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UQP acquires Bigna middle-grade verse novel

Thursday, 11 April 2024
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to debut author Sandy Bigna’s middle-grade verse novel Little Bones, in a two-book deal via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di...

Hazard to leave Hachette

Thursday, 11 April 2024
Hachette Australia and New Zealand has announced group publishing director Fiona Hazard is leaving the role ‘to pursue other opportunities’. Hazard joined Hodder Headline in 1999 as publishing manager before...

BookPeople Book of the Year longlists announced

Thursday, 11 April 2024
BookPeople has announced the longlists for its Book of the Year awards. The longlists for each category are: Adult fiction Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) Green Dot...

PRH acquires Clark romantasy duology

Thursday, 11 April 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired rights to a romantasy duology from Tasmanian debut author Sophie Clark, as part of a global PRH co-publishing deal with Knopf in the...

Hachette acquires Farnham memoir

Tuesday, 9 April 2024
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to The Voice Inside, a memoir by John Farnham. The book is written in partnership with Poppy Stockell, director of 2023 Farnham biopic Finding...

Aotearoa New Zealand publishers represented at Bologna

Tuesday, 9 April 2024
Eight publishers are exhibiting at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair as part of the Aotearoa New Zealand collective stand. The stand will be managed by Publishers Association of New Zealand...

NYWF called off for 2024

Monday, 8 April 2024
The National Young Writers’ Festival, held annually in Newcastle, NSW, will not go ahead this year. Organisers said they are pausing its annual programming to ‘plan, reassess and re-design the...

Affirm acquires rights to Welgemoed cookbook

Monday, 8 April 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Cooking with Fire by chef and founder of Adelaide restaurant Africola, Duncan Welgemoed. Welgemoed, who was born in South Africa, was head chef...

Keeperton to acquire print rights to works by ‘established digital-first authors’

Monday, 8 April 2024
Australian author T L Swan has announced the launch of new publishing venture Keeperton, to be distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster. With staff based in the US, Australia and...

HarperCollins hopes to announce new date for Wilson memoir ‘in coming weeks’

Monday, 8 April 2024
Publication of Rebel Rising, a memoir by actor Rebel Wilson to be published by HarperCollins, has been delayed in Australia, where it was originally due to be published last week....

The ‘Australian’ announces new fiction prize as Vogel ends

Monday, 8 April 2024
The winner of this year’s Australian/Vogel’s Award, to be announced in June, will be the last, with the Australian’s literary editor Caroline Overington stating the newspaper will ‘honour [the Vogel’s]...

Stager, Godwin to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, publisher shortlists announced

Thursday, 4 April 2024
Bookseller Fiona Stager and children’s author and publisher Jane Godwin will be inducted into the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Hall of Fame at the 2024 ABIAs ceremony on 9...

UWAP acquires On’s third poetry collection

Thursday, 4 April 2024
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Essence, Thuy On’s third collection of poetry. On said the collection is titled Essence ‘because essentially that’s what poetry is about, stripping...

Stella Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 4 April 2024
The shortlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced. The shortlisted books are: Praiseworthy (Alexis Wright, Giramondo) Feast (Emily O’Grady, A&U) Abandon Every Hope: Essays for...

Creative Australia announces 2024 VIPs

Tuesday, 2 April 2024
Creative Australia has announced the ten international publishers, editors and agents participating in the 2024 Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program. This year’s participants are: Tamar Brazis (vice president and publisher,...

Spineless Wonders, AAWP announce new novella prize

Tuesday, 2 April 2024
Spineless Wonders has announced the inaugural Novella Prize, in partnership with the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP). Spineless Wonders publisher Bronwyn Mehan said the collaboration with the AAWP on...

Ena Noël Award 2024 winners announced

Tuesday, 2 April 2024
The Australian branch of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) has announced the winners of the 2024 Ena Noël Award. Meg Gatland-Veness and Holden Sheppard were jointly...

Gleebooks completes renovation

Tuesday, 2 April 2024
The renovation of the Gleebooks building at 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe, NSW, has been completed. Gleebooks co-owner David Gaunt described the updated building as ‘fit for the 21st century’...

Williams tops Dymocks Top 101

Tuesday, 2 April 2024
Bookselling chain Dymocks has announced its 2024 Top 101 list, voted on by readers, with Pip Williams’s The Bookbinder of Jericho (Affirm) taking out the top spot. The top 10...

Inaugural DANZ winners announced

Friday, 29 March 2024
The winners of the inaugural the inaugural DANZ (Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children’s Book Award have been announced. Chosen from shortlists announced in February, the winners are: Picture book...

Author events: Report highlights relationships as key, problematic

Tuesday, 26 March 2024
Live Literature in Australia, a new research report jointly conducted by Australia Reads and the University of Melbourne, examined the ‘considerations and barriers’ for booksellers, librarians, and teachers hosting live...

Copyright Licensing New Zealand launches IP platform

Tuesday, 26 March 2024
In Aotearoa New Zealand, not-for-profit organisation Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) has launched a platform to support creative workers to ‘better manage their intellectual property’. The platform, called MyCreativeRights, is...