Wednesday, 2 July 2014
‘When you go into a bookstore or shop online, start paying attention to the faces on the covers and the names of authors. Are you seeing the complexity and diversity...

Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Melbourne-based book distributor Rainbow Book Agencies and its retail and publishing arm, Mosaic Resources and Mosaic Press, have ceased trading and have entered liquidation.Greg Shilton has been appointed as the...

Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Irish writer and poet Dermot Healy has died, aged 66. Clare Conville from Conville & Walsh Literary Agency writes:‘[Dermot Healy was] an uncompromisingly brilliant writer in the tradition of Samuel...

Tuesday, 1 July 2014
Tickets are now on sale for Book Expo Australia, a new event established to promote the Australian book industry, which will take place at the Sydney Showground on 29-31 August. The...

Tuesday, 1 July 2014
SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold Greek rights to Tuscan Rose (Belinda Alexandra). Text has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding ANZ and Canada) and French rights to The Snow Kimono (Mark Henshaw) to Tinder...

Monday, 30 June 2014
Jenny Hellen has been appointed to the newly created position of publisher at Allen & Unwin New Zealand.Hallen joins the company from Random House New Zealand, where she has worked...

Monday, 30 June 2014
Sydney writer Linda Jaivin has won the NSW Writers’ Fellowship for mid-career and established writers, offered annually by Arts NSW. The $30,000 fellowship will allow her to research her new...

Monday, 30 June 2014
The Australian Book Review, Kill Your Darlings and The Lifted Brow are among several literature-related recipients of the most recent round of funding from the VicArts Grants program. The grant...

Monday, 30 June 2014
Scribe Publications has announced the appointment of Sarina Gale as part-time sales coordinator. Gale is a bookseller at The Sun Bookshop in Melbourne and has previously worked as a marketing...

Monday, 30 June 2014
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of Matt Howard to the newly created role of ABC Books campaign manager. Howard has worked as a publicist at NewSouth Books for four-and-a-half years....

Friday, 27 June 2014
Hachette Australia has launched a new consumer website that provides personalised content based on user interaction, said the publisher in a statement.The homepage is designed with stacked boxes containing book...

Friday, 27 June 2014
Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing (Vintage) has won this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award.Wyld’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of five, which included: The Narrow Road to the...

Friday, 27 June 2014
The Australia Council has funded two new literature projects under the Creative Partnerships with Asia Program. The LITERARY COMMONS! project will bring together writers from Australia and India, including Alexis...