Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Jessica Pearce has joined Black Inc. in the newly created role of publicist. Pearce previously worked for Cambridge University Press in the role of development editor. (See classifieds.)

Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Brigid Mullane has been appointed as the new editor of Melbourne-based literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD). Mullane has been deputy editor of KYD since mid-2013, having previously worked in...

Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Random House Australia has announced that Western Australian account manager Laurie Smith will retire from the company in February. Smith has worked as a sales representative for Transworld and Random...

Friday, 17 January 2014
Peter Saffin has been appointed as the new managing director of Macmillan Education Australia. Saffin has been promoted from his previous role as general manager of secondary at Macmillan Education...

Friday, 17 January 2014
Philip Gwyn Jones has been appointed to the newly created role of editor-at-large at Scribe Publications UK. Gwyn Jones, who is the former executive publisher of Portobello Books and Granta...

Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Patrick Gregory has been appointed as the new director of the Northern Territory Library. Gregory, who will begin in the role on 24 February, replaces Jo McGill who has been...

Friday, 10 January 2014
Patrick Lenton has joined Pan Macmillan digital imprint Momentum in the newly created role of digital marketing assistant. Lenton has previously worked for Allen & Unwin in the role of...

Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Bhakthi Puvanenthiran has been appointed deputy arts editor of the Age, replacing Dewi Cooke, who is currently on maternity leave. Puvanenthiran has worked as a radio producer and broadcaster for...

Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Susan Dunne has joined the Ingram Content Group in the role of senior key accounts sales manager for Lightning Source Australia. Dunne, who started in the role in December 2013,...

Monday, 6 January 2014
Georgina Russell has been appointed as the new marketing and development manager for the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), replacing Collette Stewart. Russell, who began in the role in December 2013,...

Friday, 20 December 2013
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has appointed Emile Sherman and Kathy Shand to the festival’s board of directors for three-year terms. The festival has also appointed Charis Holt to the...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Haylee Nash has been appointed to the newly created role of commissioning editor of fiction at Pan Macmillan. Nash, who begins in the role on 16 December, was publishing manager...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Tracy Strudley, sales and marketing director of New Zealand educational publishing company Global Education Systems, has been elected to the council of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ). Strudley...

Monday, 9 December 2013
Alexa Burnell has resigned from her position as sales and marketing manager of Inbooks, the trade division of James Bennett. Burnell, who has worked for the company for 10 years,...

Thursday, 5 December 2013
Elissa Baillie will join Simon & Schuster Australia in January in the role of sales director. Baillie currently works in sales for Penguin US and has previously worked for Random...

Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Rachael McDiarmid, publisher relations and marketing communications manager, and Malcolm O’Brien, sales representative, have left library supplier James Bennett. See classifieds for contact details.

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Former Small Press Network (SPN) president Emmett Stinson has stepped down from the SPN board. The board’s current president/chair is Nathan Hollier, who took over from Zoe Dattner earlier this year....

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Anthony McKenney and Nerida Fearnley-Gill have joined Taylor & Francis in newly created positions ahead of the publisher’s launch of a local Books division in 2014. McKenney has been appointed...

Wednesday, 6 November 2013
At Allen & Unwin, Tom Gilliatt, Pan Macmillan’s director of nonfiction publishing and digital-only imprint Momentum, has been appointed publishing director, and will join the company in January. A&U publishing director...

Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Daniel Jordon has resigned as CEO of Collins Booksellers to take up a position with the Howards Storage World Franchise Group. Collins Booksellers chairman Duncan Johnston and chief financial officer...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Ernie Mason, owner of Ernie Mason em Book Marketing Services and former managing director of Century Hutchinson Australia and Random House Australia, has announced his retirement. (See news.)

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Jenny Niven, associate director of the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, has been appointed as head of literature, languages and publishing at Creative Scotland, reports the Age. Niven, who joined the...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Kate Blackwood has been promoted to editor of Books+Publishing’s Junior magazine and newsletter. Blackwood joined Books+Publishing as an editorial assistant at the start of 2013. (See news.) 

Wednesday, 23 October 2013
April Murdoch has been appointed as the new manager of the Faber Academy at Allen & Unwin. Murdoch, who is currently communications manager for the academy, will begin in the...

Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Kate Callingham will join the Emerging Writers’ Festival this month in the newly created position of general manager. Callingham has previously worked in a development role at the Melbourne Writers...

Monday, 21 October 2013
Edwina Johnson has been appointed as the new director of the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival and the Northern Rivers Writers’ Centre, which stages the festival. Johnson, who is currently manager of...

Tuesday, 8 October 2013
At Walker Books, Melissa Keown has moved into a new position, taking on responsibility for sales of all Walker Books UK, Candlewick Press and Walker Books Australia English-language editions in...

Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Katherine Shanks has recently joined the Publishers Association of New Zealand in the role of membership services manager. Shanks, who has previously worked for Anne Geddes Publishing and Hodder Children’s...

Monday, 7 October 2013
Hachette Australia has appointed Sean Cotcher to the new role of head of field sales following the company’s recently announced restructure. Cotcher has seven years’ experience as national account manager...