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Sydney-based writer, actor and playwright Leah Purcell has won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for her play The Drover’s Wife (Currency Press) at this... Read more
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The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, administered by the Wheeler Centre, will waive entry fees for up to three titles from Small Press Network (SPN) members... Read more
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The full program for Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 4-9 March, has been announced. This year’s festival is dedicated to Elizabeth Harrower, who will... Read more
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Black Inc. is calling for submissions for a new anthology, Growing up Aboriginal in Australia, to be published in 2018. The anthology, which will be... Read more
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A number of book industry figures have been recognised in the annual Australia Day honours. Anne O’Donovan was made Officer in the General Division of... Read more
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Several literary projects have been included among the recipients in the latest round of Creative Victoria’s VicArts Grants. The program will provide over $1.8m in... Read more
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The shortlist for the 2016 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets has been announced. The eight shortlisted poems are: ‘Many Girls,... Read more
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Queensland literary journal Pencilled In has launched #ReadAsianOz, an initiative that places books by Asian-Australian authors on public transport services to raise the profile of... Read more
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Joan London’s novel The Golden Age (Vintage, published in the UK by Europa Editions) has been longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize in the UK.... Read more
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Jessica Walton’s Introducing Teddy (illus by Dougal MacPherson, Bloomsbury) has made the American Library Association’s (ALA) annual Rainbow List’s Top Ten books with significant gay,... Read more
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Author Matthew Reilly has been voted ‘Australia’s Favourite Author’ in Booktopia’s annual poll. Booktopia announced the top 10 finalists on its website on 27 January.... Read more
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Literary magazine Island will publish a special edition essay collection to celebrate its partnership with speech pathologist, literacy advocate and 2017 Tasmanian Australian of the... Read more
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Irish author Sebastian Barry has won the 2016 Costa Book of the Year award for his novel Days Without End (Faber), reports the Guardian. This... Read more
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Author Roxane Gay has pulled her book How to Be Heard from Simon & Schuster (S&S) in response to the far-right journalist Milo Yiannopoulos’ book deal with... Read more
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The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the winners of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals. The fiction prize was awarded to Colson Whitehead for The Underground... Read more
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The New York Times (NYT) is dropping its print and online bestseller lists for graphic novels and manga, mass-market paperbacks, teen e-books and middle-grade e-books... Read more
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Sales Fiction—Black Inc. imprint Nero has sold world audio rights to Crazy, Busy, Guilty (Lauren Sams) to Wavesound. Spinifex Press has sold Vietnamese rights to... Read more
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Harry Potter is back in the bestseller charts, with two new illustrated editions of The Tales of Beedle the Bard and Quidditch through the Ages (J... Read more
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‘Despite the many animals scurrying around, Gwyn Perkins’ paean to the beauty of the bush is both calming and celebratory’ … read Thuy On’s full... Read more
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The State Library of New South Wales has secured $15m in private donations to fund new public galleries and a learning space in the Mitchell... Read more
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Former Australia Library and Information Association (ALIA) president Christine Mackenzie is standing for the role of president of the International Federation of Library Associations and... Read more
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Jan Richards, the manager of Central West Libraries in rural NSW, has been made a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia... Read more
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Former Nielsen Book Australia general manager Shaun Symonds takes a closer look at the small press sector and its bestselling titles. Read the full article... Read more
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The Society of Women Writers NSW will hold its monthly literary luncheon on Wednesday, 8 February 2017 from 12pm. The keynote speaker will be Helen... Read more
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Nominations for the 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards are now open, and will close at 5pm AEDT on Monday, 20 February. Nominations are sought for... Read more
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Birds Surfing: Travel adventures while bird surveying in Australia, along the coast and into the deserts. This new title by Douglas Johnston is now available from spindriftpress@gmail.com. Ph: 0402 484 798.
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