HarperCollins US union authorises strike
Wednesday, 6 July 2022
Unionised employees of HarperCollins US have voted to authorise a strike if the publisher does not agree to a fair contract, reports Publishers Weekly. UAW Local 2110, a union for...
Daughters of Durga
Wednesday, 6 July 2022
In the early 2010s a spate of domestic violence-related murders in the Victorian Indian community compelled psychiatrist Manjula Datta O'Connor to investigate the causes of patriarchal abuse in South Asian...
The Angry Women’s Choir
Wednesday, 6 July 2022
Freycinet Barnes has built herself the perfect existence. With beautiful children, a successful husband and a well-ordered schedule, it’s a life so full she simply doesn’t fit. When she is...
CEO, Fremantle
Wednesday, 6 July 2022
Fremantle Press Inc. The board of Fremantle Press is looking for a new CEO to lead our experienced and high performing team of publishers and creatives into an exciting new...
Senior editor, Sydney
Wednesday, 6 July 2022
Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd Walker Books is looking for a new senior editor. We are searching for an experienced full-time senior editor to join our innovative team of outstanding...
Rights manager, Sydney
Wednesday, 6 July 2022
Penguin Random House We are looking for a talented rights manager to join our team. The role of the rights manager is to secure subsidiary rights book sales throughout the...
Entries open 11 July for Australian Business Book Awards
Wednesday, 6 July 2022
The 2022 Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards (ABBAs) are back for their fourth year. The ABBAs were established to recognise entrepreneurs, businesspeople and business owners who have written and...
Digital marketing manager, Melbourne
Wednesday, 6 July 2022
Hardie Grant Publishing About us Join the marketing team at Hardie Grant Publishing, one of Australia’s leading independent publishing companies with offices in Sydney, London and San Fransisco. We are...
A Message for Nasty (Roderick Fry, Awa Press)
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Roderick Fry’s debut novel is the harrowing wartime story of a family fighting to reunite amid the destruction of the Second World War. The plot follows a married couple, Marie...
Melanie La’Brooy on ‘The Wintrish Girl’
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Melanie La'Brooy's The Wintrish Girl (UQP) is the first book in her 'Talismans of Fate' fantasy trilogy for middle-grade readers. Featuring magical creatures and new friendships, the book uses tropes...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2022 longlist announced
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
The longlist for the $20,000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James Cook University, has been announced. The longlisted titles...
French book sales down 6%
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
French publishers’ sales were down 6% year-on-year for the first half of 2022, but remain 10% higher than the same period the year prior to the pandemic, reports the Bookseller....
Jackson’s ‘Human Looking’ wins ALS Gold Medal
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
The Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been awarded to Andy Jackson for his book of poetry Human Looking (Giramondo). The judges praised Human Looking, chosen from a shortlist of six, as...
B+P employment survey 2022
Monday, 4 July 2022
Books+Publishing's 2022 employment surveys will close at midnight, Friday, 15 July. If you are currently employed by a company in the book industry (e.g. publisher, bookshop, rights agency), please complete our employees’ survey here....
Ned Kelly Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Monday, 4 July 2022
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best debut crime fiction Sweet Jimmy (Bryan...
Mortimer wins 2022 Desmond Elliott Prize
Monday, 4 July 2022
Maddie Mortimer has won the Desmond Elliott Prize for a first-time novelist for Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies (Picador), reports the Bookseller. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a ‘coming-of-age...
Inaugural Deep Creek residency recipient announced
Monday, 4 July 2022
Matilda Bookshop in the Adelaide Hills, in partnership with Writers SA and Ultimo Press, has announced Corrie Hosking as the winner of the inaugural Deep Creek Residency Fellowship for a...
Australia Council announces New York Publishers’ Program, Translation Fund recipients
Thursday, 30 June 2022
The Australia Council has announced a delegation of rights sellers, literary agents and publishers to take part in the 2022 New York Publishers’ Program. The delegation, the largest in the history...
Celestin wins Gold Dagger for ‘Sunset Swing’
Thursday, 30 June 2022
In the UK, the winners of the Crime Writers’ Association Daggers awards for crime writing have been announced. Ray Celestin won the Gold Dagger, awarded to the best crime novel...
CWF 2022 program announced
Thursday, 30 June 2022
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) has announced the full program for the 2022 event, which runs 10–14 August. After being cancelled in 2021 and held with a reduced number of events...
Complete our 2022 employment survey
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Books+Publishing is conducting research on wages and working conditions in the Australian book industry for a series of feature articles. We last conducted this survey in 2018 and received an...
Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter program funding ends
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
The Wheeler Centre (TWC) has announced its Next Chapter program will not open for applications in 2022, following the end of the organisation’s partnership with the Aesop Foundation, which had...
A&U announces mentorship program with Voices from the Intersection
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has partnered with Voices from the Intersection (Voices) to offer a mentorship opportunity for emerging children’s and YA Own Voices writers and illustrators. Up to two...
Pasaribu wins $30k Patricia Kailis International Writing Fellowship
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Norman Erikson Pasaribu is the winner of the inaugural Patricia Kailis International Writing Fellowship, worth $30,000. Pasaribu, a writer and poet from Indonesia, will undertake a three-month residency at the...
Vale Frank Moorhouse
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Frank Moorhouse, the author of 18 books including the 'Edith Trilogy', has died aged 83. Penguin Random House Australia writes: Born in Nowra, Frank Moorhouse worked in newspapers and arts...
Career bookseller, Melbourne
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Dymocks Melbourne Dymocks Melbourne is looking for a full-time bookseller to join our big, busy bookshop team in the heart of Melbourne CBD. About you: Passionate about reading and all...
CEO, Fremantle
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Fremantle Press Inc. The board of Fremantle Press is looking for a new CEO to lead our experienced and high-performing team of publishers and creatives into an exciting new era...
A new book by Niki Savva
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Scribe has acquired world rights in a new book by author and political commentator Niki Savva. The new book will be the third of Savva’s covering the last three Coalition...
Senior editor, Sydney
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd Walker Books is looking for a new senior editor. We are searching for an experienced full-time senior editor to join our innovative team of outstanding...
Hardie Grant to publish ‘Wild Things’ the first book for adults by bestselling children’s author Sally Rippin
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
We love wayward children in literature. Not so much in life. Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing is thrilled to announce the publication of Wild Things: How we learn to read and...
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