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Vale Jerry Kalajian

Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Jerry Kalajian, film and TV rights manager at Intellectual Property Group (IPG) in Los Angeles and co-agent at Curtis Brown, has died. Curtis Brown writes: 'It is with great sadness...

ILD 2022: An ‘infectious’ day of celebrating literacy

Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Last Wednesday, 7 September, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) celebrated its annual Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) with a live event at the Sydney Opera House and a national digital event....

$100K Historical Novel Prize 2022 longlists announced

Wednesday, 14 September 2022
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA), has announced the longlists for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize. The titles longlisted in the adult category are: Horse (Geraldine Brooks, Hachette) The...

Ngaio Marsh Awards 2022 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 14 September 2022
The shortlists for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Awards for New Zealand crime, mystery or thriller writing have been announced. The titles shortlisted in each category are: Best first novel Isobar...

Vale Jack Charles

Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Aboriginal Elder, actor, musician and author Jack Charles has died following a stroke, aged 79. Penguin Random House writes: 'Uncle Jack Charles wore many hats throughout his remarkable life—actor, musician,...

Sales representative Gale (NSW & ACT), Sydney

Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Cengage Learning Pty Ltd Gale is a world leading provider of research resources including digital archives, databases, ebooks, print and microfilm. We deliver quality resources to school, university, and national,...

National accounts assistant, Sydney

Wednesday, 14 September 2022
HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Publishers is looking for a professional to join the sales team in the role of national accounts assistant. This role is responsible for providing administrative support for...

Marketing and publicity executive, Sydney

Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Australia has an incredible opportunity for a marketing and publicity executive to join our dedicated team. Bloomsbury is proud to be a creative, dynamic, independent publisher of...

Senior publisher (product manager) primary, Melbourne

Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Cengage Learning Pty Ltd Nelson Cengage creates learning solutions that use technology, pedagogy and content to enrich student engagement in the school, higher education/vocational and professional educational sectors in Australia...

Winter wins 2022 CLNZ Writers’ Award

Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Iona Winter has won the NZ$25,000 (A$22,300), Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ)/New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Writers’ Award for her creative nonfiction project ‘A counter of moons’. Winter’s work...

Ritchie wins 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award

Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Brendan Ritchie has won the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for his novel Eta Draconis. Ritchie, an academic and early-career novelist from the south coast of WA,...

Varuna announces 2023 residential fellowships

Varuna, The National Writers House Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of its 2023 residential fellowships. The writers and their projects are: Eleanor Dark flagship fellowship Angela O’Keeffe, for her literary fiction...

Bologna rights centre to open to adult publishers

bologna logo Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) will expand its current BCBF Agents' Centre to include rights professionals from across the industry, including adult general trade publishers. BCBF director Elena Pasoli said:...

Hickey wins 2022 Danger Prize

Monday, 12 September 2022
Margaret Hickey has won the 2022 Danger Prize for her debut novel Cutters End (Penguin). Set in the South Australian outback town of Cutters End, the winning novel follows Detective...

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

mascara logo 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...