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Educational publishers respond to Grattan report

Tuesday, 25 October 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has criticised a recommendation by the Grattan Institute that governments should consider buying curriculum materials overseas ‘as an immediate priority’. In its report Ending the...

Tasmanian Literary Awards longlists announced

Monday, 24 October 2022
The longlists for the 2022 Tasmanian Literary Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category, worth $25,000 each, are: Young readers and children Aster’s Good, Right Things (Kate...

VPLAs add children’s award

Monday, 24 October 2022
The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs) will add a new children’s book award worth $25,000. The Award for Children’s Literature will be presented to the creators of the best children’s...

Around 90,000 attend Frankfurt

Monday, 24 October 2022
Around 90,000 visitors from more than 100 nations attended Frankfurt Book Fair’s (FBF) official trade days, reports Publishing Perspectives. FBF president and CEO Juergen Boos said the number of visitors...

Keneally, Nannestad win $100K Historical Novel Prize

Friday, 21 October 2022
Tom Keneally has won the $50,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize in the adult category for Corporal Hitler's Pistol (Penguin), while Katrina Nannestad has won the $30,000 children and young adult...

Schmidt wins 2022 Hungerford Award

Friday, 21 October 2022
Molly Schmidt has won the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award for her manuscript Salt River Road. She receives $15,000 in prize money and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press....

US$75K Cundill History Prize finalists announced

Friday, 21 October 2022
The finalists for the 2022 Cundill History Prize, which rewards ‘the best history writing in English’, have been announced. The finalists are: Cuba: An American history (Ada Ferrer, Scribner) All That...

Frankfurt Book Fair opens

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Australia is back at Frankfurt, come say hello!

Thursday, 13 October 2022
Australians have spent most of the past two years confined to our home country (and much of that time confined to our homes!), so it is wonderful to report that...

 

 

 

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