Winter to leave Text
Monday, 3 April 2023
Text senior editor David Winter is leaving the company this month after 14 years with the publisher. Winter, who started at Text in 2009 as an acquiring editor, was associate...
Writing WA appoints Yeoman as CEO
Friday, 31 March 2023
Writing WA has appointed literary editor, festival director and journalist Will Yeoman as its new chief executive officer (CEO), starting 24 April. ‘I am absolutely stoked to welcome Will Yeoman...
PRH revenue up, profit down in 2022
Friday, 31 March 2023
Penguin Random House’s revenue grew 5% in the 2022 financial year, however its profit was down 12% over the same period, according to parent company Bertelsmann’s financial report. PRH revenue...
BWF 2023 program announced
Friday, 31 March 2023
The program for this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs 10–14 May, has been announced. This year's festival is the first under new artistic director Jackie Ryan, who took...
Books in the media this weekend, 1–2 April
Friday, 31 March 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Blue Hunger (Viola di Grando, Scribe) Hard To Bear (Isabelle Oderberg,...
Heiss to curate First Nations imprint Bundyi
Thursday, 30 March 2023
Wiradyuri author Anita Heiss has been appointed as publisher at large for Simon & Schuster's new imprint, Bundyi. Named for the Wiradyuri word meaning ‘to share with me’, the Bundyi...
Affirm signs Mellor for five-book series and third ‘Grandest Bookshop’ book
Thursday, 30 March 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a new five-book series by Amelia Mellor as well as the third novel in Mellor's series that began with The Grandest Bookshop in...
Stella Prize 2023 shortlist announced
Thursday, 30 March 2023
The shortlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced. The shortlisted books are: We Come With This Place (Debra Dank, Echo) big beautiful female...
Hachette UK in talks with Welbeck staff about job losses
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Hachette UK is in consultation with Welbeck Publishing Group staff following its acquisition of the independent publisher last November, reports the Bookseller. A number of jobs are at risk. A...
Bolinda titles shortlisted in British Book Awards
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Two titles by Bolinda have been shortlisted for Audiobook of the Year: Fiction at the 2023 British Book Awards. The Seven Moons of Almeida (Shehan Karunatilaka, narrated by Shivantha Wijesinha)...
How international book markets performed in 2022
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Through the PubMagNet initiative, a collaboration between book industry trade magazines from around the world, representatives from publications in Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK and the US have shared insights...
CBCA Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
The shortlists for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Older readers Ask No Questions (Eva Collins,...
Dublin Literary Award shortlist announced
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000 (A$162,360), has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr, Scribner) Em (Kim Thuy, trans by Sheila...
IPEd conference program announced for May
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
The program for the 11th Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) conference, will take place as an online event in May under the theme ‘Where editing and the future meet’, has...
De Kretser wins 2023 Folio Prize
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Australian author Michelle de Kretser has won in the fiction category of the Rathbones Folio Prize, for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U). In the award's first year under a new prize...
Rubbo to retire as Readings MD
Monday, 27 March 2023
Readings managing director Mark Rubbo is retiring on 30 June after almost 50 years in the book business, but will remain as chair of the Readings board. Rubbo took over...
Judge finds for publishers in Internet Archive copyright case
Monday, 27 March 2023
In the US, a federal judge has found the Internet Archive infringed the copyright of publishers by scanning and lending their books, reports Publishers Weekly. In an opinion granting the...
Agius leaves Welbeck
Monday, 27 March 2023
Benny Agius has left Welbeck ANZ where she was managing director. Agius was appointed to the position in 2021 when Welbeck established its local arm in the region. The Welbeck...
ALA finds highest book censorship in 20 years
Monday, 27 March 2023
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has found the highest ever number of attempted book bans were made during the year 2022. ALA has released data showing 1269 demands...
BookTok drives about 3% of UK book sales: Nielsen
Friday, 24 March 2023
Consumers inspired by BookTok accounted for 90 million book purchases in the UK last year, according to Nielsen’s latest Books & Consumers survey, reports the Bookseller. The monthly survey asks...
Auckland Writers Festival reveals 2023 program
Friday, 24 March 2023
Auckland Writers Festival has revealed its full 2023 program, featuring over 25 international guests alongside 200 New Zealand writers across 160 events running 16–21 May. This year’s festival marks the...
Arnott shortlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize
Friday, 24 March 2023
Tasmanian writer Robbie Arnott has been shortlisted for Swansea University's Dylan Thomas Prize, awarded for the best literary work published in English and written by an author aged 39 or...
MWF announces 2023 program
Thursday, 23 March 2023
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced its 2023 program, which will run from 4–7 May 2023 and be held predominately at State Library Victoria (SLV) and the Capitol theatre. Opening...
Buckley, De Marcken win 2022 Novel Prize
Thursday, 23 March 2023
Publishers Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions have announced UK author Jonathan Buckley and US author Anne de Marcken as the joint winners of the 2022 Novel Prize, for their...
ASAL announces pilot fellowship program recipients
Thursday, 23 March 2023
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the recipients of a pilot program of Copyright Agency-funded writers’ fellowships. Luisa Mitchell and Fiona Murphy are the winners...
Mikhail wins Waterstones Children’s Book Prize
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
In the UK, Nadia Mikal has been named the £5000 (A$9160) overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for her debut novel, The Cats We Meet Along the Way...
Baker steps down at OUP, joins Copyright Agency
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Oxford University Press ANZ managing director Arthur Baker has resigned from his role. Baker, who was appointed to the position in 2017, will join the Copyright Agency as director: strategy...
HarperCollins acquires Ringland book on unblocking creativity
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Holly Ringland’s book The House That Joy Built: The pleasure and power of giving ourselves permission to create, via Benython Oldfield of Zeitgeist...
Screen Australia funds ‘Eggshell Skull’ adaptation development
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Screen Australia has announced story development funding for a feature film adaptation of Eggshell Skull (Bri Lee, A&U), as one of 20 projects sharing in $700,000 development funding. Actor Mia...
Jess Racklyeft recommends
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
I am a huge fan of Claire Saxby’s work (I have been honoured to work on the books Iceberg and Whisper on the Wind [both A&U] with her) and recently read Tasmanian...
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