UQP acquires new O’Keeffe novel
Friday, 10 February 2023
UQP has acquired world rights to The Sitter, a new novel by Angela O’Keeffe, from Shaw Literary. Described by the publisher as ‘startlingly accomplished and multilayered’, The Sitter is about...
Reid steps down at PRH
Thursday, 9 February 2023
Karen Reid has resigned from Penguin Random House (PRH) after 30 years at the company. 'Reid first joined the Transworld publicity department after a stint in bookselling and very quickly...
Varuna: $815K for new ‘accessible venue’; Arts NT fellowship recipients
Thursday, 9 February 2023
Varuna will add a new multi-purpose building to its grounds after receiving $815,827 funding for the project as part of the NSW government WestInvest Community Grants Project. Varuna said the...
Five Mile owner Regency Media appoints administrators
Thursday, 9 February 2023
Regency Media, the owner of Five Mile Press, has entered administration. Regency Media managing director Fiona Horman told Books+Publishing the company has entered voluntary administration and is 'continuing to operate...
Kenny joins Affirm Press; Stannard completes sales team
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Affirm Press has announced Paul Kenny has joined the company on a permanent basis. Kenny takes on the new role of product and data manager and will also fill the...
AWW 2023 program released; short story fest 2023 dates
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Adelaide Writers Week (AWW) has announced the full program for its 2023 festival, which includes a total of 160 literary guests and 130 sessions across six days from Saturday, 4...
Huntley to leave Booktopia
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Booktopia head of customer experience Alex Huntley is leaving his role after almost a decade with the business. 'I’ve chosen to say goodbye as part of Booktopia’s sad but necessary...
Higgins joins Hardie Grant as interim sales director
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Sophie Higgins has joined Hardie Grant as interim sales director, taking over from Julia Kumschick who departed at the end of January for a yearlong sabbatical and will return to...
The Paperback Bookshop under new ownership
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
The Paperback Bookshop, located in Melbourne’s CBD, has been sold by Rosy and Bill Morton after 23 years of ownership. Anna MacDonald took over management on 1 January 2023, after...
NewSouth acquires Tan debut essay collection
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
NewSouth has acquired world rights to Cher Tan’s debut essay collection Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging, which blends ‘cultural criticism, experimental writing, autotheory, (inter)net writing and literary memoir’, according to the...
Hardie Grant acquires Wong and Kong’s ‘Chopsticks or Fork?’
Monday, 6 February 2023
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world print and ebook rights to Chopsticks or Fork? by Jennifer Wong and Lin Jie Kong in a deal negotiated by Benython Oldfield of the...
Clunes 2023 program announced
Monday, 6 February 2023
Clunes Booktown festival has announced its ‘biggest program yet’ for the 2023 event to take place on the weekend of 25 and 26 March in Clunes, Victoria. Sessions programmed include...
Arnott longlisted for 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize
Friday, 3 February 2023
Tasmanian writer Robbie Arnott has been longlisted for Swansea University's Dylan Thomas Prize, awarded for the best literary work published in English and written by an author aged 39 or...
ANZ authors among Dublin Literary Award longlistees
Friday, 3 February 2023
Several books by Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the €100,000 (A$155,000) International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work...
Au wins 2023 Victorian Prize for Literature at VPLAs
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Jessica Au has won Australia’s single richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, for her novel Cold Enough for Snow (Giramondo), at this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards...
Booktopia secures funding for new CFC
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Booktopia has announced it has secured funding for the development of its planned new customer fulfilment centre (CFC) at South Strathfield. The online retailer says it has finalised a $12...
Ockham NZ Book Awards 2023 longlists announced
Thursday, 2 February 2023
The longlists for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction Better the Blood (Michael...
Echo acquires Murphy debut novel ‘That is All’
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to debut novel That is All by Liam Murphy via the NAC Literary Agency. The novel follows young Australian Mark Ward’s quest for redemption...
De Kretser shortlisted for 2023 Folio Prize
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Michelle de Kretser has been shortlisted for the UK’s Rathbones Folio Prize. De Kretser is shortlisted in the fiction category for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U). The titles shortlisted for...
PRH acquires Rieden bio of Quentin Bryce
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to an authorised biography of Quentin Bryce by Juliet Rieden in a deal agented by Fiona Inglis at Curtis Brown. The...
Q-Lit Queer Festival of Words launched in Vic; Byron Writers Fest dates, new location
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
A new festival for queer readers and writers has been established in Victoria, funded by Midsumma, Victoria's Pride and the Victorian government's Department of Families, Fairness and Housing. Q-Lit Queer...
Writers Australia to deliver PMLAs, establish poet laureate
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
The federal government has announced further detail about Writers Australia, the literature funding body to be established as part of the government’s new Revive policy, which has been broadly welcomed...
Richell to S&S in six-figure pre-empt
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired a new novel by Hannah Richell, The Search Party, and a further untitled novel in a six-figure pre-emptive deal struck with Sarah Lutyens and...
Revive policy promises ebook, audio lending rights; new writers’ funding body
Monday, 30 January 2023
The federal government will announce an expansion of the lending rights scheme to compensate creators for ebook and audiobook library borrowings when it launches its national cultural policy today, reports...
Brett, Byrski, Hocking among Australia Day honours
Friday, 27 January 2023
A number of authors and book industry figures have been recognised in the annual Australia Day honours. Judith Brett, emeritus professor of politics at La Trobe University and the author...
Runcie departs BWF, Ryan appointed artistic director
Friday, 27 January 2023
Brisbane Writers Festival has announced CEO Sarah Runcie will depart the organisation, while Jackie Ryan has been appointed artistic director. Runcie joined the festival in mid-2020, helming the 2021 event...
New UQP initiative seeking titles on sustainability
Wednesday, 25 January 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has announced Stories for the Future, a new initiative which aims to seek out new titles that advocate for environmental sustainability. Driven by UQP editors...
Daleng leaves Booktopia
Wednesday, 25 January 2023
Booktopia chief marketing officer (CMO) Steffen Daleng will leave the company as part of a restructure that will see 30–40 redundancies made. Daleng leaves after four-and-a-half years in the role....
Online Storytime program ends; 12 most recorded books
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
The Online Storytime program, which launched as a pilot program in 2020 and was extended a further 12 months to December 2022, has ended. The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA),...
Redundancies at Booktopia as company looks to lift profits
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Booktopia has announced an organisational restructure involving 30–40 redundancies, as the company looks to make an improvement to its earnings. The restructure is one of several initiatives that Booktopia expects...
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