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Inside the Australian and New Zealand book industry

Thursday, 20 October 2022
The first full-scale Frankfurt Book Fair in three years has opened. The Bookseller reported rights-traders have noted ‘an appetite for literary works’ and a ‘later’ Frankfurt season, with ‘more pre-empts...

Wallman awarded Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Writing Fellowship

Thursday, 20 October 2022
Centre for Stories has announced Sam Wallman as the recipient of the 2022 Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Fellowship. Wallman receives $12,000, a workspace at the Centre for Stories in Perth, and access...

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...

Vale Carmen Callil

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Carmen Callil, author, publisher and founder of Virago, has died in London, aged 84. Callil's agent Peter Straus writes: 'It is with great sadness that we announce the death of...

Vale John Nieuwenhuizen

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Translator John Nieuwenhuizen has died, aged 87. Eva Mills from Allen & Unwin writes: 'John Nieuwenhuizen was one of Australia’s most acclaimed translators of Dutch and Flemish literature. With his...

Bookshops in Shepparton, Echuca, Kyneton closed due to floods

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Collins Booksellers in Shepparton and Echuca, Victoria, have announced these stores will be closed until further notice due to flooding in the region. ‘We had a bit of water that...

HarperCollins US staff vote to strike

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Representatives for unionised HarperCollins US employees will go on strike on 7 November, reports Publishers Weekly. Employees have been negotiating for 11 months for a new employment agreement but have...

Sales director (Australasia), Sydney

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Phoenix International Phoenix International is seeking an experienced and accomplished sales director to help grow our Asia Pacific business. This is a fantastic role in a dynamic organisation with the...

Digital communications specialist, Sydney

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Australasian Medical Publishing Company The opportunity: Are you passionate about health and wellbeing? Like to join the leaders in Australian medical publishing? As the publishers of the Medical Journal of...

Assistant category manager, Sydney

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Booktopia Booktopia is Australia’s largest online bookseller, shipping eight million+ items per year—that’s one item every 3.6 seconds— throughout Australia and New Zealand! Booktopia has an exciting opportunity in our...

Weekend duty manager, Melbourne

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Readings Readings is an independent retailer of books, music and film, and has long been at the centre of Melbourne’s local literary scene. Readings was awarded Book Retailer of the...

Senior editor, Sydney

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Publishers has an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic senior book editor to join the HarperCollins adult’s books team. This is a full-time position, based at...

Receptionist and Faber Writing Academy coordinator, Sydney

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Allen & Unwin Allen & Unwin, 14-time Publisher of the Year and Australia’s leading independent publisher, is seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated person to become our receptionist and Faber Writing...

Black Inc. backs ‘The Successor’ with reprint ahead of publication

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Thanks to an impressive sell-in and significant media interest, Black Inc. is pre-emptively reprinting another 10k of Paddy Manning’s highly anticipated biography of Lachlan Murdoch, The Successor, bringing its total...

Customer service consultant, Melbourne

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand (OUPANZ) is Australia’s oldest continuous educational publisher. As a department of the University of Oxford, we are proud to be...

Neilma Sidney Travel Fund recipients announced

Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Writers Victoria has announced the eighth round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. The successful recipients, who share in a total of $56,925, are: Eunice Andrada, for...

Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’

Tuesday, 18 October 2022
In the UK, Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$90,250), for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Sort Of Books). The Seven Moons of...

HarperCollins US lays off ‘small number’ of employees

Monday, 17 October 2022
HarperCollins US has eliminated ‘a small number of positions’ due to slowing industry sales and rising costs, reports Publishers Weekly. In a memo to employees, CEO Brian Murphy said job...

T S Eliot Prize shortlist announced

Friday, 14 October 2022
In the UK, the shortlist for this year’s T S Eliot Prize for Poetry, worth £25,000 (A$45K), has been announced. The 10 shortlisted poetry collections are: Quiet (Victoria Adukwei Bulley,...

Greenwood wins Varuna-NEWC Fellowship

Friday, 14 October 2022
The New England Writers’ Centre (NEWC) in partnership with Varuna, the National Writers’ House, has announced Anne Greenwood as the winner of the 2022 Varuna-NEWC Fellowship. Greenwood receives a week’s...