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The winners of the 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were presented at a ceremony at the State Library of NSW on 22 May. Leah Purcell’s... Read more |
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The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has partnered with library provider Civica to compile a list of most borrowed books from Australian libraries from May... Read more |
The first authors have been announced for the 2017 Byron Writers Festival, which runs from 4-6 August. International guests include US science writer Dava Sobel;... Read more |
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A number of authors have been announced for the second Canberra Writers Festival, which runs from 25-27 August. Festival guests include Maggie Alderson, Richard Fidler, Julia... Read more |
Harlequin executive senior editor Annabel Blay has released her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report into fiction editing in the US following a 10-week placement in... Read more |
Novelist Di Morrissey and literary agent Margaret Connolly will be inducted into the ABIA Hall of Fame at a ceremony on 25 May in Sydney.... Read more |
Comedian and presenter on the ABC’s The Checkout Ben Jenkins will replace Magda Szubanski as the host of the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) at... Read more |
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has released its schools program for 2017. This year’s program, which runs from 28 to 31 August, features US author... Read more |
Scribe has acquired world English-language rights to recently elected French president Emmanuel Macron’s memoir Revolution. The memoir has become a bestseller in France following its publication... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has written to communications minister Mitch Fifield urging the government to extend the Public Lending Right (PLR) and Educational Lending... Read more |
A number of Australian authors have been longlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2017 Dagger awards. The Dry by Jane Harper (Macmillan) has... Read more |
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The picture book Smile Cry by Tania McCartney and Jess Racklyeft (EK Books) has won the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal... Read more |
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HarperCollins has acquired Eliza Henry-Jones’ YA novel From the Sea in a two-book deal via Sally Bird at Calidiris Literary Agency. From the Sea is... Read more |
The Walkley Foundation will administer the Pascall Prize for arts criticism and will present a new award for arts journalism, as part of its mid-year... Read more |
Audible Australia has released its first original local audio series, a free six-episode series exploring marriage equality, produced in partnership with the Equality Campaign. The... Read more |
Writer Michael Adams has won the Australian Book Review’s annual Calibre Essay Prize, worth $5000. Adams’ essay ‘Salt Blood’, a mediation on freediving and mortality,... Read more |
Academic Marguerite Johnson has been awarded the inaugural Australian Book Review fellowship for a proposed essay on Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock. Johnson’s essay, ‘Mapping... Read more |
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Ali Cobby Eckermann has won the inaugural Red Room Poetry fellowship. Eckermann was chosen from a shortlist of 10 poets. She receives a $5000 stipend,... Read more |
Online journal Feminartsy has announced the winners of its inaugural Fiction and Memoir prizes. Elizabeth Flux won the Fiction Prize for her piece ‘Best Laid... Read more |
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UK author Lucy Durneen’s short story collection Wild Gestures, which is published by Adelaide-based small press MidnightSun, has won the prize for best short story... Read more |
Nick Hardie-Grant has been appointed managing director of Hardie Grant’s marketing and custom-publishing business Hardie Grant Media, effective from 5 June. Hardie-Grant takes over from... Read more |
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Paula Hawkins’ Into the Water (Doubleday) has retained the top spot the overall bestsellers chart for its second week of release, ahead of The Barefoot Investor... Read more |
‘Whenever we are honest about sales results, authors despair and readers are puzzled, imagining that the myth of instant success and quitting the day job... Read more |
US-based online reading subscription service Scribd has expanded its content to include newspapers, reports Publishers Weekly. Subscribers will now have access to selected articles from... Read more |
In the US, Harlequin is closing five mass-market original lines, reports Publishers Weekly. The romance publisher has confirmed a report on Book Riot that it... Read more |
In the US, Amazon has introduced a weekly bestseller list that will rank titles based on sales and borrow-rates across all its platforms and formats,... Read more |
Hachette UK (HUK) has announced CEO Tim Hely Hutchinson will step down from the position at the end of the year, reports the Bookseller. David... Read more |
Bloomsbury’s revenues have grown 15% to £142.6m (A$249m) in the 12 months ending in February 2017, reports the Bookseller. The biggest growth came from children’s... Read more |
Françoise Nyssen, CEO of French publishing house Éditions Actes Sud, has been appointed Culture Minister in newly elected French president Emmanuel Macron’s cabinet, reports Artnet. Belgian-born Nyssen trained... Read more |
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced the shortlists for the inaugural Library Design Awards, which aim to showcase the best in contemporary... Read more |
A campaign to save three Geelong libraries from closure has failed, with Geelong council confirming it will close the libraries at the end of September, reports... Read more |
As ‘old media’ books coverage shrinks, the influence of voices in ‘new media’ is becoming increasingly important. But how do publishers reach online influencers—and how... Read more |
Australian blogger Rebecca Daly collaborates with US-based Alise McGriffin on YA blog Readers in Wonderland, where they post ‘reviews, pretty pictures and fangirling’. Daly’s blogging... Read more |
‘In a beautifully observed study of migrants who are acceptable (the Italians, the Greeks), tolerated (the Vietnamese) and deplored (the asylum seeker “flood” of the... Read more |
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN prefix: 978-0-7486; 978-0-85224 Old distributor: NewSouth Books Changeover date: 30 June Returns cut-off: 30 September
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The Children’s Publishing Committee of the APA, in conjunction with the ABA, will hold a one-day seminar on children’s publishing and bookselling called Between the Covers,... Read more |
Editors NSW’s June speaker meeting will focus on how editors can use their networks to keep abreast of publishing trends and opportunities. Presenter Melissa Faulkner... Read more |
The Small Press Network is seeking papers that engage with publishing’s past and its future for the 2017 Independent Publishing Conference. Papers that explore aspects... Read more |
Congratulations to Tania McCartney and Jess Racklyeft! Their delightful picture book, Smile Cry, has won SCBWI’s 2017 Crystal Kite Award for the Australia/New Zealand region.... Read more |
The July issue of Books+Publishing includes features on: illustrated books, audiobooks and podcasts, publishing for millennials, and science books for kids. PLUS our annual Christmas... Read more |
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NewSouth Books will no longer be distributing Edinburgh University Press from June 30. Returns will be accepted until September 30.
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We’re thrilled to announce Charlie Jane Anders’ fabulous debut All the Birds in the Sky (9781785650550, Titan Publishing Group) has been awarded ‘best novel’ in... Read more |
Located on the western edge of the Sydney Basin, this business has been in its current location for over 20 years with a strong individual... Read more |
NewSouth Books would like to congratulate the following publishers on their success in this year’s NSW Premier’s Literary Awards: Currency Press for Leah Purcell’s The... Read more |
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