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Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex on ‘Outrageous Fortunes’

Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex bring Mary Fortune, one of Australia’s most prolific yet overlooked woman crime writers, and her criminal son, George, to light in their book Outrageous Fortunes...

S&S launches audio-first imprint

Tuesday, 14 January 2025
In the US, Simon & Schuster has launched Simon Maverick, an audio-first imprint, under the guidance of Jason Pinter, the imprint’s vice-president and editorial director. Publishers Weekly (PW) reported that...

Authors allege Meta knowingly used pirated books

Monday, 13 January 2025
In the US, a group of authors including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sarah Silverman is suing Meta for copyright infringement, alleging CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the use of pirated books to...

Peter Porter Prize 2025 shortlist announced

Monday, 13 January 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced. Shortlisted poems include: ‘The Orphan’ by Sarah Day ‘Hook, Grandmother, Line, Marlin’ by Jennifer Harrison...

Vale John Marsden

Monday, 13 January 2025
Author and teacher John Marsden has died. Marsden was born in 1950 in Melbourne and grew up primarily in Victoria and Tasmania before beginning a teaching career. While working at...

Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025 longlists announced

Friday, 10 January 2025
The longlists for the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards have been announced. Longlisted titles have been announced in four award categories, worth $25,000 each. The books longlisted in each of these...

Berberovic wins inaugural WestWords Prize

Friday, 10 January 2025
Vahida Berberovic has won the inaugural WestWords Prize for her novel Piggy Tales. Berberovic receives a publication deal with WestWords Books, the adult trade imprint of WestWords. Piggy Tales was chosen...

Change for Pink Shorts Press

Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Publisher: Pink Shorts Press New distributor: Simon & Schuster Australia Changeover date: 1 January 2025

Change for Masen Ink Pty Ltd

Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Publisher: Masen Ink Pty Ltd New distributor: Simon & Schuster Australia Changeover date: 1 January 2025

Change for BenBella Books

Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Publisher: BenBella Books New distributor: Simon & Schuster Australia Changeover date: 1 January 2025 Returns cut-off: 28 February 2025

Change for ECW Press

Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Publisher: ECW Press New distributor: Simon & Schuster Australia Changeover date: 1 March 2025

Change for Andrews McMeel Publishing

Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Old distributor: Hardie Grant New distributor: Simon & Schuster Australia Changeover date: 1 January 2025 Returns cut-off: 28 February 2025

Osborne-Crowley longlisted for Gordon Burn Prize

Friday, 13 December 2024
In the UK, British–Australian author Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been longlisted for the £10,000 (A$20,011) Gordon Burn Prize. Osborne-Crowley was longlisted for her book The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of...

Indie Book Awards 2025 longlists announced

Friday, 13 December 2024
The longlist for the 2025 Indie Book Awards has been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador) Safe Haven (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo) The Valley...

Final ‘Books+Publishing’ newsletter for 2024

Friday, 13 December 2024
This Books+Publishing newsletter is the final edition for 2024. The newsletter will return on Monday 13 January 2025. The team at Books+Publishing wishes our readers all the best for the holiday season...

Literature orgs, writers among latest Creative Aus grant recipients

Thursday, 12 December 2024
Literature organisations and writers are among the recipients of the latest round of Creative Australia funding, worth $12 million. Among the successful recipients are: Arts Projects for Organisations Overland magazine...

Inaugural WestWords Prize shortlist announced

Thursday, 12 December 2024
WestWords has announced the shortlist for its inaugural WestWords Prize. The shortlisted writers (and their manuscripts) are: Amy Anshaw-Nye for ‘The Maydown Girls’ Philip Barker for ‘Burning Good Samaritans’ Vahida...

Johnson wins inaugural Australian Fiction Prize, Black Friday sales up on last year, Internet Archive copyright case ends

Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Peter Rose, editor and CEO of the Australian Book Review, is set to step down from the role in 2025, after 23 years leading the publication. In another change, the...

CLNZ Contestable Fund Grants 2024 recipients announced

Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) has announced recipients of its Contestable Fund Grants, totalling NZ$75,000. The recipients are: Georgina Tuari Stewart (NZ$8220): for the publishing project ‘Ngā Kararehe o Aotearoa—he Mātauranga, he Matatika, development...

Tu awarded 2025 BR Whiting Studio Residency

Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Jessie Tu has been awarded Creative Australia’s 2025 BR Whiting Studio Residency in Rome. Tu’s debut novel, A Lonely Girl Is a Dangerous Thing (A&U), was named literary fiction book...

‘Supremacy’ wins 2024 FT Business Book of the Year

Wednesday, 11 December 2024
In the UK, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World (Parmy Olson, St Martin’s Press) has won the 2024 Financial Times (FT) Business Book of the...

Debenham wins 2024 Ampersand Prize

Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Michael Debenham’s Drowning for Beginners has won the 2024 Ampersand Prize for children’s and YA debut fiction. Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) publishing director Marisa Pintado said: ‘Michael’s compulsively readable...

ABIA nominations are now open

Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Nominations are now open! Gather those lists and enter your 2024 titles for consideration in next year's ABIAs, as we prepare to celebrate all that has been achieved and those...

Wilson & Dutra join Rockpool

Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Raquel Dutra has been appointed to the newly established role of publishing manager, reporting to managing director Lisa Hanrahan. She was previously at leading Portuguese publisher Grupo Editorial Presença, is...

The “Impostors”

Wednesday, 11 December 2024
This story tells how even the youngest of children can become a hero simply by trying to do their best for themselves, their world, and everyone in it. The "Impostors"...

Editor and CEO, Melbourne

Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Australian Book Review Australian Book Review seeks a new editor and CEO Australian Book Review seeks a new editor and chief executive officer to lead the country’s premier literary and...

UK publishing 2024 workforce report indicates ‘disappointing trend’

Tuesday, 10 December 2024
In the UK, the Publishers Association (PA) has released its annual workforce survey report, which, among other findings, suggests ‘improvement in geographic diversity’, while showing ‘a small, but statistically significant,...