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Aotearoa New Zealand Book Industry Awards 2024 announced

Wednesday, 7 August 2024
The winners of the 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand Book Industry Awards have been announced. Moa Press, an imprint of Hachette, was named publisher of the year, while Petronella’s Bookstore and...

A&U acquires Oswald novel

Wednesday, 7 August 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to One Hundred Years of Betty by Debra Oswald, in a deal brokered by Anthony Blair at Cameron’s. One the eve of...

‘In Ascension’ wins 2024 Arthur C Clarke Award

Wednesday, 7 August 2024
In the UK, Scottish writer Martin MacInnes has won this year’s Arthur C Clarke award for In Ascension (Atlantic), reports the Guardian. MacInnes’s third novel, In Ascension follows marine biologist...

Jacqueline Dinan recommends

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
I have just finished reading Nova Weetman’s Love, Death & Other Scenes, in which she so rawly yet beautifully explores her journey through her husband’s illness and ultimate death, plus...

Andrew Krakouer recommends

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
I am fascinated by Always Was, Always Will Be by Aunty Fay Muir and Sue Lawson, also published by Magabala Books. I have always appreciated the fight for respect on...

Andrew Krakouer & Jacqueline Dinan on ‘My Dad’s Gone Away’

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
In the unique new picture book My Dad’s Gone Away (Magabala, October 2024), authors Andrew Krakouer, a Minang (Nyoongar) and Inggarda (Yamatji) man and former AFL player, and Jacqueline Dinan,...

Meet the Rising Stars: Tessa Feggans

Tuesday, 6 August 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...

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

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...

‘Limberlost’ wins 2024 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
Robbie Arnott has won the 2024 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, worth $25,000, for his novel Limberlost (Text). Limberlost is based on the life of Arnott’s...

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

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...

Authors, literary organisations among Copyright Agency Cultural Fund recipients

Monday, 5 August 2024
The Copyright Agency has announced the projects to be funded through its 2024 Cultural Fund program, among which are 20 organisations with literary projects and three authors. Among the 25...

Hazard to join Keeperton

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

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...

Australian Geographic, Hardie Grant announce publishing partnership

Monday, 5 August 2024
Australian Geographic and Hardie Grant are partnering on a new publishing program. The program will comprise new titles and updated editions of Australian Geographic’s core range of publications. In a...

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...

Wright awarded 2024 Miles Franklin for ‘Praiseworthy’, becomes two-time winner

Thursday, 1 August 2024
Alexis Wright has won the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for her novel Praiseworthy (Giramondo). Wright previously won the award in 2007 for her novel Carpentaria (Giramondo), and now...

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...

Creative Australia International Travel, Translation, and Rights Funds for Literature recipients announced

Thursday, 1 August 2024
Creative Australia has announced 2024 recipients of grants from several funds supporting Australian literature. The recipients are: International Travel Fund Katherine Brabon Sarah Firth Chris Gooch Hasib Blaik Hourani Dinuka...