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PM’s Literary Awards 2015 winners announced 

Monday, 14 December 2015
The winners of 2015 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced on 14 December at Carriageworks in Sydney. The winners in each category are: Fiction The Golden Age (Joan London, Vintage) Nonfiction...

Australia Council September grants announced 

Friday, 11 December 2015
Fifteen literary organisations and 31 writers have received Australia Council grants as part of its $10.4m September funding round. In total, the 15 literary organisations shared in $651,645 of funding...

IBBY NZ selects 2016 Honour Books

Friday, 11 December 2015
IBBY NZ has selected four titles for the 2016 International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Honour Book List. They are: Writing: Singing Home the Whale (Mandy Hager, Random...

Indie Awards 2016 longlists announced

Friday, 11 December 2015
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2016 Indie Awards. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction A Guide to Berlin (Gail Jones, Vintage) Close Your Eyes...

Shaw sells first book as literary agent 

Thursday, 10 December 2015
Former Readings books division manager Martin Shaw has sold his first book as a literary agent for Alex Adsett Publishing Services. Shaw, who now lives in Germany, sold the rights...

Wilson wins 2015 Johnno Award

Thursday, 10 December 2015
Riverbend Books owner and Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) founder Suzy Wilson has won the 2015 Johnno Award for outstanding contribution to writing in Queensland. The award, which was presented by the Queensland...

Milne to leave HarperCollins 

Thursday, 10 December 2015
HarperCollins Australia’s marketing, digital and communications director Simon Milne will leave the company at the end of 2015. Milne’s departure follows the integration of the publisher’s fiction, nonfiction, ABC Books...

Redgum Book Club launches children’s imprint

Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Redgum Book Club has announced it will launch a children’s book imprint in 2016. The imprint, Redgum, is set to release its first title in the first quarter of 2016, with...

Beaumont wins Asher Literary Award 2015

Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Joan Beaumont has won this year’s Asher Literary Award for her book Broken Nation (A&U). Beaumont was announced as the winner of the $12,000 award at an event in Sydney...

Pantera Press signs first international rights deal

Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Pantera Press has signed its first international rights deal with the sale of North American rights to the first seven books in Sulari Gentill’s ‘Rowland Sinclair Mysteries’ series and J M...

Australian, NZ art books awarded

Monday, 7 December 2015
The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ)—the professional body for Australian and New Zealand art historians—has announced the winners of its annual prizes. The AAANZ Prizes ‘honour the...

Mullins wins 2015 Scribe Nonfiction Prize

Friday, 4 December 2015
Canberra-based writer Patrick Mullins has won the 2015 Scribe Nonfiction Prize. Mullins was selected from a shortlist of six for his entry ‘A Liberal View’, a political history that examines the...

Book Depository begins dispatching from Australia 

Friday, 4 December 2015
Amazon-owned online retailer the Book Depository has begun dispatching books from Australia, with delivery to metropolitan Victoria estimated at one-to-two business days and metropolitan NSW and South Australia at two-to-three...

New CFO, internal promotions at PRH ANZ 

Thursday, 3 December 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia and New Zealand has announced a number of internal promotions and the appointment of a new chief financial officer. Incoming CFO Richard Alweyn will begin...

Asher Award 2015 shortlist announced

Thursday, 3 December 2015
The shortlist for this year’s Asher Literary Award, presented to a female writer whose work carries an anti-war theme, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Broken Nation (Joan Beaumont,...

Rogers appointed ASA executive director 

Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Former Murdoch Books CEO and former president of the Australian Publishers Association Juliet Rogers has been appointed executive director of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). Rogers replaces Angelo Loukakis,...

Black joins the Wheeler Centre 

Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Former Crikey editor Sophie Black has joined the Wheeler Centre as head of programming while Emily Sexton is on maternity leave. Black was most recently editor-in-chief at Private Media, which...

Arthur joins HarperCollins 

Wednesday, 2 December 2015
HarperCollins has appointed Jaki Arthur as head of marketing communications in its general books division. In the newly created role, Arthur will cover local and international fiction and nonfiction titles...

Amazon signs lease for new Sydney HQ

Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Amazon has signed a seven-year lease for its new Australian headquarters, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. The lease is for more than 9260sqm of office space—estimated to be over four...

 

 

 

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