The Brothers Quibble (Aaron Blabey, Viking) will be read by an estimated 450,000 children in more than 3000 schools across Australia at 11am (EST) on... Read more |
The Australia Council has cancelled its June grant round and suspended its six-year funding for organisations program, among other changes following $110m in funding cuts announced... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Small Press Network (SPN) have responded to the Australia Council’s decision to suspend and cut some of its programs, following funding... Read more |
The winners of the 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced in Sydney on 21 May. Pan Macmillan was one of the big winners... Read more |
The Sydney Writers’ Festival’s 2015 theme ‘How to Live’ has been a resounding success for both the box office and book sales. This year’s festival,... Read more |
This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival included the annual Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program, which offers Australian publishers the opportunity to meet with international publishers and... Read more |
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) announced the winners for the 2015 Book Design Awards at an event in Sydney on 22 May. The winning... Read more |
Jane Harper has won the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for her novel The Dry. The $15,000 award was presented at... Read more |
Hachette Australia has launched a $10,000 prize for emerging writers in memory of former CEO Matt Richell, who died in a surfing accident in 2014.... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) Best Young Australian Novelists Awards have been announced. The winners are: Michael Mohammed Ahmad (The Tribe,... Read more |
The Copyright Agency has announced the recipients of its inaugural Publisher Fellowships to ‘conduct study or research into digital publishing, emerging business models and technologies’.... Read more |
Tobias McCorkell has won the 2015 Affirm Press Creative Writing Prize for an excerpt from his novel Barely Anything. McCorkell’s novel, a component of his... Read more |
Express Media has launched the 2015 program for National Young Writers’ Month, its annual June event for young writers across Australia. This years’ program includes... Read more |
Alan Sampson has won the 2015 Finch Memoir Prize for his entry Schools of Fish. Sampson, a Queensland high-school principal renowned for ‘transforming weak schools into centres... Read more |
‘The cancellation of the June round of funding will have an immediate effect on the publishers of Australian literary titles, requiring the cancellation or postponement... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Fremantle Press has sold UK, US and European rights to The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Tracy Farr) and The Weaver Fish (Robert... Read more |
The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins, Doubleday) is the number one bestseller in the top 10 chart this week, followed by last week’s number... Read more |
The Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) has announced it will take a minority shareholding in global rights and licensing trading platform IPR License Ltd. The ‘significant... Read more |
Penguin Random House (PRH) UK and Amazon are in dispute over terms, with a new contract currently under negotiation, reports the Bookseller. While neither company... Read more |
In the UK, James Meek has won the £3000 (A$5945) Orwell Prize for his book Private Island (Verso), which explores the phenomenon of privatisation in the UK,... Read more |
In the UK, Amazon has started fining publishers for late deliveries of books to its warehouses, reports the Bookseller. The retailer has sent a letter... Read more |
In the US, Harlequin has announced the launch of an audiobook imprint Harlequin Audio, reports Publishers Weekly. The imprint plans to release 200 audio titles... Read more |
In the UK, a literacy survey has found that reading for enjoyment among young people has increased, but the gap between girls and boys in... Read more |
In the UK, Bloomsbury has reported slight growth in profit and revenue in the 12 months to the end of February, reports the Bookseller. The... Read more |
Award-winning picture-book author Aaron Blabey turns his hand to junior chapter books with hilarious effect. Mr Wolf, one of the original bad guys from fairy... Read more |
The Golden Age by Joan London (Vintage) and Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey (Hamish Hamilton) are the joint winners of the 2015 NSW Premier’s People’s Choice Award. The... Read more |
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced Australia’s most borrowed library books for the first quarter of 2015 to mark the start of... Read more |
Open access coalition attacks Elsevier A new hosting and sharing policy introduced in April by publisher Elsevier has been widely criticised by a global coalition... Read more |
A US-led campaign to address the lack of diversity in children’s literature has sparked long-overdue conversations in Australia, writes Danielle Binks. She looks at what local... Read more |
Nominations are now open for the 22nd annual Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAAs), celebrating excellence in Australian educational publishing. The deadline for nominations is 5pm... Read more |
Twelve award categories provide opportunities for both published and emerging writers, as well as three fellowships supporting new works by Queensland writers. Entries close 19 June.
Categories for the 2015 program are:
- Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance
- The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award
- The University of Queensland Non-fiction Book Award
- Griffith University Young Adult Book Award
- Griffith University Children’s Book Award
- University of Southern Queensland History Book Award
- University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection—Steele Rudd Award
- State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection—Judith Wright Calanthe Award
- Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards
- Unpublished Indigenous Writer—David Unaipon Award (supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund and University of Queensland Press)
- Emerging Queensland Writer—Manuscript Award (supported by the University of Queensland Press)
- The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book for the Year
Plus, three Queensland Writers Fellowships of $15,000.
For more information visit qldliteraryawards.org.au
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Hachette Australia is thrilled to congratulate 2015 ABIA award winners Brooke Davis and Maxine Beneba Clarke. Brooke won The Matt Richell New Writer award and the General Fiction award for Lost & Found. Maxine won the Literary Fiction award for Foreign Soil. Well done Brooke and Maxine!
We also congratulate Maxine on being chosen as one of The Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelists for 2015.
To order copies of Lost & Found (ISBN: 9780733632754) and Foreign Soil (ISBN: 9780733632426) please contact Alliance Distribution Services customer service on toll-free fax 1800-664-477 or tel (02) 4390 1300.
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The team at HarperCollins is thrilled to congratulate our wonderful ABIA and ABDA winners.
At Thursday night’s ABIA ceremony, Judith Rossell’s much-loved Withering-by-Sea (ABC Books, 9780733333002) was named Book of the Year for Older Children, and Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, All the Light We Cannot See (Fourth Estate, 9780007548675), was named International Book of the Year.
The ABDAs followed on Friday, and Tara Moss and Matt Stanton took out the Best Designed Non-fiction Book category for their work on The Fictional Woman (HarperCollins, 9780732297893) and Jon Foye won the Best Designed Children’s Illustrated Book category for his work on Mike I Don’t Like (ABC Books, 9780733333262).
Congratulations Judith, Anthony, Tara, Matt and Jon!
For orders: 1300-551-721; orders@harpercollins.com.au
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