NZ Copyright Licensing Limited Writers’ Awards 2011 finalists announced
The finalists for the 2011 Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) Writers' Awards have been announced in New Zealand. The awards, which celebrate their 10th anniversary this year, are New Zealand's richest for nonfiction....
CAL invests $300,000 in UTS; nonfiction writing residency and Australian poetry chair to be established in 2012
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has announced new funding for Creative Practices at UTS by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL). UTS said in a statement last week that CAL...
2010 Walkley Nonfiction Award longlist announced
The longlist for the 2010 Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book was announced on 20 October. The longlisted titles are:Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio (Bridget Griffen-Foley, UNSW...
INTERVIEW: Kate Holden on ‘The Romantic’ (Text)
Andrea Hanke talks to Kate Holden about her new memoir The Romantic, a follow-up to In My Skin. I read that The Romantic originally started out as a novel. How...
Top picks from the current issue
Which books got good reviews in the October issue of Bookseller+Publisher you ask? Well... The proof copy of Caroline Overington's novel I Came to Say Goodbye came covered in glowing...
And the election titles begin…
Black Inc. tells us they’re sending Mungo MacCallum's 2010 election book Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010 to print today, with delivery to bookstores scheduled for next...
Learning to balance: Nicholas Carr’s ‘The Shallows’ (Atlantic)
Nicholas Carr lays out his non-Luddite credentials early on in The Shallows—his critical look at ‘how the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember’ (Atlantic, August). In...
‘Manning Clark: A Life’ wins National Biography Award
Manning Clark: A Life (Allen & Unwin) by Brian Matthews has won the $20,000 National Biography Award, Australia's richest prize for biographical writing and memoir, announced Monday 17 May at...
Samuel Johnson Prize 2008 announced
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or The Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury) has won the 10th Anniversary BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction.Rosie Boycott, chair...