Low joins Christchurch WORD festival Archive
Friday, 5 February 2021
The WORD Christchurch festival has appointed Nic Low as program co-director. Originally from Christchurch, Low is a Ngāi Tahu author and arts organiser, who has recently returned to the city...
Fremantle Press launches podcast aimed at writers Archive
Thursday, 4 February 2021
Fremantle Press publisher Georgia Richter has launched a new podcast series ‘aimed at making the Australian publishing industry more accessible to new writers’. Richter, who co-wrote How to Be an...
Transit Lounge acquires Rabin novel Archive
Thursday, 4 February 2021
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Sean Rabin's second novel The Good Captain, via Jessica Craig at Craig Literary. Rabin's debut novel Wood Green, published by Giramondo in Australia...
Inaugural Little Hare Prize for Illustration shortlist announced Archive
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
The shortlist for Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing’s (HGCP) inaugural Little Hare Prize for Illustration has been announced. The shortlisted artists are: Jennifer Goldsmith Jake Minton Meg Rennie Hyo Young Yim....
Nat’s What I Reckon wins 2020 Booktopia FAB Award Archive
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Un-cook Yourself: A ratbag's rules for life by YouTube cooking star Nat’s What I Reckon (Ebury) has won the $5000 Booktopia Favourite Australian Book (FAB) Award for 2020. The author...
Thames & Hudson Australia revenue up 47% in 2020 Archive
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Thames & Hudson Australia (THA) has reported a 47% increase in revenue in 2020, with overall sales of $17.6 million, as ‘consumer price barriers appeared to come down’ during the...
Australia Reads becomes ‘always on’ campaign, seeks 2021 ambassadors Archive
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
The Australia Reads initiative will become an ‘always on’ campaign in 2021, extending beyond its key Australian Reading Hour event. ‘Australia Reads will now focus on championing reading and book...
Ultimo first title to be Smith book on China Archive
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to The Last Correspondent: Dispatches from the Frontline of Xi’s New China by Michael Smith, one of the last Australian journalists to leave China...
McKay wins $100k Victorian Prize for Literature Archive
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Laura Jean McKay has won Australia’s richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, for her debut novel The Animals in That Country (Scribe), at this year’s Victorian Premier’s...
Scott to represent Australia in Literature Live Around the World event Archive
Monday, 1 February 2021
Writing WA will present a session featuring multi-award-winning Noongar author Kim Scott in conversation with writer and journalist Gillian O’Shaughnessy, as Australia’s contribution to a multi-country Literature Live Around the...
Lindsay opens The Book Nest Mudgee Archive
Monday, 1 February 2021
Portia Lindsay, a former bookseller at Better Read Than Dead and Potts Point Bookshop who now runs the Mudgee Readers’ Festival in Mudgee, NSW, has opened a new bookstore in...
Booktopia reports EBITDA up 506% Archive
Friday, 29 January 2021
Online bookseller Booktopia has reported a 506% increase in its earnings (before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation: EBITDA) for the six months to the end of December 2020 in its...
S&S acquires Lyons cookbook Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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...
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