UWAP to become hybrid publisher, latest awards and more

In December last year, the University of Western Australia announced the university’s publishing arm will become a ‘hybrid’ publisher, with the library to take over internal management of the press.

In recent awards, Magabala announced the recipient of its inaugural fellowship, and the winners of the SPN Book of the Year and the Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship were announced. The Russell Prize for Humour Writing has added a children’s category worth $5000, while late last year the winners of the 2020 PMLAs were announced.

Overseas, while book sales were up around 8% in the US last year, the market in Germany fell by a bit over 2%, due to the country’s second lockdown coming into effect during the busy Christmas selling season.

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