Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Penguin Random House has appointed Margaret Thompson to the newly created position of managing director of Penguin Random House New Zealand. Thompson was previously managing director of Penguin New Zealand....

Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Auckland University Press sales and marketing manager Christine O’Brien has left the company to ‘pursue new opportunities’.

Monday, 28 April 2014
Theresa Bray has been appointed as marketing manager, books for children and young adults, at Allen & Unwin. Bray was formerly marketing and publicity manager at Hachette Children’s Books.

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Author, critic and lecturer Patrick Allington has been appointed book reviews editor at Transnational Literature, a digital journal published by the Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities at Flinders University...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Writer, editor and arts worker Chad Parkhill has joined the Emerging Writers’ Festival as programming coordinator for the 2014 festival. Parkhill was festival manager for the 2013 National Young Writers’...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Susan Hornbeck has replaced Erica Sontheimer as associate publisher at the Griffith REVIEW. Hornbeck was previously a publicist for UQP and was formerly publicity manager at Scribe Publications. Sontheimer has...

Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Anne Matiszik has replaced Renée Hodson as national buyer of books, audio and magazines at ABC Retail. (See news.)

Monday, 31 March 2014
Anna Moulton has been appointed the new CEO of Magabala Books. She replaces former CEO Michelle Broun, who left the position in October 2013. (See news.)

Wednesday, 26 March 2014
The editorial team that produces the Weekly Book Newsletter, Books+Publishing Daily newsletter and Books+Publishing magazine is undergoing some changes. News editor Eloise Keating is leaving the team to take up...

Wednesday, 26 March 2014
RMIT Publishing editorial specialist Joseph Gelfer has left the organisation after six years. Gelfer’s role included managing the RMIT University Press imprint and product development for the Informit Collection databases.

Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Scribe Publications has announced that Jenny Grigg has joined the company in the role of art director, replacing Miriam Rosenbloom who has commenced maternity leave. (See classifieds.)

Wednesday, 12 March 2014
University of Southern Queensland vice-chancellor Jan Thomas has been appointed as the new chair of the Library Board of Queensland, replacing Roly Sussex, who will continue to serve on the...

Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Chris Sims has joined Hachette Australia in the role of national account manager for Hodder, Headline and Children’s. Sims, who previously worked for Allen & Unwin, replaces Kate Flood, who...

Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Rosalind McClintock has joined Affirm Press in the newly created role of publicist. McClintock was previously publicity manager at Hardie Grant Books and has been working as a freelance publicist...

Friday, 7 March 2014
Geordie Williamson, chief literary critic at the Australian, has joined Island magazine in the role of fiction editor. (See news.)

Wednesday, 5 March 2014
At Simon & Schuster, Anna O’Grady has been appointed marketing and publicity manager, replacing Greg Tilney; Georgina Rhodes has been appointed to the newly created position of national accounts manager—business development;...

Wednesday, 5 March 2014
The Bookshop Darwin is relocating from its current address at Shop T18, The Galleria, Smith Street, Darwin. The store will re-open on 10 March at 1/30 Smith Street Mall, Darwin.

Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Express Media has announced that Elizabeth Flux has been appointed as the new editor of the Voiceworks journal. Flux will start in the position in mid-March, replacing previous editor Kat...

Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Teacher and Indigenous education specialist Sharon Galleguillos has joined the board of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF), replacing Martin Nakata who has finished his directorship. (See news.)

Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Chren Byng has been promoted to the role of associate publisher of ABC Children’s Books at HarperCollins Australia. Byng, who has worked for HarperCollins in a number of roles since...

Friday, 14 February 2014
Jennifer Kean has joined The Five Mile Press as publicist for the publisher’s young adult imprint, Hot Key Books. Kean, who was previously publicity manager at Hardie Grant Egmont, replaces Sandra Edmunds...

Monday, 10 February 2014
Te Papa Press publisher Claire Murdoch has joined the council of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ). Murdoch, who will take on the newly created Communications and Networking portfolio,...

Friday, 7 February 2014
Murray St Leger has been appointed chief executive of the Copyright Agency. St Leger is a former managing director of McGraw-Hill Australia and former president of the Australian Publishers Association....

Thursday, 30 January 2014
Rachael McDiarmid has joined library and schools supplier Wheelers Books in the newly created position of publisher and partner manager. McDiarmid previously worked for library supplier James Bennett for close...

Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Good Reading has appointed Robert Kennedy as advertising sales manager for Good Reading, SpineOut and PK. Angus Dalton has also been appointed as editorial assistant.

Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Malcolm O’Brien has been appointed NSW, QLD and NT territory manager for Wavesound. O’Brien joins Wavesound from James Bennett, where he was a sales representative. (See classifieds.)

Friday, 24 January 2014
Helen Withycombe has joined the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne in the role of programming coordinator. Withycombe, who started in the role earlier this month, joins...