Change for Business Expert Press
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
Publisher: Business Expert Press ISBN prefix: 978160649; 978163157; 978163742 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 June 2021 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk
The Night Village (Zoe Deleuil, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 1 June 2021
A year ago, Paul and Simone met at a party—young, carefree and living separate lives. Now, they’re parents to a tiny new baby and nothing between them is the same....
PRH announces 2021 Write It fellowship recipients
Tuesday, 1 June 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the recipients of the 2021 Write It fellowship program, which 'aspires to find, nurture and develop unpublished writers across all genres, with a...
KYD announces ‘New Australian Fiction 2021’ contributors
Tuesday, 1 June 2021
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced the contributors to its third annual anthology of short stories, New Australian Fiction 2021. The contributors are: Bryant Apolonio Alice Bishop Lauren Aimee Curtis Brooke Dunnell Ashley...
Inaugural Ultimo Prize winners announced
Tuesday, 1 June 2021
Ultimo Press has announced the winners of the inaugural Ultimo Prize for poetry and short fiction. The 30 winning writers, who each receive $200 and whose winning pieces will be...
UK author, illustrator earnings take hit in 2020
Monday, 31 May 2021
In the UK, 63% of authors and illustrators saw a fall in their income in 2020 compared to 2019, according to a survey by the Bookseller. The drop in income...
Bonnier Books UK introduces industry-first pregnancy loss policy
Friday, 28 May 2021
Bonnier Books UK has introduced the UK publishing industry’s first pregnancy loss policy to help ‘break the silence’ around the issue, reports the Bookseller. The policy, developed in consultation with...
Mullane receives Copyright Agency Publishing Industry Career Development grant
Friday, 28 May 2021
Ultimo Press commissioning editor Brigid Mullane has received this year’s Copyright Agency Cultural Fund Publishing Industry Career Development grant, worth $5000. The grant will support Mullane to develop strategies to...
ALIA Online Storytime pilot distributes over $50,000
Friday, 28 May 2021
Since its launch at the beginning of 2021, the Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) Online Storytime pilot has generated $54,875 to be distributed to publishers, authors and illustrators. As...
Varuna announces inaugural Writer’s Space fellows
Thursday, 27 May 2021
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the 12 recipients of the inaugural Writer’s Space fellowships for writers with disability or who are D/deaf. This program offers six in-person residencies...
Makumbi, Lawrence win 2021 Jhalak prizes
Thursday, 27 May 2021
In the UK, the winners of the 2021 Jhalak prizes, which recognise ‘authors who feel that their work is often marginalised unless it fulfils a romantic fetishisation of their cultural...
Booktopia restructures merchandise team
Thursday, 27 May 2021
Booktopia has restructured its merchandise teams, with several changes to key personnel. Jo Lewin, formerly head of trade product, has been appointed to the newly created role of head of...
Meet PRH Australia rights executive for children’s books Jordan Meek
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
After joining the rights team at Penguin Random House Australia three years ago, Jordan Meek now manages the publisher’s children’s rights in translation markets. She spoke to Think Australian. How...
Australian children’s publishing ahead of Bologna
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
While many Australian rights managers and literary agents will be missing the book fair halls (and bars and restaurants) of Bologna, they couldn’t be busier as in-person fairs have effectively...
‘Treehouse’ titles top children’s fiction, nonfiction charts
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s ‘Treehouse’ series—which celebrates 10 years in print this year—has topped the Australian children’s fiction chart (The 130-Storey Treehouse) and Australian children’s/YA nonfiction chart (The Treehouse...
Bookshop-set middle-grade adventure bags multiple prizes
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor (Affirm Press)—a middle-grade adventure novel set in Melbourne’s historic Cole’s Book Arcade—has picked up three major book prizes in recent months:...
YA psychological thriller to be adapted for film
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Gordon Reece’s 2010 YA novel Mice (Allen & Unwin) will be adapted into a feature film by Nicole Kidman’s production company Blossom Films and Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories. Mice...
Magabala picture book scores North American sale
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
A number of Australian children’s picture books have been sold into international markets over the past few months, including a North American sale for Indigenous publisher Magabala Books. Magabala Books...
Text signs Sheppard in two-book deal
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to the second YA novel by Holden Sheppard, in a two-book deal via Gaby Naher of Left Bank Literary. The Brink (2022) follows a...
Small press, big picture: New picture books from Windy Hollow, Berbay, Magabala and Fremantle Press
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Four Australian small presses—Windy Hollow Books, Berbay Publishing, Magabala Books and Fremantle Press—are taking their picture books to the world. The world is starting to take notice of Windy Hollow...
Keeping it real: The latest YA Own Voices titles from Australian publishers
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
As the Own Voices movement gains momentum around the world, Australian publishers have been filling their YA lists with diverse and exciting Own Voices titles. In 2018 Fremantle Press published...
Russell Prize for Humour Writing 2021 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
The State Library of NSW has announced the shortlists for the 2021 Russell Prize for Humour Writing and the inaugural Humour Writing for Young People Award. The books shortlisted for...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Heidelberg’s The Travel Bookshop
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookshops in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. 'Heidelberg is most famous...
SWF, BWF wrap up; Aus fiction leads most borrowed library books list
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival, which emphasised live events alongside some digital sessions, achieved sales and attendance levels ‘that would have been significant even in a non-pandemic year’, with the...
Anderson, Elisara awarded 2021 black&write! fellowships
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
The 2021 black&write! fellowships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers have been awarded to Susie Anderson and Tylissa Elisara. Each fellowship is worth $10,000 and includes editorial development from...
Barjas wins US$50k International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Jordanian poet and novelist Jalal Barjas has won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his novel Notebooks of the Bookseller (Arabic Institute for Research and Publishing). Barjas receives US$50,000...
Change for 1517 Media
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Publisher: 1517 Media New distributor: Woodslane Pty Ltd Changeover date: 1 June 2021 Contact URL: https://www.woodslane.com.au/Contact
Brio Books distribution to move to Booktopia
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Brio Books has announced that its distribution will move from Hardie Grant Publishing (HEDS) to BPS (Booktopia Publisher Services) from July. HEDS will continue to receive orders for Brio Books...
Stellarphant
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Stella wants to be an astronaut. There is only one problem: Stella is an elephant. Every time she applies to Space Command, they come up with a new reason she...
Grandma’s Knicker Tree
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
A charming story about the importance of gardens, grandparents and families doing things together. When our dads say, ‘Money doesn’t grow on trees you know,’ Grandma smiles and says, ‘Mmm,...
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