ABIAs book shortlists; MWF, BWF programs; Marr wins Indie Book of the Year

The Australian Publishers’ Association this week announced the book shortlists for the 2024 ABIAs; both the Brisbane and Melbourne Writers Festivals announced their 2024 programs; Copyright Licensing New Zealand has launched a platform to support Aotearoa creative workers to ‘better manage their intellectual property’; and Live Literature in Australia, a new research report on author events jointly conducted by Australia Reads and the University of Melbourne, was released, highlighting that relationships are key to how these events are established—and that this is problematic for much the same reason.

In local awards news, David Marr’s Killing for Country: A family story (Black Inc.) won Book of the Year in the Indie Book Awards; Meanjin (Brisbane) poet Svetlana Sterlin has won the 2023 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award for her collection ‘If Movement Were a Language’, after the shortlist was released earlier this month; Bardi writer Kalem Murray is the winner of the 2024 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship; Vietnamese-Australian novelist, essayist and poet Vivian Pham has been awarded the Copyright Agency–UTS New Writer in Residence fellowship for 2024; the Blake Poetry Prize shortlist has been announced; the longlist has been announced for the 2024 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History; and QBD has been named as one of Australia’s Best Managed Companies in an award program run by Deloitte Australia.

And, in the UK, Greenwild: The world behind the door (Pari Thomson, illus by Elisa Paganelli, Macmillan) is the overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, while the Swansea University has announced the shortlist of the 2024 Dylan Thomas Prize.

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