Bradley appointed Campion Group CEO
Thursday, 27 June 2024
Education resource supplier Campion Group has appointed Tom Bradley as its CEO. Bradley was previously the general manager of customer experience at Kmart Group Ltd. As CEO of Campion, Bradley...
Heyman, Hoey recipients of Varuna exchange
Thursday, 27 June 2024
Australian writer Kathryn Heyman and Aotearoa New Zealand writer Dominic Hoey are the recipients of the 2024 New Zealand–Australia Residency Exchange, an international residency program held by Varuna, The National...
Jane Harrison steps down from Blak & Bright
Thursday, 27 June 2024
Blak & Bright has announced that Jane Harrison has stepped down from her role as artistic director and CEO. Harrison has been in the role since the four-day First Nations...
PLR/ELR payments up $3.3m as digital lending included
Thursday, 27 June 2024
The total value of payments made to Australian creators through the Public and Educational Lending Right (PLR/ELR) schemes for the 2023–24 period totalled $26.6 million, an increase of $3.3 million...
Scribe acquires new Horton novel ‘Time Together’
Thursday, 27 June 2024
Scribe has acquired world rights to Time Together, a new novel from Luke Horton, via Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary. The publisher said Time Together is ‘a novel about...
APA CEO Gordon-Smith steps down, Di Biase-Dyson promoted
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced CEO Michael Gordon-Smith will retire from the position at the end of June, after 11 years in the role, with current APA chief...
Inaugural recipients announced for NZSA mentorships
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa Te Kaituhi Māori (NZSA) has announced the inaugural recipients of its NZSA Kaituhi Māori Mentorship and Kupu Kaitiaki programs....
Upswell acquires White’s essay collection
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Upswell has acquired world rights to Jessica White’s collection Silence Is My Habitat: Ecobiological essays. Upswell publisher Terri-ann White said White’s new book of essays ‘contains multiple dimensions’, with ‘a...
Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre receives $100K for inclusion program
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
The Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP) Writers’ Centre in Perth, Western Australia, has been awarded approximately $100,000 from Creative Australia to run its Inclusive Residency Pilot Program for emerging Australian writers...
Farr wins NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Tracy Farr has won the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) (NZSA) Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize for Wonderland, an alt-history set on...
APA announces Children’s Editorial Program
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced a new Children’s Editorial Program, following the model of the existing Residential Editorial Program, with a picture book editing intensive to run for...
UQP acquires Morton’s VPLA-winning debut
Monday, 24 June 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Rachel Morton’s debut novel, The Sun Was Electric Light, which won the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished...
Rossell’s ‘The Midwatch’ sells to North America, European territories
Monday, 24 June 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) imprint Dial Books for Younger Readers has acquired North American rights to Judith Rossell’s forthcoming illustrated middle-grade novel The Midwatch, via Daniel Lazar at Writers House...
More than 90k attend SWF; MWF attendance up 12%
Monday, 24 June 2024
The 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which ran from 20 to 26 May, had a total attendance of 91,680 across its 225 events. The attendance figure is an increase on...
Scribner acquires Latimore nonfiction title
Monday, 24 June 2024
Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ and UK rights to Kumanjayi: Death and indifference by First Nations journalist Jack Latimore, in a deal via Melanie Ostell at...
Mildura program; inaugural Liminal Festival; new Queensland poetry festival; Words on the Waves bestsellers
Thursday, 20 June 2024
Mildura Writers Festival has announced the program for its 2024 festival, running from 18 to 21 July. Guests include Christos Tsiolkas, Charlotte Wood, Nam Le, Melissa Lucashenko, Stan Grant, Julie...
BookPeople conference ‘biggest for many years’
Thursday, 20 June 2024
The 2024 BookPeople conference, held in Melbourne from 15 to 17 June, was its ‘biggest conference for many years’, according to the organisation. The event attracted 175 bookseller delegates, including...
S&S acquires Kitching romance novel
Thursday, 20 June 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to The Life Experiment, a romance novel from Melbourne-based author Jess Kitching, in a deal negotiated by Daniel Pilkington. Described by...
APA Rising Star 2024 shortlist announced
Thursday, 20 June 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlist for its 2024 Rising Star award. The shortlisted professionals, who each began their publishing careers in the past 10 years, are:...
A&U acquires two Nix novels
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Garth Nix’s adult science fiction novel Massif, in a two-book deal via Fiona Inglis at Curtis Brown Australia. US rights to...
Transit Lounge acquires Lyons-Lee gothic literary fiction
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson, a second novel from Belinda Lyons-Lee. Described by the publisher as ‘gothic literary fiction in the...
Ross wins final Vogel
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
First Year by Kristina Ross has won this year’s $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. First Year follows Maeve, a...
Ortiz wins 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Kaya Ortiz has won the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award for their unpublished manuscript, Past and Parallel Lives. Ortiz receives a publishing contract and manuscript development with UWA Publishing, and $10,000...
Stella announces Stella Count return, Stella on the Go initiative
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Stella has announced that the Stella Count—an ongoing research project tracking gender bias in Australian reviews—is returning. Started in 2012, the Stella Count went on hiatus in 2020. This followed...
BookPeople 2024 Book of the Year, Bookseller of the Year winners announced
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
BookPeople has announced the winners of the 2024 Book of the Year Awards, and the Bookseller of the Year awards. Adult fiction Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP) Adult nonfiction Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s...
S&S to distribute MUP
Monday, 17 June 2024
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) will partner with Simon & Schuster (S&S) for its sales and distribution in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand from February next year. MUP titles are currently...
‘The Story of Art Without Men’ tops BWF charts at ‘record-breaking’ festival
Monday, 17 June 2024
The 2024 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which ran from 30 May until 2 June, was ‘a record-breaking festival across box office and book sales as well as audience attendance’, according...
Booktopia in voluntary trading suspension
Monday, 17 June 2024
Trading of Booktopia shares on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is suspended, pending an announcement from the company. Booktopia requested a trading halt on Friday, 13 June, anticipating it would...
Zheng wins 2024 Island Nonfiction Prize
Monday, 17 June 2024
Island has announced that Cherry Zheng is the winner of the 2024 Island Nonfiction Prize for the piece ‘Fucking with Chineseness’. Zheng is a writer of Cantonese heritage, who was...
Saleh wins Anne Elder Award 2023
Monday, 17 June 2024
Australian Poetry has announced Sara M Saleh as the winner of the Anne Elder Award 2023 for a first book of poetry for The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat (UQP, 2023)....
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