Black Inc. backs ‘The Successor’ with reprint ahead of publication
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Thanks to an impressive sell-in and significant media interest, Black Inc. is pre-emptively reprinting another 10k of Paddy Manning’s highly anticipated biography of Lachlan Murdoch, The Successor, bringing its total...
Customer service consultant, Melbourne
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand (OUPANZ) is Australia’s oldest continuous educational publisher. As a department of the University of Oxford, we are proud to be...
Neilma Sidney Travel Fund recipients announced
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Writers Victoria has announced the eighth round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. The successful recipients, who share in a total of $56,925, are: Eunice Andrada, for...
Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
In the UK, Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$90,250), for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Sort Of Books). The Seven Moons of...
HarperCollins US lays off ‘small number’ of employees
Monday, 17 October 2022
HarperCollins US has eliminated ‘a small number of positions’ due to slowing industry sales and rising costs, reports Publishers Weekly. In a memo to employees, CEO Brian Murphy said job...
T S Eliot Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 14 October 2022
In the UK, the shortlist for this year’s T S Eliot Prize for Poetry, worth £25,000 (A$45K), has been announced. The 10 shortlisted poetry collections are: Quiet (Victoria Adukwei Bulley,...
Greenwood wins Varuna-NEWC Fellowship
Friday, 14 October 2022
The New England Writers’ Centre (NEWC) in partnership with Varuna, the National Writers’ House, has announced Anne Greenwood as the winner of the 2022 Varuna-NEWC Fellowship. Greenwood receives a week’s...
Australia is back at Frankfurt, come say hello!
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Australians have spent most of the past two years confined to our home country (and much of that time confined to our homes!), so it is wonderful to report that...
Diverse new offerings from First Nations writers
Thursday, 13 October 2022
First Nations poetry has been a standout success in 2022—so let's take a look at what other titles are forthcoming from across the diverse spectrum of Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
Prize-winners, familiar names, debuts: Australian fiction at Frankfurt
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Among the titles Australian publishers are pitching at Frankfurt this year are two that have been recognised by local awards even before publication. Roseghetto by Kirsty Jagger (UQP, 2023), ‘an...
High-profile memoirs, political books, self-help guides: top nonfiction at Frankfurt
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Memoir and biography Look out for Ash Barty’s memoir My Dream Time (HarperCollins), which reflects on Barty’s tennis career, her family, and ‘finding the path to being the best I...
Middle-grade series, queer YA romances: CYA books Aus publishers are pitching
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Picture books Allen & Unwin Children’s (A&U) is pitching a list of exciting new titles from beloved authors, including the picture book Shadow Catchers by award-winning team Kirsty Murray and...
Australian book market overview: 2022 so far
Thursday, 13 October 2022
The Australian book market posted strong results throughout the Covid-affected years of 2020 and 2021, and has continued this growth in 2022, with overall sales for the year to 18...
Get educated: Introducing Australian educational publishers
Thursday, 13 October 2022
As well as a wealth of trade offerings, Australia boasts a healthy educational publishing sector. Attending in person on the Australia stand at Frankfurt this year will be ATF Press...
Nonfiction acquisitions: memoirs galore
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Among the most recent nonfiction acquisitions by Australian publishers are a plethora of memoir titles, including actor Sam Neill’s memoir Did I Ever Tell You This?, for which Text acquired...
Middle-grade boom: recent Australian CYA acquisitions
Thursday, 13 October 2022
The Australian children’s middle-grade market continues to grow, and recent acquisitions show it won’t be slowing down anytime soon. Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ, Oceania and non-exclusive Asia...
Down wins Miles Franklin for ‘Bodies of Light’
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Melbourne writer Jennifer Down took out Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award, for her second novel Bodies of Light (Text). The winner was chosen from...
Introducing Bold Type Agency
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Nerrilee Weir, former Penguin Random House Australia senior rights manager and Fiona Henderson, former Simon & Schuster Australia publishing director, have joined forces to create new rights agency Bold Type...
Australian authors recommend
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Australian authors tell us the most recent book they have read and loved, and why. Michelle Kadarusman is the author of the middle-grade book on animal activism Berani (A&U...
Every Version of You
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Never Let Me Go meets Black Mirror, with a dash of Murakami’s surrealism—this is speculative literary fiction at its best. In late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin...
Weyward
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Discover the power of being Weyward in 2023’s biggest debut THEY TRIED TO CAGE US. BUT A WEYWARD WOMAN BELONGS TO THE WILD. WE CANNOT BE TAMED. KATE, 2019 Kate...
US print sales down 4.8% YTD
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
In the US, unit sales of print books were down 4.8% in the first nine months of the year compared to the same period in 2021, reports Publishers Weekly. According...
Change for Candlestick Press
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
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Publishing permissions rights and sales support officer, Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne preferred
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
CSIRO CSIRO Publishing is an independent science and technology publisher of books, journals and magazines with a strong emphasis on digital publishing and has an exciting opportunity for an aspiring...
Congratulations to Australia’s Pat Grayson
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Congratulations to Australia’s Pat Grayson, category winner of the American 2022 Independent Press Awards (category self-help) for Seeds of Potential: An anthology of positivity comprising 33 short stories (each story...
Indigenous traineeship program—administration assistant trainee, Melbourne
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Monash University Location: Clayton campus Employment Type: Full-time Duration: 12-month fixed-term appointment Remuneration: $54,974–$57,173 pa HEW Level 02 (plus 17% employer superannuation) With Monash University’s Indigenous Traineeship Program, you can...
Account manager (four positions), Syd/Mel/Bris
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Affirm Press Become part of the most exciting new team in Australian publishing. Affirm Press—Australia’s fastest growing publishing house—is launching a national sales team to represent an annual list of...
Sales director (Australasia), Sydney
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Phoenix International Phoenix International is seeking an experienced and accomplished sales director, to help grow our Asia Pacific business. This is a fantastic role in a dynamic organisation, with the...
Sales and marketing assistant, Melbourne
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing is an award-winning specialist kids and YA publisher who values storytelling and creative thinking. We are seeking a full-time, Melbourne-based sales and...
Books commissioning editor, Melbourne
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
CSIRO As a books commissioning editor within CSIRO Publishing, you will have a genuine positive impact, sharing stories and helping to disseminate knowledge to a broad readership! Your drive and...
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