A&U NZ: Hurley appointed publishing director, Hellen to build children’s list as publisher at large
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Allen & Unwin New Zealand (A&U NZ) has appointed publishing director Jenny Hellen to the newly created role of publisher at large, and appointed Michelle Hurley to Hellen’s former role,...
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,...
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...
Playfair to depart A&U
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced that production director Lou Playfair is departing the company early next month. Playfair has worked for A&U for 30 years, having originally joined in...
Byron Writers Festival full program announced
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Byron Writers Festival has announced its full program for the 2024 festival, which will take place from 9 to 11 August on Bundjalung Country in Bangalow, in northern New South...
Upswell acquires Pigram nonfiction title
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to a debut nonfiction title by singer-songwriter Stephen Pigram, with the working title Feel Like Going Back Home. Upswell said that, in the book,...
Craig joins A&U as publisher
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Alex Craig has been appointed to the role of publisher at Allen & Unwin, after leaving Ultimo in February. A&U said that Craig ‘started her career in magazines, writing mainly...
Summit Books to publish memoir from ‘Alone Australia’ winner
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has announced the first acquisition by Jane Palfreyman as Summit Books publishing director is We Are the Stars, a memoir by Gina Chick, winner of...
Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipients announced
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Writers Victoria has announced the 11th round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. The eight successful recipients—who share in a total of $50,419—are: Elfy Scott (NSW), to...
S&S acquires McCormack’s ‘Raising Resilient Children’
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired world rights to a nonfiction book from teacher Gavin McCormack, titled Raising Resilient Children: 7 ways to nurture lifelong learners, via literary agent Daniel...
A&U acquires Trevelyan debut novel
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to debut author Jennifer Trevelyan’s literary coming-of-age story A Beautiful Family, at an auction by Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary on behalf of...
A&U acquires London debut
Wednesday, 5 June 2024
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to debut novel Love on the Air by radio presenter and podcaster Ash London. Love on the Air follows radio host Alex York...
SWF and MWF bestsellers revealed
Wednesday, 5 June 2024
Booksellers at the Sydney Writers' Festival and the Melbourne Writers Festival—both of which took place in May—have released their lists of bestselling titles from the events. Sydney Writers' Festival Gleebooks...
Full BookUp 2024 program announced
Wednesday, 5 June 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the full program for the 2024 BookUp conference, which will take place on 7 August at State Library Victoria in Melbourne. Innovation and...
Auckland Writers Festival breaks attendance record, ‘Lioness’ the number one bestseller
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
The Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki reported that this year's festival program, held 14–19 May, has ‘broken all attendance records’. The festival recorded more than 85,000 attendees at 167...
Gesa recognised in 2024 First Nations Arts and Culture Awards
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Indigenous, Pasifika and West Asian writer Meleika Gesa has been recognised with a Dreaming Award for young emerging artists at the 2024 First Nations Arts and Culture Awards. The awards...
Hardie Grant announces agency changes
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Hardie Grant has announced new distribution partnerships in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand with overseas publishers Princeton Architectural Press (PA Press), Gibbs Smith, UniPress and Canelo. PA Press is based...
Pantera sells rights to Duggan’s ‘Work Backwards’ to Wiley
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Pantera has sold world rights (ex ANZ) to Work Backwards (Tim Duggan) to Wiley, in a deal brokered by Pantera rights manager Katy McEwen. In the book, released locally in...
S&S acquires Behrendt novel
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) imprint Bundyi has acquired world rights to a new commercial novel by Larissa Behrendt. Friends for nearly four decades, Behrendt and Bundyi publisher-at-large Anita Heiss...
BookUp 2024 first guests announced
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced this year’s BookUp conference will take place on 7 August at State Library Victoria in Melbourne, with tickets now on sale. Thames &...
Dao, Morrissey and O’Grady named SMH Best Young Australian Novelists 2024
Sunday, 19 May 2024
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has announced the Best Young Australian Novelists for 2024. The writers and their books are: André Dao for Anam (Hamish Hamilton) John Morrissey for Firelight...
Federal budget: APA welcomes government investment in copyright/AI review
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Following the announcement of the 2024–25 federal budget last night, the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has welcomed an allocation of funding for the Office of the Attorney-General to review copyright...
Hinkler acquires US publisher Piccadilly
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Melbourne publisher and distributor Hinkler has acquired US-based journal and sketchbook publisher Piccadilly. ‘This is a significant acquisition for Hinkler, aligning with strategic plans for growth in North America and...
SPN to pause operations, gauge ‘ongoing viability’
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
The board of the Small Press Network (SPN) has announced it will halt operations and social media for two months as it seeks to gauge the ongoing viability of the...
Money wins 2024 UQP Quentin Bryce Award
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
UQP has announced that Jazz Money has won the 2024 Quentin Bryce Award for her poetry collection mark the dawn. mark the dawn is described by the publisher as asking...
Wakefield acquires Pollock novel ‘Starry Eyed’
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Wakefield Press has acquired ANZ rights to a second novel from Katharine Pollock, provisionally titled Starry Eyed, via Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. In Starry Eyed, when Addilyn Acker is...
black&write! 2024 fellowship recipients announced
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced that the recipients of the 2024 black&write! fellowships are poets Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi and Lulu Houdini. Gesa-Fatafehi is a Torres Strait Islander and...
Palmer wins 2024 Ernest Scott Prize
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and history on a Central Australian pastoral station (Shannyn Palmer, MUP) has won the 2024 Ernest Scott Prize for History. Award judges Grace Karskens and Frank...
ALS Gold Medal 2024 longlist announced
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. Longlisted works include: Frank (Jordie Albiston, NLA Publishing) The Prize (Kim E Anderson, Pantera) Like to...
Levitina shortlisted for UK Historical Novel Society’s First Chapters Competition
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Sydney author Julia Levitina has been shortlisted for the UK Historical Novel Society’s (HNS) First Chapters Competition. Levitina was shortlisted in the 20th-century historical fiction category for the opening chapters...
