Inside the Australian and New Zealand book industry

Image. Advertisement:

Free >

Chatterji wins 2024 Wolfson History Prize

Thursday, 5 December 2024
In the UK, historian Joya Chatterji has won the £50,000 (A$98,781) Wolfson History Prize 2024 for Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century (Vintage). Previously longlisted for the Women’s Prize...

Updated: Trade Christmas closing dates 2024

Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Books+Publishing has collated company closing dates for the Christmas and New Year holiday period. (See table below.) The Books+Publishing office will close on Friday 13 December and reopen Monday 13 January. The...

Polari Prizes 2024 winners announced

Wednesday, 4 December 2024
In the UK, the winners of the 2024 Polari Prizes have been announced. The winners in each category are: Polari Book Prize (£2000; A$3908) The Gallopers (Jon Ransom, Muswell Press),...

Ampersand Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Ampersand Prize. The shortlisted titles are: ‘I Love a Good Murder’ by Rahnia Collins, a YA crime novel...

Pung awarded 2024 Alice Literary Award

Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Alice Pung has won the Alice Literary Award, presented by the Society of Women Writers in Australia. In Pung’s acceptance speech, the author said: ‘What an honour it is, to...

Inaugural Australian Fiction Prize shortlist announced

Wednesday, 4 December 2024
The shortlist for the inaugural Australian Fiction Prize, presented by HarperCollins and the Australian, has been announced. The shortlisted manuscripts, chosen from almost 500 entries, are: ‘Blackswansong’ by Michael Burrows...

Vale Robert Hillman

Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Author Robert Hillman has died. Text Publishing writes: It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Robert Hillman. Robert published more than 60 works of fiction and...

Vale Susan Duncan

Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Journalist and author Susan Duncan has died. Allen & Unwin writes: The much-admired and respected journalist and writer Susan Duncan died last weekend at her beloved home on Pittwater. Susan was...

ABIA nominations open 11 December 2024

Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Publishers, get ready for the 25th year of the Australian Book Industry Awards, presented for the very first time by your industry publication, Books+Publishing. The Australian Book Industry Awards are...

Beyond Bipolar: Ancient Realms, New Directions

Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Psychiatrist Dr James Le Bas PhD is proud to announce the release of his new work. In it he expounds theories on the causation of the condition, which he centres...

The Drummond Agency to close

Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Literary agency The Drummond Agency will close at the end of 2024. Founder Sheila Drummond established the agency in 1997, representing numerous Australian authors, including Randa Abdel-Fattah, Vikki Wakefield, Margareta...

Ang appointed as Hachette x MDA Trainee

Tuesday, 3 December 2024
Wen Yee Ang has been appointed as the inaugural Hachette x Media Diversity Australia (MDA) Trainee. Launched in August, the traineeship was created ‘to promote diversity and inclusivity within the...

Phillips wins 2024 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize

Tuesday, 3 December 2024
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced that Eva Phillips has won the 2024 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for the manuscript Borrow-or-rob. Phillips receives $2250 and a publishing contract with UQP,...

Wright wins 2024 Voss Literary Prize

Tuesday, 3 December 2024
Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy (Giramondo) was announced as the winner of the 2024 Voss Literary Prize by the Australian University Heads of English (AUHE). The prize judges said: ‘Praiseworthy is a work...

Comic Arts Awards of Australia winners announced

Monday, 2 December 2024
The winners of the 2024 Comic Arts Awards of Australia have been announced. The recipients in each category are: Gold Ledger Deadsheet (Benji Bajorek, self published) Eventually Everything Connects (Sarah Firth, A&U)...

Funder wins Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger

Cover of Wifedom Monday, 2 December 2024
Anna Funder has won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in the nonfiction category for the French translation of Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life (Hamish Hamilton). The book was translated to French...

Number of publishing start-ups using AI explodes

Thursday, 28 November 2024
Spines, a startup technology company founded in 2021 that published its first titles this year, is ‘offering the use of AI to proofread, produce, publish and distribute books’, reports the...

Lucashenko wins 2024 Nib Literary Award

Photograph of Melissa Lucashenko Thursday, 28 November 2024
Melissa Lucashenko has won the Waverley Council’s 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, for her novel Edenglassie (UQP). The judging panel, comprising publisher Julia Carlomagno, poet Jamie...

McGuire wins 2024 Richell Prize

Thursday, 28 November 2024
Myles McGuire has won the 2024 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for his story Stroke. Prize judges, who selected the manuscript from a shortlist of seven, were ‘impressed by McGuire’s...

Vale Gemma Carey 

Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Australian author and academic Gemma Carey has died. Carey was director of the Centre for Social Impact University of New South Wales, where she undertook primary research in governance and...

The Unquiet Grave

Wednesday, 27 November 2024
I didn’t have a new story for Cormac for a long time. I think I’d put him through so much by the end of The Good Turn that most of...

Have you booked your Books+Publishing 2025 advertising?

Wednesday, 27 November 2024
How will you reach book lovers for your promotional needs in 2025? Books+Publishing offers a range of digital options to suit all campaign styles and budgets. Advance copy giveaway Invite...

ByteDance publishing imprint announces first books

Tuesday, 26 November 2024
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has announced it will start selling print books in bookshops from early 2025, under its publishing imprint 8th note press, reports the Bookseller. ByteDance filed a US...

National Book Award winners announced

Monday, 25 November 2024
In the US, the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards, worth US$10,000 (A$15,367) in each category, have been announced. The winners in each category are: Fiction James (Percival Everett,...

 

 

 

« Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 Next page »