Thursday, 18 September 2014
The online writing magazine Writers Edit will publish its first book ‘in just a few short months’. Kindling will be ‘a collection of short stories, poetry and essays from emerging...

Thursday, 18 September 2014
Book adaptations are among winners of the 47th Annual AWGIE Awards for screen, television, stage and radio writing, presented by Australian Writers’ Guild. ANZAC Girls, a six-part miniseries adaptated from...

Thursday, 18 September 2014
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 10 reviews of books publishing in November to February. Included is a four-star review of Emergence, the first book in a new ‘splosions and gore’...

Wednesday, 17 September 2014
WritingWA and the State Library of Western Australia have announced they will partner to facilitate a new festival in Perth. The Disrupted Festival of Ideas will run from 31 October...

Wednesday, 17 September 2014
The Australian Independent Bookseller’s Children’s Catalogue for 2014 has been launched.Great Books for Kids features 34 Australian children’s and YA titles, among 87 recommended titles or series, and also features...

Wednesday, 17 September 2014
‘I think it’s great that their service is getting some traction here before Amazon’s kicks off—more competition is a good thing’—Black Inc. CEO Sophy Williams on the publisher’s decision to...

Wednesday, 17 September 2014
The winners of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Educational Publishing Awards were announced at the State Library of Victoria on 17 September. Macmillan Education Australia was named Publisher of the Year for...

Monday, 15 September 2014
Lou Johnson, managing director of Simon & Schuster Australia, has resigned and will leave the company after a ‘smooth transition to new leadership’.‘Lou has decided to seek challenges in her...

Monday, 15 September 2014
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘Eleven Grams of Trouble’ by Frank Bowden (Inside Story) ‘TB and...

Friday, 12 September 2014
The campus bookselling chain the Co-op has announced it will open its first two stores at Queensland’s James Cook University.The stores will be located at the university’s Cairns and Townsville...

Friday, 12 September 2014
Susannah Chambers, commissioning editor of books for children and young adults at Allen & Unwin, has released her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report into YA literature following her three-month placement...

Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Sam Bramham, paralympian and author of the memoir Three-Quarter Man (Affirm Press) is a housemate in the current season of reality TV show ‘Big Brother’.Bramham entered the ‘Big Brother’ house...

Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage) is on the shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize. The shortlist of six, selected from a longlist of 13,...

Wednesday, 10 September 2014
‘I’m speechless in Seattle’—Richard Flanagan on his shortlisting for the Man Booker Prize. He also said he was overwhelmed, delighted, thrilled and honoured. Flanagan is currently promoting his book in the...

Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 52-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has inspired a Guinness World Record for the Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Trees. Pan Macmillan publicist Charlotte Ree collaborated...

Tuesday, 9 September 2014
Penguin New Zealand and Random House New Zealand ‘will merge all our functions and become one fully integrated business from January 2015’, according to a statement from managing director Margaret Thompson....

Tuesday, 9 September 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize will be announced in the UK overnight. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Australian author Richard Flanagan has been longlisted for the prize...