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Van Tiggelen appointed editor of ‘Meanjin’

Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Journalist John van Tiggelen has been appointed editor of Melbourne-based literary journal Meanjin from February 2016. Each issue in 2015 will be edited by an ‘influential Australian’ as guest editor. (See news.)

Registration for 2015 Leading Edge Conference to open this week

Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Registration for the 15th annual Leading Edge Books (LEB) Conference will open this week. The 2015 conference will be held at the Rydges Hotel in Melbourne from 15-16 May. Participating authors...

Registration opens for 2015 ABA Conference

Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Registration is now open for the 91st Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Conference, to be held on 17-18 May at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne. The theme for the...

Readings Children’s Book Prize shortlist to be announced at Children’s Book Festival

Wednesday, 18 February 2015
The Readings Children’s Book Prize will announce its shortlist on Sunday 22 March at the Children’s Book Festival in Melbourne. The prize celebrates books that children and families love to...

ABIA nominations open 23 February

Wednesday, 18 February 2015
The nominations for the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) opens on Monday 23 February and closes on Monday 9 March.Nominations are sought for ten categories including two new awards: the Small Publishers’ Adult...

Hachette Australia Congratulates Our Longlisted Authors

Tuesday, 17 February 2015
Hachette Australia is thrilled to congratulate our longlisted authors, Maxine Beneba Clarke for Foreign Soil and Inga Simpson for Nest, in the 2015 Stella Prize.We also congratulate Shaun Tan on...

Tim Cahill Signed to HarperCollins

Tuesday, 17 February 2015
HarperCollinsPublishers is proud to announce it will publish the autobiography of Australia’s greatest soccer player, Tim Cahill, at the end of this year.Coming off the back of the Socceroos victorious...

Typesetter/Designer (Part-Time), Black Inc., Melbourne

Tuesday, 17 February 2015
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Affirm Press Congratulates Emily Bitto on ‘The Strays’ Nomination for the 2015 Stella Prize and the 2015 Indie Book Awards

Monday, 16 February 2015
A brilliant 2014 for Affirm Press has been capped off with the nomination of Emily Bitto’s engaging debut novel The Strays, for both the 2015 Stella Prize and the 2015...

Publicist (Part-Time), MUP, Melbourne

Monday, 16 February 2015
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Campus Sales Representative, Macmillan Science and Education, Melbourne

Monday, 16 February 2015
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NSW Regional Sales Manager—Primary Division, Oxford University Press, NSW

Monday, 16 February 2015
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Managing Editor, Macmillan Education, Melbourne

Monday, 16 February 2015
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Advertising and Sales Officer, ACER—‘Teacher’ Magazine, Melbourne

Friday, 13 February 2015
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Changes at Penguin Random House

Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Sally Bateman has been appointed to the new role of digital, marketing and publicity director at Penguin Random House Asia Pacific.Brett Osmond, Random House marketing and publicity director, will leave the...

Vann leaves Queensland Writers Centre

Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Queensland Writers Centre CEO Meg Vann is stepping down from the position to focus on writing opportunities. (See news.)

Editorial changes at ‘Overland’

Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Literary journal Overland has announced changes to its editorial staff. Bec Zajac has been appointed associate editor. Robert Wood has been appointed as editorial intern. Jeff Sparrow is stepping down...

New anthology to raise money for Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia

Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Busybird Publishing and Hire a Hubby Australia are jointly releasing a new anthology to raise money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA). Below the Belt is a collection...

Society of Editors (NSW): Microsoft Word for editors

Wednesday, 11 February 2015
The Society of Editors (NSW) will run two one-day workshops on Microsoft Word in early March, presented by Kevin O’Brien.The first workshop, ‘Microsoft Word for editors: beginner to intermediate’, will...

Hardie Grant to Publish Tribute to Prince Phillip

Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Hardie Grant Books is pleased to announce a new publication in honour of one of Australia’s most important public figures, Prince Phillip.The Wisdom of Prince Phillip is a carefully selected...

Peribo Congratulates Kwame Alexander on the Perfect Newbery Slam Dunk

Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Congratulations to Kwame Alexander, who has won the 2015 Newbery Medal, the highest honour for children’s literature in the US. Alexander’s powerful novel-in-verse The Crossover (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, HB, $24.99)...