APA announces editors selected for Children’s Editorial Program intensive
Thursday, 15 August 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the 26 editors selected to participate in the Children’s Editorial Program’s inaugural initiative, the Picture Book Editing Intensive, taking place in October 2024....
Gregg overall winner at New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
Thursday, 15 August 2024
In Aotearoa New Zealand, Stacy Gregg (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Pūkeko, Ngāti Maru Hauraki) has won the overall Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award at the 2024 New Zealand Book...
Booksellers report dramatic sales drop during Olympic Games
Thursday, 15 August 2024
In Paris, booksellers have reported significant sales drops during the 2024 Olympic Games, reports the Bookseller. English-language Abbey Bookshop in the city’s Latin Quarter reported sales on the Monday before...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Thursday, 15 August 2024
Creative Australia has announced the titles shortlisted for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Anam (André Dao, Hamish Hamilton) Restless Dolly Maunder...
Royal Society science book prize 2024 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 14 August 2024
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The six titles shortlisted for the £25,000 (A$48,482) award, selected...
Yin on ‘The Conscious Style Guide’
Wednesday, 14 August 2024
Karen Yin is an award-winning writer and editor. She created the Conscious Style Guide, a resource website for writers, editors and others interested in conscious language, as well as the...
Books pitched at MIFF 2024
Wednesday, 14 August 2024
Books at MIFF, an event that promotes books to potential screen rights buyers at the Melbourne International Film Festival, took place again this year, on last Thursday, 8 August. The...
Affirm acquires Cleary debut historical fiction
Wednesday, 14 August 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Madeleine Cleary’s debut historical novel, The Butterfly Women. Set in 1863, the novel tells a story of Australia ‘that the newspapers and history...
Rochelle Siemienowicz recommends
Wednesday, 14 August 2024
If You Go by Alice Robinson (Affirm) is an amazing book that works as both tense, speculative fiction and as a nuanced, philosophical exploration of divorce, motherhood and the moments...
Rochelle Siemienowicz on ‘Double Happiness’
Tuesday, 13 August 2024
Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne-based author, journalist and film critic. Her debut fiction novel, Double Happiness (MidnightSun, October 2024), ‘explores the intricacies, challenges and taboos surrounding polyamory and ethical non-monogamy’, according...
Readings Children’s Book Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 13 August 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Readings Children’s Book Prize has been announced. This year’s six shortlisted books are: The Lonely Lighthouse of Elston-Fright (Reece Carter, illus by Simon Howe, A&U...
Australian publishers on Frankfurt APA collective stand
Tuesday, 13 August 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has confirmed 14 publishers will appear on the Australian Collective Stand at the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair later this year. Publishers set to appear on...
Creative Australia to combine International Travel Fund with other programs
Tuesday, 13 August 2024
Creative Australia has announced it is reviewing how it delivers funding to support international engagement, travel and presentations, ‘with the aim of reducing duplication’ across programs. Creative Australia said the...
Byron Writers Festival attendance up 18%
Tuesday, 13 August 2024
The 2024 Byron Writers Festival, which ran from 9 to 11 August, was a ‘great success’, according to organisers. The festival reported an 18% increase on the previous year’s box...
Hugo Awards 2024 winners announced
Tuesday, 13 August 2024
The winners of this year’s Hugo Awards, presented annually by the World Science Fiction Convention, have been announced. Among the winners are: Best novel Some Desperate Glory (Emily Tesh, Orbit)...
South Australian Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Monday, 12 August 2024
The 2024 South Australian Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Fiction award ($15,000) All That's Left Unsaid (Tracey Lien, HQ) Hydra (Adriane Howell,...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2024 shortlist announced
Monday, 12 August 2024
The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James Cook University has announced the shortlist for the $50,000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award. The eight titles shortlisted for the...
HarperCollins audio sales up 18%, overall sales up 6%
Monday, 12 August 2024
HarperCollins parent company News Corp has announced its fourth quarter and annual results. The company reported that its book publishing division saw sales rise 6% for the 2024 fiscal year...
Ned Kelly Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Monday, 12 August 2024
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards shortlists. The shortlisted works in each category are: Best crime fiction Killer Traitor Spy (Tim Ayliffe, S&S) Ripper...
Hammer wins 2024 ACT Book of the Year
Monday, 12 August 2024
Chris Hammer has won the 2024 ACT Book of the Year Award, worth $10,000, for The Seven (A&U). Untethered (Ayesha Inoon, HQ Fiction) and The Measure of Sorrow: Stories (J...
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Thursday, 8 August 2024
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Australian history prize ($15,000) Donald Horne:...
Dunn awarded 2024 Rising Star Award
Thursday, 8 August 2024
Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) distribution director Riikka Dunn has been named the Australian Publishers Association (APA) 2024 Rising Star. Dunn was selected from a shortlist that also included Rebecca Allen...
Nib Literary Award 2024 longlist announced
Thursday, 8 August 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Because I'm Not Myself, You See (Ariane Beeston, Black...
AFR reports new owner for Booktopia after 100 EOIs
Thursday, 8 August 2024
An article in the Australian Financial Review (AFR) dated 7 August reports that privately held electronics retailer digiDirect has ‘all but secured’ the Booktopia business, according to people with knowledge...
PANZ Publishing Market Size Report released
Thursday, 8 August 2024
The 2023 Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) Publishing Market Size Report, presented at the PANZ conference in Auckland on 1 and 2 August, showed there...
Orbit UK launches horror imprint
Thursday, 8 August 2024
Orbit UK has launched a new horror imprint, Run For It, reports the Bookseller. The imprint is Hachette UK’s first dedicated horror list and shares its name with a new...
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...
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