Pantera acquires Sheppard adult novel
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights for Holden Sheppard’s first novel for adults, Two Kings, in a deal brokered by Gaby Naher at Left Bank Literary. Two Kings is described...
Hardie Grant acquires Petracca cookbook
Tuesday, 30 July 2024
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to AFL star and Norm Smith medallist Christian Petracca’s debut cookbook, Christian Petracca’s On Trac Cookbook. A premiership player and midfielder for the...
Ann Moyal Nonfiction Fellowship 2024 recipients announced
Monday, 29 July 2024
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the three recipients of the 2024 Ann Moyal Nonfiction Fellowship. The recipients are Anna Hickey-Moody, director of the Arts and Humanities Institute at...
Lomer wins 2024 Furphy Literary Award
Monday, 29 July 2024
Kathryn Lomer has won the $15,000 first prize in the 2024 Furphy Literary Award for the short story ‘Nothing about Kissing’. Lomer is a poet, YA author and novelist from...
QWC Varuna fellowship 2024 recipients announced
Monday, 29 July 2024
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced the recipients of its two 2024 residential fellowships to be held at Varuna, the National Writers’ House. Recipients of the 2024 fellowships are...
Weber to lead new audiobooks research project
Monday, 29 July 2024
A new research project, led by lecturer Millicent Weber at the Australian National University (ANU), will investigate ‘how audiobooks are reshaping Australian book culture, including publishing, circulation and reading practices’....
Affirm acquires three Brentos illustrated books
Monday, 29 July 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to three books by author-illustrator Brentos. Brentos' first children’s book, Australia: From dawn to dusk (Affirm), was shortlisted for the CBCA award for a...
Davitt Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Thursday, 25 July 2024
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult novels The...
Bowie, Burland and Byfield appointed to ILF board
Thursday, 25 July 2024
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced the appointment of Jillian Bowie, Julie Burland and Helene Byfield to the ILF board. Bowie is a Samsep and Zagareb woman from the...
‘Jakarda Wuka’ wins 2024 Chief Minister’s NT History Book Award
Thursday, 25 July 2024
The winner of the 2024 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory (NT) History Book Award has been announced. The winner, highly commended titles and finalists are: Winner Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories):...
Taylor & Francis AI deals to earn ‘additional royalties for authors’, ASA ‘deeply concerned’
Thursday, 25 July 2024
In announcing its 2024 half-year results, Taylor & Francis parent company Informa has confirmed it is ‘partnering with two leading AI technology companies’ in agreements that allow ‘non-exclusive access to...
Paul appointed A&U head of operations
Thursday, 25 July 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced the appointment of Jessica Paul in the newly established role of head of operations. ‘For the past three years, Jessica has been head of...
Forster to leave Curtis Brown
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
Curtis Brown has announced that senior agent Clare Forster will be leaving the company in late August ‘to pursue other interests’. Forster joined the literary agency in 2007, having previously...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2024 finalists announced
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
The finalists in the 2024 New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu Publishers Association (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Best illustrated book The...
HarperCollins acquires Price’s memoir
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s memoir Matters of the Heart, written with Sue Smethurst. Price was elected a Country Liberal Party (CLP) senator for the Northern...
Griffith Review 2024 Emerging Voices winners announced
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Griffith Review has announced the five winners of its 2024 Emerging Voices competition: Lily Holloway, Sarah Kanake, Myles McGuire, Kobi Simpson and Emily Tsokos Purtill. Holloway is a powerlifting enthusiast...
Mayne, Mansour receive $50k Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships
Monday, 22 July 2024
Poets Chloe Mayne and Sara Mansour are among the seven recipients of the 2024 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, each worth $50,000. Mayne is a poet and a current creative doctoral...
‘Untapped’ titles move to Ligature
Thursday, 18 July 2024
As the book industry awaits the outcome of the Booktopia administration process, some of the titles previously published under the online bookseller’s publishing operation have moved to the digital publishing...
SLV staff, board reportedly discussed cancelled Bootcamp writers’ political views
Thursday, 18 July 2024
State Library Victoria board members and senior staff discussed the political views of writers who were to host the library’s Teen Writing Bootcamp workshop series before the events were cancelled,...
Booktopia administrators identify $60 million in debt
Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Keith Crawford, of Booktopia administrators McGrathNicol, has told the ABC the company had identified debts of $60 million held by the online bookseller, following the first meeting of creditors on 15 July. Crawford...
‘Big Time’ sells to UK, Italy and Russia
Wednesday, 17 July 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold UK/Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to Jordan Prosser’s debut novel, Big Time, to publishing director Harriet Hirshman at Dead Ink, in a deal brokered...
Thames & Hudson to move distribution to UBD
Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Thames & Hudson (T&H) ANZ has announced it will move its Australia and New Zealand distribution from Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) to United Book Distributors (UBD) in February 2025. T&H...
Red Paper Kite for sale
Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Perth-based independent press Red Paper Kite is up for sale. Founder and publisher Sandra van Doorn told Books+Publishing the press is ‘on the cusp of a greater success’ but ‘demands a...
Melbourne Books acquires O’Connor’s ‘Bob Dylan for Beginners’
Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Chris O’Connor’s debut nonfiction music title, Bob Dylan for Beginners: You don’t need a weatherman. The publisher said Dylan has been hailed as...
Booktopia orders not being filled ahead of first meeting with creditors
Monday, 15 July 2024
The Booktopia website is not taking orders, and customers with outstanding orders will need to make a claim of debt against the company. In a circular to customers with unfulfilled...
Magabala announces new chair, board changes
Monday, 15 July 2024
Magabala Books has announced its 2024 board, with current deputy chair Steve Kinnane stepping into the role of chair, as well as three new directors joining the board. Kinnane’s new...
S&S in distribution partnership with Authors Equity
Monday, 15 July 2024
US publishing company Authors Equity has partnered with Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia for sales and distribution of its titles in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. As previously reported by...
Buchanan wins 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize
Monday, 15 July 2024
Author Jeffrey Buchanan is the winner of the 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished manuscript by an Aotearoa New Zealand writer. Chosen from a shortlist of four, Buchanan wins...
Hogan wins Mary Gilmore Award, Priest wins Magarey Medal
Thursday, 11 July 2024
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced that Dan Hogan is the winner of the 2024 Mary Gilmore Award and Ann-Marie Priest is the winner of...
Australian Jewish Book Awards adds unpublished manuscript prize
Thursday, 11 July 2024
Not-for-profit organisation Shalom Australia has announced the inaugural Australian Jewish Book Awards will include a new $4000 prize for an unpublished manuscript that engages with Jewish experience. The Award for...
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