UBD drops XL for Startrack
Monday, 15 August 2022
United Book Distributors (UBD) has announced it will be replacing XL Express with Startrack Express as a main distribution partner alongside FedEx (TNT), effective by later this month. ‘Startrack Express...
Ellis wins 2022 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Friday, 12 August 2022
Tracy Ellis has won the 2022 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Natural Wonder’. Chosen from a shortlist of three announced in July, Ellis receives $6000. Nina...
Readings announces Children’s Book Prize 2022 shortlist
Friday, 12 August 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Readings Children’s Book Prize has been announced. This year’s six shortlisted books are: A Glasshouse of Stars (Shirley Marr, Puffin) Little Gem (Anna Zobel, Puffin)...
‘Atua: Māori gods and heroes’ wins Margaret Mahy Book of the Year
Friday, 12 August 2022
Author and illustrator Gavin Bishop has won three categories in the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, including the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year, for...
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Thursday, 11 August 2022
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2022 NSW Premier’s History Awards, worth $15,000 in each category. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Australian...
Booktopia leases new warehouse
Thursday, 11 August 2022
Booktopia has secured a lease for a new customer fulfilment centre (CFC) in South Strathfield in Sydney’s west. According to Booktopia, after constant retrofitting, its current Lidcombe facility has become...
Brennan wins 2022 National Biography Award for ‘Leaping into Waterfalls’
Thursday, 11 August 2022
Bernadette Brennan has won the 2022 National Biography Award for Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears (A&U). Brennan receives $25,000, while the other shortlisted authors receive $2000 each. Judges...
Griffin Press ceases POD
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
Opus Group has confirmed that Griffin Press, which it acquired from Ovato earlier this year, will cease its print on demand (POD) services. In a statement to clients on Friday,...
Scribe & Varuna announce 2022 fellows
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
The recipients of the 2022 Scribe & Varuna Fellowships have been announced. The fellows and their projects are: Sam Elkin for ‘Shapeshifting’ Jacqueline Wright for ‘Beauty and Menace’ Nevo Zisin...
UQP acquires Taylor debut ‘Flinch’
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to debut novel Flinch by 2022 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize winner Saraid Taylor. A coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of elite sport and...
Dessaix honoured for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
Monday, 8 August 2022
Robert Dessaix has won the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, which ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over the age of 60 who have made an...
Renée crime fiction debut sells to UK in two-book deal
Monday, 8 August 2022
Nadine Rubin Nathan at High Spot Literary has sold world English-language rights (ex NZ) to two crime novels, The Wild Card and Blood Matters (The Cuba Press), by Māori writer...
Aotearoa NZ publishers grow 0.8%; Te Reo Māori publishing up 40%
Friday, 5 August 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand trade publishers’ revenue last year grew 0.8%, according to a new report from the Publishers Association of NZ/Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ). The Book Industry Market Size...
Masson, Carrington launch Pardalote Press
Friday, 5 August 2022
Author Sophie Masson and illustrator Lorena Carrington have partnered on a new micropublisher, Pardalote Press, which aims to publish ‘small, surprising things which help the imagination take flight’. A crowdfunding...
Ultimo acquires Kalagian Blunt thriller ‘Dark Mode’
Thursday, 4 August 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights for Ashley Kalagian Blunt’s thriller Dark Mode, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson from Curtis Brown. Described by the publisher as ‘compulsive and...
Qld Literary Awards 2022 shortlists
Thursday, 4 August 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance ($25,000) Wounded Country...
‘Grimmish’ sells to UK, North America
Tuesday, 2 August 2022
Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary, on behalf of Puncher & Wattmann, has sold UK and US rights at auction to Michael Winkler’s debut novel Grimmish, in a co-publishing deal between...
Mossop appointed SWF artistic director
Monday, 1 August 2022
Ann Mossop has been appointed artistic director of the Sydney Writers Festival (SWF) for a three-year term, replacing Michael Williams, who programmed the 2021 and 2022 Festivals. Mossop comes to...
Nib Literary Award 2022 longlist announced
Monday, 1 August 2022
The longlist for the 2022 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $20,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Currowan (Bronwyn Adcock, Black Inc.) Telling Tennant’s Story (Dean...
Age Book of the Year 2022 shortlists announced
Monday, 1 August 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Age Book of the Year Award, which this year includes a prize for nonfiction, have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Fiction...
Unity Books wins NZ Bookshop of the Year; Hedleys recognised with Lifetime Achievement Award
Monday, 1 August 2022
Unity Books in Wellington was named winner of the Nielsen BookData Bookshop of the Year Award at the Aotearoa Book Trade Industry Awards on 30 July in Auckland. Unity Books,...
Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 29 July 2022
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The shortlisted stories and their authors are: 'Dog Park' by Nina Cullen 'Natural Wonder' by...
UQP acquires Wagan Watson short story collection
Friday, 29 July 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to poet Samuel Wagan Watson's first short story collection, New and Used Ghosts. The collection of ghost stories interrogates and celebrates myth, legend and secrets...
Transit Lounge acquires Shirm’s ‘The Crying Room’
Thursday, 28 July 2022
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Gretchen Shirm's second novel The Crying Room, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. ‘It is hard to think of a novel more deeply sensitive and...
Harper tops libraries index second year running
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
Public sector software provider Civica and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) have released this year’s Civica Libraries Index, which looked at borrowing data across regional and metropolitan libraries...
Davitt Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the shortlists for the 2022 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult crime novel...
UQP acquires inaugural Kathryn Heyman Mentorship Award–winning novel
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to the debut novel Roseghetto by Kirsty Jagger, inaugural recipient of the Kathryn Heyman Mentorship Award for a writer from a background of social and...
Reviews, residencies, new publications receive latest Copyright Agency funding
Monday, 25 July 2022
Increased funding for book reviews, a new Mascara x Varuna editorial and writing residency, and several publications are among 20 initiatives receiving a total of $256,245 in the latest round...
Kennedy wins 2022 Furphy Literary Award
Monday, 25 July 2022
The winners of the 2022 Furphy Literary Award have been announced. Cate Kennedy won first place in the open category for her short story ‘Art and Life’, receiving $15,000 and...
Henderson appointed Hachette senior nonfiction publisher
Friday, 22 July 2022
Hachette Australia has appointed Scott Henderson, previously editor and content director of Men’s Health Australia, as senior nonfiction publisher. Group publishing director Fiona Hazard said Henderson 'clearly has the vision...
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