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The shortlists for the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards (QLAs) have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Queensland Premier’s Award for a work... Read more
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Judges for this year’s Queensland Literary Awards won’t choose a shortlist or winner for this year’s David Unaipon Award, presented to an outstanding manuscript by... Read more
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An extensive report by Australia’s new arts and culture industry lobby details the decline in the country’s per capita arts funding over the past decade.... Read more
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Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to Melbourne University Publishing’s (MUP) ‘On’ series of essays. The deal was negotiated by MUP then-acting CEO Richard Tegoni.... Read more
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HarperCollins has acquired world rights to former NSW homicide detective Gary Jubelin’s as yet untitled memoir. HarperCollins head of Australian nonfiction Helen Littleton acquired rights... Read more
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Melbourne-based production studio BES Animation has acquired world broadcast and digital content rights to self-published picture book series ‘Dinner Detectives’, with plans to develop the... Read more
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The Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival will host the second Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) Adelaide on November 1–3. More than 60 guests will appear at... Read more
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Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has sold Tara June Winch’s novel The Yield to publishers in the US and France. Pamela Malpas at Jennifer Lyons... Read more
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Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has sold North American rights to Rachel Givney’s forthcoming novel Jane in Love (Michael Joseph) to HarperCollins imprint William Morrow,... Read more
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Independent children’s publisher Windy Hollow has sold North American rights to Ivy Bird (Tania McCartney, illus by Jess Racklyeft) to Blue Dot Books. The deal,... Read more
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Penguin Random House (PRH) has appointed Becky Innes to the new role of head of marketing and publicity—New Zealand. Innes is the marketing manager at... Read more
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In Canada, the shortlist for the C$100,000 (A$112,000) 2019 Giller Prize for the best Canadian fiction published in English has been announced. The shortlisted novels... 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 are: Prose... Read more
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In the US, audiobooks are on the rise, according to a recent survey conducted by Pew Research. While the reading habits of Americans have remained... Read more
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Sales Fiction Penguin Random House Australia has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to The Yield (Tara June Winch) to HarperVia; and French-language rights to... Read more
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After debuting at number one on the Australian bestsellers chart last week, Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (Chatto & Windus) is spending its second consecutive week in... Read more
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Since we last checked in on the Australian children’s/YA nonfiction bestsellers in April, there are five new releases in the chart. Young Dark Emu, a younger readers edition... Read more
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‘Without independent artists, our larger companies have no talent pool, no new ideas and no future … And this is the sector that now sees itself as a burning dumpster.’ —Alison Croggon on the dire state of Australian culture due to reduced government funding. A new report shows Australian arts funding has declined over the past decade.
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Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine for a... Read more
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State Library Victoria (SLV) has announced it will open its ‘transformed’ library on 5 December, following a five-year, $88 million redevelopment. The redevelopment includes a... Read more
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The WA state government has abandoned a proposed amalgamation of the State Library of Western Australia, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Western... Read more
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In a time of internet fatigue, young readers are turning back to books as authoritative sources of information. Danielle Binks investigates. George Orwell is said... Read more
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Michelle Mackintosh is a freelance book designer, as well as a writer, illustrator and Japanophile (she’s co-written four books on Japan with her husband, writer... Read more
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In the lead-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair on 16–21 October, Books+Publishing is publishing a three-part feature on Australian fiction rights sales by researcher Airlie... Read more
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The Copyright Agency is running a campaign for writers’ royalty and image royalty claims. Writers (journalists, authors, contributors) and image creators (artists, photographers, illustrators, cartoonists)... Read more
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Mātātuhi Foundation wants to help innovative NZ writers develop new and imaginative ways to increase their reach and engagement with NZ readers. Applications are open... Read more
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Editors Victoria is running a branch dinner meeting with Pooja Desai, discussing contemporary book design. Desai is the design manager for Hardie Grant Egmont, and... Read more
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Editors Victoria is running an in-house discussion with Rebecca Kaiser, who will talk on building a career in publishing. Kaiser has worked in the book... Read more
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