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Tinsel time: Christmas 2024 fiction 

Wednesday, 3 July 2024
From the big names to the surprising debuts (and a whole lot of crime in between), Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local adult fiction titles releasing in time for Christmas...

Meet the Rising Stars 2024: Justin Wolfers 

Photograph of Justin Wolfers in front of a brick wall Wednesday, 3 July 2024
The Australian Publishers Association 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 winner announcement...

Creative Australia international program recipients announced

Creative Australia logo Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Creative Australia has announced the recipients of grants through its international programs. The programs include the International Travel Fund, the International Engagement Fund and the International Touring and Presentation Fund,...

Affirm acquires Lishman self-help book 

Tuesday, 2 July 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Marny Lishman’s self-help book Crisis to Contentment, via The Lifestyle Suite. Lishman is a health and community psychologist, wellbeing and mindset coach, keynote...

Hachette acquires Brooks memoir 

Tuesday, 2 July 2024
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Geraldine Brooks’ memoir Memorial Days. Described by the publisher as a ‘heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey toward peace’,...

Merkel wins 2024 Hope Prize

Tuesday, 2 July 2024
John Merkel has won the 2024 Hope Prize, presented by Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S), for the story ‘Shadows Cast by the Moon’. Merkel won the inaugural award, worth $10,000,...

Miles Franklin 2024 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 2 July 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles, selected from a longlist announced in May, are: Only Sound Remains (Hossein Asgari, Puncher & Wattmann)...

PRH acquires Bindi Irwin picture book 

Monday, 1 July 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired rights to Bindi Irwin’s debut picture book, titled You Are a Wildlife Warrior! Saving animals & the planet, illustrated by Ramona Kaulitzki (Sisters...

Dao wins Pascall Prize 

Monday, 1 July 2024
André Dao has won the 2024 Pascall Prize for Cultural Criticism, worth $5000. Dao received the award for pieces published in the Saturday Paper, Meanjin and Liminal Review of Books: ‘Review of Nam...

Orwell Prize 2024 winners announced

Monday, 1 July 2024
In the UK, Hisham Matar and Matthew Longo have won the 2024 Orwell Prizes, reports the Bookseller. Matar won the Orwell prize for political fiction for his novel My Friends (Viking),...

Bradley appointed Campion Group CEO 

Thursday, 27 June 2024
Education resource supplier Campion Group has appointed Tom Bradley as its CEO. Bradley was previously the general manager of customer experience at Kmart Group Ltd. As CEO of Campion, Bradley...

Heyman, Hoey recipients of Varuna exchange 

Thursday, 27 June 2024
Australian writer Kathryn Heyman and Aotearoa New Zealand writer Dominic Hoey are the recipients of the 2024 New Zealand–Australia Residency Exchange, an international residency program held by Varuna, The National...

Jane Harrison steps down from Blak & Bright

Thursday, 27 June 2024
Blak & Bright has announced that Jane Harrison has stepped down from her role as artistic director and CEO. Harrison has been in the role since the four-day First Nations...

PLR/ELR payments up $3.3m as digital lending included 

Thursday, 27 June 2024
The total value of payments made to Australian creators through the Public and Educational Lending Right (PLR/ELR) schemes for the 2023–24 period totalled $26.6 million, an increase of $3.3 million...

Affirm acquires second Solly novel 

Photograph of Kate Solly Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Kate Solly’s second novel, The Paradise Heights Craft Store Stitch-Up. Solly is a mother of six and author of Tuesday Evenings with the...

EWF to launch 2024 program in August

Wednesday, 26 June 2024
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced that its 2024 program launch will take place at the Wheeler Centre, Naarm/Melbourne, on 1 August. This program launch—which will be the festival’s...

Niland, McKinnon among James Beard Award winners

Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Fish Butchery by chef Josh Niland (Hardie Grant) and Tenderheart: A cookbook about vegetables and unbreakable family bonds by Hetty Lui McKinnon (Plum) are among the winners of the 2024...

New poetry journal launches 

Wednesday, 26 June 2024
The Marrow, a new online poetry journal, will launch with a first issue on 30 June. The journal, founded by poets and editors Audrey Molloy, Daragh Byrne and Natalie Bühler,...

Amplify Bookstore’s winter picks 

Cover of Love Unleashed Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Amplify Bookstore is an independent online bookseller specialising in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, founded by Jing Xuan Teo and Marina Sano. Here, they share...

Pantera acquires Madigan nonfiction ‘Torn’ 

Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Pantera has acquired world rights to Nicole Madigan’s nonfiction book Torn, via Jeanne Ryckmans of Key People Literary Management. The book follows individual stories of women who have faced major...

Louise Southerden recommends 

Tuesday, 25 June 2024
I loved Music and Freedom, a novel by Zoë Morrison, which I found in the street library out the front of where I live. (I stumble upon a lot of...

 

 

 

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