Wednesday, 14 August 2013
Auckland University Press director Sam Elworthy has been elected as the new president of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ). Elworthy, who has previously served as a PANZ councillor, was...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors have been shortlisted for this year’s David Gemmell Legend Awards for fantasy writing. Australian author Jay Kristoff has been nominated...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced the full program for its 10th festival, which will run from 11-15 October in Bali, Indonesia. More than 50 of the festival’s 160 guests are Australian, including authors Richard...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
HarperCollins Australia has announced that it will begin accepting unsolicited manuscripts via its website this month. The publisher will launch ‘the Wednesday Post’ on 21 August. Through a new online portal,...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
‘We saw a sharp increase in traffic on the day and this was also reflected in very strong sales. It really felt like Christmas in August!’—Dymocks Melbourne co-owner Melissa Traverso...

Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Australian author Majok Tulba is among the finalists for this year’s Dylan Thomas Prize. Tulba’s novel Beneath the Darkening Sky (Hamish Hamilton) is longlisted along with seven other works of...

Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Sales Fiction—Jenny Darling & Associates has sold UK and Commonwealth rights ex-ANZ to The Dressmaker (Rosalie Ham, published in Australia by Duffy & Snellgrove) to Serpent’s Tail. Random House has...

Monday, 12 August 2013
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) commissioning and managing editor Marisa Pintado has taken a year’s sabbatical to join the fiction team at Egmont UK in London. Pintado will finish at HGE...

Monday, 12 August 2013
Former Geelong footballer Matthew Scarlett is kicking goals on the highest new entries chart this week, with his autobiography Hold the Line (with Scott Gullan, Macmillan) in the top position. James...

Monday, 12 August 2013
Literary agency The Mary Cunnane Agency will close by the end of this year. Founder Mary Cunnane said in a statement this week that she is closing the agency, which...

Friday, 9 August 2013
Forged with Flames: A True Story of Courage and Survival by Ann Fogarty and Anne Crawford (Wild Dingo Press) has won this year’s Australian Christian Book of the Year Award....

Thursday, 8 August 2013
The program for this year’s Write Around the Murray Festival in Albury, New South Wales, has been announced. The festival, which runs from Wednesday 4 September to Sunday 8 September, has the...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
This year’s Byron Writers Festival was held on 2-4 August, with record ticket sales and attendances on the first day of the festival and an increase across the board from...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Michelle Keating has joined the Collins Booksellers head office in the role of national franchise manager. Keating has worked for a number of Collins stores in Melbourne over the past 23...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Asialink’s travelling writers festival the Bookwallah will tour Australia’s East Coast over coming months, kicking off with an exhibition at the State Library of Victoria in partnership with the Melbourne...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
‘It’s really no different from suggesting that because they’re so keen to see a game, fans should have the right to avoid ticket barriers at sports grounds or railway stations’—APA...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Black Inc. has announced a number of staff changes following a restructure of the publisher’s publicity and marketing team. Publicity and marketing manager Elisabeth Young has been promoted to the role...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Six authors have received funding in the latest round of the Creative Industries Career Fund, administered by the Copyright Agency (CAL). Children’s author and Random House associate publisher of children’s and...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Jane Curry Publishing (JCP) has appointed Jasmine Standfield to the newly created position of publishing manager. Standfield will manage JCP’s production, taking over from Karen Young, who previously worked with JCP...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Four Collins Booksellers franchises in Victoria have closed after the stores’ parent company was placed into voluntary administration. The four stores are located in Bendigo and Kangaroo Flat in regional...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Sales Fiction—Clan Destine Press has sold rights to Out of the Black Land and the ‘Delphic Women’ trilogy Medea, Cassandra and Electra (all Kerry Greenwood) to Poisoned Pen Press in...

Tuesday, 6 August 2013
The winners of this year’s Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children’s Book Awards have been announced.  The winners in each category are: LIANZA Junior Fiction Award—Esther Glen Medal Red...

Tuesday, 6 August 2013
New Zealand publisher Pear Jam Books has closed and its founder, children’s author Jill Marshall, has left the country ‘with a trail of unpaid debts’, reports the New Zealand Herald....