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S&S acquires Reid debut novel

Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia has acquired world rights to a debut novel by Teela Reid, a Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman and co-founder of Instagram account @Blackfulla_Bookclub, via Jane Novak. Legally...

Echo to publish new Morris novel in two-book deal

Monday, 6 March 2023
Echo Publishing’s parent company has acquired world all-language rights to Heather Morris’s forthcoming novel Sisters under the Rising Sun. Margaret Stead, publisher at Zaffre and Manilla Press at Bonnier UK,...

‘Grimmish’ removed from Christina Stead shortlist

Monday, 6 March 2023
The novel Grimmish, self-published by author Michael Winkler in 2021 and published by Puncher & Wattmann in 2022, has been removed from the shortlist for the Christina Stead prize for...

‘All That’s Left Unsaid’ wins 2023 MUD Literary Prize

Monday, 6 March 2023
Tracey Lien’s novel All That’s Left Unsaid (HarperCollins) has won the sixth annual MUD Literary Prize. Presented each year for the best debut literary novel by an Australian writer, the...

Walker Books to distribute Knights Of

Friday, 3 March 2023
Walker Books will be the Australian distributor for London-based independent publishing house Knights Of from August this year. Founded in 2017, Knights Of set out to address the lack of...

Stella Prize 2023 longlist announced: ‘pathos, rage, and wild, joyful swagger’

Thursday, 2 March 2023
The longlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced. The longlisted books are: The Furies (Mandy Beaumont, Hachette) Every Version of You (Grace Chan,...

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced

Thursday, 2 March 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Changes to the awards this year include the $30,000 Indigenous Writers’ Prize now being offered annually; the...

Canberra Writers Festival appoints Silcox as artistic director

Thursday, 2 March 2023
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) has appointed Canberra-based writer and critic Beejay Silcox as its incoming artistic director. Silcox is well-known as a moderator for interviews, book launches and writers’ festivals....

PRH US re-organises divisions, personnel

Thursday, 2 March 2023
In the US, Penguin Random House has undergone a company-wide reorganisation, reports Publishers Weekly. As well as a number of personnel changes among executives, the Random House adult publishing division...

CBCA 2023 Notable Books announced

Wednesday, 1 March 2023
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its list of Notable Books for 2023. The list acts as the longlist for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards....

Booktopia half-year revenue, earnings down, new CFC to open in November

Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Booktopia’s revenue for the six months to 31 December was down 15.3% while earnings dropped 67.7% compared to the corresponding period last financial year. Revenue fell to $110.08 million from...

Kat Muscat Fellowship 2023 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Express Media and the Kat Muscat Fellowship Committee have announced the shortlist for the 2023 Kat Muscat Fellowship, which offers support and development to a young Australian writer or editor...

B D Lovell recommends

Tuesday, 28 February 2023
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker (Scribner) is probably the last book that I really loved, even though I read it several years ago. It is a YA...

B D Lovell on ‘Between Worlds’

Tuesday, 28 February 2023
B D Lovell's new speculative verse novel Between Worlds (UWAP) follows Earth's first mission to begin the process of colonising Mars. Our reviewer Stefen Brazulaitis says this 'tale of space exploration...

S&S Australia acquires Ho debut nonfiction

Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to the debut nonfiction work by writer and influencer Alyssa Ho. Ho began writing publicly for her blog after finishing high...

Writers SA launches Writers in Schools program

Tuesday, 28 February 2023
South Australian writers will be embedded in outer suburban and regional South Australian public high schools, as part of Writers SA’s Writers in Schools program. As part of the program,...

BA survey reveals bookselling demographics

Tuesday, 28 February 2023
In the UK, findings from the Booksellers Association’s (BA) inaugural Workforce Diversity Survey have revealed the demographics of the bookselling workforce, reports the Bookseller. The anonymous online survey of 185...

US publishing sales down 6.4%: AAP

Monday, 27 February 2023
US publishers’ sales fell 6.4% in 2022, according to the latest data from the Association of American Publisher’s StatShot program, reports Publishers Weekly. Sales totalled US$12.6 billion (A$18.7b) from the 1372 publishers...