Publishers and distributors are asked to submit their Christmas closing dates by 5pm Friday, 20 November. A full list will appear in the Weekly Book... Read more |
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Brisbane writer Mirandi Riwoe has won the $50,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize for Stone Sky Gold Mountain (UQP). Selected from more than 185 entries and a... Read more |
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Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has announced that Auckland teacher and writer Helen Valley has won the 2020 Ampersand Prize for her YA novel Tim... Read more |
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Penguin Random House Australia senior audio producer and commissioning editor Radhiah Chowdhury has released her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report on the experiences and perspectives... Read more |
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The Walkley Book Award shortlist for 2020 has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know (Sophie McNeill, ABC Books) Fallen (Lucie Morris-Marr,... Read more |
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In Canada, Souvankham Thammavongsa has won this year’s C$100,000 (A$106,150) Giller Prize for her short story collection How to Pronounce Knife (Bloomsbury). Of Thammavongsa’s collection,... Read more |
In industry moves, Vanessa Radnidge is taking on literary at Hachette, with Fiona Hazard to head a newly created lifestyle list, while former Hachette managing editor Brigid Mullane has joined Ultimo Press as commissioning editor.
Aisling Smith has won the 2020 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for her fiction manuscript ‘Petrichor’. In other awards news, Leading Edge has opened the Indie Book Awards to all Australian independents and Viva La Novella has announced a new regional focus.
Overseas, Bookshop.org made £65,000 on the first day of its UK launch. Also in the UK, audiobook sales are surging, while London Book Fair has been moved to June 2021 and this year’s FutureBook conference is running as a virtual event.
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The first year of the new decade has been chaotic and unpredictable. However, readers can try to make sense of the year that’s been with... Read more |
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Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold traditional Chinese character rights and Indian subcontinent rights to Investing with Keynes (Justyn Walsh) to Commonlife Publishing Ltd and... Read more |
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The 10th book in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s ‘Treehouse’ series is spending its second week at number one on the bestsellers chart after debuting... Read more |
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I learned a lot about cancer treatment from Kirsty Everett’s memoir Honey Blood: that chemotherapy can make you very sensitive to smells, that jellybeans are... Read more |
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In Sydney’s western suburbs, the summer air thick enough to slice with a switchblade, Johnny Novak’s family reels from the murder of Ivan, his older... Read more |
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Sisters Shannan and Tayla Stedman, children’s entertainers turned authors, try their hands at junior fiction with Lola Online, which comes after the 2018 release of... Read more |
‘It is extremely important that mine is not the only voice being solicited when discussing and considering ways to make the Australian publishing landscape more inclusive … It is even more critical that companies … commit to doing the work to change their practices and mindsets in a sustainable and holistic way, rather than looking for a readymade action list created for them by people of colour.’— Radhiah Chowdhury in her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report on the experiences and perspectives of BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) editors and authors working in the publishing industry.
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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.... Read more |
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The Small Press Network will hold the 2020 Independent Publishing Conference online, on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 November.
With two days of programming, it will cover a variety of topics, including women of colour in publishing and metadata best-practices, with a keynote on resilience and recovery in book publishing post-Covid. The conference will also include the shortlist announcement for the SPN’s inaugural Book of the Year Award, which can be booked separately, for free.
Deep discounts are available for SPN members, students and the unwaged.
Book now: The Small Press Network—2020 Independent Publishing Conference online
Closing date for ticket sales: Wednesday, 25 November
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ABC Books would like to congratulate Sophie McNeill (We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know 9780733340154) and Suzanne Smith (The Altar Boys 9780733340178) for their well-deserved shortlisting in the 2020 Walkley Book Awards. We are very proud to see their incredible investigations and reporting acknowledged in this way.
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Calling all members and former members of Editors Victoria / The Society of Editors (Vic). Join us via Zoom as we mark our 50th anniversary at a Christmas party with a difference on 11 December 2020. Contact edvic.events@iped-editors.org by 30 November for details.
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Science fiction presenting the real history of Earth and human evolution as seen by an alien robotic visitor. Dangers from population explosion and disruptive technologies... Read more |
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