Allen & Unwin has announced that group publishing director Sue Hines will retire from the position at the end of 2016. Hines joined A&U in... Read more |
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The winners of the biennial WA Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction ($15,000) The Golden Age (Joan London,... Read more |
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The winners of the 2016 Inky Awards, presented by the Centre for Youth Literature, were announced at the State Library of Victoria on 4 October.... Read more |
Harlequin Australia is to fully integrate into HarperCollins ANZ, with the Harlequin publishing division sharing HarperCollins’ sales network and in-house services, including contracts, rights, pre-press,... Read more |
Tasmanian author Susie Greenhill has won the 2016 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for her entry ‘The Clinking’, described as an ‘ecological love story’. In... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2016 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award for an unpublished manuscript has been announced. The shortlisted writers and their works are:... Read more |
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Grassroots advocacy group #LoveOzYA is introducing a monthly e-newsletter with information on new-release Australian YA titles. The newsletter aims to be a resource for booksellers,... Read more |
Garth Nix’s forthcoming middle-grade novel Frogkisser! (A&U, February 2017) is being adapted into a live-action/animation musical film by US-based Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios.... Read more |
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Tim Lane and Elliot Cartledge’s Chasing Shadows: The Life & Death of Peter Roebuck (Hardie Grant Books) has been longlisted for the UK-based William Hill... Read more |
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Pantera Press CEO and co-founder Alison Green has been recognised in the Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence 2016 list. Green was recognised in... Read more |
Varuna, the Writers House has announced the recipients of the 2017 Varuna Residency Fellowships. The writers and their projects are: The Mick Dark flagship fellowship... Read more |
‘Here’s a scale I use to measure the quality of a writer’s diet: Fifty Shades of Grey is KFC and The Swan Book is the... Read more |
Sales Nonfiction—Nero has sold the film and television option to Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went From Sunday Best to Fast Fashion (Clare Press) to Essential... Read more |
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Working Class Boy, the first instalment of Jimmy Barnes’ two-book autobiography (HarperCollins), has debuted at number one on the bestsellers chart this week. This ends... Read more |
Australian children’s book author and illustrator Narelle Oliver has died. Oliver was the creator of a number of picture books, including The Best Beak in... Read more |
Archaeologist and author John Mulvaney has died, aged 90. NewSouth Publishing writes: ‘All of us at UNSW Press/NewSouth Publishing were saddened to learn of the... Read more |
In the US, the National Book Foundation has named five debut fiction writers under the age of 35 ‘whose work promises to leave a lasting... Read more |
Debut British author K J Orr has won the £15,000 (A$25,070) BBC National Short Story Award for her story ‘Disappearances’, featured in her collection Light... Read more |
In the US, 11 new writers have made the Hollywood Reporter’s ‘Most Powerful Authors’ 2016 list. Among the first-time listees are Ernest Cline (12th), whose... Read more |
Apple has released an exclusive enhanced ebook edition of George R R Martin’s A Game of Thrones to mark the 20th anniversary of the novel’s... Read more |
Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan has won the US$40,000 (A$52,010) prize for best novel at the Emerging Voices awards in New York for his novel Man... Read more |
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced the recipients of its 2017 Fellowships, awarded to local and international scholars to ‘make extensive use of... Read more |
Ann Ritchie and Michele Gaca have won the 2016 ALIA Research Grant Award for their project, ‘The contribution of Australian hospital libraries towards their organisations’... Read more |
In the US, the executive director of the Kansas City Public Library Crosby Kemper III said he is ‘outraged’ that state prosecutors are pursuing charges... Read more |
The past five years has seen a significant rise in Australian books adapted for the screen, with adaptations currently making up nearly 50% of Australian... Read more |
Founded in 2014, Melbourne-based Niche Press specialises in ‘quirky smaller-scale publications’ that might get overlooked by the mass market. ‘We use a different model that... Read more |
‘To succeed, microfiction must combine efficiency of text with immediacy of imagery and neat narrative twists, all in a space small enough for a single... Read more |
Publisher: Big Picture Press ISBN prefix: 978-1-78370; 978-1-84877 Old distributor: Hardie Grant Egmont New distributor: TBA Changeover date: 31 December 2016 Returns cut-off: 24 November... Read more |
The Small Press Network will launch its Independent Publishing Conference program in Melbourne on Thursday 13 October from 6pm. The event will include readings from... Read more |
The Children’s Book Council of Australia would like to remind publishers to send their entries for the 2017 CBCA Children’s Book of the Year Awards. Entries... Read more |
Our warmest congratulations to all the winners in the 2016 WA Premier’s Book Awards. We are thrilled that Lucy Dougan’s The Guardians (Giramondo) took out... Read more |
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