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Davitt Awards 2023 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 26 July 2023
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the shortlists for the 2023 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult novel Release...

Chandran wins 2023 Miles Franklin for ‘Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens’

Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Shankari Chandran has won the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for her novel, Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Ultimo). Chosen from a shortlist of six announced in June,...

PANZ Book Design Awards 2023 finalists announced

Tuesday, 25 July 2023
The finalists for the 2023 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. Finalists were announced in 10 categories including: Best Illustrated Book Cape to Bluff (Simon...

Hachette acquires new series from Buist and Simsion

Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ and US rights to Out of the Blue by Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion in a two-book deal between the authors and Hachette’s head of...

Kathro joins Affirm as marketing manager

Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Affirm Press has appointed Julia Kathro to the role of marketing manager. Kathro replaces acting marketing manager Paul Kenny, who will continue in his role as product and data manager....

NZ book trade awards: Lamplight wins Bookshop of the Year, A&U wins Publisher of the Year

Monday, 24 July 2023
The winners of the Aotearoa Book Trade Industry Awards, held 24 July in Rotorua, have been announced. Auckland bookstore Lamplight Books won the Bookshop of the Year award. Judges described...

Shaw wins 2023 Michael Gifkins prize

Monday, 24 July 2023
Author and editor Tina Shaw has been awarded the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished manuscript by an Aotearoa New Zealand writer. Chosen from a shortlist of five, Shaw wins...

Classification Review Board upholds determination on ‘Gender Queer’

Friday, 21 July 2023
The Australian Classification Review Board has rejected an appeal to the classification of the graphic novel Gender Queer: A memoir (Maia Kobabe, Oni Press), upholding its determination that the book...

Harris leaves PRH

Friday, 21 July 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) publishing director young readers Laura Harris has chosen to leave the company. Her decision to leave came following a review of the publisher’s local children’s...

Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2023 longlist announced

Thursday, 20 July 2023
The longlist for the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, which has increased in value to $30,000 and is administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James...

Hodge awarded 2023 Marion fellowship

Thursday, 20 July 2023
Lardil and Yangkaal writer Maya Hodge has been awarded the inaugural Marion fellowship for 2023, the ACT writing organisation has announced. Marion said Hodge’s ‘writing practice is not just a...

Additional funding for Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter program

Thursday, 20 July 2023
The Wheeler Centre has received $30,000 in funding for the Next Chapter writing development program from the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. The funding will specifically support Australian poets and poetry, allowing...

Over 300 attendees for 2023 BookPeople conference; 2024 conference to be held in Melbourne

Wednesday, 19 July 2023
More than 300 delegates, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors attended the BookPeople conference and trade exhibition held in Adelaide on 18–19 June 2023, including over 140 bookshop and library delegates. BookPeople...

Big W pulls ‘Welcome to Sex’ from physical stores

Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Big W will stop selling the book Welcome to Sex: Your no-silly-questions guide to sexuality, pleasure and figuring it out (Melissa Kang & Yumi Stynes, HGCP) in physical stores, following...

Pantera acquires Matthiesson debut

Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights to debut novel Together We Fall Apart by Sophie Matthiesson from Clare Forster at Curtis Brown. The publisher described the debut as 'a compelling...

Local authors affected by late cancellation of Asian American Literature Festival

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
A delegation of 10 Australian and New Zealand writers that were due to attend the Asian American Literature Festival in the United States in August have been informed the event...

Hore wins inaugural Marilyn Lake Prize

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Academic Jarrod Hore has won the inaugural $2000 Marilyn Lake Prize for Australian Transnational History for Visions of Nature: How landscape photography shaped settler colonialism (University of California Press). Judges...

UQP acquires creative nonfiction work by Holland-Batt

Monday, 17 July 2023
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to an as yet untitled 'brave, moving work' of creative nonfiction from Stella Prize winner Sarah Holland-Batt, from Clare Forster...

National Biography Award 2023 shortlist announced

Monday, 17 July 2023
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the $25,000 National Biography Award. The shortlisted works, selected from 94 entries, are: Unknown: A refugee’s story...

Pantera acquires Daddo nonfiction book on confidence

Friday, 14 July 2023
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to a nonfiction book by actor, presenter and singer-songwriter Cameron Daddo via Cathy Baker at CMC Talent Management. Part memoir and part roadmap to...

‘Paper Cage’ sells to UK, US

Thursday, 13 July 2023
Rights to Michael Gifkins Prize-winning novel Paper Cage (Tom Baragwanath, Text) have been sold to the US and UK, reports the Bookseller. In the UK the book will be published...

Murdoch appointed PANZ president

Wednesday, 12 July 2023
The Publishers Association of New Zealand/Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) has appointed a new president and vice president and two new council members at its annual general meeting. Penguin Random...

Affirm signs Tuohy memoir

Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a memoir by AFL Geelong Cats defender Zach Tuohy, to be co-written by ABC sports journalist Catherine Murphy. Tuohy, who has played 120...

Groom appointed Writing NSW CEO

Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Writing NSW has announced the appointment of Sophie Groom as CEO, replacing Jane McCredie who announced earlier this year that she would be leaving the organisation in July. Groom's experience...

Hachette withdraws memoir after police raise concerns about accuracy

Tuesday, 11 July 2023
The memoir Special Operations Group by retired former member of the Victoria Police Special Operations Group (SOG) Christophe Glasl has been withdrawn from publication by Hachette Australia after Victoria Police raised...

Project to examine role of digital media in promoting women writers

Monday, 10 July 2023
A research project investigating the role of digital media in promoting Australian women authors has received funding in the latest round of Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project grants, which promote partnerships between researchers...

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