop-up events’ outside of Victoria as part of its first annual Tracks program. The program will host workshops, masterclasses and... Read more |
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced the authors and illustrators participating in its 2016 Primary and Secondary School Days programs, to be held from... Read more |
Kobo parent company Rakuten has revealed a ¥7.8bn (A$96m) write-down on Kobo in its 2015 financial report, reports the Digital Reader. The A$96m ‘goodwill impairment’... Read more |
In the US, annual bookstore sales have risen for the first time since 2007, with sales up 2.5% in 2015, reports Publishers Weekly. Based on... Read more |
Simon & Schuster has recorded global sales of US$780m (A$1,098m) in 2015, up 0.25% from US$778m (A$1,095m) the previous year, report Publishers Weekly and the... Read more |
Hachette parent company Lagardere Publishing has reported a rise in sales for 2015, despite a drop in sales at Hachette US and UK that was attributed... Read more |
US fantasy author Sherrilyn Kenyon is suing Cassandra Clare, author of the ‘Mortal Instruments’ and ‘Shadowhunters’ series (Walker Books), for alleged copyright infringement, reports the... Read more |
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The script of J K Rowling’s forthcoming play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be published on 31 July following the play’s opening in... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Jenny Darling & Associates has sold US rights to The Natural Way of Things (Charlotte Wood) to Europa Editions New York in association with... Read more |
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This week’s bestsellers chart has a new number one with Danielle Steel’s Blue (Bantam) debuting in top spot on both the top 10 chart and... Read more |
‘Kanake deals in so many Gothic tropes—ghosts, implied incest, a stark natural landscape and the legacy of an earlier generation’s follies—that an alternative title for... Read more |
‘It’s our belief that if a writer has gone to all the effort to put together a publishing proposal or manuscript, and that we have spent time actually reading it, then the least we can do is to provide some sort of constructive feedback’—Hindsight Literary Agency editorial director Sarah McKenzie on the agency’s focus on new and emerging writers
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National Library of Australia (NLA) is considering cuts to staff numbers and programming in response to budget cuts imposed by the federal government, reports the... Read more |
The Richmond Upper Clarence Library in regional NSW has a new ‘state-of-the-art’ mobile library, reports the Northern Star. The $479,665 van was jointly funded by... Read more |
Seattle’s first independent library has opened its doors, reports local radio station KPLU News. The Folio library occupies 1800 square metres in the city’s YMCA... Read more |
The Australia Council for the Arts supported a delegation of publishers and writers’ festival programmers to travel to India from 13-25 January to ‘investigate artistic... Read more |
Publishers who have not yet entered the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) are encouraged to do so before nominations close on Monday, 22 February.... Read more |
Applications for the APA’s Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship for 2015/16 are now open, and will close 18 March. The fellowship is awarded to a mid/late-career... Read more |
 Due to unprecedented (but completely understandable) demand for Hardie Grant Egmont’s new blockbuster series Squishy Taylor, an urgent reprint is underway for the first two books. We apologise for the delay, but promise Squishy is worth the wait.
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 Everyone at Hachette Australia is thrilled to congratulate Stephanie Bishop on The Other Side of the World being longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. Congratulations Stephanie!
To order copies of The Other Side of the World (ISBN: 9780733633782) please contact Alliance Distribution Services customer service on toll-free fax 1800-664-477 or tel (02) 4390 1300.
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From 1 March, 2016, backlist terms for Penguin and its sales agencies are changing to Sale or Return, 0-12 months from invoice date. The change moves Penguin backlist terms into line with existing Random House returns terms on backlist and will apply to stock purchased during the 12 months prior.
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Due to unprecedented (but completely understandable) demand for Hardie Grant Egmont’s new blockbuster series Squishy Taylor, an urgent reprint is underway for the first two books. We apologise for the delay, but promise Squishy is worth the wait.
Everyone at Hachette Australia is thrilled to congratulate Stephanie Bishop on The Other Side of the World being longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. Congratulations Stephanie!
