De Kretser shortlisted for Kirkus Prize
Monday, 12 September 2022
Michelle de Kretser is a finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, worth US$50,000 (A$73,100), for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U). De Kretser's book is one of six finalists in...
Harper wins Glass Bell Award for ‘The Wolf Den’
Monday, 12 September 2022
In the UK, Elodie Harper has won the £2000 (A$3390) Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award for her novel The Wolf Den (Head of Zeus), reports the Bookseller. Harper’s novel is the first in a...
Parker-Chan wins Hugo Award for Best New Writer
Friday, 9 September 2022
Australian writer Shelley Parker-Chan has won the Best New Writer category at the Hugo Awards for science fiction. Parker-Chan's debut She Who Became the Sun was first published in the...
Allinson, Brennan win Age Book of the Year awards
Friday, 9 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Age Book of the Year Award have been announced. Miles Allinson won the fiction award for his second novel In Moonland (Scribe), while Bernadette Brennan won the...
Queensland Literary Awards 2022 winners
Friday, 9 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance ($25,000) Wounded Country (Quentin Beresford,...
Shortlist for £25k British Academy Book Prize announced
Thursday, 8 September 2022
In the UK, the shortlist for the £25,000 (A$42,650) British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The shortlisted books are: The Invention of...
EPAA 2022 winners announced
Thursday, 8 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) have been announced. The winners in each category are: Secondary publisher of the year Cambridge University Press Primary publisher of...
Mascara, Varuna announce diverse writers residency
Thursday, 8 September 2022
Mascara Literary Review has announced the inaugural Mascara Varuna Writers’ and Editors’ Residency, supported by the Copyright Agency and the Adès Family Foundation. The residency is open to First Nations...
Moore establishes locum booksellers business
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Stacey Moore, owner and founder of independent bookshop Bookgrove in Ocean Grove, Victoria, has started another business, BreakAway Books locum booksellers. As part of the new business, Moore is offering...
Big Issue fiction edition returns
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
The Big Issue has announced the authors chosen for its annual fiction edition. The 2022 edition includes works from 12 writers selected from 905 submissions. The selected works were anonymously...
Tiny Uncertain Miracles
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Miracles are notoriously unreliable. But sometimes, just when they're needed, they turn up—although not always in the form that we expect... Awkward, hapless Marick is still struggling with the loss...
Booker Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Booker Prize has been announced. The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$85,510) prize are: Glory (NoViolet Bulawayo, Viking) The Trees (Percival Everett, Influx) Treacle...
Snow Leopard Lodge AirBNB Cottage Blue Mountains
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Spectacular views in the Blue Mountains. Lovely Himalaya style cottage in Leura. Beautiful furnishings, exotic rugs, fine art photographs. Luxury beds, well equipped kitchen, expresso coffee machine and pods. All...
Assistant category manager, Sydney
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Booktopia Booktopia is Australia’s largest online bookseller, shipping 8 million+ items per year—that’s one item every 3.6 seconds—throughout Australia and New Zealand! Booktopia has an exciting opportunity in our merchandise...
Production and rights coordinator, Melbourne
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing is the young readers’ division of Australia’s largest independent publisher, and the home of bestselling, award-winning and ground-breaking books for children and...
Commissioning editor, Sydney
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Publishers has an exciting opportunity for an organised and enthusiastic individual to join the HQ Division in the role of commissioning editor on a 12-month fixed term...
Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us hits 300k sales in ANZ
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Simon & Schuster Australia is thrilled to announce that It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover has sold more than 300,000 copies across all formats in ANZ. First published in...
Editor-in-residence, Sydney
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Faber Writing Academy Faber Writing Academy at Allen & Unwin is seeking a talented, innovative editor to join our dynamic team. As our editor-in-residence—a newly developed role—you will work closely...
Writing NSW diverse mentorship program winners announced
Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Writing NSW has announced the recipients of the 2022 diverse writers mentorship program for emerging writers from Indigenous or culturally diverse backgrounds. The winners are: Azka Hameed Mayu Kanamori Harold...
Richell Prize 2022 longlist announced
Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival have announced the longlist for the 2022 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The 20 longlisted authors, chosen from over 700 entries, are: Alexander...
Banjo Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 6 September 2022
HarperCollins Australia has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Banjo Prize for an unpublished work of commercial fiction. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'Pine River Falls' by Christine Gregory 'Next of...
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2022 winners announced
Tuesday, 6 September 2022
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the winners of the 2022 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The winners in each category receive $15,000. The winning titles, chosen from shortlists...
Gamieldien wins inaugural WestWords/Ultimo Prize
Monday, 5 September 2022
The winner of the inaugural WestWords/Ultimo Prize is The Scope of Permissibility by Zeynab Gamieldien. Chosen from ‘an incredibly high calibre of entries’ by judges Michael Campbell (WestWords executive director),...
Wattison wins $10k ACU Poetry Prize
Friday, 2 September 2022
Meredith Wattison has won the $10,000 Australian Catholic University (ACU) Prize for Poetry. Based in the Macarthur Region of NSW, Wattison won first prize for ‘The Loose Wild Grace Of...
PRH earnings down 21% in first half of the year
Thursday, 1 September 2022
Penguin Random House’s (PRH) revenue was up but earnings were down in the first half of 2022, parent company Bertelsmann has reported. While global revenue in the six months to...
Inaugural Berry Writers Festival program announced
Thursday, 1 September 2022
The full program for the inaugural Berry Writers Festival, to be held 21–23 October in Shoalhaven, NSW, has been announced. The three-day program includes panel discussions, conversations, performances, author signings,...
APA convenes diversity & inclusion working group; releases UniMelb ‘baseline’ survey results
Wednesday, 31 August 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released the results of a ‘baseline’ survey of the Australian publishing industry undertaken by University of Melbourne researchers, and convened a Diversity & Inclusion...
Vale Rod Mead
Wednesday, 31 August 2022
Publishing industry figure Rod Mead has died, aged 85. Pamela Petty and Bryony Cosgrove write: Australian publishing has lost one of its much-loved bon vivants. Rod Mead (21 April 1937–31...
Marketing coordinator, Melbourne
Wednesday, 31 August 2022
Cambridge University Press & Assessment Are you A marketing all-rounder who would like to develop their digital marketing experience further? Adaptable and highly organised, with a keen interest in analytics...
Audiovisual CD and reference selector, Brisbane
Wednesday, 31 August 2022
Peter Pal Library Suppliers Do you have an interest in current events and a broad knowledge of the world around you? Do you love books and audiovisual material? Turn your...
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