The Book Orchard takes over Just Books Bairnsdale
Tuesday, 1 March 2022
The Book Orchard has taken over Just Books Bairnsdale in East Gippsland, Victoria. The Book Orchard owner Annemieke Jongsma took over the business from Just Books owner Elaine Medhurst on...
Booktopia profits halved after Covid lockdowns
Monday, 28 February 2022
Online retailer Booktopia’s profits halved in the six months to 31 December compared to the same period last financial year, despite a 15.5% revenue rise for the same period. In...
Hardie Grant acquires Micallef memoir
Monday, 28 February 2022
Hardie Grant Books (HGB) has acquired world rights to the memoir Tripping Over Myself by Australian comedian, actor and writer Shaun Micallef. Micallef has appeared on Australian television since 1994,...
Pollock appointed Byron Writers Festival artistic director
Monday, 28 February 2022
Zoe Pollock has been appointed artistic director of Byron Writers Festival following the departure of Edwina Johnson. Pollock is a former CEO and artistic director of Brisbane Writers Festival, having...
‘Love & Virtue’ wins 2022 MUD Literary Prize
Friday, 25 February 2022
Love & Virtue by Diana Reid (Ultimo) has won the fifth annual MUD Literary Prize. Presented each year for the best debut literary novel by an Australian writer, the $5000...
Creative NZ announces Wilson as recipient of new PRH NZ internship
Thursday, 24 February 2022
Creative New Zealand has announced Faith Wilson as the recipient of a new internship offered in partnership with Penguin Random House New Zealand (PRH NZ). Wilson is a Samoan and...
Dirt Lane to become WestWords imprint
Thursday, 24 February 2022
Not-for-profit picture book publisher Dirt Lane Press, founded by publisher Margrete Lamond in 2016, will become an imprint of Western Sydney arts organisation WestWords. The Orange-based publisher, which has been...
Australia Council announces 2022 leadership programs participants
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the participants of its three leadership programs—Arts Leaders, Future Leaders and International Leadership—for emerging, mid-career and established creative practitioners in Australia and...
CBCA 2022 Notable Books announced
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its list of Notable Books for 2022. The list acts as the longlist for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards....
Hardie Grant ‘Innovate’ RAP endorsed
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Hardie Grant has announced the next level of its Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), the ‘Innovate’ RAP, has been endorsed by Reconciliation Australia. The Innovate RAP commits Hardie Grant to ‘creating...
Tablo Tales acquires Eckermann verse novel
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Tablo Tales, the new literary imprint of Tablo Publishing led by creative director Jemma Birrell, has acquired world rights to a new book by South Australian poet Ali Cobby Eckermann, via...
‘The Bluffs’ optioned for screen
Tuesday, 22 February 2022
Kyle Perry’s debut novel The Bluffs (Penguin) been optioned for screen adaptation as a limited TV series by First Option Pictures. Executive producer Mark Morrissey, associate producer Piper Morrissey and...
Wild shortlisted for 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Award
Tuesday, 22 February 2022
Australian children’s author Margaret Wild has been shortlisted for the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Award, administered by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). Wild is among the...
S&S reports local sales up 27%
Monday, 21 February 2022
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has confirmed its local total sales grew 27.2% in 2021, as Simon & Schuster US reported its operating income was up 52% year-on-year. S&S Australia...
Affirm acquires ‘The Grandest Bookshop in the World’ prequel
Monday, 21 February 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to The Bookseller’s Apprentice, the prequel to The Grandest Bookshop in the World, by Amelia Mellor. Set in 1871, The Bookseller’s Apprentice follows 12-year-old...
Cassim appointed ILF program manager
Monday, 21 February 2022
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has appointed Zoe Cassim as program manager. Cassim, a Widjabul/Wia-bul woman from Bundjalung Country in northern New South Wales, is a high-school teacher with more...
Inaugural Open Book interns announced
Friday, 18 February 2022
Bohdi Byles and Maya Hodge are the two successful applicants for the inaugural Open Book Internship pilot program, now underway in Sydney and Melbourne. Byles, a ‘vocal queer person, a...
Walker acquires Daley picture book about bees
Friday, 18 February 2022
Walker Books Australia has acquired Native Bees, a new title in the publisher’s Nature Storybook series, by Brisbane teacher librarian Megan Daley. Daley is the author of Raising Readers (UQP),...
Greder’s ‘Diamonds’ longlisted for Kate Greenaway Medal
Thursday, 17 February 2022
In the UK, Swiss-born long-time Australian resident Armin Greder has made the longlist for the 2022 Kate Greenaway Medal for outstanding achievement in children’s illustration, announced along with the longlist...
APA announces editors for 2022 Residential Editorial Program
Thursday, 17 February 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the mid-career editors selected to attend the 2022 Residential Editorial Program (REP), to take place in Sydney from 21–24 February. The editors selected...
Five ANZ publishers shortlisted for Bologna Prize
Thursday, 17 February 2022
Australian publishers Affirm Press, EK Books and Magabala Books, and Aotearoa New Zealand presses Huia Publishers and Beatnik Publishing have been shortlisted for the 2022 Bologna Prize for Best Children’s...
PANZ conference delayed until August
Wednesday, 16 February 2022
The Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) has announced the PANZ International Conference, which was due to be held in Auckland on Friday, 4 March, has...
UQP acquires Elvery debut novel
Wednesday, 16 February 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to Brisbane writer Laura Elvery’s debut novel Nightingale. Elvery is the author of two short story collections published by UQP, Trick of the Light and...
All About Women of Colour mentorship recipients announced
Tuesday, 15 February 2022
The Sydney Opera House has announced Yeena Kirkbright and Ayeesha Ash as the recipients of the All About Women of Colour mentorship program, presented in partnership with Sweatshop. This year’s...
Hachette announces ‘scouting partnership’ with Law
Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Hachette Australia has announced a ‘scouting partnership’ with writer and broadcaster Benjamin Law, beginning this month. Working with the Hachette team, Law will scout new writers for the Hachette Australia...
Ultimo acquires Cunningham novel in two-book deal
Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to a new novel by Sophie Cunningham in a two-book deal brokered by Jane Novak at Jane Novak Literary Agency. Cunningham’s first novel in...
ABA announces deal with ArtsPay
Monday, 14 February 2022
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced a new partnership with payment processing company ArtsPay. ArtsPay is a 'profit for purpose' payment processing company whose mission is to 'build a...
Hardie Grant acquires Barratt book on dating apps
Monday, 14 February 2022
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to Tinder Translator: An A–Z of modern misyogyny by Aileen Barratt, via Jacinta di Mase at Jacinta di Mase Management. Based on Barratt’s...
ABA commissions bookselling sustainability report
Friday, 11 February 2022
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has commissioned a report on sustainability in the book industry. ABA CEO Robbie Egan said, 'The report will give an overview of current and planned...
Inaugural Sydney Muslim Writers’ Festival to run 12–13 February
Thursday, 10 February 2022
The inaugural Sydney Muslim Writers’ Festival (SMWF) will be held this weekend, 12–13 February. A partnership between the Islamic Sciences and Research Academy (ISRA) and the Canterbury Bankstown City Council,...
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