S&S acquires Lyons cookbook
Friday, 29 January 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to a book by Nathan Lyons, ‘the Australian TikTok sensation behind Kooking With A Koori’. Lyons, a Wiradjuri man, is a...
New Zealand market down 0.3% in 2020
Thursday, 28 January 2021
New Zealand’s book sales fell by less than 1% in 2020, despite a sustained hard lockdown for almost five weeks from late March, in which the nation’s booksellers were unable...
Full Adelaide Writers’ Week program announced
Thursday, 28 January 2021
The full program has been announced for Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW), which features a total of 147 guests and runs from Saturday, 27 February to Thursday, 4 March 2021. In...
Saleh wins 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Thursday, 28 January 2021
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced Sara M Saleh as the winner of the 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, for her poem ‘A Poetics of Fo(u)rgetting’. The judges said of...
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 longlists announced
Thursday, 28 January 2021
The longlists for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Nothing to See (Pip Adam, Victoria University Press) Bug...
S&S acquires Allira Potter nonfiction title
Thursday, 28 January 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to a book by psychic Allira Potter. Potter, a Yorta Yorta woman, incorporates Indigenous practices and First Nations knowledge into her...
McDougall wins NZ Sunday Star-Times short story prize
Wednesday, 27 January 2021
Wellington author Kirsten McDougall has won the NZ$5000 (A$4672) New Zealand Sunday Star-Times short story competition open category for her story ‘Walking Day’. McDougall, a publicist and literary manager whose...
Book industry figures among 2021 Australia Day honours recipients
Wednesday, 27 January 2021
Several book industry figures have been recognised in the annual Australia Day honours. Writer, editor and academic Robyn Sheahan-Bright was made a Member (AM) in the General Division of the...
The Book Cow opens in Canberra
Wednesday, 27 January 2021
New independent bookstore The Book Cow has opened in Kingston in Canberra's inner south. The shop opened in early December as a pop up, but has permanent shelving and a...
Dymocks Tuggeranong to close
Wednesday, 27 January 2021
After more than 20 years operating in the Canberra suburb, Dymocks Tuggeranong is set to close at the completion of its current lease. ‘This has not been an easy decision...
Create NSW announces new $30,000 SLNSW Aboriginal Creative Fellowship
Monday, 25 January 2021
A new fellowship with the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) is among four new fellowship programs worth up to $30,000 each being offered by Create NSW in partnership...
Full Perth Festival Literature & Ideas program announced
Friday, 22 January 2021
The full line-up has been announced for the 2021 Perth Festival Literature & Ideas program, which will be spread across 12 days from 8–28 February 2021. Newly announced local authors...
The Book Dispensary opens in Forbes, NSW
Friday, 22 January 2021
A new independent bookshop has opened in the town of Forbes, Central West NSW. Owner Debbie Prior opened The Book Dispensary in early December and told Books+Publishing she 'welcomed the...
Lane, Murray awarded 2021 NZ Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowships
Thursday, 21 January 2021
In New Zealand, Chloe Lane and Lee Murray have been awarded the 2021 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowships. Lane and Murray will share a stipend of NZ$20,000 (A$18,500) and will each undertake...
Morrison appointed Echo publisher
Thursday, 21 January 2021
Echo Publishing has appointed publicist Emily Banyard and publishing assistant Rosie Outred in addition to promoting associate publisher Tegan Morrison to the role of publisher. The appointments bring the Bonnier...
Indie Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Leading Edge Books has announced the shortlists for the 2021 Indie Book Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction All Our Shimmering Skies (Trent Dalton, HarperCollins) The Living Sea...
Givney’s ‘Jane in Love’ optioned by ‘Little Women’ producer
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Rachel Givney’s debut novel Jane in Love (Michael Joseph) has been optioned for film by DiNovi Pictures for Amazon Studios, in a deal brokered by Jerry Kalajian at IPG and...
PRH acquires Goldberg debut
Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to Ashley Goldberg’s debut novel Abomination, from Akin Akinwumi at Willenfield Literary Agency. Shortlisted for the 2020 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished...
New writers festival for Central Coast
Tuesday, 19 January 2021
The first guests have been announced for the inaugural Words on the Waves Writers Festival, a new literary event that will take place in Umina Beach on the Central Coast...
Wamala buys The Kids’ Bookshop
Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Graham Gill has sold schools-servicing online bookseller The Kids’ Bookshop to former manager Erin Wamala. Established in late 2012, The Kids’ Bookshop supplies schools with books for libraries, classrooms, literacy...
Nielsen: Australian book sales up 7.8% in 2020
Monday, 18 January 2021
Sales of books in Australia grew 7.8% in 2020, according to data from Nielsen BookScan, with total sales by value coming in at $1.25 billion for the year, compared to...
Griffith Review launches new writing competition
Monday, 18 January 2021
Griffith Review has announced a new award for new and emerging writers. The Long and Short of It competition is open to submissions of fiction and nonfiction from 3500 to...
Pippos debut chosen for inaugural NSW Reads program
Friday, 15 January 2021
The New South Wales Public Library Association has chosen Lucky’s (Andrew Pippos, Picador) for its first state-wide reading program, NSW Reads. Described as a state-wide ‘book club’, NSW Reads will...
Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship 2021 shortlist announced
Friday, 15 January 2021
Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, awarded annually to an Australian writer for a proposed biographical work. The shortlisted writers and their projects...
KYD partners with Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize
Friday, 15 January 2021
Kill Your Darlings has signed on as a partner journal for the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize. The international experimental fiction award, launched by the Madrid-based bookshop Desperate Literature in...
ASA: Royalties declined for more than a third of authors in 2020
Thursday, 14 January 2021
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has found that more than half (52%) of respondents to its author survey received no advance for their work, while of those who did,...
Overland creates new prize in honour of Reed-Gilbert
Thursday, 14 January 2021
Overland literary journal has created a new prize in honour of the late Wiradjuri elder, poet, writer, activist and artist Kerry Reed-Gilbert. The Kuracca Prize for Australian Literature is intended...
Watts appointed Thames & Hudson regional managing director: Asia-Pacific
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Thames & Hudson Australia managing director Daniel Watts has been appointed to the newly created role of regional managing director: Asia-Pacific. According to a statement from the company, Thames &...
A&U acquires Xu memoir ‘You’re So Brave’
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Vicky Xu’s memoir You’re So Brave at auction, from Benython Oldfield of Zeitgeist Agency. A&U described the book as ‘a coming-of-age...
Hachette announces two-year partnership with Future Women
Tuesday, 12 January 2021
Hachette Australia has announced a new ‘two-year publishing and entertainment partnership’ with Future Women, a ‘premium content-led community of professional women’ founded in 2018 and designed to help its membership...
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