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Batt awarded Reading Australia fellowship

Monday, 18 July 2022
The Copyright Agency has named Jantiena Batt, a deputy principal working within the ACT Education Directorate, as the 2022 Reading Australia Fellow for Teachers of English Literacy. Batt receives a...

Orwell Prizes 2022 winners announced

Monday, 18 July 2022
In the UK, journalist Sally Hayden and novelist Claire Keegan have won the 2022 Orwell Prizes. Hayden was awarded the Orwell Prize for Political Writing for My Fourth Time, We...

Sidnam wins 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize

Friday, 15 July 2022
Wellington-based poet and student Emma Sidnam has been awarded the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished manuscript by an Aotearoa New Zealand writer. Chosen from a shortlist of four,...

Ultimo acquires debut novel ‘Higher Education’

Friday, 15 July 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to debut novel Higher Education by Kira McPherson, in a deal brokered by Cara Lee Simpson from UK-based agency Peters Fraser + Dunlop. According...

National Biography Award 2022 shortlist announced

Thursday, 14 July 2022
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the $25,000 National Biography Award. The shortlisted books are: Car Crash: A memoir (Lech Blaine, Black Inc.) Home...

Last chance to complete our 2022 employment survey

Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Books+Publishing‘s 2022 employment surveys will close at midnight tonight, Friday, 15 July. If you are currently employed by a company in the book industry (e.g. publisher, bookshop, rights agency), please complete our employees’ survey...

Vale Suzanne Bellamy

Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Artist, writer and scholar Suzanne Bellamy died on 20 June in Braidwood, NSW. Spinifex Press publisher Susan Hawthorne writes: Spinifex Press is saddened by the death of artist, writer and...

Vale Jean Ferguson

Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Book industry leader Jean Ferguson OAM passed away aged 90 on Sunday, July 3. Angus Dalton, Ferguson’s grandson, writes: ‘If you are looking for a fascinating, compulsive industry where one...

Byron Writers Festival full 2022 program announced

Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Byron Writers Festival, Australia’s largest regional writers festival, has announced the full line-up for its 2022 event, which runs 26–28 August. After a two-year hiatus due to Covid, the festival...

UBD new release freight change

Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Through the first half of this year we have continually assessed our freight model and been reviewing our options, to ensure we are comfortable moving into the back end of...

Account manager (discovery), Sydney/remote

Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Nielsen BookData Nielsen BookData are looking for an account manager to manage BookData’s Discovery products & services in Australia, joining a small dynamic team at the heart of the book...

Various positions, Melbourne

Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Hardie Grant Books About us Join the editorial team at Hardie Grant Books, one of Australia’s leading independent publishing companies with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, London and San Francisco. We...

Commissioning editor, Sydney

Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Australian Geographic Books Australian Geographic is seeking a part-time experienced commissioning editor for its book publishing division. Key skills required Experience as a commissioning editor in a book publishing organisation...

Bookseller, Sydney

Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Constant Reader Constant Reader Bookshop has been in operation for over 40 years making it one of the oldest and most respected independent book stores in Australia. We are currently...

Tracey Lien on ‘All That’s Left Unsaid’

Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Tracey Lien's debut novel All That's Left Unsaid (HQ Fiction, September) blends a murder-mystery with a 'raw and honest' exploration of the Vietnamese-Australian experience in the late 90s. Reviewer Anthea Yang, who...

The Upwelling (Lystra Rose, Lothian)

Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Kirra doesn’t understand how or why, but her dreams come true. And no one believes her, not even Nan, who told Kirra to never mention her ‘power’. One night, she...

Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist announced

Tuesday, 12 July 2022
The shortlist for the Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year, worth £2022 (A$3571), has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Deep Wheel Orcadia (Harry Josephine...

KYD announces new creative nonfiction prize

Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced a new creative nonfiction prize. Open exclusively to KYD subscribers, the KYD Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize will be judged by essayist Fiona Wright in...

Fair Work approves BRTD EBA

Monday, 11 July 2022
The enterprise bargaining agreement between staff and owners at Sydney bookshop Better Read Than Dead (BRTD) signed earlier this year, has been approved by the Fair Work Commission. Conditions under...

Rimmer buys Collins Orange

Monday, 11 July 2022
Author Kelly Rimmer has purchased Collins Booksellers Orange, NSW from founders Phillip and Margaret Schwebel. After 22 years, the Schwebels sold the store to Rimmer, a long-time customer, with the...

US first-half book sales down 6.6%

Monday, 11 July 2022
In the US, book sales were down 6.6% year-on-year for the first half of 2022, but remain about 15% higher than the same period in 2019—the last pre-pandemic year, reports...

Writers Vic announces 2022 Writeability fellows

Monday, 11 July 2022
Writers Victoria has announced the 2022 Writeability fellows. The following five writers with disability were awarded Writeability fellowships: Dorian Sutton for 'The Passenger', a young adult, queer coming-of-age story about...

Ingram to become UK wholesaler

Friday, 8 July 2022
Ingram is to become a wholesaler in the UK, reports the Bookseller. Ingram Content Group UK senior vice-president David Taylor said the company will launch the full service in September...

Books in the media this weekend, 9–10 July

Friday, 8 July 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper  The Age of Fibs (Beth Spencer, Spineless Wonders)  Disorientation (Elaine Hsieh...

 

 

 

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