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HarperCollins US staff vote to strike

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Representatives for unionised HarperCollins US employees will go on strike on 7 November, reports Publishers Weekly. Employees have been negotiating for 11 months for a new employment agreement but have...

Sales director (Australasia), Sydney

Wednesday, 19 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...

Digital communications specialist, Sydney

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Australasian Medical Publishing Company The opportunity: Are you passionate about health and wellbeing? Like to join the leaders in Australian medical publishing? As the publishers of the Medical Journal of...

Assistant category manager, Sydney

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Booktopia Booktopia is Australia’s largest online bookseller, shipping eight million+ items per year—that’s one item every 3.6 seconds— throughout Australia and New Zealand! Booktopia has an exciting opportunity in our...

Weekend duty manager, Melbourne

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Readings Readings is an independent retailer of books, music and film, and has long been at the centre of Melbourne’s local literary scene. Readings was awarded Book Retailer of the...

Senior editor, Sydney

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Publishers has an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic senior book editor to join the HarperCollins adult’s books team. This is a full-time position, based at...

Receptionist and Faber Writing Academy coordinator, Sydney

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin, 14-time Publisher of the Year and Australia’s leading independent publisher, is seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated person to become our receptionist and Faber Writing...

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...

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...

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...

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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