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Smart is not just ticks and crosses, smart is building boats from boxes. Painting patterns, wheeling wagons, being mermaids, riding dragons … From the award-winning... Read more |
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This year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which ran from 24 August to 2 September, attracted audiences that were ‘excited by the fresh offer’ of a more... Read more |
The liquidators of Dennis Jones & Associates (DJA) held a creditors’ meeting in Melbourne on Monday, 10 September. Liquidators Scott Howell and Steven Kugel from The... Read more |
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Independent Australian publishers attending the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), running from 22-26 August, have reported interest in the categories of children’s, parenting, and education.... Read more |
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Twenty-nine writers and literary organisations are among the recipients of the latest Australia Council grants round, which awarded $6.3 million to more than 200 projects.... Read more |
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Five writers and one visual artist have received Create grants, worth a total of $105,000, from the Copyright Agency. The grants went to the following writers:... Read more |
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The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has appointed Amelia Lush as its new head of children’s and YA programs. Lush has been a children’s and YA... Read more |
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Over 30,000 students, libraries and other organisations have taken part in the Great Book Swap campaign for Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD), held this year on... Read more |
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Australian author Felicity McLean’s forthcoming debut novel The Van Apfel Girls are Gone (HarperCollins, April 2019) has been sold in four territories, including to Algonquin... Read more |
Clan Destine Press has acquired world (ex NZ) rights to Australian-born New Zealand-based author Jennifer Lane’s debut novel All Our Secrets (Rosa Mira Books NZ). All... Read more |
The winners of the University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre Literary Awards have been announced. Wesley Michel Wright Prize ($4000) On the Outskirts (John Kinsella, UQP)... Read more |
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Finalists have been announced for this year’s Melbourne Prize for Literature, as well as the Best Writing Award and the Readings Residency Award. The finalists for... Read more |
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Australian Catholic University (ACU) has announced Castlemaine-based poet Annie Hunter as the winner of the 2018 ACU Prize for Poetry, worth $10,000, for her poem... Read more |
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The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the longlist for the 2018 Australia Book Prize. The prize, worth $3500, is... Read more |
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Jane Harper has won the Barry Award for Best First Novel for her 2017 novel The Dry (Pan). The annual literary crime awards, named for... Read more |
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Two Australian authors are among the finalists of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s (CCBC) children’s book awards. Dragonfly Song (A&U) by Canadian-born Australian author Wendy Orr... Read more |
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New Zealand author Anne Salmond’s Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds (Auckland University Press) has been shortlisted for the British Academy’s 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize.... Read more |
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The finalists for the 2018 Subbed In Chapbook Prize have been announced. The 14 manuscripts selected as finalists are: ‘Plunge the Mirkwood’ (Sumudu Samarawickrama) ‘Unicorns... Read more |
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Auckland-based playwright Leki Jackson-Bourke has been announced as the inaugural Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence. Run by the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) at... Read more |
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Students from RMIT University’s Professional Writing and Editing program will host the Odyssey Literary Festival in Melbourne on 13 September. This year’s festival, which is... Read more |
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Australian children’s literature electronic magazine Buzz Words has launched a new short story prize for adults writing for children. The Buzz Words Short Story Prize... Read more |
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British bookshop chain Waterstones has acquired independent bookselling chain Foyles, reports the Bookseller. Foyles has been a family-run business for 115 years, and currently operates... Read more |
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In Turkey, a court has issued an Interpol red notice for exiled Turkish publisher and human rights activist Ragip Zarakolu, reports Turkish newspaper Ahval. Zarakolu is the... Read more |
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In India, a new literary festival for LGBTIQIA+ readers and writers will be hosted by the city of Lucknow in November, reports the Times of... Read more |
In Vietnam, Hanoi-based publisher the Gioi (World) Publishing House and its partner Dinh Ti Books Company have recalled an educational book, after readers spotted the... Read more |
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The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) has announced the shortlists for the National Translation Awards for poetry and prose. The shortlisted titles in each category... Read more |
Sales Fiction Curtis Brown Australia has sold ANZ rights to The Van Apfel Girls are Gone (Felicity McLean) to HarperCollins; North American rights to Algonquin;... Read more |
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The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wiley) is still number one on the weekly bestseller chart, while The 104-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) has dropped... Read more |
‘Teens—maybe more than ever—need to be included in our cultural programming in thoughtful, and challenging ways … they are integral to continuing the culture of writer’s festivals in this country’—Youth literature advocate Danielle Binks asks whether or not writer’s festivals are catering to the next generation.
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In NSW’s Lower Hunter Valley region, three Liberal councillors from Maitland City Council have lodged a motion to reverse council support for public library funding, following the state... Read more |
The Clarence Valley Council has upgraded its mobile library service after being granted $132,000 by the NSW state government for a new van, reports the... Read more |
A new national strategy has been launched for school libraries in Scotland, after consultation with over 30 schools, reports BBC News. The recently published strategy... Read more |
Escape Publishing managing editor Kate Cuthbert gave the keynote address at this year’s Romance Writers of Australia conference. This is an edited extract of her... Read more |
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Candelo Books owner Myoung Jae Yi embarked on a trip to the 2018 Book Expo in New York City as part of a prize sponsored... Read more |
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Launched in 2017, Conversations With Writers (CWW) goes ‘beyond the press tour Q&As to discuss how their experiences and beliefs shape who they are and... Read more |
‘Commercial crime fiction fans would do well to pick up this gem of a slow-burning thriller but should be advised to go in with as... Read more |
Caitlin Withey has joined Simon & Schuster Australia in the newly created position of International & Client Product Director. Anna Stelter has been promoted to... Read more |
It is with great excitment that the committee of the Queenscliffe Literary Festival, heading into it’s 5th year in 2019, has appointed Jane Finemore to be the first contracted Festival Programmer for 2019.
From a strong list of applicants, Jane stood out. Her enthusiasm and knowledge will be a wonderful asset to the festival moving forward.
Her breadth of experience across many facets of the book industry, and her realtionship with authors, and festival experience makes her an ideal choice.
You can contact Jane at jane@queenscliffeliteraryfestival.com.au
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Imagine John Yoko
by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, with contributions from the people who were there
9 October 2018 | $65.00 | Published by Thames & Hudson
Personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono, Imagine John Yoko is the definitive inside story—told in revelatory detail—of the making of the legendary album and all that surrounded it: the locations, the creative team, the artworks and the films, in the words of John & Yoko and the people who were there.
Imagine tells the story of John & Yoko’s life, work and relationship during this intensely creative period. It transports readers to home and working environments through artfully compiled narrative film stills, Yoko’s closely guarded archive photos and artefacts, and stitched-together panoramas taken from outtake film footage that recreate the interiors in evocative detail.
Each chapter and song is introduced with text by John & Yoko compiled from published and unpublished sources and complemented by comments from Yoko today. Fresh insights are provided by musicians, engineers and staff who took part, many of whom feature on the inner sleeve’s enigmatic picture wheel, in which the identities are finally revealed. All the minutiae is examined: the locations, the key players, the music and lyrics, the production techniques and the artworks—including the creative process behind the double exposure polaroids used on the album cover.
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