Affirm acquires Art Simone anthology
Thursday, 23 May 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Drag Queens Down Under, an anthology curated by Art Simone. The anthology is described by the publisher as ‘a glorious celebration of life...
Phommavanh charged for alleged grooming
Tuesday, 21 May 2024
Sydney children’s author Oliver Phommavanh has been charged for allegedly grooming a minor online, reports the ABC. According to ABC News, it is alleged that Phommavanh ‘sent inappropriate photos and...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
Tuesday, 21 May 2024
The winners of the 2024 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were announced on 20 May. Ali Cobby Eckermann's verse novel She Is the Earth won the overall $10,000 Book of the...
Aurealis Awards 2023 winners announced
Tuesday, 21 May 2024
The winners of the 2023 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing published last year in Australia, have been announced. Among longer-form winners, chosen from shortlists announced...
S&S acquires Murphy memoir ‘Madam’
Tuesday, 21 May 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Antonia Murphy’s forthcoming memoir, Madam, at auction, via Alice Tasman and Cole Hildebrand at Jean V Naggar Literary...
BookPeople 2024 Bookseller of the Year shortlists announced
Monday, 20 May 2024
BookPeople has announced the shortlists for its 2024 Bookseller of the Year awards. The awards recognise an individual bookseller for outstanding achievement in the past 12 months, with the young...
Levens resigns as Booktopia CFO
Monday, 20 May 2024
Booktopia chief financial officer (CFO) Fiona Levens has resigned from the company, effective 15 May. In a statement, Booktopia CEO David Nenke acknowledged Levens’ ‘strong leadership during her time with...
Big W opens in Stanhope Gardens
Monday, 20 May 2024
Big W has opened its first new large-format store since 2019 at Stanhope Gardens in north-western Sydney. In a statement, Big W said that the new store will have ‘an...
Michael Gifkins Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Monday, 20 May 2024
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) have announced the shortlist for the 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished...
New $5000 award for Aotearoa NZ writers
Monday, 20 May 2024
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) has announced a new NZ$5000 award for Aotearoa NZ writers. The NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award, established by...
Walker acquires Marr, Speechley picture book
Monday, 20 May 2024
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to the picture book One Day, written by Shirley Marr and illustrated by Michael Speechley, in a two-book deal. One Day introduces a...
Huang wins Blake Poetry Prize
Monday, 20 May 2024
Coco X Huang has won the 68th Blake Poetry Prize, worth $5000, for her poem 'Three Lessons'. Huang is a Chinese-Australian writer, musician and scientist, who creates interdisciplinary works that...
Dorothy Hewett Award 2024 shortlist announced
Friday, 17 May 2024
UWA Publishing has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted manuscripts, chosen from over 200 entries, are: ‘The Protector of Fledglings’ by...
Ockham NZ Book Awards 2024 winners announced
Thursday, 16 May 2024
The winners of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The fiction prize went to Emily Perkins for Lioness (Bloomsbury). Convenor of fiction judges Juliet Blyth said: ‘At...
Cumberland City Council overturns ban on same-sex parenting books in libraries
Thursday, 16 May 2024
Cumberland City Council in Western Sydney has voted to overturn its recent motion to ban same-sex parenting books from its libraries, reports the ABC. According to the ABC, the motion...
Hastings wins 2024 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize
Thursday, 16 May 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins imprint HQ have announced that Kathleen Hastings is the winner of the 2024 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. Selected from...
Wright wins 2024 James Tait Black fiction prize
Thursday, 16 May 2024
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) has won the fiction award in the 2024 James Tait Black Prizes. Wright’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of four fiction works for the...
Book Face opens store in Northbridge, NSW
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Bookselling chain Book Face has opened its fifth store—a bookstore in the Sydney suburb of Northbridge. Store manager Luke Holmes said that the company opened a bookstore in the area...
Yankovich’s ‘Just Friends’ North American rights sold
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
North American rights for Just Friends (Gyan Yankovich, Ultimo) have been sold to The Experiment, via Rach Crawford at Wolf Literary Services. Just Friends—which The Experiment will publish as Friendship...
Regional, suburban writers’ festival programs announced
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Several writers’ festivals have revealed the programs for their upcoming events. The Words on the Waves Writers Festival will run on the NSW Central Coast from 29 May to 3...
Wellington bookstore Good Books closed
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Good Books, in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, has ceased trading. The bookshop, established in late 2020 by writers Catherine Robertson and Jane Arthur, had its final day of operation last...
SLNSW offers new $50K creative writing fellowship
Monday, 13 May 2024
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the creation of a new $50,000 creative writing fellowship, as well as a new Summer Scholars Program. The $50,000 Imago Creative Writing...
NT Writers Festival announces 2024 program
Monday, 13 May 2024
The NT Writers Festival has announced the program for its 2024 festival, which will run from 27 to 30 June on Larrakia Country in Darwin (Garramilla). Events will take place outdoors at...
Aotearoa Booksellers Choice Award shortlist announced
Monday, 13 May 2024
The shortlist for the Aotearoa Book Industry Awards Booksellers Choice Award has been announced. The 16 books in the running for the award, which will be voted for by booksellers,...
Pantera acquires Eley’s romantasy ‘The Rule’
Monday, 13 May 2024
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to The Rule by Bronwyn Eley in a two-book deal. The Rule is a fantasy novel following Zinha, a member of the underground assassin...
Murdoch, Eadie to depart amid ‘structural changes’ at PRHNZ
Monday, 13 May 2024
Penguin Random House New Zealand (PRHNZ) director Becky Innes has confirmed the publisher is undertaking ‘structural changes’, with the Spinoff reporting that head of publishing Claire Murdoch and nonfiction publisher...
UQP sells First Nations Classics series to Bolinda
Thursday, 9 May 2024
UQP has sold world audio rights to the First Nations Classics series to Bolinda, in a 15-book deal brokered by rights and contracts manager Erin Sandiford. In 2023, UQP launched...
Birch, McMullin win 2024 Age Book of the Year awards
Thursday, 9 May 2024
The winners of the Age Book of the Year awards have been announced. Tony Birch won the fiction award for his novel Women & Children (UQP) and Ross McMullin won...
Brumby Sunstate acquires Bookreps NZ
Thursday, 9 May 2024
Queensland-based distributor Brumby Sunstate has acquired Bookreps NZ, and its distribution arm Publishers Distribution NZ, based in Auckland. Established in 1996, Bookreps NZ is an agency-based book sales businesses and...
PANZ 2024 conference first guests announced; Meredith appointed association director
Tuesday, 7 May 2024
The first guests for the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) International Conference, to be held in Auckland on 1 and 2 August, have been announced....
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