10 May
Thanks to all our Members who took part in Clunes Booktown this year. The event was a wonderful opportunity to join together as part of Victoria’s lively literary community, a chance to meet avid readers and other literary minded folk who are interested in discovering more about your titles and independent publishing companies from around Australia!
10 May
SPUNC—The Small Press Network announces a new industry conference for independent publishers occurring in November 2012 at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. Thomas Minkus, the Vice President of Emerging Media & English Language Markets for the Frankfurt Book Fair and a regular correspondent for Publishing Perspectives, will deliver the keynote address, and the conference will feature an extensive program on such issues as rights management, changing publishing models and developments in sales and bookselling. Publishers and other members of the industry are all invited to attend.
SPUNC President, Emmett Stinson, says: “Independent publishing plays an essential role in Australian culture. The vast majority of titles written by Australian authors are produced by small and independent publishers, and yet there are no dedicated annual events for independent publishers and their authors to discuss this crucial sector of the Australian publishing industry.”
The conference will open with a public event and gala night, where the winner of a new prize for small publishers, The Most Underrated Book Award, will be announced. The Award, sponsored by Kobo, is the only book industry prize to award both the author and the publisher.
Kobo Australia’s Director for Vendor Relations, Malcolm Neil says: “So much of what happens in book publishing gets missed or hidden by the weight and noise from major publishing houses. Kobo loves these undervalued books and is excited to be part of a prize that clears away the noise and helps the reader find these gems.”
SPUNC is Australia’s only advocacy body for small and independent publishers. Founded in 2006, SPUNC grew from a series of informal meetings between publishers in Melbourne into a national organisation representing more than 100 publishing companies. It provides digital delivery solutions for publishers’ ebooks, sales and promotional support via ongoing bookseller relations and professional development opportunities. The Independent Publishers’ Conference has received some financial support from CAL (The Copyright Agency).
08 May
Our new branding is designed to embrace our 40-year history and promote our future in a relevant and contemporary way. As the largest editorial society in Australia, we need to reflect the opportunities in our industry and what we can do for our membership. In an ever-changing multi-layered industry, Editors Victoria intends to step up its influence and profile and continue its focus of supporting, connecting and advocating for editors.
We invite you to visit our new website for information on what we do, why we do it, our exceptional history and plans for the future. Use the website to access current industry news and details of forthcoming events and professional development opportunities.
08 May
The Unfinished Revolution tells the story of the global struggle to secure basic rights for women and girls, including in the Middle East where the Arab Spring raised high hopes, but the political revolutions are so far insufficient to guarantee progress. In many countries, women are second-class citizens by law. In others, religion and traditions block freedoms such as the right to work, study or access health care.
More than 30 writers —Nobel Prize laureates, leading activists, top policy makers, and former victims—have contributed to this anthology. Drawing from their rich personal experiences, they tackle some of the toughest questions and offer bold new approaches to problems affecting hundreds of millions of women.
As Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate says, “Women are not free anywhere in this world until all women in the world are free.”
For more information visit Spinifex Press
08 May
Also note that submissions for Cordite 39: JACKPOT! close at midnight, 14 May 2012.
Submissions for Cordite 40: INTERLOCUTOR open on 1 June 2012.
click here for more details!
08 May
The publication of Cordite 38: SYDNEY is out now! Have a look at Astrid Lorange’s Sydney.
Huge thanks to all the Cordite editors, Astrid Lorange, David Prater and all authors with work featured in this issue.
Enjoy!
08 May
Griffith REVIEW 36: What is Australia For? is in stores now. Subscribers will already be delving into essays and memoir exploring ideas on national identity and what it means to be Australian in the 21st century.
We’re off to the Sydney Writers’ Festival this month and will have sessions on Surviving and What is Australia For? We also have an event in Brisbane featuring contributors to our upcoming special e-edition What is Australia For: Some Provocations? Visit our News and Events for all the details.
26 April
Griffith REVIEW is calling for submissions for The Novella Project, a new publishing initiative supported by the Copyright Agency Ltd, open to all residents and citizens of Australia and New Zealand. Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges and the winning selections will be featured in late 2012 in Griffith REVIEW’s fourth annual New Fiction Edition. In addition to publication, winners will receive a share of the prize pool of $30,000 plus a share of royalties from digital sales of each novella sold separately as an eSingle. The deadline for submissions is 26 April 2012. For more information about the competition including Submission Guidelines, Terms and Conditions, and Entry Fee Click Here
26 April
Valued at $35,000, the Award is offered annually for “the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society”.
Currently in its fifth year, this important award carries one of the highest prize values in the Australian literary landscape. Previous winners Helen Garner, Rhyll McMaster, Kristina Olsson and GL Osborne have found the Award’s worth extending beyond the financial support it brings. According to 2010 winner Olsson, “The Award was a watershed in my writing career, and its effects are still apparent: it boosted my confidence – and my bank balance! – brought me new readers, and gave me a new sense of my writing self.” 2009 winner Garner found winning the award valuable for future projects, saying, “The generous prize money was wonderful on a practical level, but even more importantly, what the award does in the long-term is to encourage and hearten a writer for the long, exhausting struggle it takes to produce a book.”
The Award is paid from the Barbara Jefferis Literary Fund, established by a bequest from Barbara’s husband, much-loved film critic John Hinde. Barbara Jefferis was a novelist, a founding member of the Australian Society of Authors and its first woman President.
The Award judges were Debra Adelaide, Sophie Cunningham and Poppy Gee.
Shortlist
Georgia Blain: Too Close to Home (Vintage)
Claire Corbett: When We Have Wings (Allen & Unwin)
Anna Funder: All That I Am (Penguin)
Gail Jones: Five Bells (Vintage)
Gillian Mears: Foal’s Bread (Allen & Unwin)
Frank Moorhouse: Cold Light (Vintage)
The following three novels were also highly commended:
SJ Finn: This Too Shall Pass (Sleepers)
Kelly Gardiner: Act of Faith (Angus & Robertson)
Meg Mundell: Black Glass (Scribe)
The winner will be announced in Sydney in May 2012.
For more details contact Angelo Loukakis, Executive Director, Australian Society of Authors on 02 9211 1004 or 0402 117 370.
26 April
Really Blue Books – Australia’s first independent digital-only trade publisher are open for submissions, fiction and non-fiction are all welcome. For more information, check out their website
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