Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. The survey deadline has been extended to Thursday, 18 January. This is your last... Read more |
Leading Edge Books has announced the 2018 Indie Book Awards shortlist, for the best Australian books published in 2017. The shortlisted titles in each category... Read more |
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Writers Victoria has announced the eight writers shortlisted for the 2018 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, awarded annually to an Australian writer for a proposed biographical... Read more |
Twenty-six writers and literary organisations are among the 196 recipients of the latest round of Australia Council funding grants, worth a total of $6.4m. Fifteen... Read more |
A number of writers and literary organisations are among the 70 recipients of the latest round of VicArts project funding, worth a total of $1.5m.... Read more |
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Xoum Publishing has announced the shortlist for the 2017 XO Romance Prize for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted works and their authors are: L Francis... Read more |
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A feature documentary adaptation of Jimmy Barnes’ memoir Working Class Boy (HarperCollins) is one of 12 documentary projects to receive production funding from Screen Australia.... Read more |
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Western Sydney literary group Sweatshop has launched the Writers’ Collective for Diverse Women, a new program of workshops for Indigenous and culturally diverse women writers... Read more |
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Affirm Press has announced it will boycott Australia Day on 26 January in support of the movement to change the date of the holiday to... Read more |
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The Wheeler Centre has announced several new appointments to its staff. Former prize manager of the Stella Prize Veronica Sullivan has joined the centre as... Read more |
HarperCollins Australia has acquired The Girl on the Page, an ‘industry insider’ novel by Booktopia director of books John Purcell. Described as ‘a smart, sexy,... Read more |
Independent genre publishers Twelfth Planet Press will publish Kate Gordon’s YA novel Thyla as the first novel under its Kaleidoscope imprint, which specialises in representing... Read more |
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Hardie Grant has acquired a new illustrated guide on ocean and river cruises by Channel Nine’s Getaway presenter Catriona Rowntree. The Best of World Cruising... Read more |
Writer and events producer Kylie Maslen has been named the winner of the 2018 Kill Your Darlings New Critic Award. Maslen receives $3000 and will... Read more |
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Literary magazine Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced several new staff members for 2018, including the appointment of Ellen Cregan as coordinator of KYD’s First... Read more |
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American poet Ocean Vuong has won the 2017 T S Eliot Prize for poetry, reports the Guardian. Vuong won the prize for his debut collection... Read more |
German trade paper buchreport has reported sales were down for the German book industry in 2017, with value dropping two percent compared to 2016, reports... Read more |
Print book sales in Canada have declined in 2017, with print book volume down by four percent and value down by three percent compared to... Read more |
The children’s imprint of travel publisher Lonely Planet—Lonely Planet Kids—has announced several new appointments as part of its ongoing expansion in the US market, reports... Read more |
In the Czech Republic, the government has introduced a new tax law that allows companies to offer tax-deductible book vouchers to employees, reports Publishing Perspectives.... Read more |
In the US, Penguin Random House (PRH) has purchased the trade book publishing assets of wellness publisher Rodale Books from Hearst Corp, reports Publishers Weekly.... Read more |
In the UK, Quarto is merging its three adult trade imprints into one new imprint, White Lion Publishing, reports the Bookseller. The publishers’ imprints Aurum... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Bulgarian rights to The Eye of the Sheep (Sofie Laguna) to Ednorog Publishers. Nonfiction—Allen & Unwin has sold German... Read more |
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The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wiley) continues its run as the country’s overall bestseller into the new year, heading up a top 10 chart that’s... Read more |
‘Readers’ enjoyment will hinge on how invested they become in Blake’s moral conflict, but Hangman is ghoulish fun, and fills the Dexter– and Hannibal-shaped holes... Read more |
New Zealand sales and distribution agent, entrepreneur and long-serving book industry figure Paul Greenberg has died. Greenberg started out in publishing in the 1960s and worked... Read more |
Australian children’s author Lilith Norman has died, aged 90. Norman was the author of several children’s books, including Climb a Lonely Hill (Cengage), which was... Read more |
The founder of specialist academic distributor Astam Books, Chris Player, has died. Footprint Books, which acquired Astam in 2006, supplied the following statement: ‘Sadly Chris... Read more |
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) will host its annual Library Lovers’ Day on 14 February. The event will be launched by the Parliamentary... Read more |
Australia’s most comprehensive index of live performances, AusStage, is in jeopardy due to uncertain funding, reports InDaily. AusStage has been funded by grants from the... Read more |
Library cooperative OCLC and International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has awarded the IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program for 2018, which supports... Read more |
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In December 2017, a group of Indigenous Literacy Foundation staff, volunteers and publishing industry supporters visited the Katherine region in the Northern Territory to launch... Read more |
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Veronica Sullivan, Hiroki Kobayashi and Stella Charls recently joined the Wheeler Centre’s programming team, but many in the industry will already know these three from... Read more |
Fiona Dunne has joined the Stella Prize in the position of prize manager. She was previously creative producer at Express Media. Dunne replaces Veronica Sullivan,... Read more |
Lucy Neslon has been appointed the new artistic director of Queensland Poetry Festival, beginning the post at the end of January. Nelson is the outgoing... Read more |
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Simon & Schuster (S&S) has appointed Ashleigh Jordan to the newly created position of senior national account manager. Jordan was previously with Allen & Unwin... Read more |
Editors NSW presents a one-day workshop on tips and tools for MS Word that make it easier and faster to work with the program. The... Read more |
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