Monday, 22 September 2014
Literary agency Curtis Brown has announced agent Fran Moore will be leaving the company.Moore, who has been an agent with the agency for 15 years, will continue to represent ‘a...

Monday, 22 September 2014
Publisher, author and psychologist Antony Kidman has died, aged 75. Kidman founded the ‘Foundation for Life Sciences’ imprint, under which he authored many popular psychology books, including Stress, Coping and Social Support in...

Friday, 19 September 2014
Louise Sherwin-Stark and Justin Ractliffe have been appointed joint managing directors of Hachette Australia.Sherwin-Stark, formerly sales and product director, will be responsible for sales and product, and digital sales, and...

Friday, 19 September 2014
Authors Chloe Hooper and Jeff Sparrow are among 10 artists to be awarded 2014 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships, each worth $160,000 over two years. Hooper is the author of two novels, A Child’s...

Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Speakers agency Booked Out plans to open a ‘sister agency’ in 2015. The new business, to be called Speaking Out, will cater to the agency’s growing client base in the...

Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Bernadette Foley, publisher at Hachette Australia, has announced she is leaving the company. Foley told Books+Publishing that, after 10 years at Hachette and 25 in the publishing industry, she was...

Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Audience numbers were lower than expected at Book Expo Australia’s inaugural event at the Sydney Showgrounds on 29-31 August.‘Unfortunately we didn’t get as many people through the gates as the...

Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Royal Zoological Society of NSW has announced the winners of the 2014 Whitley Awards.The Whitley Medal was awarded for two ‘substantial contributions to Australian zoological literature’. The joint winners are:...

Tuesday, 16 September 2014
Hachette has announced two new appointments to its nonfiction publishing team.Robert Watkins, commissioning editor for Hachette’s lifestyle list, has been promoted to nonfiction publisher.‘Robert has made a huge impact in...

Tuesday, 16 September 2014
The Australian Government will fund a musical theatre production of Sonya Hartnett’s novel The Silver Donkey (Puffin) to commemorate the Anzac Centenary.The government announced that $100,000 will be given to...

Monday, 15 September 2014
The 52-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) is at the top of the bestsellers chart for the second week in a row. It’s ahead of Personal (Lee Child, Bantam)...

Friday, 12 September 2014
The Australian Poetry Journal has relaunched with a new editor, new ‘magazine’ format and a dedicated website.Michael Sharkey has been appointed editor and Stuart Geddes is responsible for the layout of the new...

Thursday, 11 September 2014
Over 240 people attended the Emerging Writers’ Festival’s (EWF) first Adelaide program, which ran from 5-7 September.General manager Kate Callingham told Books+Publishing that Saturday night’s Mixtape Memoirs was the most popular event,...