BWF announces 2023 curators, Country of Focus
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
The Brisbane Writers Festival has announced the curators of its 2023 festival program. First Nations artist Daniel Browning, a descendent of the Bundjalung and Kullilli peoples of far northern New...
Release of issues paper kicks off copyright review
Wednesday, 11 January 2023
The Attorney-General’s Department has released an issues paper on copyright enforcement as part of a review into whether Australia’s current copyright enforcement regime is fit-for-purpose. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the...
Affirm acquires Lord debut YA spec-fic
Wednesday, 11 January 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Anomaly, the debut young adult novel by Sydney-based writer Emma Lord. Described by the publisher as Tomorrow When the War Began meets The...
New category added to WA Prem’s awards
Wednesday, 7 December 2022
The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards has added a new category for the 2023 awards. The Premier's Prize for Book of the Year Award, worth $15,000, will be sponsored by...
Ultimo acquires Knight memoir
Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to the memoir Strange Little Girl by Melbourne-based writer, performer and zine maker Jess Knight. Described by the publisher as a ‘heart-warming, unapologetic and...
A&U, Voices from the Intersection mentorship recipients announced
Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) and Voices from the Intersection have announced the recipients of their partnership mentorship program for emerging children’s and YA own voices writers and illustrators. The successful...
Hachette Aotearoa launches Moa Press
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Hachette Aotearoa has established a new imprint, Moa Press, which ‘aims to champion a diverse range of voices, representing a multitude of cultures and perspectives from within Aotearoa New Zealand’....
SPN conference 2022 ‘demonstrated breadth of Australian publishing’
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
The 11th annual Small Press Network (SPN) Independent Publishing Conference was held last week, 24–26 November, in a hybrid event taking place at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre, the State Library Victoria...
Cornegé to leave UQP
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) marketing and publicity manager Louise Cornegé has been appointed marketing and campaigns manager at the Conversation and will leave UQP on 15 December. Appointed in 2019,...
Hunterland joins Affirm sales team
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Affirm Press has announced the appointment of Jane Hunterland as the publisher’s Queensland account manager. Hunterland, who comes to the role with 12 years’ experience as an account manager for...
Two Brabon novels to Ultimo
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ and UK rights to two new novels by Katherine Brabon, in a deal via Clare Forster at Curtis Brown. In Body Friend, the narrator leaves...
Harry Hartog Penrith to open in April
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Berkelouw Books will open a new Harry Hartog-branded store in Penrith in April 2023. The 750sqm Harry Hartog Penrith store will be located at 384 High Street Penrith, and will...
Pettit, Hawkins to join Affirm sales team
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
Affirm Press has announced the appointment of Priscilla Pettit and Christopher Hawkins as key account managers for NSW/ACT. Pettit has spent three years with Dymocks stores as assistant manager at...
Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship 2022 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 2022 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship shortlist. The shortlisted applicants, chosen by authors Shankari Chandran and Jennifer Mills, are: Ashley Hay for ‘The...
Woollahra Digital Literary Award 2022 winners
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
The winners of the 2022 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Fiction ($2500) ‘The Golden Bracelet’ (Deniz Agraz, Meniscus Literary Journal) Nonfiction ($2500) ‘Not...
ACT Writers Centre re-launches as Marion
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
The ACT Writers Centre has re-launched as Marion, with the tagline ‘elevating writers and their art’. The new name is ‘a tipped hat to two creative forces that have influenced...
HarperCollins acquires Grant’s ‘The Queen is Dead’
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to The Queen is Dead, a new work of nonfiction from Stan Grant, in a deal brokered by Tara Wynne of Curtis Brown. To...
Hamilton appointed S&S marketing and publicity director
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
Simon and Schuster Australia (S&S) has appointed Fleur Hamilton to the role of marketing and publicity director. Hamilton, who replaces Ace Mamun in the role, joins S&S from Allen &...
Tasmanian Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Tasmanian Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Young readers and children ($25,000) Aster’s Good, Right Things (Kate Gordon, Yellow...
McDuling joins PRH as rights manager
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the appointment of Sarah McDuling as its new rights manager. McDuling replaces Nerrilee Weir, who left the company in June after 24 years....
PANZ receives funding for audiobook project
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
The Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) has received a NZ$495,150 (A$453,680) Te Tahua Whakamarohi i te Rāngai Ahurea Cultural Sector Regeneration Fund grant ‘to establish...
New paid Hachette traineeship
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
Hachette Australia has announced a new paid entry-level publishing traineeship intended to address the lack of diversity in publishing. The traineeship is a full-time year-long role offering exposure across Hachette’s...
BookTok, Romantasy in demand at small but ‘upbeat’ Frankfurt
Wednesday, 2 November 2022
Local publishers returning to Frankfurt for the first time since the pandemic reported an upbeat mood at the smaller-than-usual fair, where attendees were grateful to be face-to-face despite concerns over...
Erskine receives 2022 Lady Cutler Award
Wednesday, 2 November 2022
Gail Erskine is the recipient of the 2022 Lady Cutler Award, presented by the New South Wales branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) for distinguished service to...
Alcove acquires ‘The Laughter Effect’
Wednesday, 2 November 2022
Laura Apperson at Alcove Press has acquired world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to The Laughter Effect: How to build joy, resilience and positivity in your life by Ros Ben-Moshe, in a...
Hachette acquires Jones’s ‘Cool Water’
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Hachette has acquired world rights to literary novel Cool Water by Myfanwy Jones, in a deal negotiated by Jacinta di Mase Management. Following the story of a family over three...
Hedley appointed HarperCollins NZ publishing director
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
HarperCollins New Zealand has announced the promotion of Alex Hedley to publishing director, reports the Publishers Association of New Zealand. Hedly joined the New Zealand team in 2016, publishing bestsellers...
McGaughey wins Nakata Brophy prize
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Jasmin McGaughey has won the Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for 'Sweet Anticipation'. McGaughey receives $5000 and a three-month writing residence at Trinity College at the University of...
‘People Who Lunch’ sells to Little, Brown Spark
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Talia Krohn at Little, Brown Spark has acquired world English language rights (ex ANZ) to People Who Lunch: Essays on work, leisure & loose living by Sally Olds (Upswell), via Black...
Walkley Book Award longlist announced
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
The longlist for this year’s Walkley Book Award has been announced. The nine longlisted titles are: Currowan (Bronwyn Adcock, Black Inc.) QAnon and On (Van Badham, Hardie Grant) Making Australian...
