Wednesday, 24 July 2013
‘For debut authors, independent book retailers are the best—and sometimes only—chance at getting into readers’ hands, because that bookseller will often physically put a book there along with a personal...

Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Frank Moorhouse has been awarded this year’s Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writers’ Festival in Victoria. The award, which is named after the Australian poet and co-founder of...

Tuesday, 23 July 2013
A new writers’ retreat has been established in a property in Taroona, south of Hobart. Novel Writing Retreats Australia, which will officially open in February 2014, is being run by...

Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Books+Publishing is conducting research into wages in the book industry for an article in Books+Publishing magazine. If you work in the book industry, we would love to get your input...

Monday, 22 July 2013
The town of Chester’s Mill in Maine in the US is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible and impenetrable dome in Stephen King’s Under...

Monday, 22 July 2013
Edify, a new distribution company founded by former managing director of Pearson New Zealand Adrian Keane, will take over the sales and distribution of Pearson’s educational products in New Zealand in...

Monday, 22 July 2013
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has made a translation deal for The China Choice (Hugh White) with the Polish Institute of Foreign Affairs via Graal Agency (Poland). Exisle Publishing has sold UK, US,...

Friday, 19 July 2013
Canberra-based author Lesley Lebkowicz has won the 2013 ACT Poetry Prize. Lebkowicz’s poem ‘Inside’ was chosen from 128 entries to win the annual award, which carries a cash prize of...

Friday, 19 July 2013
London mayor Boris Johnson and style blogger Tavi Gevinson are among the international guests at this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which launched its full program on 18 July. Tickets...

Friday, 19 July 2013
The winners of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards, including the PANZ Young Designer of the Year Award, have been announced. The winners in each category are: Best Designed Cover...

Thursday, 18 July 2013
The program for this year’s Bendigo Writers Festival in Victoria, which runs from 9 to 11 August, has been announced. The festival kicks off with a speech from former prime...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
The program for this year’s Byron Bay Writers’ Festival (BBWF) has been announced. The festival, which runs from 2 to 4 August, features 130 writers who will participate in 90 panel events,...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
The winners of this year’s New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Best First Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are: NZSA Hubert Church...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Lantern publishing director Julie Gibbs has been awarded the Maggie Beer Award for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Food at this year’s Produce Awards, presented by ABC magazine delicious. Gibbs received...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Hachette Australia is reprinting The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (Little, Brown) following the revelation this week that Harry Potter author J K Rowling is the author of the crime...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Sales Nonfiction—Austlit has sold rights to Mary Poppins She Wrote (Valerie Lawson) to Simon & Schuster in New York and to Wydawnictwo Marginesy in Poland. Children’s—Scholastic has licensed Chinese simple...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
‘We are seeing indications that textbooks are not playing the central role in underpinning learning that they once did’—Pearson Australia CEO David Barnett explains the reasons behind the company’s restructure, which...

Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Say You’re Sorry by Australian author Michael Robotham (Sphere) has been longlisted for the 2013 Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Gold Dagger in the UK. Say You’re Sorry is one of eight...

Tuesday, 16 July 2013
The Wheeler Centre has announced its third round of ‘hot desk’ fellowships, including a number of applicants with publishing contracts. Musician and writer Justin Heazlewood, also known as The Bedroom...

Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Pearson Australia has announced a major restructure of its educational publishing activities, which could result in as many as 75 redundancies in the organisation. The publisher said in a statement...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Feature film adaptations of Australian novels Bereft (Chris Womersley, Scribe), The Burial (Courtney Collins, A&U), Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey, A&U) and YA novel On the Jellicoe Road (Melina Marchetta, Penguin) are...