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Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) announced yesterday that PRH Literary publishing director Ben Ball has departed the company, as of Tuesday, 15 May. PRH said... Read more |
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This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) recorded 51,362 ticketed sales worth over $1.28 million—down on last year’s earnings but still the third-highest box office earnings... Read more |
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The Australia Council for the Arts ran the 2018 Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program from 2-4 May, alongside the Sydney Writers’ Festival. Twelve international publishers... Read more |
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The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced its 2018 program, which runs from 19-29 June in venues across Melbourne’s CBD and surrounding suburbs. Timmah Ball,... Read more |
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Minister for communications and the arts Mitch Fifield has appointed Sam Walsh as the next chair of the Australia Council for the Arts, following current... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Booksellers Choice Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Force of Nature (Jane Harper, Macmillan)... Read more |
The shortlists for the 2018 Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards—which act as shortlists for children’s choice book awards in New South Wales (KOALAs),... Read more |
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Jane Harper’s The Dry (Pan) has won the crime and thriller book of the year award at the British Book Awards. Harper said, ‘I’m absolutely... Read more |
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Wellington writer Pip Adam has won the NZ$50,000 (A$45,930) Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her novel The New... Read more |
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Elliot Perlman has written a debut children’s book, The Adventures of Catvinkle, which will be published by Random House Children’s Books in Australia in October... Read more |
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Dervla McTiernan’s debut crime novel The Ruin (HarperCollins) has been optioned for film by Australian film production company Hopscotch Features. Curtis Brown agent Tara Wynne... Read more |
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Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired Sydney teenager Vivian Pham’s debut adult novel, The Coconut Children. Negotiated by Benython Oldfield from Zeitgeist Agency, the deal... Read more |
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Two Hardie Grant Publishing cookbooks have been honoured at the New York Rights Fair’s (NYRF) inaugural Talking Pictures: Selected Books competition, which awards excellence in... Read more |
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Jane Harper has been nominated for the 2018 Anthony Awards for her debut The Dry (Pan). The Dry was nominated in the category for best... Read more |
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Sisters in Crime is launching two new prizes in 2018: the Crime and Punishment Award, and the Award for Best Forensic Linguistics Story. The Crime and... Read more |
Writer and former bookseller Karen Wyld is the recipient of the inaugural Hardcopy scholarship for an emerging First Nations writer. Launched this year by the... Read more |
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Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired Australian and New Zealand rights to a new picture book by Gus Gordon titled I Am Alice. The book... Read more |
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Text Publishing has acquired world rights (ex UK) to Ellena Savage’s debut essay collection, Blueberries, via Daisy Parente at Lutyens & Rubinstein. Blueberries is a... Read more |
Allen & Unwin will publish a book about world number one racehorse Winx in late October 2018. Gold Walkley winner Andrew Rule will author the... Read more |
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Moreland City Council, in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, will offer a new $3000 writer-in-residence program this year. Offered to three writers, the three-month residency program aims... Read more |
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Voiceworks has announced it will begin commissioning and publishing original online content later this year. Voiceworks editor Mira Schlosberg said the new digital publishing arm will... Read more |
HarperCollins has been named Publisher of the Year and bookshop chain Blackwell’s won Book Retailer of the Year at the 2018 British Book Awards. HarperCollins... Read more |
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In the UK, Paris-born Pascale Petit has won the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize for her poetry collection Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe Books). The annual £10,000 (A$18,070) prize... Read more |
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In the UK, Zambian-British writer Kayo Chingonyi’s debut poetry collection Kumukanda (Chatto & Windus) has won the 2018 International Dylan Thomas Prize, worth the £30,000... Read more |
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The Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) annual StatShot survey estimated that US publishers’ revenue for trade books increased by US$96 million (A$128.7 million) to US$7.6... Read more |
British bookshop chain Waterstones has announced it plans to expand in Edinburgh, causing local independent booksellers to accuse the chain retailer of backtracking on previous... Read more |
Sales Fiction Curtis Brown Australia has sold the film option to The Ruin (Dervla McTiernan) to Hopscotch Features. (See news.) Fremantle Press has sold Slovenian... Read more |
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Tim Winton’s new novel The Shepherd’s Hut was the bestselling Australian fiction book in April, claiming top spot in the Australian fiction bestseller chart for the second... Read more |
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Debuting in the number two spot in the top 10 bestsellers chart is this week’s highest new entry, A Court of Frost and Starlight (Sarah... Read more |
‘Ottilie Colter and the Narroway Hunt is the first middle-grade novel to win Hardie Grant Egmont’s Ampersand Prize, and it seems destined to be one of... Read more |
‘Trends (currently audiobooks) are one thing, but it isn’t just a matter of putting our books into different formats—we need to be able to do this with solid strategies for optimum value.’—UWA Publishing director Terri-ann White said she appreciated the focus on audio formats at the recent Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program.
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Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains six reviews of books publishing in July. Christian White’s debut novel, the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize-winning The Nowhere Child (Affirm, July), received... Read more |
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State Library Victoria (SLV) has launched a public appeal to raise $100,000 to preserve and make publicly available the Walter and Helena Cass Collection. The... Read more |
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The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced that two new roads in the ACT will be named after prominent Australian librarians Ena Noël... Read more |
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced eight winners of the John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award, which recognises marketing and public relations excellence... Read more |
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Former Adelaide Writers’ Week director Laura Kroetsch’s move into a new role as the curator of Dark Mofo’s Dark and Dangerous Thoughts symposium has seen... Read more |
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Future Perfect is a podcast produced by the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) that asks storytellers about ‘what they do, how they do it, and why’.... Read more |
The Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAAs) call for entries is now open. This year’s event is on Thursday, 20 September 2018 at The Pavilion, Arts... Read more |
 The award, commemorating respected former racing writer Bill Whittaker, is presented every two years for the best book on horse racing published in Australia/New Zealand in that period.
Tulloch is published by The Slattery Media Group.
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