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Josephine Wilson has won the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel Extinctions (UWA Publishing). Wilson was named as the winner at an event... Read more |
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Thirty-two writers and literary organisations are among the recipients of the latest Australia Council grants round, which awarded $6.1 million to 221 projects. Grants in... Read more |
The Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH) and communications firm Newgate have been chosen to deliver a $1.65m program that will champion investment and return... Read more |
Australian writers have raised $13,143.84 for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) by auctioning off various items as part of the ‘Authors for Asylum’ Twitter... Read more |
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Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to a new Tim Winton novel, The Shepherd’s Hut, to be published in March 2018. Literary agency... Read more |
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Monash University Publishing will launch a new series of literary criticism in 2018 focusing on contemporary Australian writers. The press will publish two volumes in... Read more |
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The full program has been launched for the inaugural Boundless festival for Indigenous and culturally diverse writers. Ellen van Neerven, Julie Koh, Michael Mohammed Ahmad,... Read more |
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Text has acquired world rights to new books by Gail Jones and Craig Sherborne. Jones’ new novel, The Death of Noah Glass, is about a... Read more |
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Berbay Publishing will release its first junior fiction series, ‘Norton’, in 2018, by Melbourne writer and illustrator John Dickson. The series focuses on seven-year-old Norton,... Read more |
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Kobo has added an audiobook service to its smartphone and tablet app, with a monthly one-book membership costing $12.99. The service launched on 6 September... Read more |
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Angela Savage has been appointed director of Writers Victoria, effective from 25 September. Savage’s appointment follows the departure of Kate Larsen, who served as director since... Read more |
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Several writers and literary organisations have received a share of about $800,000 in funding from Melbourne City Council. Among the recipients are Australian Poetry, for... Read more |
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The inaugural recipients of Writers Victoria’s opportunities for women writers of colour and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have been announced. The recipients of... Read more |
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The full program for the 2017 National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF) has been announced. The festival, which runs from 28 September to 1 October in... Read more |
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Sydney literary organisation Subbed In is launching its first series of books at an event in Sydney on 23 September. Subbed In has been hosting... Read more |
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Playwright Leah Purcell has received the top two writing honours at the Australian Writers’ Guild’s annual AWGIE Awards, for The Drover’s Wife (Currency Press), a... Read more |
The program for WriteFest 2017, running in Bundaberg from 6-8 October, has been announced. Author Arnold Zable headlines the festival program, joining other guests including... Read more |
In the UK, a new report commissioned by the British Booksellers Association (BA) has found that bookshops contribute an estimated £1.9bn (A$3.12bn) annually to the... Read more |
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The longlist for the £30,000 (A$49,130) 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize, which recognises nonfiction writing by authors of any nationality, has been announced. The longlisted titles... Read more |
In the UK, a few small publishers have protested the publisher fees charged by the Women’s Prize for Fiction, claiming the the fees are ‘extortionate’ and pose... Read more |
A survey of more than 1000 people working in the UK publishing industry has found that more than 90% of respondents identify as white, reports... Read more |
In the US, the American Booksellers Association (ABA) and the US Authors Guild have partnered on a new initiative to produce events in independent bookstores... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold US rights to The Dark Lake and City of Stars (both Sarah Bailey) to Grand Central Publishing; and rights to The Dark... Read more |
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Two sports memoirs have climbed into the top 10 bestsellers this week, with Billy Slater’s Autobiography (Ebury) reaching fifth spot and AFL player and coach... Read more |
‘The Trauma Cleaner is no ordinary trauma narrative: we see how the infliction of multiple traumas has left this fascinating woman uniquely placed to restore order... Read more |
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 14 reviews of books publishing in September, October and November. Two November picture books scored the highest possible rating of 5 stars:... Read more |
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Activist and author Connie Johnson has died, aged 40. Johnson launched charity organisation Love Your Sister in 2012 to raise funds for cancer research. With... Read more |
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Journalist, broadcaster and author Peter Luck has died, aged 73. Luck was a television journalist on programs such as This Day Tonight and Four Corners,... Read more |
The WA state government’s Better Beginnings literacy program has been awarded a Best Practice Honoree recognition at the 2017 Library of Congress Literacy Awards. Since... Read more |
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has won the ACT’s Project of the Year, awarded by the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM), reports PS... Read more |
In the UK, a quarter of all libraries in East Sussex could close under a new proposal from the council, reports the BBC. Seven libraries... Read more |
For many years, stories based on historical events have inspired young readers to explore the past. Now, it’s science’s turn. Heather Zubek explores how children’s... Read more |
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Italian expat Erica Puggioni now lives in Brisbane, where she blogs about crime, literary fiction and fantasy at Libretto Reviews. ‘I am bilingual and so... Read more |
Editor and arts worker Linh Nguyen has been named program coordinator for the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF). Nguyen was a creative producer for EWF in... Read more |
Digital marketer and blogger Tonile Wortley will join Hachette Australia as a product executive/digital marketing coordinator. Wortley was formerly the digital and community coordinator at... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association will be holding Christmas parties in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. See below for details. South Australia ABA Party... Read more |
Nominations for the 2017 Dromkeen Awards for Australian children’s literature are now open. The awards are split into two categories: The Dromkeen Medal, awarded for... Read more |
NewSouth Books is excited to congratulate UWA Publishing on winning this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award for Extinctions, by WA writer Josephine Wilson. A reprint of Extinctions arrived at TLD on Monday 11 September. To order your copies, contact TL Distribution on 02 8778 9999 or orders@tldistribution.com.au.
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