KYD announces ‘New Australian Fiction’ contributors, new editor
Monday, 6 June 2022
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced the contributors to its annual short story anthology, New Australian Fiction. New Australian Fiction 2022, the fourth anthology in the series, is the first to be...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2022: Emily Hart
Monday, 6 June 2022
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....
Black Inc. announces ‘Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia’
Friday, 3 June 2022
Black Inc. has announced the latest addition to its ‘Growing Up’ nonfiction anthology series, Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia, to be edited by author and public servant Samantha Faulkner....
Italian book sales dip as physical shops regain market share
Friday, 3 June 2022
Italian bricks-and-mortar bookshops have regained some of the market share lost to online due to Covid-19 closures, while overall book sales dipped in the first four months of 2022, reports...
Books in the media this weekend, 4–5 June
Friday, 3 June 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Machines Behaving Badly: The morality of AI (Toby Walsh, La Trobe...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2022: Emily Cook
Friday, 3 June 2022
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....
PRH to publish Rutledge debut novel
Thursday, 2 June 2022
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to A Man and His Pride, a commercial fiction title by debut novelist Luke Rutledge, via Melanie Ostell Literary. PRH describes...
NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults finalists announced
Thursday, 2 June 2022
The finalists for the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced. The shortlists in each category, chosen from a record 199 entries, are: Picture...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2022: Sam van der Plank
Thursday, 2 June 2022
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....
black&write! fellowships 2022 recipients announced
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
The 2022 black&write! fellowships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers have been awarded to Queensland Elder Herbert Wharton and Lay Maloney from Victoria. Each fellowship is worth $10,000 and...
The Collins Booksellers story
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
May this year marks the 100-year anniversary of Collins Booksellers, which was established by Fredrick Henry (Harry) Slamen in 1922. The company celebrated its centenary over the weekend, where it...
BookUp full 2022 program announced
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released the full program for the one-day BookUp publishing conference, to be held in Sydney next Thursday, 9 June, ahead of the Australian Book...
Meet the ABDA Emerging Designers of the Year: Mietta Yans
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
In the lead-up to the 70th Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) Awards, Books+Publishing spoke to the two shortlisted nominees for Emerging Designer of the Year. In this second instalment we meet Mietta Yans,...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2022: Kate Lloyd
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....
July books reviewed
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
A round-up of local books to look out for in July, as recommended by Books+Publishing reviewers in the past month. Fiction Come July, three debut authors will see their books...
Grant, Hathorn to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, Rising Star shortlists announced
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
Hardie Grant CEO Sandy Grant and children's author Libby Hathorn will be inducted into the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Hall of Fame at the 2022 ABIA awards ceremony on...
Black Inc. acquires Beeston memoir ‘Because I am Not Myself, You See’
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
Black Inc. has acquired ANZ print, audio and ebook rights to the memoir Because I am Not Myself, You See by Ariane Beeston via Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. Described...
HarperCollins acquires Harrison’s ‘The Visitors’
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the novel The Visitors by Jane Harrison, in 'a highly competitive auction' brokered by Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management Literary Agency....
Transit Lounge acquires Meehan historical novel ‘An Ungrateful Instrument’
Monday, 30 May 2022
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to the novel An Ungrateful Instrument by Michael Meehan, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans at Cameron’s Management. An Ungrateful Instrument is Meehan’s...
Money wins First Nations Arts Award
Monday, 30 May 2022
Wiradjuri poet and artist Jazz Money has won a 2022 Dreaming Award for a young and emerging artist, presented as part of the Australia Council's First Nations Arts Awards. Money's...
Vucic awarded $50k Marten Bequest scholarship
Monday, 30 May 2022
Dženana Vucic, a Bosnian-Australian writer, editor, critic and recipient of the 2021 Kat Muscat Fellowship, is among the seven recipients of the 2022 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, each worth $50,000....
Khan, Chan win 2022 Jhalak prizes
Monday, 30 May 2022
In the UK, the winners of the 2022 Jhalak prizes, which recognise ‘authors who feel that their work is often marginalised unless it fulfils a romantic fetishisation of their cultural...
Books in the media this weekend, 28–29 May
Friday, 27 May 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Indelible City (Louisa Lim, Text) My Heart is a Little Wild...
Over two million participate in ALIA National Simultaneous Storytime
Friday, 27 May 2022
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced that this year's National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) was the biggest in the event's 22-year history, with over two million participants registered...
Indian author Shree wins International Booker Prize
Friday, 27 May 2022
Indian author Geetanjali Shree has won the £50,000 (A$88,800) International Booker Prize for her novel Tomb of Sand (trans by Daisy Rockwell, Tilted Axis). The novel, which is set in northern...
Collins celebrates 100 years with new prize for political writing
Friday, 27 May 2022
Collins Booksellers has announced the establishment of a new literary prize, the Australian Political Book of the Year Award. Collins chairman Duncan Johnston said in a statement that recognition of...
Gervay wins 2022 Crystal Kite award
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Susanne Gervay has won the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards, presented by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). Gervay...
Mabey awarded Creative NZ Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Claire Mabey has been named the recipient of Creative New Zealand’s 2022 Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary, receiving funding of NZ$23,150 (A$21,150). Based in Pōneke (Wellington), Mabey is a writer...
ASAL announces book awards finalists
Thursday, 26 May 2022
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the finalists for several literary awards that the organisation oversees. Magarey Medal ASAL and the Australian Historical Association have...
Mason wins fiction book of the year at 2022 British Book Awards
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Sydney-based Aotearoa New Zealand writer Meg Mason has won the 2022 British Book Award for fiction book of the year for her second novel Sorrow and Bliss (Fourth Estate). The...
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