Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Allen & Unwin has announced that children's and YA submissions will now be accepted as part of its already established 'Friday Pitch' program. Established in 2006, the Friday Pitch is intended...

Tuesday, 7 February 2012
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts have announced the editors selected to attend the 2012 Residential Editorial Program (REP), which...

Tuesday, 7 February 2012
The program for the 2012 New Zealand International Arts Festival Writers and Readers Week, which will be held in Wellington between 9 and 14 March, has been released. Among the international...

Tuesday, 7 February 2012
In rights news this week:SalesFiction--The Mary Cunnane Agency has sold world English ex-ANZ rights to The Honey Thief by Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman (published in Australia by Wild Dingo...

Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Jane Curry will finish in her position as managing director of Global Publishing and Quarto Marketing Australia next month to return to her own business, Jane Curry Publishing (JCP). Curry,...

Monday, 6 February 2012
Sales of the titles on the 2011 '50 Books You Can't Put Down' Get Reading! list increased by 115% during last year's campaign, compared to the five weeks preceeding the...

Monday, 6 February 2012
Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, has died aged 88. Szymborska published around 20 volumes of poetry, some of which have been translated. Works available in English include View With a...

Monday, 6 February 2012
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Monday, 6 February 2012
FebruaryKatherine Howell, Pan Macmillan (Silent Fear) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane (including regional).Carrie Tiffany, Picador (Mateship with Birds) Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.Janette Turner Hospital, Fourth Estate (Forecast Turbulence) Perth, Brisbane...

Monday, 6 February 2012
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Monday, 6 February 2012
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Perth International Arts Festival, WA: 10 February to 3 March. Writers at the Convent, Abbotsford: 10-12 February....

Monday, 6 February 2012
Carrie Tiffany's Mateship with Birds (Picador) is set on the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s. A lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras...

Monday, 6 February 2012
Robb named 2012 CAL Nonfiction Writer-in-Residence at UTSAustralian writer Peter Robb has been named as the inaugural Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Nonfiction Writer-in-Residence at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)....

Monday, 6 February 2012
The shortlist for this year's Blake Dawson Business Literature Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's Forests (Anna Krien, Black Inc.)Breaking the Sheep's Back:...

Sunday, 5 February 2012
The shortlists for the 2012 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, which include a young adult category for the first time this year, have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: B&N won't stock Amazon titles in storesNielsen research shows link between book sales...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Think Big (HarperCollins), Donald Trump and Bill Zanker's self-help book filled with personal stories from the authors' rise to the top of their fields, is first on the highest new...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Children's author Libby Gleeson will be the recipient of the 2011 Dromkeen Medal. The Dromkeen National Centre for Picture Book Art described Gleeson as 'a worthy recipient of the Dromkeen Medal'...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
New Zealand publisher Pear Jam Books is now a full-service publishing house. Pear Jam Books was originally established last year by author Jill Marshall to publish a children's book to...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
On Fancy Goods this week, we take a look at Text Publishing's new 'Australian Classics' list; Jon Page talks about ebooks, the agency model and ‘predatory pricing’; Blair Mahoney reviews The...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Bloomsbury Publishing will launch a new literary imprint called Bloomsbury Circus in Australia and New Zealand this year. Bloomsbury Australia managing director Kathleen Farrar told the Weekly Book Newsletter that...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, formerly the AFI Awards, have been announced in Sydney, with many of the awards going to book adaptations. The award...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
'You will not see flat pricing under agency (not if the publisher has half a retail mind). There will be days, weeks or even months when the price will drop,...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
The program for the 2012 Adelaide Writers' Week, to be held between 3 and 8 March during the Adelaide festival, has been released. Among the international authors who will participate...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Dale Campisi, publisher at Arcade Publications, has been appointed editor of Tasmanian literary journal Island. Campisi, who will also continue in his role as publisher at Arcade, replaces former editor...

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
New Zealand fiction writers David Lyndon Brown and Anna Taylor are the recipients of the 2012 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Brown and Taylor will each receive a NZ$20,000 (approximately A$15,480)...