The shortlists for the 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000)... Read more |
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Melbourne writer Marija Peričić has won the 2017 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for The Lost Pages, a fictional memoir of Czech writer Max Brod. The Lost Pages... Read more |
Amazon has confirmed to Business Insider it is ‘making plans now’ to bring a retail offering to Australia. In a brief statement, Amazon said it is... Read more |
The Copyright Agency has confirmed it has amassed a fund to help to support advocacy and run legal cases in the event of changes to... Read more |
The newly established Melbourne Jewish Book Week will host its first event on the 28 May, ahead of its first full program in May 2018. Curated... Read more |
Affirm Press titles will be distributed by Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) and sold by Hachette from 3 July. ADS and Hachette will take over the... Read more |
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A new children’s and YA specialist bookstore, Squishy Minnie, has opened in the regional town of Kyneton in Victoria. Owner Kristen Proud told Books+Publishing the... Read more |
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Carole Wilkinson’s children’s book Dragonkeeper (Black Dog Books) is being adapted into an animated feature film. The China-Spain co-production was announced at the Beijing Film... Read more |
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Maria Lewis’ supernatural novel Who’s Afraid? (Hachette) has been optioned for television by Queensland production company Hoodlum Entertainment. The deal, which was negotiated by Alex... Read more |
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Two New Zealand publishers, Christine Dale and Jenny Nagle, have launched a new independent children’s and YA publisher, OneTree House. In a statement, Dale and... Read more |
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In the US, Sourcebooks has published the first in a trilogy of picture books by New Zealand author James Russell and illustrator Link Choi with... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Compass (Mathias Enard, trans by Charlotte Mandell, Fitzcarraldo Editions)... Read more |
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Maylis de Kerangal has won the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize for Mend the Living (MacLehose Press), a novel that tracks the journey of a heart from... Read more |
UK literary journal Granta has revealed its Best Young American Novelists list for 2017, which honours 21 writers under the age of 40. The writers... Read more |
In the US, Penguin Random House will launch a new children’s imprint called Penguin Workshop with an emphasis on ‘accessible titles and brands’, reports Publishers... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold UK rights to She’s Having Her Baby and Crazy Busy Guilty (both Lauren Sams) to Legend Press; and North American... Read more |
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls (Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo, Particular Books) has shot up the charts to fourth spot in this week’s top... Read more |
‘With pieces that range from the fantastical to those grounded firmly in reality, this collection has a lot to offer its young-adult readership’ … read... Read more |
‘Although we will remain very fond of the print magazine, for a small publisher with the ambitions to continue publishing more writers, to better remunerate them, and to create new opportunities… We couldn’t have it both ways’—Kill Your Darlings co-founder Rebecca Starford on the literary journal’s transition from print to online-only
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The federal government will undertake further consultation with stakeholders on extending safe harbour provisions in the Copyright Act prior to introducing amended legislation. As previously... Read more |
In the US, the Boston Public Library has returned a manuscript written in the 14th century to Italy, reports the Boston Globe. Two other items were... Read more |
STEM, mindfulness, graphic novels, pre-digital nostalgia and diversity were among the trends discussed at this year’s Children’s Institute in the US, reports Readings Kids manager... Read more |
Kat Mayo runs the romance-focused blog Book Thingo, which started in 2008 as a spin-off from her personal blog. ‘At the time, it was difficult to... Read more |
Editors NSW will host a workshop on editing children’s and YA fiction. Publisher and editor Zoe Walton will cover some of the key elements to consider... Read more |
 The Melbourne City of Literature Office and the Melbourne Prize Trust are working together on a new Award to acknowledge Melbourne’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature.
Valued at $10,000, the Public Artwork Design Concept Award 2017—Crafting a City of Literature—is now open for entries (closing 17 May).
Please visit www.melbourneprize.org. (The Melbourne Prize for Literature & Awards will be offered in 2018.)
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NewSouth is thrilled to congratulate all authors shortlisted for the NSW PLAs. For fiction Vancouver (Inkerman & Blunt); for new writing Letter to Pessoa (Giramondo) and The Bonobo’s Dream (Xoum); for poetry Ghostspeaking (Vagabond), Burnt Umber (UWA) and Fragments (Giramondo); for playwriting The Drover’s Wife (Currency Press) and Ladies Day (Currency Press); for the Multicultural NSW Award Offshore (NewSouth); and finally for the Translation Prize to Jennifer Lindsay, author of In Other Words (NewSouth).
To order please contact TL Distribution on (02) 8778 9999 or orders@tldistribution.com.au.
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