AGP Executive Report
Last update: 37 minutes agoAdelaide Writers’ Week Fallout: Palestinian author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, whose 2026 festival appearance was pulled before the event collapsed, has been shortlisted for the 2026 South Australian Literary Awards Fiction prize for Discipline. Children’s Publishing Push: Sri Lanka’s M.D. Gunasena launched Adventure Don & the Sea Turtle Rescue, billed as the country’s first multi-faceted chapter-book series, with digital quizzes, badges, and a planned reading club. Amazon Reading Initiative: Amazon’s UK “You Buy, We Donate” will donate a book for every two purchased in a partner range supporting National Year of Reading 2026 via The Multibank. Workplace Harassment Lawsuit: Comic creator Ed Brubaker and Amazon MGM face a suit over alleged harassment on the set of Criminal. AI & Books: A local rare-book seller and an author discuss how AI is reshaping publishing, including alleged theft by Anthropic. Literary Awards & Memoir: Gloria Steinem’s death at 92 drew fresh attention to her journalism legacy, while a new Jewish, Israeli, Zionist-focused nonprofit press, Canary Publishing, opened submissions. Publishing in Motion: Tokyo DisneySea marked 25 years and will release a Kodansha commemorative book.
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