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New prize for humour writing added to VPLAs

Monday, 16 September 2024
A new award category, the John Clarke Prize for Humour Writing, has been added to the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs), named in honour of satirist, writer and actor John...

Fogarty Literary Award funding increased

Monday, 16 September 2024
The Fogarty Literary Award for young Western Australian writers has received an increase in funding. In an announcement, Fremantle Press said the Fogarty Foundation increased funding for the award by...

Wainwright Prize winners announced

Monday, 16 September 2024
In the UK, the 2024 winners of the Wainwright Prize for nature and conservation writing have been announced. The nature writing prize was awarded to Late Light: The Secret Wonders...

Hepworth, Griffiths chosen as inaugural LYBD ambassadors

Monday, 16 September 2024
BookPeople has announced that authors Sally Hepworth and Andy Griffiths are the inaugural adult and children’s author ambassadors for this year’s Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) campaign. As ambassadors, Hepworth...

Danger Awards 2024 winners announced

Monday, 16 September 2024
The 2024 winners of the Danger Awards have been announced. Winners in each category are: Fiction The Tea Ladies (Amanda Hampson, Penguin) Debut fiction Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder (Kerryn Mayne,...

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 12 September 2024
Creative Australia has announced the winners of the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. The winners in each category, chosen by an expert independent panel of judges from shortlists announced in...

British Academy Book Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 12 September 2024
The British Academy has announced the shortlist for the 2024 British Academy Book Prize, worth £25,000 (A$49,156). The shortlisted titles are: Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and...

Vale Louise Thurtell

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Former Allen & Unwin publisher Louise Thurtell, who also worked at HarperCollins, Transworld and Random House, died on 3 August 2024. Thurtell worked in the Australian book publishing industry for...

Queensland Literary Awards; NSW Premier’s History Awards; Melbourne Prize for Literature finalists

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
In what was a big week for literary awards, the winners of the Queensland Literary Awards and the NSW Premier’s History Awards were announced, with the former’s top prize—the Queensland...

Grainer, Mouhajer awarded Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Affirm Press and Sweatshop have announced Phoebe Grainer and Adrian Mouhajer as the recipients of the 2024–25 round of the Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers. Grainer is a Kuku...

Tim Bowden remembered

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Broadcaster, journalist, oral historian and author Tim Bowden has died, aged 87. Rebecca Kaiser, Bowden’s publisher across 10 books at Allen & Unwin, writes: Over the nearly 25 years that we were...

Audible tests AI voice replica service for narrators

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reports that Audible is ‘inviting a small group of narrators to participate in a beta test that will enable them to create and monetise...

2025 NSW Literary Awards opening

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Entries open midday 11 September to the 2025 NSW Literary Awards, with a total of $360,000 to be awarded across 14 categories. Entries close on 10 October. Discounted early-bird entries...

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Wednesday, 11 September 2024
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MIRROR Mentorship: Applications open

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Applications are now open for the 2024–2026 MIRROR Mentorship, and have been extended until 18 September 2024. The MIRROR Mentorship is aimed at emerging bilingual writers and illustrators in children’s...

Senior editor, Sydney

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Publishers has an exciting opportunity for an experienced book editor to join the HarperCollins adult books team. This is a full-time position, based at our head office...

HEAT editor, Sydney

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Giramondo Publishing Giramondo Publishing is seeking to appoint a skilled and innovative editor to oversee the planning, commissioning and publishing processes of our literary magazine HEAT. Applicants should have university...

Unlock Books+Publishing

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Unlock Books+Publishing, Australia’s number-one source of news about the book industry, keeping subscribers up to date with the latest book industry news, events, features, interviews, opinion, personnel changes, job advertisements...

Laura Harris launches publishing services business

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Former publishing director, young readers, at Penguin Random House (PRH) Laura Harris has launched a children’s publishing services business. Laura Harris Publishing offers editorial and advisory services for children’s book...