Williams tops Dymocks Top 101
2 April 2024
Bookselling chain Dymocks has announced its 2024 Top 101 list, voted on by readers, with Pip Williams’s The Bookbinder of Jericho (Affirm) taking out the top spot. The top 10...
Australian Book Design Awards 2024 shortlists announced
28 March 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The shortlisted titles in selected categories are: Best designed commercial...
George Robertson Award 2024 winners announced, changes to APA board
28 March 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2024 George Robertson Awards, which recognises long and distinguished service to the publishing industry. Annette Barlow (publisher, Allen &...
Australian publishers headed to Bologna
27 March 2024
Thirteen publisher representatives will attend this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair as part of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Collective Stand, which will be managed by APA events manager...
Hachette acquires McNab book on mushroom poisonings
27 March 2024
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to Recipe for Murder (Duncan McNab). The book, based on the arrest of Erin Patterson over the alleged killing of three people using poisonous mushrooms, was...
‘Technofeudalism’ tops charts at Adelaide Writers’ Week
27 March 2024
Book sales at Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW), which ran from 2 to 7 March 2024 as part of the Adelaide Festival, broke records according to the festival. Themed ‘The Past...
Australians in London: ‘Plenty of deals’ at ‘electric’ LBF
27 March 2024
A strong contingent of Australian publishers attended the 2024 London Book Fair—which reported overall trade visitor attendance of around 300,000 across the three-day fair—with representatives from Affirm, Allen & Unwin...
Wright shortlisted for 2024 James Tait Black Prize
27 March 2024
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) has been shortlisted for the fiction award in the 2024 James Tait Black Prizes. The works shortlisted for the fiction and biography prizes, each worth...
Walker acquires Zaslavsky nonfiction ‘Splodge!’
27 March 2024
Walker Books has acquired world rights to Splodge!, a middle-grade nonfiction book from cookbook author and media personality Alice Zaslavsky. The publisher said that this book ‘will look at everyone’s...
Wright shortlisted for 2024 Dublin Literary Award
27 March 2024
Alexis Wright has been shortlisted for the €100,000 (A$166,000) International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction written in or translated into...
Pantera acquires Earp debut novel
27 March 2024
Pantera has acquired ANZ rights to Painting Portraits of Everyone I’ve Ever Dated, a debut novel by Joseph Earp, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans at Key People Literary...
Booktique to open store in Albury
27 March 2024
Booktique—an independent bookshop currently operating in Wangaratta, Victoria—is opening a second store in Albury, NSW. Michelle Delle Vergin, who owns both stores with husband Mark Bolsius, said that for the...
Author events: Report highlights relationships as key, problematic
26 March 2024
Live Literature in Australia, a new research report jointly conducted by Australia Reads and the University of Melbourne, examined the ‘considerations and barriers’ for booksellers, librarians, and teachers hosting live...
Copyright Licensing New Zealand launches IP platform
26 March 2024
In Aotearoa New Zealand, not-for-profit organisation Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) has launched a platform to support creative workers to ‘better manage their intellectual property’. The platform, called MyCreativeRights, is...
Marr’s ‘Killing for Country’ wins 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award
25 March 2024
David Marr’s Killing for Country: A family story (Black Inc.) has been named Book of the Year in the Indie Book Awards. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Edenglassie (Melissa...
Murray awarded 2024 Boundless mentorship
25 March 2024
Bardi writer Kalem Murray is the winner of the 2024 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship, presented by Text Publishing and Writing NSW with the support of the First Nations Australia Writers...
Sterlin wins Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award
25 March 2024
Meanjin (Brisbane) poet Svetlana Sterlin has won the 2023 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award for her unpublished book-length collection ‘If Movement Were a Language’. Selected from a shortlist of...
Scribner acquires Beecher’s ‘The Men Who Killed the News’
25 March 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to The Men Who Killed the News by Crikey publisher Eric Beecher under its Scribner imprint. This work of nonfiction is...
Blake Poetry Prize 2024 shortlist announced
25 March 2024
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, in collaboration with WestWords, has announced the shortlist for the 68th Blake Poetry Prize, worth $5000. The Blake Prize is an open poetry prize that ‘challenges...
QBD named in Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies program
25 March 2024
Bookselling chain QBD has been named as one of Australia’s Best Managed Companies in an award program run by Deloitte Australia. Accepting the award on behalf of the organisation, QBD...
Brisbane Writers Festival releases 2024 program
25 March 2024
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has launched its 2024 program, which will run from 30 May until 2 June. Over 150 live events are planned for the 2024 festival, with...
Pham named UTS writer in residence
25 March 2024
Vietnamese-Australian novelist, essayist and poet Vivian Pham has been awarded the Copyright Agency–UTS New Writer in Residence fellowship for 2024. Pham is the author of the novel The Coconut Children...
Full 2024 MWF program announced
22 March 2024
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has launched the full program for its 2024 festival, to be held in venues across the Melbourne CBD and surrounds from 6 to 12 May. Outgoing MWF...
ABIAs 2024 shortlists announced
21 March 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). The APA will announce the business awards shortlists, including the categories of publisher,...
Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History longlist
21 March 2024
The longlist has been announced for the 2024 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, worth $25,000. The longlisted works are: Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Dogs in Van...
Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award shortlist announced
21 March 2024
The University of Sydney’s faculty of arts and social sciences has announced the shortlist for the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award for 2023. The Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest...
Good Thing Productions acquires ‘Cherrywood’ screen rights
20 March 2024
Screen rights to the forthcoming novel Cherrywood by Jock Serong (Fourth Estate) have been optioned by Good Thing Productions, via Melanie Ostell Literary. Good Thing Productions’ recent screen projects include Nitram and Nude...
Maguire’s historical fiction ‘Rapture’ sells to Sceptre
20 March 2024
In the UK, Sceptre has acquired world rights (ex ANZ) to Rapture, the first historical novel from Emily Maguire (Allen & Unwin), about the legend of Pope Joan, via Grace...
Hachette signs Pei Yin’s ‘When Sleeping Women Wake’
20 March 2024
In a joint acquisition, Hachette Australia and Quercus UK have secured UK and Commonwealth rights at auction for Canberra author Emma Pei Yin’s debut novel When Sleeping Women Wake, in...
The Bookshop Bowral and Kiama to change hands
20 March 2024
Marie Fitzpatrick, of The Bookshop Bowral and Kiama, has announced that the bookshops have been purchased by Clare Meldrum, and that the current owners will depart next month. Fitzpatrick said...
