Inaugural WestWords Prize shortlist announced
Thursday, 12 December 2024
WestWords has announced the shortlist for its inaugural WestWords Prize. The shortlisted writers (and their manuscripts) are: Amy Anshaw-Nye for ‘The Maydown Girls’ Philip Barker for ‘Burning Good Samaritans’ Vahida...
Hollier appointed chair of new SPN board
Thursday, 12 December 2024
A new board has been elected at the Small Press Network (SPN) annual general meeting, held on 9 December. Nathan Hollier, a former CEO of Melbourne University Publishing and more...
A year of Australian audiobooks: 2025 preview
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Audiobook lovers have plenty of local content due in 2025. Here, we round up the Australian titles highlighted by local audio publishers Bolinda and Wavesound. All our 2025 Books+Publishing preview feature articles...
New year 2025 preview: CYA
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
From the witchy to the wistful, from the fact-filled to the fantastical, publishers have pulled together their lists of highlighted children's and young adult titles for 2025. Read on to...
New year 2025 preview: Poetry
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Publishers highlight forthcoming poetry books from well-loved voices in the field—like Kirli Saunders, Omar Sakr, Grace Yee, Antigone Kefala and Eileen Chong—as well as titles from some poets newer to...
Changes at Books+Publishing
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Gary Pengelly, owner of Books+Publishing, writes: I wanted to take this opportunity to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season, and a well-earned rest for our retailers in January, and the...
Leigh responds to petition on fixed-price book laws
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury Andrew Leigh has responded to a petition asking for Federal Parliament to introduce fixed-price laws for books in Australia. The petition, which attracted...
WeirDo, Wolf Girl to be adapted to screen
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Two Anh Do series, WeirDo (Scholastic) and Wolf Girl (A&U), are being adapted to screen, reports the Age. The WeirDo series is being turned into a television series in partnership...
CLNZ Contestable Fund Grants 2024 recipients announced
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) has announced recipients of its Contestable Fund Grants, totalling NZ$75,000. The recipients are: Georgina Tuari Stewart (NZ$8220): for the publishing project ‘Ngā Kararehe o Aotearoa—he Mātauranga, he Matatika, development...
UQP sells world English rights to ‘Someone Like Me’
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold world English (ex ANZ) rights to Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Nonfiction by Autistic Writers (co-edited by Clem Bastow & Jo Case)...
Tu awarded 2025 BR Whiting Studio Residency
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Jessie Tu has been awarded Creative Australia’s 2025 BR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Tu’s debut novel, A Lonely Girl Is a Dangerous Thing (A&U), was named literary fiction book...
‘Supremacy’ wins 2024 FT Business Book of the Year
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
In the UK, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World (Parmy Olson, St Martin’s Press) has won the 2024 Financial Times (FT) Business Book of the...
Debenham wins 2024 Ampersand Prize
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Michael Debenham’s Drowning for Beginners has won the 2024 Ampersand Prize for children’s and YA debut fiction. Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) publishing director Marisa Pintado said: ‘Michael’s compulsively readable...
Kate Kemp recommends
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
I recently read and loved The Wakes by Dianne Yarwood. I am instantly drawn to books about women reinventing themselves at various ages. This book is a wonderful exploration of...
Kate Kemp on ‘The Grapevine’
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Kate Kemp’s debut, The Grapevine (Hachette, February 2025), unravels the mystery of a murder in 1970s Canberra, revealing hidden secrets and buried tensions within the close-knit community of Warrah Place....
UK publishing 2024 workforce report indicates ‘disappointing trend’
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
In the UK, the Publishers Association (PA) has released its annual workforce survey report, which, among other findings, suggests ‘improvement in geographic diversity’, while showing ‘a small, but statistically significant,...
IPEd announces Rosie longlist
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced the longlist for the 2025 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as the Rosie. Longlisted editors—and their projects—include: Kristy Bushnell (UQP), for Love,...
UQP sells Sakr, Ahmed poetry to US and UK
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American and UK rights to The Nightmare Sequence, a collection of illustrated poetry by Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed, to Nightboat Books...
SLQ announces UQP as new black&write! publisher partner
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced a new agreement with the University of Queensland Press (UQP) to publish titles from its black&write! First Nations–led writing and editing program...
A&U acquires Starford novel
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Rebecca Starford’s novel The Visitor, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown Australia. In The Visitor, ‘a woman returns...
Varuna announces 2025 Affirm Press Fellowship recipients
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of the 2025 Affirm Press Fellowship. The fellowship recipients and their manuscripts are: Zoe Deleuil, for ‘Kita Karamel’ Kerry Munnery, for...
Internet Archive copyright case ends
Monday, 9 December 2024
The copyright case against the Internet Archive has drawn to a close after representatives from the organisation ‘decided against exercising their last option, an appeal to the [United States] Supreme...
Fremantle Australia options Jennings works for new series
Monday, 9 December 2024
Fremantle Australia has optioned the rights to a range of works from local author Paul Jennings for development of a ‘deliciously frightful’ television series. In a writing career spanning about...
Johnson wins Australian Fiction Prize
Monday, 9 December 2024
Katherine Johnson has won the inaugural Australian Fiction Prize for her unpublished manuscript A Wild Heart, receiving $20,000 in prize money and a $15,000 advance. ‘A Wild Heart is the story of...
Rose to depart ABR
Monday, 9 December 2024
Peter Rose, editor and CEO of the Australian Book Review, is set to step down from the role in 2025, the publication has announced. Rose has served in the role...
Black Friday sales up 4% on last year
Thursday, 5 December 2024
Nielsen BookData reports that Black Friday–week sales in 2024 ‘saw volume sales in the Australian book market 40% higher than the average weekly sales in the four weeks prior’, with...
Chatterji wins 2024 Wolfson History Prize
Thursday, 5 December 2024
In the UK, historian Joya Chatterji has won the £50,000 (A$98,781) Wolfson History Prize 2024 for Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century (Vintage). Previously longlisted for the Women’s Prize...
Storm acquires seven McIntosh novels
Thursday, 5 December 2024
Digital-first publishing house Storm has acquired world English language rights (ex ANZ) to seven novels by Fiona McIntosh, via Lisa Highton at Jenny Brown Associates. Acquired titles include The Orphans,...
S&S acquires Gould memoir
Thursday, 5 December 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to a memoir by paramedic Sally Gould, with the working title Frog: A Memoir of Life and Death on the Frontline,...
ABR offers new science writing fellowship
Thursday, 5 December 2024
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced a new fellowship ‘to advance the careers of science writers and to augment ABR’s coverage of science and the history of science’. The...
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