#LoveOzYA becomes registered charity Archive
Thursday, 24 March 2022
The Australian Young Adult Literature Alliance, a grassroots organisation established in 2015 to promote Australian youth literature and more popularly known by the hashtag #LoveOzYA, has become a registered charity...
Inoon wins 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize Archive
Thursday, 24 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HQ, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, have announced Ayesha Inoon as the winner of the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished...
Puncher & Wattmann acquires ‘Grimmish’ Archive
Thursday, 24 March 2022
Puncher & Wattmann has acquired world rights to Michael Winkler's previously self-published book Grimmish in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. Described by Shaw as a 'cult...
ABIA 2022 longlists announced Archive
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
The longlists for the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles longlisted in each category are: General fiction book of the year After Story (Larissa Behrendt,...
Australian bookshop tour: Petrarch’s Bookshop Archive
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Petrarch’s Bookshop first opened its doors in 1985. With a large focus on Tasmanian books, the family-owned general bookshop has become a cornerstone for the Launceston community. Petrarch's is owned...
Lindström wins 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Archive
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Swedish artist Eva Lindström has won the five million krona (A$708,785) Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), the world’s richest prize for children’s literature. Lindström, whose work has won multiple awards,...
PANZ launches New Zealand Books website Archive
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
The Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) has launched a new website, NewZealandBooks.com, to ‘overcome the tyranny of distance and the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19...
Beatnik named Bologna publisher of the year, Oceania Archive
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand publisher Beatnik Publishing is the winner of the Oceania category of the 2022 Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year. The Bologna Children’s Book...
Scribble, Think+DO Tank Foundation announce Mirror Mentorship program details Archive
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Scribe children's imprint Scribble and Sydney-based Think+DO Tank Foundation, which runs multilingual bookshop Lost in Books, have released details of their Mirror Mentorship program, supported by Australia Council funding. The...
Hayley Scrivenor on ‘Dirt Town’ Archive
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Set in the rural New South Wales town of Durton, Hayley Scrivenor's debut novel Dirt Town (Macmillan, May) centres on the disappearance of a young girl named Esther. Reviewer Kate...
Hayley Scrivenor recommends Archive
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
I was fortunate enough to see Larissa Behrendt speak at the 2021 BAD Sydney Crime Writers festival about her book After Story (UQP). I got the audiobook and loved it....
Murail, Lee win 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Award Archive
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
French children's writer Marie-Aude Murail and Korean artist Suzy Lee have been named the winners of the 2022 IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Hans Christian Andersen author...
Storytorch acquires Godwin environmental picture book Archive
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Storytorch Press has acquired world rights to Nicole Godwin's picture book Bower Bob, which explores the harm plastic has on native birdlife. Godwin is a children’s author known for her...
‘Love Stories’ wins 2022 Indie Book of the Year Archive
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Trent Dalton’s Love Stories (Fourth Estate) has been named Book of the Year at the 2022 Indie Book Awards. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Once There Were...
UQP acquires Sakr poetry collection Archive
Monday, 21 March 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired Non-Essential Work, the third poetry collection by Sydney-based Arab Australian poet Omar Sakr. UQP says Sakr's 'much-anticipated' follow-up to his 2019 collection The...
QBD opens new Adelaide store Archive
Monday, 21 March 2022
QBD Books will open its biggest store to date in Adelaide's Rundle Mall in late March. The new store at 138 Rundle Mall will have 300 square metres of books...
National Book Critics Circle Awards winners announced Archive
Monday, 21 March 2022
In the US, the winners of the 2021 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards have been announced. The winners, chosen from finalists announced in January, are: Fiction The Love Songs...
Books in the media this weekend, 19–20 March Archive
Friday, 18 March 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper The Party (Stuart Macintyre, A&U) Skin Deep (Phillipa McGuinness, Vintage) Loop...
New Holland sells NZ business to Upstart Archive
Friday, 18 March 2022
New Holland Publishing Group has sold its Aotearoa New Zealand publishing business to Auckland-based independent publisher Upstart Press. Nonfiction publisher New Holland has been publishing in NZ for over 20...
Williams to leave SWF after 2022 festival Archive
Friday, 18 March 2022
Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) artistic director Michael Williams has announced that the upcoming festival, to be held 16–22 May, will be his last. Williams was appointed to the role of...
ABA conference 2022 program announced Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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’ Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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...
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