Knight to retire from ADS
Thursday, 6 May 2021
Phill Knight will retire as distribution director of Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) after more than 20 years in the role. Knight will step down in early January 2022, which allows...
50 years of publishing in Australia: Hachette looks back
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Hodder & Stoughton was incorporated in Australia on 2 April 1971. On this, the 50th anniversary of the company’s permanent roots in Australia, Hachette Australia & New Zealand CEO Louise...
MWF 2021 schools program announced
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
The schools program for the 2021 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has been announced. The primary school program, which will run 6 and 7 September, features Australian Children’s Laureate Ursula Dubosarsky;...
June reviews round-up
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Winter 2021 yields new fiction from seasoned authors, including Briohny Doyle’s third book Echolalia, Kate Liston-Mills’s Dear Ibis, the follow-up to her 2017 collection The Waterfowl are Drunk! and Michael...
Sophie Overett on ‘The Rabbits’
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Sophie Overett's debut novel The Rabbits (Vintage, July), winner the 2020 Penguin Literary Prize, is a magic realist family saga centred around Delia Rabbit, a mother dealing with trauma from her...
Briggs awarded 2021 Janet Mackenzie Medal
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Edwin (Ted) Briggs as the recipient of the second annual Janet Mackenzie Medal. The award, which honours the late founding member of...
Mascara announces new residency
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Mascara Literary Review, in partnership with the Bundanon Trust, has announced the creation of the Mascara Bundanon Writer’s Residency. The residency, which is now open for submissions, is for First...
Thaker awarded 2021 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Torres Strait Islander storyteller Lenora Thaker has won the 2021 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship. Thaker is the first Torres Strait Islander writer to win the Boundless Indigenous Mentorship, which was launched in...
Push for EBA at Better Read Than Dead
Monday, 3 May 2021
The Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU), representing staff at the independent Sydney bookshop Better Read Than Dead requesting an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA), has approached bookshop management to...
‘Now That I See You’ wins 2021 Vogel
Monday, 3 May 2021
Now That I See You by Canberra author Emma Batchelor is the winner of this year's $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age...
Shortlist announced for £40k Wolfson History Prize
Monday, 3 May 2021
In the UK, the shortlist for the £40,000 (A$76,200) Wolfson History Prize shortlist has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Survivors: Children’s lives after the Holocaust (Rebecca Clifford, Yale University Press)...
Day wins 2021 Nature Writing Prize
Friday, 30 April 2021
Gregory Day has won the 2021 Nature Writing Prize for his work 'The Watergaw'. Dave Witty was highly commended for 'The Lone Tree of Mackay', and Michael Bradley received an...
Vogel Award 2021 shortlist announced, winner announced today
Friday, 30 April 2021
The shortlist has been announced for the 2021 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under the age of 35. The three titles on this year’s shortlist are:...
Lagardère makes ‘peace agreement’ between shareholders
Friday, 30 April 2021
In France, Hachette Livre parent company Lagardère has confirmed the group’s transformation into a joint-stock company as part of a ‘peace agreement’ to end all legal disputes between shareholders, reports...
Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 shortlist announced
Thursday, 29 April 2021
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. Now in its 26th year, the £30,000 (A$53,600) prize is presented annually to the best...
Crawford’s ‘No Document’ sells to US
Thursday, 29 April 2021
North American rights to Anwen Crawford’s nonfiction work No Document have been sold to Transit Books. Adam Levy and Ashley Nelson Levy from Transit acquired rights from Nick Tapper at Giramondo....
‘Phosphorescence’ wins 2021 ABIA Book of the Year
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
The winners of the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. In the business awards, Penguin Random House Australia won publisher of the year while the University of...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Iowa City’s The Haunted Bookshop
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookshops in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. In Iowa...
Baxter’s ‘New Animal’ sells to US, UK, optioned for TV
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
US rights to Ella Baxter's debut novel New Animal (A&U) have been sold to independent publisher Two Dollar Radio by The Book Group on behalf of Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary....
Cameron Nunn on ‘Echo in the Memory’
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
The historical YA novel Echo in the Memory (Walker, June) took author Cameron Nunn 10 years and a PhD in the history of child convicts to write. The book features...
UK publisher consumer sales up 7% in 2020
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
In the UK, Publishers Association (PA) figures show UK book sales—particularly fiction and audiobooks—soared in 2020, with consumer sales up 7% on 2019 despite bookshop closures, reports the Guardian. The...
UWAP announces 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives a cash prize of $10,000, as well as manuscript development...
Lagardère in discussions to revamp company governance
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
In France, the Lagardère group, owner of Hachette Livre, has confirmed that negotiations are under way to transfer the group into a joint stock company, reports the Bookseller. The move...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 winners announced
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Ellen van Neerven has scooped the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards with their poetry collection Throat (UQP). Van Neerven’s collection was awarded the overall $10,000 book of the year award,...
Liminal, Pantera establish $10,000 nonfiction prize
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Liminal magazine and Pantera Press have announced a new nonfiction writing prize for First Nations writers and writers of colour. The winner of the Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize receives...
Ivers appointed HarperCollins commercial fiction & nonfiction publisher
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
HarperCollins Australia has appointed Roberta Ivers to the newly created role of publisher, commercial fiction & nonfiction, HarperCollins Adult Books. ‘I am delighted to welcome Bert to our local publishing...
Doust joins Affirm as commercial publisher
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Affirm Press has announced the appointment of Kelly Doust to the newly created role of publisher—commercial. ‘Kelly is exactly what we’ve been looking for to crack open new categories and...
Publisher halts Philip Roth biography after sexual assault allegations
Monday, 26 April 2021
In the US, publisher W W Norton has halted the distribution and promotion of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth: The biography after several women accused Bailey of grooming and sexual assault....
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2021: Meg Whelan
Monday, 26 April 2021
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. In the...
Pham, Kruimink and Tu named SMH 2021 Best Young Australian Novelists
Monday, 26 April 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has announced its 2021 Best Young Australian Novelists, all of whom have been chosen for debut novels. The writers are: K M (Kate) Kruimink for...
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