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Dunn awarded 2024 Rising Star Award

Thursday, 8 August 2024
Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) distribution director Riikka Dunn has been named the Australian Publishers Association (APA) 2024 Rising Star. Dunn was selected from a shortlist that also included Rebecca Allen...

Nib Literary Award 2024 longlist announced

Thursday, 8 August 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Because I'm Not Myself, You See (Ariane Beeston, Black...

AFR reports new owner for Booktopia after 100 EOIs

Thursday, 8 August 2024
An article in the Australian Financial Review (AFR) dated 7 August reports that privately held electronics retailer digiDirect has ‘all but secured’ the Booktopia business, according to people with knowledge...

PANZ Publishing Market Size Report released

Thursday, 8 August 2024
The 2023 Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) Publishing Market Size Report, presented at the PANZ conference in Auckland on 1 and 2 August, showed there...

Hachette, Media Diversity Australia partner on new traineeship

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
Hachette Australia and Media Diversity Australia (MDA) have announced ‘a significant partnership’, with Hachette becoming the inaugural book publisher member of MDA. Announcing the partnership, Hachette and MDA have also...

Blues Point Bookshop to relocate across the road

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
The Blues Point Bookshop, which has traded in McMahons Point, Sydney, for 30 years, will relocate to a shopfront over the road from its current location later this month. Owner...

James to step down at UQP

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
UQP has announced that director Ben James will step down from his position at the end of September. James was appointed UQP director in 2019. During his time in the...

‘Limberlost’ wins 2024 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
Robbie Arnott has won the 2024 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, worth $25,000, for his novel Limberlost (Text). Limberlost is based on the life of Arnott’s...

Danger Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Monday, 5 August 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Danger Awards have been announced. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Debut fiction Violet Kelly and the Jade Owl (Fiona Britton, A&U) The...

Authors, literary organisations among Copyright Agency Cultural Fund recipients

Monday, 5 August 2024
The Copyright Agency has announced the projects to be funded through its 2024 Cultural Fund program, among which are 20 organisations with literary projects and three authors. Among the 25...

Hazard to join Keeperton

Monday, 5 August 2024
New publishing venture Keeperton has announced the appointment of former Hachette Australia group publishing director Fiona Hazard as head of global strategy and development. In a statement, Keeperton said the...

UQP acquires two Sakr collections

Monday, 5 August 2024
UQP has acquired two new books by Omar Sakr. The first, The Nightmare Sequence, is a collection of poetry responding to the ongoing situation in Gaza, with a foreword by...

Australian Geographic, Hardie Grant announce publishing partnership

Monday, 5 August 2024
Australian Geographic and Hardie Grant are partnering on a new publishing program. The program will comprise new titles and updated editions of Australian Geographic’s core range of publications. In a...

Creative Australia International Travel, Translation, and Rights Funds for Literature recipients announced

Thursday, 1 August 2024
Creative Australia has announced 2024 recipients of grants from several funds supporting Australian literature. The recipients are: International Travel Fund Katherine Brabon Sarah Firth Chris Gooch Hasib Blaik Hourani Dinuka...

Mulhall awarded 2024 Reading Australia Fellowship

Thursday, 1 August 2024
The Copyright Agency has named Maya Mulhall, a teacher from Blackburn High School in Victoria, the 2024 Reading Australia Fellow for teachers of English and literacy and teacher librarians. Mulhall...

Wilson wins 2024 Desperate Literature Prize, Australian writer shortlisted

Thursday, 1 August 2024
London-based writer Sukie Wilson has won the 2024 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, while Australian author Amanda Hildebrandt and UK-based writer Richie Jones are runners-up. Wilson won for their work...

Queensland Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Thursday, 1 August 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. In several categories, the awards' value has increased this year, with the total value of the awards now standing...

UBD to rebrand as Penguin Random House Distribution

Thursday, 1 August 2024
United Book Distributors (UBD), the distribution facility of Penguin Random House (PRH), has announced it will rebrand to Penguin Random House Distribution from 1 August, with the new name to...

Hardie Grant acquires Petracca cookbook

Tuesday, 30 July 2024
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to AFL star and Norm Smith medallist Christian Petracca’s debut cookbook, Christian Petracca’s On Trac Cookbook. A premiership player and midfielder for the...

Ann Moyal Nonfiction Fellowship 2024 recipients announced

Monday, 29 July 2024
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the three recipients of the 2024 Ann Moyal Nonfiction Fellowship. The recipients are Anna Hickey-Moody, director of the Arts and Humanities Institute at...

Lomer wins 2024 Furphy Literary Award

Monday, 29 July 2024
Kathryn Lomer has won the $15,000 first prize in the 2024 Furphy Literary Award for the short story ‘Nothing about Kissing’. Lomer is a poet, YA author and novelist from...

QWC Varuna fellowship 2024 recipients announced

Monday, 29 July 2024
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced the recipients of its two 2024 residential fellowships to be held at Varuna, the National Writers’ House. Recipients of the 2024 fellowships are...

Weber to lead new audiobooks research project

Monday, 29 July 2024
A new research project, led by lecturer Millicent Weber at the Australian National University (ANU), will investigate ‘how audiobooks are reshaping Australian book culture, including publishing, circulation and reading practices’....