Laforest appointed Five Mile CEO
Monday, 20 June 2022
Michelle Laforest has been appointed CEO of Five Mile. Laforest has 20 years’ publishing experience in senior roles at businesses including DK and Harlequin. She replaces Alexandra Maramenides, who was...
‘The Dogs’ removed from Miles Franklin longlist, White says Hughes breached trust
Monday, 20 June 2022
A week after John Hughes’ novel The Dogs (Upswell) was withdrawn from the Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist following the discovery of plagiarism, the Guardian has found more instances of...
WA Premier’s Book Awards announced
Monday, 20 June 2022
The winners of the 2021 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. Chosen from shortlists announced in May, the winners in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an Emerging...
QBD opens 85th store, first Australian Geographic outlet
Friday, 17 June 2022
QBD Books has announced the opening of a new shop in Brisbane, as well as the company's first Australian Geographic standalone store. Opening on 25 June, the new QBD at...
McGuire appointed Fremantle Press patron
Friday, 17 June 2022
Cultural leader and entrepreneur Barry McGuire has been appointed the second Fremantle Press patron, a role that will focus on raising the publisher's profile in the arts, education and business...
Scribble, Think+DO Tank Foundation announce inaugural Mirror Mentorship Program winners
Thursday, 16 June 2022
Scribe children's imprint Scribble and the Think+DO Tank Foundation have announced the winners of the inaugural Mirror Mentorship Program, which provides support and mentoring 'with the aim of making new...
Opus acquisition of Ovato book printing unopposed by ACCC
Thursday, 16 June 2022
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has stated that it does not oppose the acquisition of Ovato Book Printing (formerly Griffin Press) by Opus Group, owner of McPherson's. The...
Varuna announces 2022 Writer’s Space fellows
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of the 2022 Writer’s Space fellowships for writers with disability or who are D/deaf. The fellowship program is open to writers...
Penguin Literary Prize 2022 winner announced
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced On a Bright Hillside in Paradise by Sydney-based writer Annette Higgs as the winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize for an unpublished...
New Craig novel ‘Wall’ sells to US
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary has sold US rights to Sydney author Jen Craig's third novel Wall to Zerogram Press. The narrator of Wall is a London-based Australian visual artist (with 'a...
Authors, industry figures recognised in 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours
Tuesday, 14 June 2022
A number of Australian authors and industry figures were recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. Sophie Blackall was made a Member in the General Division of the Order of...
‘Love & Virtue’ wins Booksellers’ Choice adult fiction book of the year 2022
Tuesday, 14 June 2022
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the winners of its annual book and bookseller of the year awards. The winners in each category are: Adult fiction Love & Virtue (Diana Reid,...
Affirm Press to launch national sales team
Tuesday, 14 June 2022
Melbourne-based independent publisher Affirm Press has announced it is launching its own national sales team, the first new sales force in Australian publishing since Hardie Grant launched its own in...
APA: publishers for and against proposed Ovato acquisition
Friday, 10 June 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) reports that its members hold a 'breadth' of views on Opus Group's proposed acquisition of Ovato Book Printing. The APA said its submission to the...
Hughes apologises for plagiarism in Miles Franklin-longlisted novel
Friday, 10 June 2022
In an exclusive article, the Guardian Australia reports it has found multiple instances of plagiarism in John Hughes’s novel The Dogs (Upswell), recently longlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary...
‘Love & Virtue’ wins ABIA book of the year 2022
Friday, 10 June 2022
The winners of the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have been announced. Diana Reid's debut novel Love & Virtue took out the overall ABIA book of the year as well as...
George Robertson Award 2022 winners announced
Thursday, 9 June 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2022 George Robertson Award, which recognises long and distinguished service to the publishing industry. The 2022 recipients are: Pam...
Pantera acquires new Awad novel
Thursday, 9 June 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to the novel Let Me Know When We Get There by Amal Awad, via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown. Described by the publisher as...
Text Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 8 June 2022
The shortlist for the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, worth $10,000, has been announced. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘Bellamy Jones and the Lost Treeheart’ by Emily Beck...
Neilma Sidney Travel Fund 2022 recipients announced
Wednesday, 8 June 2022
Writers Victoria has announced the seventh round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund, which has opened up to international travel again after pandemic-related travel restrictions in 2021....
Rachel Funari Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
Lip magazine has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction. The shortlisted stories are: ‘The Reliquary’ by Claire Alcock ‘In the Wake of Tokyo’ by Louise...
ALS Gold Medal 2022 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted works of fiction and poetry are: Wild Abandon (Emily Bitto, A&U) Human Looking (Andy Jackson, Giramondo) Pushing...
ABDA awards 2022 winners announced
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
The winners of the 70th Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The winners in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in...
KYD announces ‘New Australian Fiction’ contributors, new editor
Monday, 6 June 2022
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced the contributors to its annual short story anthology, New Australian Fiction. New Australian Fiction 2022, the fourth anthology in the series, is the first to be...
Black Inc. announces ‘Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia’
Friday, 3 June 2022
Black Inc. has announced the latest addition to its ‘Growing Up’ nonfiction anthology series, Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia, to be edited by author and public servant Samantha Faulkner....
PRH to publish Rutledge debut novel
Thursday, 2 June 2022
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to A Man and His Pride, a commercial fiction title by debut novelist Luke Rutledge, via Melanie Ostell Literary. PRH describes...
NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults finalists announced
Thursday, 2 June 2022
The finalists for the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced. The shortlists in each category, chosen from a record 199 entries, are: Picture...
black&write! fellowships 2022 recipients announced
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
The 2022 black&write! fellowships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers have been awarded to Queensland Elder Herbert Wharton and Lay Maloney from Victoria. Each fellowship is worth $10,000 and...
BookUp full 2022 program announced
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released the full program for the one-day BookUp publishing conference, to be held in Sydney next Thursday, 9 June, ahead of the Australian Book...
Grant, Hathorn to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, Rising Star shortlists announced
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
Hardie Grant CEO Sandy Grant and children's author Libby Hathorn will be inducted into the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Hall of Fame at the 2022 ABIA awards ceremony on...
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