Books Create Australia shares 2022 election recommendations
Thursday, 19 May 2022
Joint industry group Books Create Australia has outlined seven specific policy recommendations that will form the basis of the group's ongoing messages to government about the sector's needs. The recommendations...
Mamun replaces Pandiella at S&S
Thursday, 19 May 2022
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has announced the appointment of Ace Mamun as marketing and publicity director, replacing Anabel Pandiella, who was appointed head of publicity and marketing at Welbeck...
Ahead of the curve: The popularity of sci-fi and fantasy
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
The recent growth in science fiction and fantasy can be linked to a range of factors including TikTok, screen adaptations, demand for diverse characters and an appetite for escapist yet...
BWF 2022: ‘Big, diverse festival that attracted a diverse audience’
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) wrapped up last week, having run 3–8 May, with an online festival running 10–14 May. BWF CEO Sarah Runcie told Books+Publishing 'particular standouts' were the festival's...
Prize money increase for Spark Prize
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Hardie Grant Books and RMIT Writing and Publishing have announced the prize money for the Spark Prize has increased from $2000 to $5000. The biennial developmental prize for narrative nonfiction,...
Vivas replaces Byng at HarperCollins
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
HarperCollins Australia has announced the appointment of Ana Vivas as its new head of Australian children's publishing. Currently children's publisher at Hardie Grant, Vivas replaces Chren Byng, who was appointed...
‘In the Clearing’ to become Disney+ drama series
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
A series adaptation of In the Clearing by J P Pomare (Hachette) has been acquired by Disney for its streaming service Disney+. Pomare's 2019 novel is a fictionalised account of...
UQP acquires Saleh debut poetry collection
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to the debut poetry collection The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazel el-Banat by Arab-Australian writer and activist Sara M Saleh. Described...
ABA 2022 Bookseller of the Year shortlists announced
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the shortlists for the 2022 ABA Bookseller of the Year awards. The awards recognise an individual bookseller for their outstanding achievement in the...
Pip Harry on ‘August & Jones’
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Inspired by the friendship between two real-life children in Victoria, Pip Harry's latest middle-grade novel August & Jones (Lothian) is a heartwarming story about friendship and resilience. Jones meets August...
‘A Place Near Eden’ wins 2022 Vogel
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
A Place Near Eden by Melbourne writer Nell Pierce has won this year’s $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. Described...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2022 winners announced
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
The winners of the 2022 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Safdar Ahmed’s graphic novel Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s immigration detention system (Twelve Panels Press) was...
Booktopia opens new corporate offices in Western Sydney
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Online book retailer Booktopia has opened its new corporate offices in the Western Sydney suburb of Rhodes. The company said the new, 2000 sqm offices will free up space at...
Green to leave Meanjin
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Meanjin editor Jonathan Green has announced that the December 2022 edition of the literary journal will be his last. Green, who has has been in the role since 2015, is...
Bublitz shortlisted for Gold Dagger
Monday, 16 May 2022
Australia-based author Jacqueline Bublitz has been shortlisted for the Gold Dagger, awarded to the best crime novel originally written in English by an author of any nationality, in the UK...
Michael Gifkins Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Monday, 16 May 2022
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) have announced the shortlist for the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished...
Books in the media this weekend, 14–15 May
Friday, 13 May 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Daisy and Woolf (Michelle Cahill, Hachette) The Secret of Emu Field...
Lockwood wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘No One is Talking About This’
Friday, 13 May 2022
In the UK, American writer Patricia Lockwood has won the £20,000 (A$36,240) Dylan Thomas Prize for her debut novel No One is Talking About This (Bloomsbury). Chair of judges Namita Gokhale...
New writers festival for Wollongong
Friday, 13 May 2022
The South Coast Writers Centre (SCWC) has announced a new literary festival, to take place in the Illawarra region of New South Wales. The South Coast Writers Festival will run...
Australian Reading Hour moves to March from 2023
Friday, 13 May 2022
Australia Reads has announced that its flagship event the Australian Reading Hour, which has run each year in September for the past decade, will not take place in 2022, with...
Ockham NZ Book Awards 2022 winners announced
Thursday, 12 May 2022
The winners of the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The NZ$60,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, Aotearoa New Zealand's richest writing prize, went to Wellington...
‘Happy Stories, Mostly’ wins Republic of Consciousness Prize
Thursday, 12 May 2022
In the UK, Indonesian writer Norman Erikson Pasaribu and his publisher Tilted Axis Press have won this year’s Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, for Pasaribu’s short story collection...
McTiernan’s ‘The Murder Rule’ optioned for screen
Thursday, 12 May 2022
Dervla McTiernan's fourth crime novel The Murder Rule (HarperCollins) has been optioned for screen by Disney's FX, in a deal brokered by Shane Salerno of The Story Factory. The Murder...
New PRH longform mentoring program
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
The Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas (JNI) has partnered with Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) and the Copyright Agency on a new initiative to provide practical experience and...
UK publishing staff report stress, burnout
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
A survey by the Bookseller has found the UK publishing trade is facing ‘industry-wide burnout’, with nearly nine out of 10 (89%) respondents having experienced work-related stress over the past...
Sun shines on Clunes Booktown 2022
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
After two years of cancellations, in late April the first post-lockdown Clunes Booktown Festival was held in regional Victoria. Angela Crocombe from festival bookseller Readings reports. After predictions of dire...
EWF 2022 program announced
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has revealed its 2022 festival program, which will take place from 15–25 June 2022. Following EWF’s successful pivot to an online format in response to...
Neela Janakiramanan on ‘The Registrar’
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
In her novel The Registrar (July, A&U), doctor and debut author Neela Janakiramanan looks at the many issues deeply ingrained in the healthcare system through the story of young doctor Emma...
Douglas-Kinghorn appointed Voiceworks editor
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Express Media has announced Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn as the new editor of Voiceworks literary journal. Douglas-Kinghorn has been a member of the Voiceworks editorial committee for the past two years. As...
Pulitzer Prize winners announced
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
In the US, the winners of this year's Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. Joshua Cohen won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Netanyahus (Fitzcarraldo), which the judges described as...
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