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The full program has been announced for the 2018 Perth Festival Writers Week, which runs from 19-25 February. Events at the festival include the pairing... Read more |
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Thirty-five arts organisations have received a total of $1.035m in the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Literary organisations and projects... Read more |
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Hachette Australia has acquired Australian and New Zealand rights to Hannah Richell’s new novel, The Peacock Summer, in a joint deal with Orion UK. Hachette... Read more |
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TV presenter and comedian Zoe Norton Lodge has teamed up with her sister Georgia, a graphic designer and illustrator, for a new middle-grade fiction title, Elizabella... Read more |
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The offices of the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), Express Media, Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) and Writers Victoria will remain open on 26 January in support... Read more |
Australian author Jock Serong has been shortlisted for the 2018 Edgar Allan Poe Awards (the Edgars), which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction’... Read more |
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New Zealand children’s book author Joy Cowley has been shortlisted for the 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Awards, administered by the International Board on Books for... Read more |
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Australian writer Ineke Chen-Meyer has been announced as one of two recipients of the 2017 Tiptree Fellowship. The fellowship, run by the US-based James Tiptree... Read more |
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Independent bookselling chain Robinsons Bookshop is opening a new store in Plenty Valley Westfield in Melbourne’s north in March. Robinsons owner Susanne Horman told Books+Publishing... Read more |
Google has begun selling audiobooks to its Google Play Store in Australia and 45 other countries. The Australian store features ‘The Sound of Aussie Authors’... Read more |
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A number of writers have been awarded international residencies for 2018-19 as part of the Australia Council’s program. Authors Emily Bitto and Fiona McFarlane will... Read more |
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Writer’s Victoria has announced the recipients of its second series of professional development opportunities for women writers of colour and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.... Read more |
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Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Melbourne-based writer J P (Joshua) Pomare’s debut novel In My Skull in a six-publisher auction. Rights were acquired... Read more |
Andrew Roff has won the 2018 Margaret River Short Story Competition for his story ‘Pigface’. Cassie Hamer came in second place with her story, ‘Habitat’,... Read more |
Nine out of the top 10 bestselling literary fiction authors in 2017 were women writers, reports the Bookseller. Margaret Atwood topped the list, benefiting from... Read more |
UK bookselling chain Waterstones has reported an 80 percent jump in annual profits, reports the Guardian. Waterstones reported that pre-tax profits increased from £9.9m (A$17.1m)... Read more |
In the UK, the shortlist for the inaugural Translators’ Association First Translation Prize, worth £2000, has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The shortlisted works are:... Read more |
US-based ebook analysts Author Earnings has expanded its tracking of online US print, audio and digital book sales to capture daily data. The data analysis... Read more |
In the UK, authors at Freight Books, the Scottish independent publisher that went into provisional liquidation in October 2017, have been told to buy back... Read more |
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Bestselling author of the ‘Neapolitan’ series Elena Ferrante will write a regular newspaper column—her first ever—for Guardian Weekend magazine, reports the Guardian. Beginning on 20... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold US rights to The Museum of Modern Love (Heather Rose) to Algonquin; and German and Turkish rights to The... Read more |
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The paperback edition of Michael Wolff’s insider account of the Trump White House, Fire and Fury (Hachette), has debuted at second spot on this week’s... Read more |
‘This exquisite and affecting allegory is another masterful Margaret Wild and Freya Blackwood collaboration that is greater than the sum of its parts’ … read... Read more |
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Author Meme McDonald has died, aged 63. McDonald was the author of nine books for adults and younger readers, including The Binna Binna Man (A&U),... Read more |
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Fantasy and science fiction author Ursula K Le Guin has died, aged 88. Le Guin was the author of more than 20 novels, including The... Read more |
The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder in regional WA has launched a free online movie-streaming service, for members of the William Grundt Memorial Library. Library members can... Read more |
In the UK, 15 out of Somerset County’s 34 libraries are under threat of closure unless voluntary staff can be found to run the service,... Read more |
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UQP nonfiction publisher Alexandra Payne explores the potential of transmedia narratives for publishers.Read the full article here.
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The Children’s Publishing Committee of the Australian Publishers Association, in conjunction with the Australian Booksellers Association will hold a one-day seminar on children’s publishing and... Read more |
The Woollahra Digital Literary Award is seeking submissions of literary writing that is published online or in an electronic form. The award offers prizes in... Read more |
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