Hobart named UNESCO City of Literature, Australian Reading Hour to end, Sawyer wins Richell Prize
The United Nations’ cultural arm UNESCO has named Hobart a City of Literature, Australia Reads will retire its annual Australian Reading Hour event in favour of ‘a practical, unified, and year-round approach to advocating for reading in Australia’, and Campion Education managing director James Cathro has announced that he will leave his position in late 2024.
In awards news, Alex Sawyer has won the 2023 Richell Prize for the manuscript ‘Rat Daniels’, the 2023 Danger Awards winners have been announced, Writers Victoria has announced the Neilma Sidney Travel Fund recipients, and shortlists have been revealed for both the Walkley Book Award and the Woollahra Digital Literary Award.
In the UK, Penguin Random House has proposed removing 38 roles. Meanwhile, in the US, a new report for the National Endowment for the Arts found reading rates among adults declined over the past five years.
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