Ferguson to depart PANZ, join Auckland Writers Festival
Monday, 15 January 2024
Catriona Ferguson has resigned as director of the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) after six years in the role. In a message announcing the move,...
2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship shortlist announced
Thursday, 11 January 2024
Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. The shortlist includes nine writers: Carolyn Dowley (WA), ‘for a biography of Sadie Canning, a Wongutha woman,...
Larrikin House acquires Harry, Foster junior fiction
Thursday, 11 January 2024
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to a junior fiction text titled Camp Spook: Attack of the Aliants! co-authored by Pip Harry and Kate Foster. In this book, 10-year-old Julia...
100 Story Building among Creative Ventures Program recipients
Wednesday, 10 January 2024
The 100 Story Building in Footscray, Victoria, is among the funding recipients of the Creative Ventures Program, a Creative Victoria program that provides two-year grants to small creative organisations. The program...
Literary orgs, projects among Create NSW funding recipients
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
Several literary organisations and projects are among the successful applicants for the first round of Create NSW’s Arts and Cultural Funding Program (ACFP) for 2023/24. Included in the ACFP are...
APA announces 2024 REP editors
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the 15 editors selected for the 2024 Residential Editorial Program (REP), an intensive program for mid-career editors to work on an unpublished manuscript...
Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Monday, 8 January 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poems are: ‘Poem of the Dead Woman’ by Judith Nangala Crispin (NSW) ‘Immigration Triction’...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 19 December 2023
The Wheeler Centre has announced the 2024 shortlists for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. In each category, the shortlists and highly commended titles are: Fiction ($25,000) But the Girl (Jessica...
Murphy awarded 2024 Peter Blazey Fellowship
Friday, 15 December 2023
Author, editor and accessibility consultant Fiona Murphy has won the 2024 Peter Blazey Fellowship. Murphy will use the fellowship to work on her second book, 'Livelihood', a narrative nonfiction essay...
Eli Nacson to become COO at Hay House Australia following acquisition
Friday, 15 December 2023
Hay House Australia's operations will continue as normal following the acquisition of the publisher by Penguin Random House (PRH), according to managing director Leon Nacson. Nacson told Books+Publishing that the...
Australian market down 3% in value YTD, adult fiction strong
Friday, 15 December 2023
Nielsen BookScan reports that this year to date (YTD), to the week ending 9 December, the Australian Book Market overall declined (-3%) in value on the same time as a...
UQP becomes ‘carbon positive’ through reduction and offsets
Thursday, 14 December 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has announced it has become 'carbon positive' this year, through making operational changes to reduce carbon emissions and offsetting the carbon it produces directly. 'We...
ASA 2023 survey results: Earnings ‘perilously low’, rising royalty agreements increase
Thursday, 14 December 2023
The 2023 Australian Society of Authors (ASA) survey of members has found 'a trend towards authors being paid a rising royalty in their publishing agreements', with 40% of respondents indicating...
Creative Australia funds literature organisations and individuals
Thursday, 14 December 2023
Creative Australia has announced the Four Year Investment for Organisations program for 2025–2028. Among the 159 organisations in Creative Australia’s multi-year investment, 14 literature organisations are listed. Creative Australia also...
Hoskins wins 2023 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize
Thursday, 14 December 2023
Academic and public historian Ian Hoskins has won the 2023 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize for his book Australia and the Pacific: A history (NewSouth). Australia and the...
PRH acquires Hay House
Thursday, 14 December 2023
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced the acquisition of mind, body, spirit publisher Hay House. PRH, which did not disclose terms of the acquisition, said Hay House would 'retain its...
UWAP acquires Polimeni junior fiction series
Thursday, 14 December 2023
UWAP has acquired ANZ rights to a four-book junior fiction series, Ella and the Frogs, from Cassy Polimeni. The forthcoming series is for early readers aged five to eight years,...
Alice to depart Writers SA
Thursday, 14 December 2023
Writers SA has announced that CEO Jessica Alice will depart the organisation in early 2024. Alice was appointed as CEO of Writers SA in 2018. Programs and initiatives commenced during...
Local creators nominated for 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Four local authors, illustrators and organisations have been announced as candidates for the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s richest prize for children’s literature. The Australian candidates are: Ursula...
HarperCollins acquires Katherine Collette duology
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Shellsville, a duology for early middle-grade readers by Katherine Collette, via Danielle Binks and Jacinta di Mase of Jacinta di Mase Management. Described by...
APA, ASA welcome establishment of copyright and AI reference group
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
The Australian Publishers Association (APA), Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and the Copyright Agency are among an 'alliance' of 22 organisations to welcome the announcement by Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus that...
Wiley acquires Dalla-Camina nonfiction book
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Wiley has acquired world rights to a nonfiction title from Megan Dalla-Camina, titled Women Rising, via Lou Johnson at Key People Literary Management. The publisher described the title as ‘the...
Werner Film Productions options Legge memoir screen rights
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Werner Film Productions (WFP) has optioned the screen rights to Kate Legge’s memoir Infidelity & Other Affairs, in a deal negotiated by Thames & Hudson (T&H) Australia on behalf of...
Transit Lounge acquires Goldsmith novel
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Andrea Goldsmith’s novel The Buried Life, via the Jane Novak Literary Agency. Publisher Barry Scott said the book ‘subtly portrays the dangers of...
Text acquires Richardson’s ‘The Degenerates’
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Text Publishing has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to a debut novel by Melbourne writer Raeden Richardson, via Peggy Boulos Smith at Writers House. Following the interconnected lives...
Text acquires Carlyle’s ‘No One Will Know’
Monday, 11 December 2023
Text Publishing has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to the new novel No One Will Know by Rose Carlyle, via Jenny Meyer. No One Will Know is a...
Writers Victoria announces 2023 Writeability fellows
Monday, 11 December 2023
Writers Victoria has announced the 2023 Writeability fellowship recipients. This year’s recipients are: Grace Hall for ‘Off Track’, ‘a young adult novel exploring how physical pain changes a person’s world’...
Pan Macmillan acquires Hardcastle novel
Monday, 11 December 2023
Pan Macmillan has acquired ANZ rights to the novel A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle, via Zeitgeist Agency’s Benython Oldfield, who has also sold North American rights to the...
Magabala announces annual fellowship, creative development grants and scholarship recipients
Monday, 11 December 2023
Magabala Books has announced the 15 First Nations creators who will receive the publisher's annual fellowship, scholarships and Australian Indigenous Coffee (AIC) Creative Development Grants, sharing in over $65,000 of...
Curry launches VenX self-publishing business, partners with IPEd
Monday, 11 December 2023
Jane Curry, founder of independent book publisher Ventura Press, has established 'digital sibling' VenX, a membership-based digital community for writers that provides self-publishing options. Curry told Books+Publishing the idea for...
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