Industry responds to rescinded black&write! fellowship, de Krester wins 2025 Stella Prize, ABDA winners announced
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Across the industry this week, B+P reported on the State Library Victoria’s published ‘Ways of Working Commitment’ and outlined the events leading up to this document including the cancellation of...
Who gets published in Aotearoa? Three key findings
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
A recent Booksellers NZ newsletter shared independent publisher Damien Levi’s analysis of 2023 publishing data on gender and ethnicity in Aotearoa. This analysis follows on from earlier work by writer...
Fogarty receives 2025 Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Yugambeh poet and activist Lionel Fogarty has been recognised with a Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2025 First Nations Arts and Culture Awards. Born on Wakka Wakka...
Mary Gilmore Award 2025 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Mary Gilmore Award, a prize for a poet's first book of poetry. Judges Kate...
A First Nations writer’s fellowship was withdrawn by Queensland’s government. What’s going on?
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Jo Caust is an associate professor at the University of Melbourne in the School of Culture and Communication, where she is also an honorary principal fellow. She is a founder-editor...
Ferryman: The Life and Deathwork of Ephraim Finch
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Ferryman: The Life and Deathwork of Ephraim Finch is a deeply moving portrait of a man who transformed the way we understand death, grief, and ritual in modern Australia. Blending biography,...
A note from Fashion Critical
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
The good folk at Murdoch Books have made the bold decision to turn me, a simple street sweeper from Gundagai, into a published author this October. Elevated to a soon-to-be...
2025 Australian Book Industry Awards photos available
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Photos of the 2025 Australian Book Industry Awards ceremony on 7 May 2025 are available for download. See the photos in this OneDrive folder. Photos for personal use only and...
Change for Titan Publishing
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Publisher: Titan Publishing Old distributor: NewSouth Books New distributor: Simon & Schuster Australia Changeover date: 28 September 2025 Returns cut-off: 31 October 2025
Sally Milner Publishing moves its History and Health Range from Search Press Australia to TDLC for distribution in Australia and New Zealand
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Sally Milner Publishing (SMP) would like to inform our customers that distribution of its history and health range moves to Hardie Grant Publishing (TDLC) from 1 June 2025. SMP’s craft range...
Join the Chapters for Change readathon
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Registrations are now open for Chapters for Change, a unique readathon for adults that encourages you to set and achieve a reading goal in July 2025. Chapters for Change raises...
Circle of Days (Ken Follett, Hachette)
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Explainer: State Library Victoria duty of care review timeline
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Following the release of documentation from the State Library Victoria (SLV) regarding ways of working with stakeholders including contractors, Books+Publishing has compiled a timeline of relevant events. Bootcamp postponement In February...
SLV publishes ‘Ways of Working Commitment’
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
The State Library Victoria (SLV) has published a 'Ways of Working Commitment', following last year’s duty of care review. In its May newsletter, the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) noted...
Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
In the UK and Ireland, the 2025 Fitzcarraldo Editions/Mahler & LeWitt Studios Essay Prize shortlist has been announced. Judges – Joanna Biggs, Brian Dillon, Sheila Heti, Joanna Kavenna and Jacques...
King wins EWF Speculate Prize
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), in partnership with RMIT University, has announced Melissa King as the winner of the inaugural Speculate Prize for Emerging Writers for her short work 'The...
ABDA 2025 winners announced
Monday, 26 May 2025
The winners of the 2025 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The winners in each category are: Designer's Choice Award Eat...
Atria acquires BookToker Bateman debut
Monday, 26 May 2025
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Australia, has acquired world rights to Luke Bateman’s debut fantasy series in a two-book deal, via Sean Anderson and Tim Wall at...
PRH acquires two McInerney titles
Monday, 26 May 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights for a new novel, When Sullivan Met Lola, and a new work of collected nonfiction from Monica McInerney, via Fiona Inglis...
De Kretser wins 2025 Stella Prize for ‘Theory & Practice’
Friday, 23 May 2025
Michelle de Kretser has won the 2025 Stella Prize, worth $60,000, for her seventh novel, Theory & Practice (Text). In their joint report, the judges said: ‘Michelle de Kretser’s Theory...
Murdoch Books, Fashion Critical
Friday, 23 May 2025
Transit Lounge acquires Ouston’s Mine
Thursday, 22 May 2025
Transit Lounge has acquired ANZ rights to author Adam Ouston’s second novel, Mine, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. According to Shaw, Mine has been composed in one complete sentence. The...
Big Day of Books Perth program announced
Thursday, 22 May 2025
ABC Radio, Fremantle Press, UWA Publishing, Magabala Books and Boffins Books have announced the program for the Big Day of Books Perth. 'When the Perth Writers Festival was postponed, Fremantle...
SLQ rescinds Wyld ‘black&write!’ fellowship, postpones winner announcement
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Author KA Ren Wyld’s place in the black&write! fellowship program has been rescinded by the State Library of Queensland (SLQ), the author said on X (Twitter). The 2025 black&write! writing...
NSW Literary Award winners announced; digiDirect Group acquires James Bennett; Miles Franklin, ALS Gold Medal longlists
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
In local news, digiDirect Group owner Shant Kradjian has acquired library supplier James Bennett, after acquiring Booktopia in 2024; online bookseller The Nile has appointed John Purcell as head of books...
Rafferty moves to Pan Macmillan
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Emma Rafferty has joined Pan Macmillan Australia as commissioning editor. Rafferty was previously editorial manager at Hachette Australia.
Mushtaq, Bhasthi win 2025 International Booker Prize for ‘Heart Lamp’
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi (Scribe) has won the 2025 International Booker Prize, the first collection of short stories to win the £50,000 (A$95,325)...
Phidal announces transition to Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) for Australian distribution
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Phidal is pleased to announce that, effective May 19, it will transition its distribution operations in Australia to Alliance Distribution Services (ADS). As Phidal continues to experience growth in the...
IT and database specialist, Sydney
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Currency Press Are you a technophile? Currency Press is looking for someone who loves all things computer to work part time on our database and other things. Currency Press is...
Minoan Footsteps: A Novel
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Set against the ancient landscapes of Crete, Minoan Footsteps follows six women on a guided tour where myth, memory and modern tensions collide. As they explore sacred sites and local...
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