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Production co-ordinator, Melbourne

Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Text Publishing Text is looking for a Production Co-ordinator to join our busy, highly efficient team. We’re looking for someone with excellent production and prepress skills coupled with excellent communication...

Introducing Pitch Boot Camp

Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Does your publicity team need a boost? some extra training? Fresh perspective? Pitch Projects is now running book publicity boot camp sessions. Whether you’re a small publisher wearing many hats...

Have you booked your Books+Publishing 2024 advertising?

Wednesday, 13 December 2023
How will you reach book lovers with your key titles in 2024? Books+Publishing offers a range of digital options to suit all campaign styles and budgets. Advance copy giveaway Invite...

Werner Film Productions options Legge memoir screen rights

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Werner Film Productions (WFP) has optioned the screen rights to Kate Legge’s memoir Infidelity & Other Affairs, in a deal negotiated by Thames & Hudson (T&H) Australia on behalf of...

Writers Victoria announces 2023 Writeability fellows

Monday, 11 December 2023
Writers Victoria has announced the 2023 Writeability fellowship recipients. This year’s recipients are: Grace Hall for ‘Off Track’, ‘a young adult novel exploring how physical pain changes a person’s world’...

Magabala announces annual fellowship, creative development grants and scholarship recipients

Monday, 11 December 2023
Magabala Books has announced the 15 First Nations creators who will receive the publisher's annual fellowship, scholarships and Australian Indigenous Coffee (AIC) Creative Development Grants, sharing in over $65,000 of...

UK in-house staff turning to freelance work in ‘growing trend’

Thursday, 7 December 2023
In the UK, in-house publishing staff are turning to freelance work to avoid burnout, in what the Bookseller calls ‘a growing trend’. The publication spoke with several professionals in publishing...

Indie Book Awards 2024 longlists announced

Thursday, 7 December 2023
The longlists for the 2024 Indie Book Awards, presented by Leading Edge Books, have been announced. The titles longlisted in each category are: Fiction Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton,...

Submit your Christmas closing dates

Wednesday, 6 December 2023
To be included in Books+Publishing’s annual list of publishers’ and distributors’ trade closing dates for the holiday period, please complete our Christmas closing dates survey by noon, Tuesday, 12 December....

Hachette updates and expands inclusive policies

Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Hachette Australia has announced the introduction of several new and updated inclusive policies, which it said ‘promote a safe and supportive environment for all employees; and recognises the critical role...

Edmondson wins FT Book of the Year for ‘Right Kind of Wrong’

Wednesday, 6 December 2023
In the UK, Right Kind of Wrong: Why learning to fail can teach us to thrive (Amy Edmondson, Cornerstone Press) has won the 2023 Financial Times Business Book of the Year...

Sales representative, Melbourne

Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Exisle Publishing Exisle is an independent Australian publisher of nonfiction and children’s books. We have an exciting and growing stable of successful Melbourne authors. We are looking for a Melbourne-based...

Production co-ordinator, Melbourne

Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Text Publishing Text is looking for a Production Co-ordinator to join our busy, highly efficient team. We’re looking for someone with excellent production and prepress skills coupled with excellent communication...

Unlock Books+Publishing

Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Unlock Books+Publishing, Australia’s number-one source of news about the book industry, keeping subscribers up to date with the latest book industry news, events, features, interviews, opinion, personnel changes, job advertisements...

Writers’ festival contract roles (marketing & production), Central Coast NSW

Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Words on the Waves Words on the Waves was founded in 2021 and is the Central Coast’s first and only writers’ festival. In 2024, it will celebrate its fourth year...

Kassab to be inaugural Parramatta Laureate

Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Author Yumna Kassab has been selected as the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature by the Sydney Review of Books (SRB) in partnership with the City of Parramatta and the Writing...

Bongiorno wins ACT Book of the Year

Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Frank Bongiorno has been awarded the 2023 ACT Book of the Year for Dreamers and Schemers: A political history of Australia (La Trobe University Press). Bongiorno's book, which covers social...

UK volume sales of big names down on 2022

Tuesday, 5 December 2023
In the UK, volume sales of 'big brands' including Jamie Oliver, David Walliams and Richard Osman 'have been suffering a contraction in their Christmas run-in hardback releases', reports the Bookseller....

Running Water Community Press seeks film project funding

Monday, 4 December 2023
First Nations publisher Running Water Community Press (RWCP) is seeking funding for a proposed film project ‘kwatye urrewe—uplifting desert stories’. The publisher plans to collaborate with First Nations storytelling agency...

CLNZ Contestable Fund Grant 2023 recipients announced

Monday, 4 December 2023
In Aotearoa New Zealand, Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) has announced the 15 successful recipients of the 2023 Contestable Fund Grants. Project funding was awarded to the following individuals and...

FNAWN Varuna Fellowship 2024 recipients announced

Monday, 4 December 2023
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the six 2024 recipients of the inaugural First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) Varuna Fellowship. Successful applicants include: Lystra Bisschop for ‘The Upwarping’,...