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Reid, Ell win 2022 Anne Elder Award

Thursday, 11 May 2023
Australian Poetry has announced Harry Reid’s Leave Me Alone (Cordite Books) and Theodore Ell’s Beginning In Sight (RWP) as the joint winners of the 2022 Anne Elder Award for a first book...

Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view  

Wednesday, 10 May 2023
In part one of an edited extract from their paper Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, delivered at this year's IPEd conference, Louise Merrington AE and Tanja Gardner outline the...

New Dawn sales and distribution to Affirm 

Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Perth-based publisher New Dawn Publishing has signed a sales and distribution agreement with Affirm Press. The publisher of speculative fiction was founded in September 2021 by Dylan Ingram with an...

TikTok owner flags move into publishing

Wednesday, 10 May 2023
TikTok owner ByteDance has filed a US trademark application for a book-publishing entity called 8th Note Press, reports Business Insider. The company has also begun recruiting staff for publishing roles,...

Pulitzer Prize winners announced

Tuesday, 9 May 2023
In the US, the winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. The Pulitzer Prize for fiction was jointly awarded to Hernan Diaz and Barbara Kingsolver for Trust (Picador)...

Hollier leaves MUP 

Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) CEO Nathan Hollier has left the publisher. MUP chair Warren Bebbington told Books+Publishing that Hollier had left the publishing house in March, with chief operating officer...

Fogarty Literary Award shortlist announced

Monday, 8 May 2023
Fremantle Press has announced the shortlist for the $20,000 Fogarty Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted manuscripts are: Katherine Allum for ‘The Skeleton House’ Prema Arasu for ‘The Anatomy of...

Michael Gifkins Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Monday, 8 May 2023
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) have announced the shortlist for the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished...

Dorothy Hewett 2023 shortlist announced

Monday, 8 May 2023
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives $10,000 prize money, as well as manuscript development and a...

PRH US reportedly offers redundancy to older works

Monday, 8 May 2023
Penguin Random House US (PRH) is offering redundancy packages to employees aged 60 or older with 15 years of service or more, reports Publishers Lunch. Eligible employees have until 20...

Mary Gilmore Award 2023 shortlist announced

the ASAL logo Monday, 8 May 2023
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the shortlist for the annual Mary Gilmore Award for the best first book of poetry. The shortlisted collections are:...

A&U announces Fagan resignation 

Friday, 5 May 2023
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced publisher Kelly Fagan has resigned and will be leaving the company. In its statement announcing Fagan's resignation A&U said: 'Kelly joined A&U in October...

Arnott, Mahood win Age Book of the Year awards

Friday, 5 May 2023
The winners of the 2023 Age Book of the Year Award have been announced. Robbie Arnott won the fiction award for Limberlost (Text) and Kim Mahood won the nonfiction prize for...

New Draper YA to Pan Mac, HarperTeen 

Friday, 5 May 2023
Pan Macmillan Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a new YA novel by Lauren Draper via literary agent Annabel Barker, with world English rights (ex ANZ) going to HarperTeen US,...

Vallance wins 2023 Rosie Award

Thursday, 4 May 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) senior editor Cathy Vallance has won the Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as the Rosie, for her editorial work on Zana Fraillon’s middle-grade verse novel...

BookPeople gift card program, new research

Thursday, 4 May 2023
BookPeople launched its new gift cards program last month, selling both digital and physical cards which can be redeemed at BookPeople member bookshops and Collins and Dymocks shops across Australia....

Upswell acquires Boland essay collection 

Wednesday, 3 May 2023
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to Brooke Boland’s first collection of essays.   Gulp, Swallow reflects on the uncertainty of identity in a young woman’s life, ‘when who we...

Local authors on Daggers longlist

Wednesday, 3 May 2023
In the UK, the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) has announced the longlists for its Dagger Awards. Authors from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand are among those longlisted for the annual...

B&N workers at flagship store launch union drive

Wednesday, 3 May 2023
In the US, workers at the flagship Barnes & Noble (B&N) shop in New York City’s Union Square have requested a union election with the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store...

Dale wins 2023 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize

Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Queensland Poetry has announced that Madeleine Dale has won the 2023 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for her manuscript The Water-Bearers. Dale receives $2000 and a publishing contract with UQP. Judges...

Best Australian Yarn prize pool grows to $75,000

Tuesday, 2 May 2023
The 2023 Best Australian Yarn short story competition has a $75,000 prize pool, with $50,000 to be awarded to the competition winner. This year’s award includes two new categories, the...

Fagan files suit against A&U

Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Allen & Unwin (A&U) publisher Kelly Fagan has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her employer, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. On 31 March, Justice Robert Bromwich ordered A&U ‘not...

Wheeler Centre 2023 Hot Desk fellows

Monday, 1 May 2023
The Wheeler Centre has announced the successful applicants for its 2023 Hot Desk Fellowships. The 21 Hot Desk fellows are: moirra Caroline Arnoul Sienna Barton Sue deGennaro Elese Dowden Anneliz...

NT Writers Festival launches 2023 program

Monday, 1 May 2023
The NT Writers Festival has launched the program for this year's event, which takes place from 1–4 June 2023 in the Olive Pink Botanic Garden in Mparntwe/Alice Springs on Arrernte...