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CAL Scribe Fiction Prize longlist announced
Scribe has announced the longlisted authors for the inaugural CAL Scribe Fiction Prize. The authors are: George Dunford (A Butterfly Goodbye)Angus Gaunt (Under the Ha-Ha)Leah Kaminsky (The Waitin...
Productivity Commission recommends open market
As reported in a WBN special bulletin yesterday, the Productivity Commission's final report on Australia's book parallel importation laws has been released, recommending the government repeal Australi...
Australian book trade critical of PC draft report
As reported in a WBN special bulletin on Friday, the Productivity Commission has recommended that some of Australia's ‘parallel importation restrictions' (PIRs) be retained, but that the current...
Human Rights award for Scribe title
Human Rights Overboard: Seeking Asylum in Australia authors Linda Briskman, Susie Latham and Chris Goddard have been awarded the Literature Nonfiction Award as part of the 2008 Human Rights Medal awar...
Aussie publishers demand rights at LBF
At one of the opening sessions at this year's London Book Fair (LBF), a number of Australian publishers have called for an end to British publishers' insistence on Commonwealth rights, saying the curr...
Haigh wins BDW business lit prize
Asbestos House (Scribe), Gideon Haigh's examination of James Hardie and the controversies surrounding its compensation of those injured by exposure to asbestos, has won the $30,000 2007 Blake Dawson W...
'A Darker Music' by Maris Morton wins inagural CAL Scribe prize
Scribe has announced that A Darker Music by Maris Morton is the winner of its inaugural CAL Scribe Fiction Prize. Morton, who was born in 1938, beat shortlisted authors Meg Mundell and Jane Sullivan. ...
Scribe/CAL launch fiction prize for over-35s
The CAL Scribe Fiction Prize is a new unpublished manuscript prize for writers over 35, who may or may not have been published before.The winner will receive a publishing contract with Scribe, plus $1...
Joint winners for Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History
Tom Griffiths and Robert Kenny have jointly been awarded the 2008 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History, for their books Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica (New South) and The Lamb En...
Campbell appointed Scribe 'editor at large'
Scribe has appointed former Brisbane Writers' Festival (BWF) director Michael Campbell ‘editor at large'. ‘The idea occurred to me when Michael came round to our office earlier this year, ...
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