Better Read union members recommence work bans
Wednesday, 17 November 2021
Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) members at bookshop Better Read Than Dead (BRTD), in the inner-Sydney suburb of Newtown, have recommenced industrial action, with RAFFWU stating BRTD management...
Brumby Sunstate acquires JB Books
Wednesday, 17 November 2021
Book wholesaler Brumby Sunstate has announced the acquisition of South Australian wholesale distributor and publisher JB Books. Brumby Sunstate said the JB Books warehouse would be relocating ‘to integrate with...
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival in-person 2021 program announced
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
The program for the 2021 BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, which runs 2–5 December at the State Library of NSW, has been announced. The festival's 40 events include panels, crime...
Stewart wins Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Emily Stewart has won the 2021 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award for her manuscript ‘Running Time’. Selected from a shortlist of seven announced earlier this month, the Sydney poet...
Voss Literary Prize 2021 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Voss Literary Prize has been announced. The shortlisted works, chosen from a longlist of 10, are: The Rain Heron (Robbie Arnott, Text) Our Shadows (Gail...
Abul wins Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Hassan Abul is the winner of the inaugural $10,000 Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize. Abul's winning essay 'Third Cowboy From the Sun' was chosen by judges Brian Castro, Maddee...
Supply chain: Booksellers report serious delays; missing, damaged stock
Monday, 15 November 2021
Booksellers on Australia’s east coast are reporting serious delivery delays, missing deliveries and damaged stock, with reports that the problems are particularly acute in Queensland. And while freight company XL...
ABA to hold 2022 conference in Sydney
Monday, 15 November 2021
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced its 2022 National Conference and Trade Exhibition will take place in Sydney from 12–13 June next year. The ‘much-needed and totally fabulous industry...
Affirm Press Mentorship Award winners; NEWC fellowship shortlist
Monday, 15 November 2021
Affirm Press and Varuna, The National Writers' House have announced the winners of the 2021 Affirm Press Mentorship Award. The winners are: Maha Sidaoui for ‘One Arabian Girl’ Alison Whipp for...
Ayliffe’s John Bailey series optioned for screen
Monday, 15 November 2021
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has sold screen rights to Tim Ayliffe’s John Bailey crime thriller series to CJZ Productions, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans of Cameron’s Management. The...
Ditmar Awards 2021 ballot announced
Friday, 12 November 2021
The ballot for the 2021 Ditmar Awards has been announced. The shortlisted works include: Best Novel The Crying Forest (Venero Armanno, IFWG Publishing Australia) Hollow Empire (Sam Hawke, Penguin) The...
Australians nominated for Carnegie, Kate Greenaway medals
Friday, 12 November 2021
Several Australians have been nominated for the 2022 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals for writing and illustration for children and young people, presented annually by the UK’s Chartered Institute of...
Pascoe awarded 2021 ASA Medal
Friday, 12 November 2021
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Bruce Pascoe is the recipient of the 2021 ASA Medal. Author of the bestselling Dark Emu (Magabala), Pascoe has written over 30...
Tsiolkas, Araluen, Grills, Clarke 2021 Melbourne Prize winners
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Christos Tsiolkas, Evelyn Araluen and Eloise Grills are the winners in the 2021 Melbourne Prize for Literature, announced on 10 November. Tsiolkas won the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature for...
Amerena wins 2021 Speculate Prize
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Dominic Amerena has won the inaugural Speculate Prize for his speculative fiction manuscript ‘In Real Life’. ‘Part literary detective story, part gig economy fable, Domenic Amerena’s “In Real Life” is...
Hachette opens Melbourne, Brisbane ‘working hubs’
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
Hachette Australia has established ‘working hubs’ for its employees based in Melbourne and Brisbane. At the Melbourne hub on Little Collins Street members of Hachette’s publishing, product, marketing and publicity...
Australia’s online presence popular at Frankfurt
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has reported that its Books From Australia website and virtual stand recorded a 200% increase on page views during the week of the Frankfurt Book Fair...
Hardie Grant appoints Harry, Epa
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
Hardie Grant Books has appointed Michael Harry as publisher and Rushani Epa to the newly created role of commissioning editor, both publishing into the categories of food and wine, design,...
HQ acquires Hearst novel in two-book deal
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
HQ has acquired world rights to a forthcoming novel by Elise Hearst, as part of a ‘hotly contested’ two-book deal brokered by Sarah McKenzie Literary Management. According to the publisher,...
Varuna launches publisher and agent program
Tuesday, 9 November 2021
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has launched a program to connect Australian writers with the publishing industry. Pitch Me! provides the opportunity for writers ‘to cut through the complex business...
‘Lucky’s’ wins 2021 Readings Prize
Monday, 8 November 2021
The winner of the 2021 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction is Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos (Picador). Elizabeth Tan, who won the 2020 prize for her short story collection Smart...
GenreCon 2022 full program announced
Monday, 8 November 2021
GenreCon has released the full program for next year’s conference, which will be held at the State Library of Queensland from 18–20 February. The theme for the conference is ‘The...
‘Avoiding the Ageing Parent Trap’ wins AJA 2021 book award
Monday, 8 November 2021
Avoiding the Ageing Parent Trap (Brian Herd, Big Sky) has won the 2021 Australasian Journal on Ageing (AJA) Book Award. Brain Body Food (Ngaire Hobbins, self-published) received an honourable mention....
Woollahra Digital Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Friday, 5 November 2021
The shortlists for the Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Fiction ($2500) Understanding Almost Nothing of the World (James Hughes, Spineless Wonders)...
Kobo, Booktopia launch ebook subscription service
Friday, 5 November 2021
Kobo and Booktopia have launched Kobo Plus, an ebook subscription service available through the 'Booktopia by Rakuten' app and Kobo ereaders. Kobo Plus, which costs $13.99 a month, has a...
Jordan wins 2021 Richell Prize
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Simone Amelia Jordan has won the 2021 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for her memoir manuscript ‘Tell Her She’s Dreamin’’. An Australian journalist, writer, host and media consultant, Jordan founded...
Onus on Australian rights holders to opt out of Internet Archive donation
Thursday, 4 November 2021
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) is alerting Australian authors and publishers that the decision by the National Library of New Zealand (NLNZ) to donate more than 400,000 books to...
NZ Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement 2021 announced
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Creative New Zealand has announced the winners of the 2021 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, worth NZ$60,000 (A$57,634) each. Award-winning poet, fiction writer, screenplay editor and teacher Anne Kennedy...
APA residential editorial program to run in 2022, offer First Nations scholarships
Thursday, 4 November 2021
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced its Residential Editorial Program (REP) will run again in 2022 ‘after two years of COVID delays’. For the first time two scholarships are...
NEWC crowd-funds children’s publishing book
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
The New England Writers' Centre (NEWC) has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for the printing and marketing of Inside Story: the wonderful world of writing, illustrating and publishing...
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