Scribner acquires Wilson’s ‘Hold Your Fire’
Thursday, 14 May 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia's Scribner imprint has acquired ANZ rights to Chloe Wilson's debut short story collection Hold Your Fire, from Rach Crawford at Mackenzie Wolf in a four-way auction....
‘Bluey: The Beach’ wins 2020 ABIA Book of the Year
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
The winners of the 2020 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. Allen & Unwin (A&U) won publisher of the year, and titles published by the company took out...
Text Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
The shortlist for the $10,000 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been announced. The seven shortlisted manuscripts are: 'Therefore I Am' by Miranda Luby, which follows Sarah,...
Australia Institute Writer in Residency Program longlist announced
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
The longlist for the Australia Institute Writer in Residency Program has been announced. One winning writer will receive a $5000 stipend to undertake a two-week residency to develop a nonfiction...
Walker Books sold to Trustbridge Global Media
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Walker Books Limited, parent company of Walker Books ANZ, has been acquired by private equity-owned children’s content company Trustbridge Global Media, but says ‘no changes to operations are contemplated’. In...
Manawatu wins New Zealand Book Award for fiction
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
The winners of the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. Debut novelist Becky Manawatu took out the NZ$55,000 ($A51,700) Jann Medicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, New Zealand’s...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 longlist announced
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
The longlist for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The 10 longlisted novels are: The White Girl (Tony Birch, UQP) Room for a Stranger (Melanie...
HarperCollins revenue down 2% in latest quarter
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
HarperCollins’ parent company News Corp has reported the publisher’s global revenue fell two percent year-on-year for the three months ending 31 March, as News Corp announced all its businesses are...
Wheeler Centre announces 2020 Hot Desk fellows
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
The Wheeler Centre has announced the successful applicants for its 2020 Hot Desk Fellowships. The 21 Hot Desk fellows are: Mama Alto Alex Creece Monikka Eliah Lou Garcia-Dolnik Veronica Heritage-Gorrie...
Woollahra Digital Literary Award 2020 shortlists announced
Monday, 11 May 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Woollahra Digital Literary Award has been announced. The award, founded by Woollahra Council to support innovation in Australian digital literature, offers prizes in fiction (judged...
$50k Marten Bequest scholarships to Roberts-Orr, Mol, Woollett
Monday, 11 May 2020
Writers Isobel Roberts-Orr, Oliver Mol and Laura Woollett are among 12 recipients of Marten Bequest scholarships, worth $50,000 each. Roberts-Orr received a scholarship for poetry, while Mol and Woollett received...
Michael Gifkins Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Monday, 11 May 2020
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa PEN NZ Inc have announced the shortlist for the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished...
The Architect’s Bookshop closes
Monday, 11 May 2020
Specialist Sydney bookseller The Architect’s Bookshop has closed permanently and the store’s online retail site will close on 20 June, reports Jason Steger in the Age. Owner Adam Haddow said...
S&S first quarter print sales ‘slightly ahead’ of last year
Friday, 8 May 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia’s (S&S) first quarter print sales are ‘slightly ahead’ of the same time last year, driven by a 25.7% boost to fiction sales, as US parent company...
ANZ authors among IPPY award winners
Friday, 8 May 2020
Books by Australian and New Zealand authors are among the winners of the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), which recognise excellence in independent publishing. The winners in the Australia/New...
Arrow wins 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for ‘The Seventies’
Friday, 8 May 2020
Michelle Arrow has won the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for history for her book The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia (NewSouth). The Seventies, which...
Arts Funders Network to distribute $1.5m in emergency grants
Friday, 8 May 2020
A group of arts and culture philanthropists has launched a $1.5 million funding program to support artists and arts workers. Philanthropy Australia’s Arts Funders Network, in partnership with Creative Partnerships...
Coleman to write play for Malthouse Theatre
Thursday, 7 May 2020
Author Claire G Coleman will work on a script for Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre, having been named one of two participants in the Theatre's 2020 Malcolm Robertson Writers Program. Coleman told...
Cham, Jenkins named joint winners of Anne Elder poetry award
Thursday, 7 May 2020
Australian Poetry has announced joint winners of the 2019 Anne Elder Award: Cham Zhi Yi for blur by the (Subbed In) and Gareth Sion Jenkins for Recipes for the Disaster...
More new pub dates confirmed for books delayed due to Covid-19
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Since Books+Publishing reported last week on the books being postponed due to Covid-19, publishers have confirmed further impacts on their schedules. Simon & Schuster’s (S&S) Anabel Pandiella told Books+Publishing the...
Windy Hollow Books named Bologna publisher of the year
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Melbourne-based publisher Windy Hollow Books has been named the winner of the Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publisher of the Year in the Oceania category. ‘Windy Hollow Books has...
Arena acquires film rights to Cobby Eckermann’s ‘Ruby Moonlight’
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Production company Arenamedia has acquired screen adaptation rights to Ali Cobby Eckermann’s verse novel Ruby Moonlight (Magabala Books), via Natasha Solomun at The Rights Hive. Arenamedia partnered with No Coincidence...
Booktopia partners with Kobo for ebook, audiobook sales
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Booktopia has changed its ebook offering following a deal with Rakuten Kobo to exclusively offer Kobo ebooks. Through the Booktopia by Rakuten Kobo app, readers will have access to Kobo’s...
Australia Reads receives $100K in federal funding, announces Reading Hour date change
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
The Australia Reads campaign has received $100,000 in funding from the federal government, it announced today. Chair of the Australia Reads committee, Hachette ANZ CEO Louise Sherwin-Stark, said the government...
S&S appoints Nolan as commercial nonfiction publisher
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has appointed Emma Nolan to the role of commercial nonfiction publisher. Nolan was previously head of entertainment for Pacific Magazines, where she oversaw and created content...
Scribe acquisition of ‘The Palace Letters’ ‘personal’ for Rosenbloom
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Scribe has acquired The Palace Letters by Jenny Hocking via Jenny Darling & Associates. The book will cover Hocking’s efforts to make Australia’s National Archive release letters between former Australian...
NZ publishers struggling after lockdown ‘obliterated’ April sales
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
The Publishers Association of New Zealand/Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) reports that the country’s book publishers ‘are struggling to regroup after seeing sales obliterated in April’. Under New Zealand’s month-long...
Kavanagh, Callil among Copyright Agency-funded ‘emerging culture critics’
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Book critics Bec Kavanagh and Jack Callil are among five ‘emerging culture critics’ appointed to write for Nine’s newspapers with its share of $150,000 in funding from the Copyright Agency...
SPN launches podcast, plans for real-world November conference
Monday, 4 May 2020
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced that it has begun planning this year’s Independent Publishing Conference, which is scheduled to run from 26–28 November in Melbourne. ‘We are working...
Bishop, Bui, Rowe named SMH 2020 Best Young Aus Novelists
Monday, 4 May 2020
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has announced its 2020 Best Young Australian Novelists, all of whom have been chosen for short story collections. The writers are: Alice Bishop for A...
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