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Hachette, Media Diversity Australia partner on new traineeship

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
Hachette Australia and Media Diversity Australia (MDA) have announced ‘a significant partnership’, with Hachette becoming the inaugural book publisher member of MDA. Announcing the partnership, Hachette and MDA have also...

Blues Point Bookshop to relocate across the road 

Photograph of the front of the Blues Point Bookshop Tuesday, 6 August 2024
The Blues Point Bookshop, which has traded in McMahons Point, Sydney, for 30 years, will relocate to a shopfront over the road from its current location later this month. Owner...

James to step down at UQP 

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
UQP has announced that director Ben James will step down from his position at the end of September. James was appointed UQP director in 2019. During his time in the...

United Independent Distributors enters administration

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
In the UK, the United Independent Distributors (UID) group, which comprises Marston Book Services, Orca Book Services and Eurospan, and which was acquired by the US-based Independent Publishers Group (IPG)...

Danger Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Logo for the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival Monday, 5 August 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Danger Awards have been announced. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Debut fiction   Violet Kelly and the Jade Owl (Fiona Britton, A&U)   The...

Hazard to join Keeperton 

Photograph of Fiona Hazard Monday, 5 August 2024
New publishing venture Keeperton has announced the appointment of former Hachette Australia group publishing director Fiona Hazard as head of global strategy and development. In a statement, Keeperton said the...

UQP acquires two Sakr collections 

Photograph of Omar Sakr Monday, 5 August 2024
UQP has acquired two new books by Omar Sakr. The first, The Nightmare Sequence, is a collection of poetry responding to the ongoing situation in Gaza, with a foreword by...

Wiley, OUP confirm AI partnerships

Monday, 5 August 2024
In the UK, the Bookseller reports that academic publishers Wiley and Oxford University Press (OUP) have confirmed artificial intelligence (AI) partnerships, following the recent news that Taylor & Francis has...

Middle-grade sales fall 5% in US

Thursday, 1 August 2024
In the US, a new report from Circana BookScan shows print sales of middle-grade books fell 5% in the first half of 2024 from the comparable period in 2023, with...

Mulhall awarded 2024 Reading Australia Fellowship

Photograph of Maya Mulhall Thursday, 1 August 2024
The Copyright Agency has named Maya Mulhall, a teacher from Blackburn High School in Victoria, the 2024 Reading Australia Fellow for teachers of English and literacy and teacher librarians. Mulhall...

Queensland Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Thursday, 1 August 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. In several categories, the awards' value has increased this year, with the total value of the awards now standing...

UBD to rebrand as Penguin Random House Distribution 

Thursday, 1 August 2024
United Book Distributors (UBD), the distribution facility of Penguin Random House (PRH), has announced it will rebrand to Penguin Random House Distribution from 1 August, with the new name to...

Sullivan appointed MWF festival director

Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Veronica Sullivan, head of programming at the Wheeler Centre (TWC), will step down from the role at the end of August to become festival director at Melbourne Writers Festival. Said...

Lauren Stewart on BookNet Canada 

Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Lauren Stewart, president and CEO of BookNet Canada, will present a keynote at the Australian Publishers Association's BookUp conference in Melbourne on 7 August. Ahead of this appearance, Stewart spoke...

Taylor wins 2024 Ackerley Prize

Wednesday, 31 July 2024
In the UK, journalist and author Catherine Taylor has won the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize 2024 for The Stirrings (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), reports the Bookseller. Taylor receives £4000 (A$7852). Also shortlisted for...

Wood longlisted for 2024 Booker Prize

Cover of Stoneyard Devotional Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Australian author Charlotte Wood has been longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Stone Yard Devotional (A&U). The 13 books shortlist for the £50,000 (A$98,124) prize are: Creation...

Meet the Rising Stars: Yasmin Smith 

Wednesday, 31 July 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the...

Hasib Hourani recommends 

Cover of Translations Wednesday, 31 July 2024
I keep returning to Jumaana Abdu’s Translations, which will be released in August. It’s an expertly paced work of fiction about a woman trying to build a home for herself...

Pantera acquires Sheppard adult novel 

Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights for Holden Sheppard’s first novel for adults, Two Kings, in a deal brokered by Gaby Naher at Left Bank Literary. Two Kings is described...

Hasib Hourani on ‘rock flight’ 

Tuesday, 30 July 2024
Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker and educator living on Wangal Country in Sydney. His debut book, rock flight (Giramondo, September 2024), is a 'structurally experimental long-form poem...

 

 

 

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