Writers boycott SLV, Grenville shortlisted for Women’s Prize, Hardie Grant moves NZ distribution to TDLC

Hardie Grant has announced that its distribution in Aotearoa New Zealand will move to The Distribution and Logistics Company (TDLC), along with the previously announced move for distribution in Australia, beginning on 1 July 2024. Meanwhile, in Melbourne, the Age reported that writers Michelle de Kretser, Tony Birch and Grace Yee are refusing to work with State Library Victoria following its decision to cancel the library’s Teen Bootcamp workshops.

In awards news, Kate Grenville is among the shortlisted writers for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction in the UK, for the book Restless Dolly Maunder (Text); and the Wheeler Centre has announced the 22 emerging writers who will receive Hot Desk Fellowships in 2024.

And, overseas, more awards news: Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad (Jonathan Cape) has won the 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize; and the Royal Society of Literature has announced the shortlist for this year’s Ondaatje Prize.

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