Staff moves at Text
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Text Publishing farewelled Stef Italia at the end of 2021, after five wonderful years. Stef will be much missed, and we wish her every success in her new career path....
Magabala announces recipients of 2021 scholarships
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Magabala Books has announced the six recipients of its 2021 Creative Development Scholarships. The scholarships provide recipients with the support to complete creative development projects throughout 2022. The six recipients...
Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship 2022 shortlist announced
Monday, 17 January 2022
Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, awarded annually to an Australian writer for a proposed biographical work. The 10 shortlisted writers and their...
Taylor wins 2021 T S Eliot Prize
Monday, 17 January 2022
In the UK, Joelle Taylor has won the 2021 T S Eliot Prize, worth £25,000 (A$47,360), for her collection C+nto & Othered Poems (The Westbourne Press), reports the Bookseller. C+nto & Othered...
The Wheeler Centre receives $6.1m Creative Vic funding
Monday, 17 January 2022
Creative Victoria has announced the 113 arts and cultural organisations that will share in $85 million in grants as part of the state government's new multi-year Creative Enterprises and Creative Ventures programs. Among...
Americans reading fewer books: Gallup poll
Friday, 14 January 2022
A new Gallup poll shows Americans read an average of 12.6 books during the past year, fewer than the average of 15.6 in 2016 and the smallest number Gallup has...
Pilkey tops US print bestsellers
Thursday, 13 January 2022
In the US, children’s book author Dav Pilkey’s Mothering Heights (Dog Man #10) was the bestselling print book in 2021—one of three of Pilkey’s titles to crack the top 25,...
ASA survey 2021: Author earnings ‘unsustainable’
Thursday, 13 January 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) 2021 survey, which received over 800 responses from members, has found author earnings are continuing to decline. The 2020 survey, which was open to...
PMLA winners, ACCC lodges case against Booktopia
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Late last year, the winners of the 2021 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced. Amanda Lohrey, who won the fiction prize for her novel The Labyrinth, was also named the...
UK, Ireland bookshop numbers grow for fifth consecutive year
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Data from the UK Bookseller’s Association (BA) shows the number of independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland has grown for the fifth year in a row, reports the Bookseller....
Orphan Rock
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Orphan Rock is a complex and richly detailed story of secrets and heartbreak that will take you from the back streets of Sydney’s slums to the wide avenues of the...
Sue Whiting recommends
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
I have recently read and loved Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee. Oh my, can that woman write. Such a magical, yet also so very real, tale, full of heart and...
Upcoming change of distribution for Head of Zeus: order and returns cut-off dates
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Following the recent purchase of Head of Zeus by Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury will take over distribution of Head of Zeus (HoZ) titles in Australia and New Zealand from 1 February 2022....
Change for Sunway University Press
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Publisher: Sunway University Press ISBN prefix: 9789675492; 97896713697 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 January 2022 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk
Sue Whiting on ‘Pearly and Pig and the Great Hairy Beast’
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Expert worrier Pearly Woe and her pet Pig are a remarkable pair. Representatives of the Adventurologists Guild, they travel Antarctica searching for Pearly’s missing parents, in a new book for...
US print book sales up 8.9% in 2021
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
In the US, print book sales were up 8.9% in 2021 compared to 2020, according to NPD BookScan data, reports Publishers Weekly. A total of 825.7 million print book were...
ACCC lodges case against Booktopia
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has lodged a case with the Federal Court against Booktopia, alleging the online bookseller made ‘false or misleading representations to consumers about their...
Latest RISE and Australia Council funding recipients
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
The federal government announced the sixth batch of Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) fund recipients in late December 2021. Among those sharing in more than $19.5 million funding...
McPherson and Green recipients of 2021 Magabala fellowship
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Magabala Books has announced Sue McPherson and Charmaine Papertalk Green as the recipients of the 2021 mid-career Fellowship. McPherson and Green each receive $10,000 to work on a current manuscript....
Vivendi confirms Lagardère takeover bid
Monday, 10 January 2022
In December, French media company Vivendi completed its purchase of Amber Capital's 17.5% stake in Hachette parent company Lagardère group, bringing its share to 45.1%, reports Publishers Weekly. Under French laws,...
Aung Thin awarded $20,000 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship 2021
Monday, 10 January 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Michelle Aung Thin as the winner of the 2021 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship for her manuscript 'The Japanese Photographer'. Aung Thin receives $20,000....
PMLA 2021 winners announced
Wednesday, 15 December 2021
The winners of the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Awards (PMLA) have been announced. Selected from shortlists announced in October, the winning titles in each category are: Fiction The Labyrinth (Amanda Lohrey,...
Lohrey wins 2021 Voss Literary Prize
Wednesday, 15 December 2021
Amanda Lohrey has won the 2021 Voss Literary Prize for her novel The Labyrinth (Text). Lohrey, whose book was chosen from a shortlist of five, receives $5000. This year’s judges...
Final ‘B+P Daily’ for 2021
Friday, 10 December 2021
This issue of the Books+Publishing Daily is the last for 2021. The Daily will return on Monday, 10 January 2022. The Books+Publishing team wishes our readers all the best for the holiday...
Shortlist for $20,000 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship announced
Friday, 10 December 2021
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the $20,000 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship. The annual scholarship is offered to an Australian author ‘to provide them with valuable...
Authors, literary orgs among latest Cultural Fund recipients
Friday, 10 December 2021
The Copyright Agency has announced the 22 successful recipients of a total $715,522 in funding from its Cultural Fund, as well as the five writer and visual artist recipients of...
UK supply chain challenges ‘most extreme’ seen: Hachette CEO
Thursday, 9 December 2021
Hachette UK CEO David Shelley has warned ongoing supply chain problems are causing the ‘most extreme’ challenges he’s seen in his career, reports the Bookseller. In his annual letter to...
Hardy wins 2021 Children’s Peace Literature Award
Thursday, 9 December 2021
How to Write the Soundtrack to Your Life by Fiona Hardy (Affirm) is the winner of the 2021 Children's Peace Literature Award. Hardy's book was chosen by a judging panel...
Last WBN for 2021
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
This is the last Weekly Book Newsletter (WBN) for 2021. The first WBN for 2022 will be published Wednesday, 12 January. The final Books+Publishing Daily for the year will be...
Christmas closing dates 2021
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Books+Publishing has collated company closing dates for the Christmas and New Year holiday period. (more…)
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