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...
Foyles records operating loss as footfall remains ‘depressed’
Monday, 9 May 2022
In the UK, bookshop chain Foyles recorded an operating loss after sales dropped dramatically in the year ending 24 April, reports the Bookseller. Sales fell to £8.5 million (A$14.9m) last...
WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced
Monday, 9 May 2022
The shortlists for the 2021 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an Emerging Writer ($15,000) Debesa (Cindy Solonec, Magabala)...
Books in the media this weekend, 7–8 May
Friday, 6 May 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Bedtime Story (Chloe Hooper, S&S) Here Goes Nothing (Steve Toltz, Hamish...
Otmar awarded 2022 Janet Mackenzie Medal
Friday, 6 May 2022
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Geelong-based writer, editor, researcher and trainer Renée Otmar as the winner of the the 2022 Janet Mackenzie Medal for services to editing....
Ypi wins Ondaatje Prize for ‘Free’
Friday, 6 May 2022
In the UK, Lea Ypi has won the £10,000 (A$17,400) Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for Free (Allen Lane), a coming-of-age memoir set amid political upheaval in Albania. The...
Black Inc. sells ‘The Successor’ to North America
Friday, 6 May 2022
Black Inc. has sold North American rights to The Successor: The high-stakes life of Lachlan Murdoch by Paddy Manning to Canadian nonfiction publisher Sutherland House after a two-way auction. Described...
Hachette acquires Rolfe YA graphic novel
Thursday, 5 May 2022
Hachette Australia has acquired Get Your Story Straight, the debut YA graphic novel by Melbourne-based author and illustrator Briar Rolfe. The deal was brokered by Hachette head of children’s publishing Jeanmarie...
Nash to step down as Booktopia CEO as company earnings down 63%
Thursday, 5 May 2022
Booktopia has announced that co-founder Tony Nash will step down from the role of CEO, as the company reported earnings fell 65% despite revenue growth of 9% in the nine...
The meteoric rise of manga
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Books+Publishing investigates what’s behind the current manga boom, and how it’s impacting publishers’ local comics and graphic novel lists. It’s no secret that in 2021 the modest growth of the...
Pantera acquires Madigan book on stalking
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights for Obsession: The psychology of stalking by journalist Nicole Madigan, from Jeanne Ryckmans at Cameron's Management. In Obsession, Madigan tells the story of how...
Centre for Stories Writing Fellowships 2022 winners announced
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
The Centre for Stories has announced the winners of the 2022 Centre for Stories Writing Fellowships. The six winning writers are: Ana Brawls, for a manuscript of literary fiction Melanie...
‘The Dictionary of Lost Words’ picked for Reese’s Book Club
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Pip Williams’ novel The Dictionary of Lost Words (Affirm) is the first Australian book to be selected for Reese’s Book Club. US actor and producer Reese Witherspoon founded the book...
June books reviewed
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
A round-up of local books to look out for in June, as recommended by Books+Publishing reviewers in the past month. Fiction Two novels exploring family secrets and dynamics will be...
Parker-Chan shortlisted for Hugo Award for Best Novel
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Australian writer Shelley Parker-Chan is a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel for her debut novel She Who Became the Sun. She Who Became the Sun was published...
Tedeschi wins 2022 Calibre Essay Prize
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Sydney-based classical musician Simon Tedeschi has won the 2022 Calibre Essay Prize for his essay ‘This Woman My Grandmother’. Tedeschi, whose debut Fugitive, will be published by Upswell this month,...
Judith Wright Poetry Prize, Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize winners announced
Monday, 2 May 2022
Overland has announced the winners of the 2021 Judith Wright Poetry Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Writer, bookseller and co-founder of Vre Books Ender Baskan won the $6000...
Edgar Awards 2022 winners announced
Monday, 2 May 2022
Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published or produced in 2021....
Baxter, Burrows, Reid named SMH Best Young Australian Novelists 2022
Monday, 2 May 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has announced the Best Young Australian Novelists for 2022. The writers and their novels, all debuts, are: Ella Baxter for New Animal (A&U) Michael Burrows for Where the Line Breaks (Fremantle...
Araluen wins Stella Prize for ‘Dropbear’
Friday, 29 April 2022
Evelyn Araluen has won the 2022 Stella Prize for Dropbear (UQP), the first time a poetry collection has won the award. In the prize's 10th year, Araluen receives an additional...
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