ABA conference 2022 program announced
Friday, 18 March 2022
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the first guests for its two-day conference, to be held in person 12–13 June at the the Sheraton Grand Hyde Park in Sydney....
ASA Award Mentorship Program for Writers and Illustrators winners announced
Friday, 18 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the winners of its 2022 Award Mentorship Program for Writers and Illustrators. With support from the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, each winner receives a...
Perth Festival Literature & Ideas program: ‘a joy’ despite Covid restrictions, border closures
Thursday, 17 March 2022
Perth Festival's 2022 Writers Weekend, running across 26–27 February in the gardens of Fremantle Arts Centre (FAC), attracted over 6500 attendees to sessions featuring guests both in person or by...
Pandiella joins Welbeck ANZ
Thursday, 17 March 2022
Welbeck ANZ has announced the appointment of Anabel Pandiella as head of publicity and marketing. Pandiella joins the publisher from Simon & Schuster (S&S), where she was appointed marketing and...
Tuning into BookTube: How publishers can work with influencers
Thursday, 17 March 2022
In 2021 Kirsty Horton completed her master’s thesis at Curtin University on how publishers and BookTubers could get the most out of their commercial relationship. A BookTuber herself since 2017,...
Amplify Bookstore: Winter reading list
Thursday, 17 March 2022
Amplify Bookstore, an independent online bookseller specialising in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, shares the shop’s most anticipated titles from local and international authors publishing...
Kiah Thomas on ‘The Callers’
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
The Callers (HarperCollins, May), Kiah Thomas's first novel for middle-grade readers, follows Quin, a young boy who lives in a world where some people have the ability to Call objects...
Nielsen: Manga, romance, sci-fi drive Aus market growth in 2021
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Overall growth in value in the Australian book market—which was up 2.5% in value to $1.3 billion in 2021 compared to 2020—has been driven by adult fiction, and most notably...
Australian Book Design Awards 2022 longlists announced
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
The longlists for the 2022 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The longlisted titles in some of the categories are: Best...
Walker Books acquires four titles from Sewankambo
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to the picture book First There Was Me, Then There Was You by Yvonne Sewankambo, in a four-book deal via Sarah McKenzie at...
Varuna Pitch Me! inaugural fellows announced
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Varuna has announced the two recipients of the inaugural Pitch Me! Fellowship, established to connect Australian writers with the publishing industry. The two successful applicants, chosen from 39 submissions, are:...
Floods devastate Lismore Library, Book Warehouse
Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Lismore Library and the Book Warehouse Lismore have both been badly affected by the floods that have devastated the Northern Rivers area in New South Wales. Lismore Library has had...
WBN published Thursday this week
Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Due to the public holiday in Victoria on Monday, 14 March, the Weekly Book Newsletter (WBN) will be published on Thursday, 17 March this week. Classifieds and job advertisements for inclusion...
HarperCollins acquires Blurton memoir
Tuesday, 15 March 2022
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to The Bachelorette star Brooke Blurton's memoir Big Love, in a publishing deal across all editions including audio. Blurton is also collaborating with Bigambul and Wakka...
International Booker 2022 longlist announced
Friday, 11 March 2022
The longlist for the 2022 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$90k), has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Cursed Bunny (Bora Chung, trans by Anton Hur, Honford Star) After The Sun...
Penguin Literary Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Friday, 11 March 2022
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'On a Bright Hillside in Paradise' by Annette Higgs, about a...
Books in the media this weekend 12–13 March
Friday, 11 March 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Burning Questions (Margaret Atwood, Chatto & Windus) Continuous Creation (Les Murray,...
ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 11 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins publishing division HQ have announced the shortlist for the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. The winner will receive...
Posavec, Quick win Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize
Thursday, 10 March 2022
In the UK, Stefanie Posavec and Miriam Quick have won the £10,000 (A$18,000) Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize for I Am a Book. I Am a Portal to the...
Warburton appointed ALIA CEO
Thursday, 10 March 2022
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced the appointment of Cathie Warburton as its new CEO, replacing Sue McKerracher who left the organisation in January. Warburton has experience...
MacLehose Press acquires two new Papathanasiou novels
Thursday, 10 March 2022
MacLehose Press, an imprint of Hachette-owned UK publisher Quercus, has acquired world rights to two new novels by Peter Papathanasiou in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary....
ASA, writers festivals receive RISE funding
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA), the Australian Short Story Festival and the Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival have each received funding in the seventh and final round of...
Chidgey, Mason longlisted for 2022 Women’s Prize
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand writers Catherine Chidgey and Meg Mason have been longlisted for the £30,000 (A$54,000) Women’s Prize for Fiction. Chidgey, the author of six novels, is longlisted for Remote Sympathy,...
Wang appointed Australian Children’s Laureate 2022–23
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation (ACLF) has named Gabrielle Wang as the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2022–23. Melbourne-based Wang is an award-winning author and illustrator of over 20 books, including...
APA: proposed copyright changes would ‘gift’ publishing rights to libraries
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Australian Society of Authors (ASA) have, in separate responses to the federal government’s proposed copyright amendment bill, highlighted their concern that the draft bill...
Australian bookshop tour: Potts Point Bookshop
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Potts Point Bookshop is an award-winning bookseller located in Sydney’s CBD. With staff that have over 50 years of bookselling experience between them, the shop has been widely recognised by...
A&U acquires trans and gender diverse anthology
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to the anthology Nothing to Hide: Voices of trans and gender diverse Australia. Edited by Sam Elkin, Alex Gallagher, Yves Rees and...
A&U acquires Kostakis YA novel
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to a new novel by YA author Will Kostakis, We Could Be Something. The queer contemporary YA novel is, according to the publisher,...
George Haddad on ‘Losing Face’
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
George Haddad's Losing Face (May, UQP) follows the lives of an intergenerational Lebanese-Australian family living in Western Sydney. Told primarily from the perspective of young protagonist Joey, Haddad's narrative reveals the complexities...
NZ National Reading Survey: number of readers dips slightly
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Read NZ Te Pou Muramura has published the results from its 2021 National Reading Survey, which found the number of adults who read has dropped slightly since the poll was...
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