Wednesday, 11 August 2021
Simon & Schuster is standing by celebrity chef Jock Zonfrillo’s memoir Last Shot following a profile of Zonfrillo published in Good Weekend. Jo Dyer will step down as director of Adelaide...

Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Melbourne Writers Festival has revealed this year’s program, which runs from 3–12 September. Meanwhile, Writing NSW and the NT Writers Centre, as well as the NSW Central Coast’s Words on...

Wednesday, 28 July 2021
Independent UK publisher Welbeck is establishing a new standalone Australian subsidiary in partnership with Booktopia, with aims to publish 50 local titles a year. The NT Writers Festival has launched...

Wednesday, 21 July 2021
Amanda Lohrey has won this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award for her seventh novel, The Labyrinth. Hardie Grant has bought out founding investor Associated Media Investments (AMI), introduced a new board,...

Wednesday, 14 July 2021
Chrissy Sharp has stepped down as the CEO of Sydney Writers' Festival after three years with the organisation, with Brooke Webb and Michael Williams to lead next year’s festival. At...

Wednesday, 7 July 2021
Two local authors have been recognised in overseas awards: Michael Robotham won the CWA Steel Dagger for best thriller for his novel When She Was Good, while Laura Jean Mckay’s The...

Wednesday, 30 June 2021
A majority of staff at the Readings bookselling chain have voted to negotiate an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement, while in Sydney, union members at Better Read Than Dead are undertaking a...

Thursday, 17 June 2021
A number of authors and publishing industry figures have been recognised in this year’s 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours. Corrie Perkin’s My Bookshop in the Melbourne suburb of Hawksburn is set...

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Following its move to increase its focus on scholarly publishing, MUP has reported an operating profit increase of 19%. In other news, Spineless Wonders has launched a new imprint that...

Wednesday, 2 June 2021
The ALIA Online Storytime pilot program has earned over $50,000 to be distributed to creators and publishers in its first three months of operation. In personnel moves, Pantera Press has...

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival, which emphasised live events alongside some digital sessions, achieved sales and attendance levels ‘that would have been significant even in a non-pandemic year’, with the...

Wednesday, 19 May 2021
Independent publisher Brio Books has been integrated into Booktopia, in a deal which will see the small press continue to publish books under the Brio imprint as part of Booktopia...

Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Over 100 people attended the APA’s first BookUp conference; however, the event—particularly the inclusivity panel—was criticised by attendees for its lack of diversity. Brisbane's Avid Reader has been shortlisted for...

Wednesday, 5 May 2021
In a big week for awards, the winners of this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards were announced, as were the winners of the Vogel, the Nature Writing Prize, IPEd’s Janet Mackenzie...

Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Evie Wyld has won this year’s Stella Prize, worth $50,000, for her novel The Bass Rock (Vintage). Meanwhile, Ellen van Neerven has scooped the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards with their...

Wednesday, 21 April 2021
The program for this year’s Australian Booksellers Association conference, to be held in person and online from 20–22 June at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, has been announced. In awards...

Wednesday, 14 April 2021
The shortlists for this year’s ABIAs have been announced, as has the shortlist for the ABIA Rising Star of the Year Award. In other news, Clunes Booktown is returning with...

Thursday, 8 April 2021
The Australian Publishers Association, and the Melbourne and Blue Mountains writers festivals are among the latest recipients of the federal government’s RISE funding. In awards news, the shortlists for the...

Wednesday, 31 March 2021
Last week the shortlist for the 2021 Stella Prize was announced, as was the program for the second StoryFest festival, which takes place on the NSW South Coast in June....

Wednesday, 24 March 2021
The program for this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival, running from 7–9 May, has been announced. Meanwhile, Red Room Poetry is planning a series of daily events for the first ever...

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
In a big week for events announcements, the Sydney and Auckland writers’ festival programs have been revealed, and the first speakers for the BookUp and IPEd conferences—the second of which...

Thursday, 11 March 2021
The longlist for this year’s Stella Prize, announced last week, includes short fiction, a young adult novel, three works of nonfiction and a novel in translation, and comprises five works...

Wednesday, 3 March 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia has reported a record year of sales in 2020, which were up 15% on 2019 and topped $50 million for the first time. Byron Writers Festival...

Wednesday, 24 February 2021
Late last week, a number of local publishers, literary journals and booksellers had their Facebook pages wiped of content after the social media company responded to the federal government's proposed...

Wednesday, 17 February 2021
HarperCollins Australia is launching a new ‘design-led’ illustrated imprint, Harper by Design. In industry events, IPEd and BWF are collaborating on an Authors and Editors in Conversation series, while EWF...

Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Book sales in Australia were up 17.5% in the 10 weeks to 5 December 2020, data from Nielsen BookScan shows. Rebecca Giggs won the American Library Association's (ALA) Andrew Carnegie...

Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Laura Jean McKay has won Australia’s richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, for The Animals in That Country (Scribe), at this year’s Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. In...

Thursday, 28 January 2021
A handful of book industry figures have been recognised in the annual Australia Day honours. The full line-up for the 2021 Perth Festival Literature & Ideas program—which runs from 8–28...

Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Australian book sales were up nearly 8% in 2020, led by strong growth in adult fiction and children’s titles, according to Nielsen. Meanwhile, the ASA has reported that royalties declined for...