BTW News Briefs

ABC's Anne Irish to Retire -- Organization Seeks Executive Director

Anne Irish will be retiring from her position of executive director of the Association of Booksellers for Children in February, and the organization has begun a search for her replacement. Irish is credited with turning around ABC's declining membership, moving the association to financial stability, and turning it into a dynamic organization.

ABC is now advertising for a "three-quarter-time" executive director to oversee the organization. (For more information, see this week's BTW "Help Wanted" Classifieds.)

Lambda Literary Foundation Calls for Award Nominations

The Lambda Literary Foundation is calling for nominations for its 2006 Lambda Literary Awards. Any publisher or individual may nominate a title for a "Lammy." To qualify, books must have been published in 2005 and must be published in English.

All nomination forms are due by December 31, 2005. For more information, go to www.lambdaliterary.org/awards.html.