Davitt Awards 2024 shortlists announced
25 July 2024
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult novels The...
Bowie, Burland and Byfield appointed to ILF board
25 July 2024
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced the appointment of Jillian Bowie, Julie Burland and Helene Byfield to the ILF board. Bowie is a Samsep and Zagareb woman from the...
‘Jakarda Wuka’ wins 2024 Chief Minister’s NT History Book Award
25 July 2024
The winner of the 2024 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory (NT) History Book Award has been announced. The winner, highly commended titles and finalists are: Winner Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories):...
Taylor & Francis AI deals to earn ‘additional royalties for authors’, ASA ‘deeply concerned’
25 July 2024
In announcing its 2024 half-year results, Taylor & Francis parent company Informa has confirmed it is ‘partnering with two leading AI technology companies’ in agreements that allow ‘non-exclusive access to...
Paul appointed A&U head of operations
25 July 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced the appointment of Jessica Paul in the newly established role of head of operations. ‘For the past three years, Jessica has been head of...
Forster to leave Curtis Brown
24 July 2024
Curtis Brown has announced that senior agent Clare Forster will be leaving the company in late August ‘to pursue other interests’. Forster joined the literary agency in 2007, having previously...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2024 finalists announced
24 July 2024
The finalists in the 2024 New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu Publishers Association (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Best illustrated book The...
HarperCollins acquires Price’s memoir
24 July 2024
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s memoir Matters of the Heart, written with Sue Smethurst. Price was elected a Country Liberal Party (CLP) senator for the Northern...
Griffith Review 2024 Emerging Voices winners announced
23 July 2024
Griffith Review has announced the five winners of its 2024 Emerging Voices competition: Lily Holloway, Sarah Kanake, Myles McGuire, Kobi Simpson and Emily Tsokos Purtill. Holloway is a powerlifting enthusiast...
Mayne, Mansour receive $50k Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships
22 July 2024
Poets Chloe Mayne and Sara Mansour are among the seven recipients of the 2024 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, each worth $50,000. Mayne is a poet and a current creative doctoral...
‘Untapped’ titles move to Ligature
18 July 2024
As the book industry awaits the outcome of the Booktopia administration process, some of the titles previously published under the online bookseller’s publishing operation have moved to the digital publishing...
SLV staff, board reportedly discussed cancelled Bootcamp writers’ political views
18 July 2024
State Library Victoria board members and senior staff discussed the political views of writers who were to host the library’s Teen Writing Bootcamp workshop series before the events were cancelled,...
Booktopia administrators identify $60 million in debt
17 July 2024
Keith Crawford, of Booktopia administrators McGrathNicol, has told the ABC the company had identified debts of $60 million held by the online bookseller, following the first meeting of creditors on 15 July. Crawford...
‘Big Time’ sells to UK, Italy and Russia
17 July 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold UK/Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to Jordan Prosser’s debut novel, Big Time, to publishing director Harriet Hirshman at Dead Ink, in a deal brokered...
Thames & Hudson to move distribution to UBD
17 July 2024
Thames & Hudson (T&H) ANZ has announced it will move its Australia and New Zealand distribution from Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) to United Book Distributors (UBD) in February 2025. T&H...
Red Paper Kite for sale
17 July 2024
Perth-based independent press Red Paper Kite is up for sale. Founder and publisher Sandra van Doorn told Books+Publishing the press is ‘on the cusp of a greater success’ but ‘demands a...
Melbourne Books acquires O’Connor’s ‘Bob Dylan for Beginners’
16 July 2024
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Chris O’Connor’s debut nonfiction music title, Bob Dylan for Beginners: You don’t need a weatherman. The publisher said Dylan has been hailed as...
Booktopia orders not being filled ahead of first meeting with creditors
15 July 2024
The Booktopia website is not taking orders, and customers with outstanding orders will need to make a claim of debt against the company. In a circular to customers with unfulfilled...
Magabala announces new chair, board changes
15 July 2024
Magabala Books has announced its 2024 board, with current deputy chair Steve Kinnane stepping into the role of chair, as well as three new directors joining the board. Kinnane’s new...
S&S in distribution partnership with Authors Equity
15 July 2024
US publishing company Authors Equity has partnered with Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia for sales and distribution of its titles in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. As previously reported by...
Buchanan wins 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize
15 July 2024
Author Jeffrey Buchanan is the winner of the 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished manuscript by an Aotearoa New Zealand writer. Chosen from a shortlist of four, Buchanan wins...
Hogan wins Mary Gilmore Award, Priest wins Magarey Medal
11 July 2024
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced that Dan Hogan is the winner of the 2024 Mary Gilmore Award and Ann-Marie Priest is the winner of...
Australian Jewish Book Awards adds unpublished manuscript prize
11 July 2024
Not-for-profit organisation Shalom Australia has announced the inaugural Australian Jewish Book Awards will include a new $4000 prize for an unpublished manuscript that engages with Jewish experience. The Award for...
UQP acquires Araluen poetry collection
11 July 2024
UQP has acquired world rights to a new poetry collection from Evelyn Araluen, author of the Stella Prize–winning Dropbear (also UQP). Araluen’s new collection, The Rot, ‘dramatises the bad faiths...
ACT Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
11 July 2024
The winners of the ACT Literary Awards, previously known as the ACT Notable Book Awards and presented by the Canberra writing organisation Marion, have been announced. The 2024 winners are:...
Lanchester to step down from ASA
11 July 2024
Australian Society of Authors (ASA) CEO Olivia Lanchester will be stepping down after five years in the role. Lanchester was appointed CEO in 2019 after four years working as the...
Hachette acquires Woodard YA debut
11 July 2024
Hachette has acquired world rights to Scott Woodard’s debut contemporary YA novel, Poster Boys, via Danielle Binks at Jacinta di Mase Management. Poster Boys is a coming of age story...
Birch, Lucashenko inaugural Hage Award mentors
10 July 2024
Sweatshop Literacy Movement has announced multi-award-winning authors Tony Birch and Melissa Lucashenko will mentor the recipients of the inaugural Hage Award for First Nations Writers. As previously reported by Books+Publishing,...
National Biography Award 2024 shortlist announced
10 July 2024
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the $25,000 National Biography Award. The shortlisted works, selected from a record 107 entries and including five...
Ultimo Press acquires Watts novel
10 July 2024
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Elegy, Southwest, the second novel by Madeleine Watts, in a deal brokered by Lucy Luck at C&W Agency, London, on behalf of Anna...
