Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Anna Burkey will join the State Library of Victoria as reader development and offsite programs manager this month. Burkey has relocated to Melbourne from Edinburgh, Scotland, where she was communications...

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Former Byron Bay Writers’ Festival (BBWF) director Jeni Caffin will return to the festival as director in November. Caffin, who has spend the past two years with the Ubud Writers...

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Hachette Australia has announced that CEO Malcolm Edwards will retire at the end of 2013. Edwards will retire from his roles in a number of stages and will be succeeded...

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Stirling Wright has joined Hinkler Books as NSW Trade Sales Representative. Wright has previously worked for Seekmedia, Next Chapter Books and as NSW Trade Representative for Pan Macmillan.

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Christine Farmer will finish in her role as publicity and communications director for HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand this month, following an amalgamation of the publisher’s publicity and marketing divisions....

Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Foreign language book distributor Intext Book Company has moved from its location on Lynch Street in Hawthorn, Melbourne, to new premises on Station Street, Kew. The company’s retail division Language...

Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Michael Allara has finished in his role as general manager of ecommerce for Dymocks. Allara left the company in August to pursue other opportunities and Robert Kaldor is now overseeing the...

Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Ian Webster will step down from his role as managing director of Universal Publishers in September, but will continue his involvement with Hardie Grant Publishing as a non-executive director. Astrid...

Monday, 27 August 2012
Jemma Birrell has been appointed as the new artistic director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival, replacing Chip Rolley, who finished in the role in August. (See news).

Monday, 27 August 2012
Tyson Mackenzie has finished in the role of exports and events manager at the Australian Publishers Association (APA). Mackenzie, who replaced Kathy Fulcher in the role in 2011, has left...

Friday, 24 August 2012
Catriona Ferguson has been appointed CEO of the New Zealand Book Council and will begin in the role on 24 September. (See news).

Friday, 24 August 2012
Kate Ferguson has joined Bowker’s Australian office in the role of library sales executive. Ferguson is currently studying her librarianship and previously worked as a customer service operations coordinator for...

Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Karin Pfaff, currently digital account manager at Murdoch Books, will join HarperCollins in the role of digital business executive on 27 August.

Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Vanessa Jones has been appointed program manager at the South Australian Writers’ Centre. Jones is a freelance copywriter and author and has previously worked in marketing, project coordination, social media...

Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Outgoing director of the Emerging Writers’ Festival Lisa Dempster has been appointed director of the Melbourne Writers Festival. (See news.)

Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Lucie Pepeyan will finish in her position as national franchise manager at Collins Booksellers at the end of August. (See news).

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Nicola Robinson has joined Walker Books as editor.

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Sarah Hazelton has joined Koala Books as part-time commissioning editor.

Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Andrew McDonald will leave the position of online manager at Readings and join Overdrive Australia as business development consultant in September. (See news.)

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Text Publishing has announced a number of staff changes. Alaina Gougoulis has moved from her role in rights and administration to a newly created position in editorial and digital publishing...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Philip Jones has been appointed editor of UK trade publication the Bookseller, replacing editor-in-chief Neill Denny. Jones was previously deputy editor of the publication and editor of the Bookseller’s digital...

Monday, 30 July 2012
Hachette UK has appointed Paul Kenny to oversee its new sales office in Hong Kong as Southeast Asia sales and marketing manager. Kenny, who previously worked for Pan Macmillan in...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Varuna, the Writers’ House, has announced that CEO Lis Bastian has resigned from her position and has finished working for the centre. (See news).

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Stephen Samuel has replaced Tess Brady as the director of Clunes Booktown festival. Brady and other members of the festival team, Creative Clunes secretary Tim Hayes and deputy chair Graeme...

Monday, 23 July 2012
Giramondo has announced that Alice Grundy joined the publisher this month in the newly created role of managing editor. Grundy, who previously worked as an editor at Murdoch Books, will continue in...