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Inaugural Shalom Australian Jewish Book Award 2024 winners announced

Monday, 2 September 2024
The inaugural Shalom Australian Jewish Book Award winners were announced at the Sydney Jewish Writers Festival, which ran 21 to 25 August. Michael Gawenda won the Leslie and Sophie Caplan...

Readings chair to run new festival, Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival program launched

Monday, 2 September 2024
A new Carlton-based writers’ festival and the 2024 Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival will both take place this November. Readings chair Mark Rubbo is launching a new literary festival, to be...

Muse bookstore closes

Thursday, 29 August 2024
The Muse bookstore in Canberra closed last weekend, after owners Dan Sanderson and Paul Eldon decided not to renew their lease on the establishment, which was also a cafe/restaurant and...

Atlantic acquires Zorn novel ‘Better Days’

Thursday, 29 August 2024
Atlantic Books Australia, a division of Allen & Unwin, has acquired ANZ rights to the novel Better Days by Claire Zorn, in a deal brokered by Grace Heifetz at Left Bank...

Shawline denies allegation of unpaid royalties

Thursday, 29 August 2024
Shawline Publishing Group CEO Brad Shaw, whose company is being sued by author Dan Moon in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal for alleged unpaid royalties, has responded to the...

Books+Publishing to produce Australian Book Industry Awards

Wednesday, 28 August 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced that Books+Publishing will ‘take the production reins’ of the annual Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) under a new licensing agreement. In 2025, which...

NLA acquires Wallman’s ‘All Out! Pink Bans and Blue Collars’

Wednesday, 28 August 2024
National Library of Australia (NLA) Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to All Out! Pink Bans and Blue Collars by comics-journalist, cartoonist and labour activist Sam Wallman. As the NLA’s 2023 Creative...

Dymocks Booragoon/Garden City wins top award at company conference

Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Meg Arnold, store manager of the Booragoon/Garden City Dymocks bookstore in Perth, Western Australia, was awarded the Dymocks Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence in 2024 during the bookselling chain’s annual...

A&U acquires Tutt’s children’s books

Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Corey Tutt’s children’s titles Caution! This Book Contains Deadly Reptiles (illus by Ben Williams) and Before It Was Called Science, the follow-up to The...

S&S acquires Affirm

Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) and Affirm Press have announced Affirm will become part of S&S. In a statement, S&S said Affirm Press would continue to maintain its brand independence, operating...

SLQ calls for black&write! publisher EOIs

Monday, 26 August 2024
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has called for proposals from Australian publishers to partner with the organisation in delivering the black&write! project for 2025. SLQ said it is calling...

Brisbane to host 2025 BookPeople conference

Monday, 26 August 2024
BookPeople has announced its 2025 conference will take place in Brisbane/Meanjin. The annual conference and trade exhibition event will run from Saturday 14 June to Monday 16 June. This year's...

Booktopia resumes trading

Monday, 26 August 2024
The Booktopia website is taking orders again, following the sale of the business and its related assets to Shant Kradjian, owner of Australian consumer electronics retailer digiDirect. ‘We’re back!’ reads...

Affirm acquires Collinson self-help follow-up

Monday, 26 August 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to self-help book Master Your Relationship Anxiety by Georgie Collinson. According to the publisher, Master Your Relationship Anxiety ‘delivers a simple four-week program for...

Author sues Shawline Publishing alleging unpaid royalties

Monday, 26 August 2024
Author Dan Moon is suing Shawline Publishing in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, claiming he is owed thousands in unpaid royalties, reports the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH). Moon told...

Williams named inaugural Lynley Dodd Children’s Writers Award recipient

Thursday, 22 August 2024
Aotearoa New Zealand’s Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi has announced Janine Williams, also known by her pen name J L Williams, as the inaugural recipient of the $30,000 Lynley Dodd...

Varuna First Nations Fellowship 2024 recipients announced

Thursday, 22 August 2024
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the five recipients of its 2024 First Nations fellowships. The five successful applicants (and their manuscripts) are: Sharleigh Crittenden for ‘The Children Nobody...

Aotearoa research grants announced

Wednesday, 21 August 2024
The 2024 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa PEN NZ Inc (NZSA) Research Grants have been awarded to four writers....

Steger among staff to leave Age/SMH

Wednesday, 21 August 2024
The books editor at the Age and Sydney Morning Herald, Jason Steger, is among dozens of journalists leaving the newspapers, reports the Guardian. The Guardian stated that up to 85...

Publishers welcome Australian owner for Booktopia

Wednesday, 21 August 2024
Publishers have welcomed the sale of Booktopia to Shant Kradjian, the owner of electronics retailer digiDirect, who has been meeting with publishers and authors to discuss the bookseller’s future and...

A&U acquires Caro novel ‘Lyrebird’

Wednesday, 21 August 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Lyrebird, the second adult novel by Jane Caro, in a deal brokered by Jacinta di Mase Management. In the novel, no...

Readings New Australian Fiction Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 21 August 2024
Readings has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Readings New Australian Fiction Prize. This year’s six shortlisted books are: Thanks for Having Me (Emma Darragh, Joan) Ghost Cities (Siang Lu,...

Transit Lounge acquires Everly-Wilson novel

Tuesday, 20 August 2024
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to The Maskeys, a new novel from Stuart Everly-Wilson. Publisher Barry Scott described the novel as ‘brimming with wit and pathos’. ‘Set in the...

Eitel takes over Imprints Booksellers

Tuesday, 20 August 2024
Jason Lake and Katherine Woehlert, former owners of Adelaide bookstore Imprints Booksellers, have sold the business to Amelia Eitel. Eitel told InReview that taking over the bookshop was ‘very much...

McGrathNicol confirms Booktopia sale

Monday, 19 August 2024
The administrators of online bookseller Booktopia—McGrathNicol partners Keith Crawford, Matthew Caddy and Damien Pasfield—have confirmed the sale of Booktopia’s business and related assets to the owner of Australian consumer electronics...

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