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Mascara to publish print anthology with Ultimo 

mascara logo Tuesday, 8 February 2022
To celebrate its 15th year, Mascara Literary Review will publish its first print anthology, in partnership with Ultimo Press and with support from Creative Victoria and the Australia Council for...

Webb-Pullman to become Scribe publisher 

Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Scribe associate publisher Marika Webb-Pullman has been promoted to the position of publisher, with Scribe founder and publisher Henry Rosenbloom to become publisher-in-chief. Webb-Pullman, who was made a Frankfurt Fellow...

Ena Noël Award 2022 shortlist announced

Friday, 4 February 2022
IBBY Australia has announced the shortlist for the biennial Ena Noël Award for a young emerging writer or illustrator. The shortlisted writers and illustrators are: Freda Chiu, A Trip to...

Gorrie wins 2022 Victorian Prize for Literature

Friday, 4 February 2022
Veronica Gorrie has won Australia’s richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, for her debut memoir Black and Blue: A memoir of racism and resilience (Scribe), at the...

Affirm acquires personal finance book for women 

Thursday, 3 February 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Girls Just Want to Have Funds, a personal finance book for women by Molly Benjamin. According to the publisher, Girls Just Want to...

Blak & Bright 2022 program announced

Thursday, 3 February 2022
The program for the 2022 Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival, running 17–20 March in Naarm (Melbourne), has been announced. The program includes 27 events featuring over 67 guests...

VUP changes name to Te Herenga Waka University Press

Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Victoria University Press has changed its name to Te Herenga Waka University Press as of 1 January 2022. The university-affiliated publisher changed its name to align with Te Herenga Waka—Victoria...

WAYRBA 2022 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 1 February 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category, including middle-grade, which is a new category being trialled...

QBD launches dedicated manga website 

Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Australian bookselling chain QBD Books has launched a dedicated manga online shop. Sales of manga from all publisher groups more than doubled in Australia in 2021 both in volume and...

Matilda Bookshop announces new residency for SA writers

Monday, 31 January 2022
Matilda Bookshop in the Adelaide Hills, in partnership with Writers SA and Ultimo Press, has announced a new annual residency fellowship for a South Australian writer, the Deep Creek Residency...

Semi Permanent adds book fair 

Monday, 31 January 2022
Prominent art and design fair Semi Permanent has announced it will this year feature an art and design book fair. The inaugural book fair, to be called Permanent, will run...

Adelaide Writers’ Week announces full 2022 program

Friday, 28 January 2022
Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) has announced the full program for the 2022 festival, which includes a total of 165 guests appearing across six days from Saturday 5 to Thursday 10...

Ockham NZ Book Awards 2022 longlists announced

Thursday, 27 January 2022
The longlists for the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction A Good Winter (Gigi Fenster,...

Tilsley, authors among Order of Australia recipients

Thursday, 27 January 2022
Long-time owner of Fullers Bookshop in Tasmania Clive Tilsley, writers Alice Pung and Lynne Kelly, and cookbook author Maggie Beer are among those to be recognised in the General Division...

Ultimo acquires standalone Gentill novel 

Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to a new contemporary crime novel by Sulari Gentill, The Woman in the Library, in a deal brokered by Anna Carmichael of Abner Stein....

Booktopia announces FAB shortlist, two new awards

Booktopia logo Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Booktopia has announced the 10 titles shortlisted in its Favourite Australian Book (FAB) Award, which according to the online retailer has already attracted more than 100,000 votes. Established in 2019,...

BRTD workers, management sign enterprise agreement 

Friday, 21 January 2022
Workers and management at Sydney bookshop Better Read Than Dead (BRTD), in the inner-west suburb of Newtown, have signed an enterprise agreement, which on Wednesday was submitted for approval by...

Lawrence wins 2022 Peter Porter Poetry Prize

Friday, 21 January 2022
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced Anthony Lawrence as the winner of the 2022 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for his poem ‘In the Shadows of Our Heads'. Lawrence receives...