Indie Book Awards longlist; Magabala fellowship, grants; Curry launches VenX
Jane Curry, founder of independent book publisher Ventura Press, has established ‘digital sibling’ VenX, a membership-based digital community for writers that provides self-publishing options, with editorial services offered through a partnership with IPEd, and the longlists for the 2024 Indie Book Awards have been announced.
Magabala Books has announced the 15 First Nations creators who will receive the publisher’s annual fellowship, scholarships and AIC Creative Development Grants, Writers Victoria announced the 2023 Writeability fellows, and the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies announced Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa as the recipient of the inaugural P F Rowland Manuscript Development Grant.
In international news this week, UK in-house publishing staff are turning to freelance work to avoid burnout, in what the Bookseller called ‘a growing trend’.
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