Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) members at Readings bookshop will consider industrial action, following on from a protest outside the independent chain’s Carlton... Read more

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Opus Group has confirmed that Griffin Press will cease its print on demand services; Publishers Association of NZ/TeRau o Tākupu have reported that its trade publishers’ revenue grew 0.8% last year; author Sophie Masson and illustrator Lorena Carrington have launched new micropublisher Pardalote Press; and the recipients of the 2022 Scribe & Varuna Residency Fellowship have been announced.

In awards news, the shortlists for the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced; while Robert Dessaix has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement for Literature, and Leah Jing McIntosh received the Kirk Robson Award for Community Arts and Cultural Development in this year’s Australia Council Awards.

Overseas, the UK’s largest book wholesale and distribution company Gardners has opened Gardners US in Florida. Also in the US, the Department of Justice’s trial to block Penguin Random House from acquiring Simon & Schuster is underway, with a Crikey article canvassing views on the merger in Australia.

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Income inequality fell in Australia during the postwar period, and by 1979 inequality was at its lowest. Then neoliberal economics took hold, championed by leaders... Read more

Yumna Kassab’s The Lovers is the folkloric tale of Jamila and Amir’s love. We don’t know many details of their relationship or what their love... Read more

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To Greenland! is the joyous new picture book from Pip Smith and Beau Wylie, who last collaborated on Theodore the Unsure. This new adventure follows... Read more

Writer, editor and publisher Jen Hutchison died on Thursday, 4 August in Melbourne. Hutchison, who was a graduate of RMIT’s Master of Writing and Publishing... Read more

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Varuna The National Writers’ House and Scribe Publications are pleased to announce three literary fiction fellowship recipients for 2022.

Combining a Varuna residency with an intensive mentorship with Scribe editors, the 2022 program has a focus on literary fiction.

The 2022 Varuna & Scribe Fellowship recipients are:

• Sam Elkin, ‘Shapeshifting’
• Jacqueline Wright, ‘Beauty and Menace’
• Nevo Zisin, ‘What We Start With’.

Varuna received close to 200 manuscripts from writers across Australia for the 2022 Scribe & Varuna Fellowship. The manuscripts were each double-read in the first selection process by assessors George Haddad and Mirandi Riwoe, and a shortlist as well as the complete set of applications with manuscripts were sent to the editorial team at Scribe Publications for their final selection.

For more information, visit the Varuna website at https://www.varuna.com.au/fellowships/scribe

With the success of her no.1 bestseller The Murder Rule, Dervla McTiernan has sold over 525,000 copies of her books in Australia and New Zealand across formats. This amazing achievement comes after just four books in five years and proves what a formidable talent she is. Congratulations, Dervla, we are so proud to publish you.