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Spanning the sweep of the twentieth century, We Must Be Brave is a luminous and profoundly moving novel about the people we rescue and the ways in... Read more |
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. Booksellers If you... Read more |
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Leading Edge Books has announced the 2019 Indie Book Awards shortlists, for the best Australian books published in 2018. The shortlisted titles in each category... Read more |
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Eighteen writers and literary festival organisations were among the recipients of the Australia Council’s latest grants round, which awarded $6.6 million to almost 200 projects,... Read more |
Thirty-seven arts organisations have received a total of $1.049 million in the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Literary organisations and... Read more |
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The full program has been announced for the 2019 Perth Festival Writers Week, which runs from 18-24 February. International guests attending the festival include Man... Read more |
The Western Australian state government has revealed the new format for the WA Premier’s Book Awards, which has been reinstated as an annual event. The... Read more |
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In the US, Melbourne-based author Bram Presser has won the debut fiction award at the 2018 National Jewish Book Awards for his novel The Book of Dirt (Text).... Read more |
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Brisbane author Nicholas John Turner’s debut self-published novel Hang Him When He Is Not There has been longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, reports the Bookseller.... Read more |
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Liminal magazine has established a short fiction prize for Australian writers of colour. The Liminal Fiction Prize seeks to ‘promote fiction by writers whose voices are... Read more |
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Echo Publishing has sold North American rights to Meg Keneally’s debut historical novel Fled to Arcade Publishing. The novel, which is based on the life... Read more |
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Alex Adsett Literary Agency has sold rights in multiple territories to the debut picture book by Brisbane-based graphic designer Robert Hendersen. I See, I See is... Read more |
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Berbay Publishing has sold simplified Chinese rights to three picture books in John Canty’s ‘Heads and Tails’ series to Dook. The series—comprising Heads and Tails,... Read more |
Former Irish president and former UN human rights commissioner Mary Robinson is the latest guest to pull out of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature,... Read more |
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In the UK, London-based poet Hannah Sullivan has won the 2018 T S Eliot Prize for poetry. Sullivan won the prize for her debut collection Three Poems (Faber),... Read more |
In the UK, the five category winners for the 2018 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The five winners were chosen from shortlists announced in... Read more |
Sales Fiction Allen & Unwin has sold North American rights to The Spotted Dog (Kerry Greenwood) to Poisoned Pen Press. Echo Publishing has sold North American... Read more |
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Starting this year, Books+Publishing will publish a weekly publicity round-up, covering forthcoming publicity for Australian and internationally authored books due to appear in Australian media... Read more |
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Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor (Wiley) is back at number one on the bestseller chart, having last appeared in the top spot in September last year,... Read more |
‘Too many editors and publishers “curate” collections such as this. They see writers fitting a particular niche—or even as a f–king brick in the creative wall. They instruct you too much, with a narrow brief as to how they see you, and what their readers expect from both the writer and publication.’—Tony Birch speaks with LitHub about Blak Brow, the edition of The Lifted Brow created wholly by First Nations writers, editors and designers.
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Simon & Schuster Australia national account manager Melinda Beaumont has died, aged 46. The team at Simon & Schuster writes: ‘It is with great sadness... Read more |
Changes to Australian legislation that began on 1 January have given unpublished materials the same copyright term as published items, bringing millions of items into... Read more |
Lake Macquarie City Council, in the Hunter Region of NSW, has announced plans to overhaul the city’s entire library service, reports the Newcastle Herald. According to Lake... Read more |
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Penny Evershed has joined Simon & Schuster Australia in the newly created position of Inventory Manager. Evershed began the position on 14 January 2019.
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Nominations are open for the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). Categories include: Biography Book of the Year Picture Book of the Year (ages 0-6)... Read more |
Editors NSW is running a workshop titled ‘The art of manuscript assessment’, presented by Kaaren Sutcliffe. The workshop is aimed at editors who conduct reviews... Read more |
The Editors NSW February meeting features a presentation by Jane Novak, a literary professional with more than 20 years experience. Her talk will focus on... Read more |
From 1 April 2019, Scholastic will no longer have the distribution rights for the following publisher:
Scholastic will cease accepting books into our warehouse on 31 March 2019. Books invoiced less than 4 months ago will be accepted, books invoiced over 9 months ago will be rejected. Please make sure any return authorisation requests are emailed to us no later than 15 April 2019 to ensure you can get returns back to Scholastic by 30 April 2019.
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NewSouth Books are thrilled to announce they will be taking over distribution for New Frontier Publishing from 1 April 2019. Distribution of their Catch A Star imprint will begin from 1 January 2019. New Frontier publish children’s books ranging from gorgeous, high quality picture books to fun and adventurous middle grade novels, as well as educational and non-fiction titles. To order please contact: orders@tldistribution.com.au.
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