UQP acquires Norman debut story collection
Tuesday, 17 November 2020
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to debut short story collection Permafrost by visual artist, performer and writer S J Norman via Curtis Brown. Norman, under the...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Monday, 16 November 2020
The shortlists for the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Death of Jesus (J M Coetzee, Text) Exploded View...
HarperCollins acquires Baird book on grace
Monday, 16 November 2020
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Bright Shining by Julia Baird, from Amanda Urban at ICM Partners. Baird's nonfiction book on grace—what it is, what it looks like in our...
Australian First Nations and People of Colour in Publishing Network launched
Friday, 13 November 2020
Publishing professionals Camha Pham, Grace Lucas-Pennington and Radhiah Chowdhury have created and launched the Australian First Nations and People of Colour (FNPOC) in Publishing Network. ‘It can be lonely and...
New Amplify Bookstore to specialise in BIPOC books
Friday, 13 November 2020
A new online-only bookshop, launched by masters of publishing and communications students Marina Sano and Jing Xuan Teo, will specialise in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC)...
Cover of new Heiss novel to feature title in Wiradjuri
Friday, 13 November 2020
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has revealed the cover for Anita Heiss's forthcoming novel Bila Yarrudhang-galang-dhuray (River of Dreams, May 2021). According to Heiss, it is the first Australian commercial fiction release...
Dymocks Book of the Year 2020 shortlist announced
Friday, 13 November 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Dymocks Book of the Year has been announced. The six shortlisted books, as voted by Dymocks booksellers across the country, are: All Our Shimmering Skies...
Authors, industry researchers to appear at parliamentary inquiry
Thursday, 12 November 2020
Book industry researcher David Throsby, the Sydney Review of Books and authors Helen Garner, Charlotte Wood and Christos Tsiolkas are among those who will appear at the first virtual public...
Screen Canberra invests in book-to-screen adaptations
Thursday, 12 November 2020
Adaptations of Peter Papathanasiou's memoir Little One (A&U) and Kaaron Warren's fantasy novel The Grief Hole (IFWG Publishing Australia) are among several projects to receive investment from Screen Canberra. Papathanasiou's...
Leaf Mag launches to demystify book industry
Thursday, 12 November 2020
A new online publication that aims to 'demystify, equitise and diversify' publishing, bookselling, libraries and other book-related work in Australia has been launched by two university students and a recent...
‘Fathoms’ wins Nib Literary Award
Thursday, 12 November 2020
Rebecca Giggs’ Fathoms (Scribe) has won the Waverley Council’s $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award for 2020. Giggs’s work of narrative nonfiction blends natural history, science and philosophy...
Walkley Book Award 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
The Walkley Book Award shortlist for 2020 has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know (Sophie McNeill, ABC Books) Fallen (Lucie Morris-Marr, A&U) The Altar Boys (Suzanne Smith,...
Gay YA rom-com wins 2020 Ampersand Prize
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing (HGCP) has announced that Auckland teacher and writer Helen Valley has won the 2020 Ampersand Prize for her YA novel Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean...
Riwoe wins inaugural $50k ARA Historical Novel Prize
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Brisbane writer Mirandi Riwoe has won the $50,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize for Stone Sky Gold Mountain (UQP). Selected from more than 185 entries and a shortlist of three announced in...
Chowdhury releases Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Penguin Random House Australia senior audio producer and commissioning editor Radhiah Chowdhury has released her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report on the experiences and perspectives of BAME (Black, Asian and...
Viva La Novella announces regional focus
Tuesday, 10 November 2020
Seizure has partnered with the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) for its annual Viva la Novella competition, and has announced one of the winners of the 2021 competition will...
Radnidge takes on literary at Hachette, Hazard to head new lifestyle list
Tuesday, 10 November 2020
Hachette Australia has announced the appointment of Vanessa Radnidge as head of narrative nonfiction and literary, following the departure of former Hachette head of literary and illustrated Robert Watkins. Radnidge,...
Scribner acquires debut thriller ‘Unsheltered’
Monday, 9 November 2020
Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Unsheltered by Clare Moleta in a pre-empt from Jenny Darling at Jenny Darling and Associates. Moleta's debut thriller tells the story of Li,...
Smith wins 2020 Richell Prize for ‘Petrichor’
Monday, 9 November 2020
Aisling Smith has won the 2020 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for her fiction manuscript ‘Petrichor’. The judges said ‘Petrichor’ ‘announces an assured and evocative new Australian literary voice’. ‘Smith,...
NZ book sector campaign to promote creative rights
Friday, 6 November 2020
The New Zealand Society of Authors, the Publishers Association of New Zealand, and Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) have launched a new campaign to promote creative rights. The ‘Creative Rights...
Leading Edge opens Indie Awards to all Australian independents
Friday, 6 November 2020
For the first time, all Australian independent bookstores can nominate for the Indie Book Awards. The Leading Edge buying group, which administers the awards, said nominations for the 2021 awards...
Mullane to join Ultimo
Friday, 6 November 2020
Ultimo Press has announced the appointment of Brigid Mullane as commissioning editor. Mullane, who has been managing editor at Hachette for the past three years, said she was ‘beyond excited...
UQP acquires Behrendt’s ‘After Story’
Thursday, 5 November 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired rights to After Story, the third novel by academic, broadcaster and author Larissa Behrendt. UQP said After Story is an ‘ambitious and...
Australia Reads campaign: Nielsen reports sales up almost 5%
Thursday, 5 November 2020
Nielsen Book Australia reports that sales of print books are up nearly 5% on the previous year. Territory manager Bianca Whiteley said that, for the year to the week ending...
Bloomsbury to repay pandemic pay cuts
Thursday, 5 November 2020
Bloomsbury Australia’s parent company in the UK has announced it will repay almost £700,000 (A$985,000) to staff who took a pay cut during the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic,...
Serong shortlisted for 2020 Staunch Book Prize
Wednesday, 4 November 2020
Australian author Jock Serong has been shortlisted for the 2020 Staunch Book Prize, having won the inaugural award in 2018 for On the Java Ridge (Text). Serong is shortlisted for...
‘The Killing Streets’ wins 2020 Danger Prize
Wednesday, 4 November 2020
The Killing Streets by Tanya Bretherton (Hachette) has won the 2020 Danger Prize. Bretherton, who has been shortlisted for the prize for each of her three books, thanked prize administrators...
Hicks wins inaugural SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition
Wednesday, 4 November 2020
Papua New Guinean–Australian digital content maker, writer, director and producer Alana Hicks has won the inaugural SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition. Hicks’s entry was chosen as the winner from more than...
Report: Aus market up 4%, almost half of consumer sales online
Wednesday, 4 November 2020
A report commissioned by Booktopia from consultants Frost & Sullivan has forecast that Australia’s overall book sales in the 2021 financial year will be up 4% on the previous year,...
Booktopia to list on ASX in December
Wednesday, 4 November 2020
Australian online bookseller Booktopia has lodged a prospectus with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to raise $43.1 million and list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in December....
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