Monday, 26 March 2018
Murdoch Books has appointed Carol Warwick, Kelly Doust and Kirsty Rizzo to new roles. Warwick has assumed leadership of the Sydney publisher’s newly integrated promotional team as head of marketing...

Friday, 23 March 2018
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has appointed Brandon VanOver to the newly created role of associate publisher, nonfiction. VanOver has worked across fiction, nonfiction and children’s titles as managing editor at...

Friday, 23 March 2018
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to a book by former deputy leader of the Australian Greens, Scott Ludlam. The as-yet-untitled book, scheduled for publication in 2019, is described as...

Thursday, 22 March 2018
Giramondo Publishing has appointed Léa Antigny to the newly created position of publicity manager. Antigny previously worked as a publicist at Pan Macmillan and Text Publishing, as well as in...

Thursday, 22 March 2018
The shortlist has been announced for the 2018 Red Room Poetry fellowship, which recognises the achievements and artistic goals of contemporary Australian poets. The 11 shortlisted poets are: Zenobia Frost...

Thursday, 22 March 2018
Brow Books has announced it will enter into a co-publishing agreement with UK-based Tilted Axis Press. Under the new agreement, Tilted Axis will hold world English rights for each title...

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Hong Kong-based poet Nicholas Wong has won the Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize for his poem ‘101 Taipei’. Wong’s poem was chosen for the $5000 prize from...

Monday, 19 March 2018
Black Inc. has announced it will no longer publish its series of Best Australian Essays, Stories and Poems, but will publish a new annual short story collection instead. Beginning in...

Friday, 16 March 2018
The Garret podcast has announced it will deliver a series of live podcasts at the State Library of Victoria (SLV), as part of an expanded partnership with the library. Called...