Booktopia senior appointments, latest awards
Wednesday, 7 October 2020 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
This week Booktopia announced a slate of senior appointments, including a new CFO. Meanwhile, the Big Issue released its 2020 fiction edition line-up and the Queensland Poetry Festival received funding for a digital iteration.
The shortlists for the Barbara Jefferis Award and the Richell Prize were announced, as were the winners of the Michael Gifkins Prize and the international Arthur C Clarke Award. Also overseas, the proportion of UK YA writers has doubled since 2017, and UK and North American organisations have formed a new green book supply chain alliance.
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