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Expand your audience at Frankfurt

Monday, 17 February 2020
Build international buzz and rights leads for your standout titles in our monthly rights newsletter. Reach over 7000 overseas publishers, rights agents, subagents and industry professionals each month. Don’t miss...

Expand your audience at Shanghai

Full RWA board resigns, special election called over controversy

Monday, 17 February 2020
In the US, the entire board of Romance Writers of America (RWA) has resigned and the association has called a special election to fill the board, reports Publishers Weekly. The...

Magabala, OzCo to hold First Nations Writers’ Residency in Broome

Monday, 17 February 2020
Magabala Books and the Australia Council have announced a new residency for mid-career Indigenous writers, to be held in Broome from 4–13 May 2020. The First Nations Writers' Residency is...

Boundless festival wins Sydney Music, Art & Culture award

Monday, 17 February 2020
The 2019 Boundless festival of Indigenous and culturally diverse writers has been awarded best arts program in FBi Radio's 2019 Sydney Music, Art & Culture (SMAC) Awards. Boundless festival is...

Expand your audience at Bologna

Sunday, 16 February 2020
Build international buzz and rights leads for your standout titles in our monthly rights newsletter. Reach over 7000 overseas publishers, rights agents, subagents and industry professionals each month. Don’t miss...

Hardie Grant to enter EBA negotiations with staff

Friday, 14 February 2020
Staff at Hardie Grant Publishing will enter negotiations for an enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) with their employer. The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) says staff have a ‘clear’ majority...

More than half of authors paid below standard rates for appearances, according to ASA rates tracker

Friday, 14 February 2020
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has published some of the findings from its publishing and author/illustrator appearance rates trackers, which were launched in August last year. Results from the...

2015 novella ‘Panthers and the Museum of Fire’ sold to US

Friday, 14 February 2020
Martin Shaw, agent at Alex Adsett Publishing Services, has sold US and Canadian rights to Sydney author Jen Craig’s novella Panthers and the Museum of Fire (Spineless Wonders) to LA-based...

Tapsell, Dalton, Boochani announced for NT Writers Festival 2020

Thursday, 13 February 2020
The NT Writers Festival (NTWF) has announced the first authors for its 2020 festival, to be held from 14–17 May. Running under the theme ‘Gunamidirra garawa birditj/When the Tides Turn’,...

SLNSW 2020 fellowships announced

Thursday, 13 February 2020
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the eight recipients of its 2020 research fellowships, including the inaugural Dr A M Hertzberg Fellowship, which examines ‘the impact of globalisation...

Where is Claris in Paris!

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
A brand-new search-and-find series starring Claris, the chicest mouse in Paris! With a quarter of a million Claris books in print, readers can’t get enough of this stylish little mouse!...

Oil Under Troubled Water

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
In May 2018 Bernard Collaery, a former Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory and long-term legal counsel to the government of East Timor, was charged by the Australian Commonwealth Director...

On writing in a climate emergency

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
'Writing probably doesn’t feel like the most crucial response here, and maybe it’s not. There is lots of other work to be done. But writing can help us see connections,...

Coronavirus delays book supply, Dubosarsky announced as new children’s laureate and more

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Local publishers are currently anticipating delays to some book supply due to printer closures in China, with most commercial printers expected to resume operations this week. In more positive news,...

Copyright Agency makes $150k investment in arts criticism and reviews

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
The Copyright Agency, in partnership with the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas, has announced funding of $150,000 to support the publication of more arts reviews and criticism in...

Change for ANU Press

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Publisher: ANU Press Old distributor: NewSouth New distributor: self-distributed Changeover date: 1 February 2020 Returns cut-off: 28 February 2020

Meet Randolph Warwick

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
A thrilling erotic novel, filled with romance, power, ambition, intrigue and anger. Darkness and light, envy and malice filled many hearts at the freedom to choose and live the life...

Change for Guggenheim Museum Publications

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum Publications Old distributor: Thames & Hudson New distributor: Books at Manic Changeover date: 1 February 2020 Returns cut-off: 31 March 2020

Change for Familius

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Publisher: Familius Old distributor: NewSouth Books New distributor: Hardie Grant Changeover date: 31 December 2019 Returns cut-off: 29 February 2020

ABIA tickets now on sale

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Tickets are now on sale for the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). ABIA invites book industry professionals to celebrate the best books and finest talent in the book business. Acclaimed...

Order now: Russia and the West 2017-19

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Trade consignment and retail orders accepted for Russia and the West 2017-19, RRP$25. Tony Kevin’s controversial new book. Selling well. A book for fearless and discerning readers. See www.tonykevin.com.au or...

Authors condemn US university decision to fire publishing staff

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
In the US, around 60 authors, reviewers and publishing figures have penned an open letter condemning Wayne State University (WSU) over the firing of three longtime senior employees from the...

Cadwallader wins 2019 ACT Book of the Year Award

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Robyn Cadwallader has won the 2019 ACT Book of the Year Award for her novel Book of Colours (HarperCollins). Cadwallader receives a cash prize of $10,000. Two books were highly...

Varuna announces new fellowships for writing on drought, bushfire crises

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Varuna has announced six new fellowships for regional NSW and outer-Western Sydney writers to develop new work in response to the drought and bushfire crises. Each fellowship includes a one-week...

The Powerbroker: Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish Life

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors than anywhere else in the world bar Israel....

Popular Art and the Avant-Garde: Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of Newspaper and Magazine Prints

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
When Vincent van Gogh picked up his pencil and set out on his artistic career, it was not with the intention of becoming a leader of the avant-garde art world....

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