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Big Issue fiction edition returns Archive

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 Archive

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 Archive

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 Archive

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 Archive

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
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Production and rights coordinator, Melbourne Archive

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
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Commissioning editor, Sydney Archive

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
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Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us hits 300k sales in ANZ Archive

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 Archive

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
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Writing NSW diverse mentorship program winners announced Archive

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 Archive

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 Archive

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 Archive

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 Archive

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 Archive

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 Archive

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 Archive

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 Archive

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 Archive

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...