Nib Literary Award 2021 longlist announced
Monday, 30 August 2021
The longlist for the $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Truth about China: Propaganda, patriotism and...
Pybus wins 2021 National Biography Award for ‘Truganini’
Friday, 27 August 2021
Cassandra Pybus has won the 2021 National Biography Award for Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse (A&U). Pybus wins $25,000, while the other authors shortlisted for the award receive $2000 each....
Ned Kelly Awards 2021 winners announced
Thursday, 26 August 2021
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners of the 2021 Ned Kelly Awards. Crime novels released by Text Publishing swept the fiction categories, with the winning titles...
S&S acquires two books by Heiss
Thursday, 26 August 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired two new books by First Nations writer and cultural activist Anita Heiss. The first book is a picture book for young readers about...
WA Premier’s Book Awards announced
Thursday, 26 August 2021
The winners of the 2020 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. Chosen from shortlists announced in June, the winners in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an Emerging...
Pantera acquires Scott book on mental health
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About by journalist, writer and presenter Elfy Scott. Scott's debut nonfiction book is, according to the publisher,...
Nielsen: Indies ‘key to supporting local authors’
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Nielsen BookScan data prepared for the Australian Booksellers Association shows that Australian authors account for over half of the top 50 fiction bestsellers sold through independent bookshops this year to...
Malwatta wins 2021 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Queensland Poetry has announced that Janaka Malwatta has won the 2021 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for his manuscript blackbirds don’t mate with starlings. Malwatta receives $2000 and a publishing contract...
WORD Christchurch Festival postponed; NZ lockdown extended
Tuesday, 24 August 2021
The 2021 WORD Christchurch Festival, which was due to start on 25 August, has been postponed due to uncertainty around Covid-19 alert levels and lockdowns. Organisers are working on a...
Ultimo acquires new Featherstone novel
Tuesday, 24 August 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to My Heart is a Little Wild Thing by Nigel Featherstone, in a deal brokered by Gaby Naher of Left Bank Literary. My Heart...
Sydney Opera House Mentorship for Diverse Emerging Writers recipients announced
Monday, 23 August 2021
Writers Patricia Arcilla and Joyce Chew are the two recipients of the Sydney Opera House's inaugural Mentorship for Diverse Emerging Writers, presented in partnership with Sweatshop. Chew and Arcilla each...
CBCA Book of the Year 2021 winners announced
Friday, 20 August 2021
The winners of the 2021 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles and honour books in each category are: Older...
Educational Publishing Awards Australia 2021 shortlists announced
Friday, 20 August 2021
The titles shortlisted for the 2021 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) have been announced. Among the finalists are books shortlisted for the primary level educational picture or chapter book, and...
Confusion for NZ booksellers under Level 4 lockdown
Thursday, 19 August 2021
The definition of ‘essential’ items able to be sold online in Aotearoa New Zealand is the subject of some debate as the entire country re-enters Level 4 lockdown. Auckland went...
Morrow appointed Murdoch Books publishing director
Thursday, 19 August 2021
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced that Murdoch Books publisher Jane Morrow has been appointed publishing director of the company, replacing Lou Johnson in the role. A&U said Morrow's 'well-honed...
MWF cancels live events, brings forward MWF Digital
Thursday, 19 August 2021
The organisers of the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which was scheduled to run from 3–12 September at various locations across the city, have cancelled the live components of its program....
Aotearoa Booksellers NZ conference postponed
Thursday, 19 August 2021
The 2021 Aotearoa Booksellers NZ conference, which was due to be held at the Park Hyatt in Auckland this weekend, 21–22 August, has been postponed due to the country’s current...
S&S to expand local editorial team
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) is expanding its local editorial team, with two new full-time editorial positions intended to streamline the publisher’s production. S&S managing director Dan Ruffino told Books+Publishing...
Queensland literary projects funded
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
The University of Queensland will receive $20,000 ‘to provide time and space to emerging writer Ellen van Neerven for their creative development of new work enhanced by access to unique...
Nielsen launches local ebook sales tracking service
Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Nielsen Book Australia has launched a new ebook sales tracking service. Collecting ebook sales data directly from publishers, PubTrack Digital Australia & New Zealand is, according to Nielsen, ‘the first...
SLQ 2021 Young Writers Award winner announced
Tuesday, 17 August 2021
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced that Ellen Vickerman is the winner of the 2021 Young Writers Award. Vickerman wins a $2000 cash prize for her story 'Sun...
NZ Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize shortlist announced
Monday, 16 August 2021
Hachette Aotearoa NZ and the Margaret Mahy estate have announced the shortlist for the Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize. The shortlisted illustrators are: Elizabeth Knowles Tara Southgate Sarah Trolle Jessica Twohill...
Lockdowns hit print book sales
Monday, 16 August 2021
Simultaneous lockdowns across several states have led to year-on-year declines in both value and volume of print books in recent months, according to Nielsen Book Australia. While the print book...
ASA, ABA promote ‘shop local, read local’ campaign for CBCA Book Week
Friday, 13 August 2021
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) are promoting a ‘shop local, read local’ campaign for Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book Week 2021, which...
‘The Bible in Buffalo Country’ wins 2021 NT History Book Award
Friday, 13 August 2021
The winner of the 2021 Chief Minister's Northern Territory History Book Award has been announced. The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925-1931 (Sally May, Laura Rademaker, Donna Nadjamerrek &...
PANZ 2021 conference program announced
Friday, 13 August 2021
The program for the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) International Conference, to be held in Auckland on 20 August, has been announced. The program of...
Hardie Grant North America appoints publisher
Friday, 13 August 2021
Jenny Wapner will join Hardie Grant North America in the newly created role of publisher. She will be based in San Francisco, where the publisher’s North American marketing team is...
Larrikin House acquires Freeman picture book
Thursday, 12 August 2021
Larrikin House has acquired worldwide rights to children’s picture book The Heartbeat of the Land by Cathy Freeman. The publisher says the book is ‘a poignant call for environmental action...
NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2021 winners announced
Thursday, 12 August 2021
The winners of the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Margaret Mahy Book of the Year...
Giramondo partners with RMIT to launch Speculate Prize
Thursday, 12 August 2021
RMIT University has announced it will partner with Giramondo Publishing to launch the Speculate Prize, a new trans-Tasman award for an unpublished speculative fiction manuscript. The biennial prize aims to...
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