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UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript.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...
Wyld wins 2021 Stella Prize for ‘The Bass Rock’
Friday, 23 April 2021
Evie Wyld has won the 2021 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, for her novel The Bass Rock (Vintage). Judging panel chair Zoya Patel said the novel was ‘a consuming and perplexing...
International Booker Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 23 April 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 International Booker Prize for translated fiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: At Night All Blood is Black (David Diop, trans from French by...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2021: Isabelle O’Brien
Friday, 23 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...
S&S US to publish Pence books despite staff petition
Thursday, 22 April 2021
Simon & Schuster US (S&S) will proceed with publishing two books by former US vice president Mike Pence despite a petition from staff, reports the Bookseller. In the petition, staff...
Cook, Rajwar join Ultimo Press
Thursday, 22 April 2021
Ultimo Press MD James Kellow has announced the appointment of Emily Cook and Katherine Rajwar to the positions of community & media manager and community & media coordinator respectively. Cook...
S&S acquires El Masry body inclusive wellbeing guide
Thursday, 22 April 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to Be You Be Free by Shreen El Masry. El Masry is a non-diet, body inclusive and Health At Every Size...
Chrissy Brincat on interning at UQP
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Each year Vision Australia runs a 12-month graduate program for graduates who are blind or who have low vision, with a component of the program involving a three-month external placement....
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2021: Bianca Jafari
Wednesday, 21 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....
Hachette acquires Temple middle-grade series
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a middle-grade series by Kate Temple. The first book in the series of the same name, The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat...
Hughes-d’Aeth to head new UWAP advisory board
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
The University of Western Australia (UWA) has announced its publishing arm will open for submissions from May, following UWA Publishing’s (UWAP) shift to a hybrid publishing model from late 2020....
Lisa Emanuel on ‘The Covered Wife’
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Lisa Emanuel's 2019 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award–shortlisted debut The Covered Wife (Pantera, June) centres on Sarah, a lawyer whose new relationship leads to involvement with an oppressive and...
Creative NZ Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary recipient announced
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Emma Hislop has been named the recipient of of Creative New Zealand's 2021 Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary, valued at NZ$11,000 (A$10,200). Hislop is a Taranaki-based writer whose work has...
S&S acquires Mahoney’s ‘Currently Between Husbands’
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to a book by writer and podcaster Cathrine Mahoney, host of So, I Quit My Day Job and co-host of Not...
Macky, Ballantyne to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; ABIA business awards shortlists announced
Monday, 19 April 2021
Bookseller Mandy Macky and children's publisher Maryann Ballantyne will be inducted into the ABIA Hall of Fame at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) on Wednesday, 28 April. Macky will...
PRH acquires Crabb and Sales ‘Chat 10 Looks 3’ book
Monday, 19 April 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to Well Hello by Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales. In the book, journalists Crabb and Sales, who started their popular podcast...
Zable honoured for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
Monday, 19 April 2021
Arnold Zable has won the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, which ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over the age of 60 who have made an outstanding...
ABC Books acquires Om memoir
Friday, 16 April 2021
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to ABC 7.30 reporter Jason Om’s debut memoir All Mixed Up, via Benython Oldfield of Zeitgeist Agency, to be published under the ABC Books...
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