Thursday, 10 July 2014
Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (Giramondo) has won the 2014 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal.The Swan Book was selected from a shortlist of six books, which included What Was...

Thursday, 10 July 2014
Even in the Dark by Rose Lucas (UWA Publishing) has won the Mary Gilmore award for poetry.The biennial award, worth $500, recognises a first book of poetry published in the...

Wednesday, 9 July 2014
Scribe has relocated its UK office and announced several staff changes.The UK office, which opened in early 2013, is now located at 2 John Street in Clerkenwell in a ‘listed...

Wednesday, 9 July 2014
The finalists for the 2014 Valarie Parv Award, presented by Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) for an unpublished manuscript, have been announced. This year’s finalists are: Rowena Candlish, Karina Coldrick,...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Author and academic Emmett Stinson has been appointed lecturer in English literature at the University of Newcastle. Stinson was previously lecturer in publishing and communications at the University of Melbourne. He is...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014
A new report from Price Waterhouse Coopers predicts the consumer and educational book market in Australia will grow from $1.81 billion in 2014 to $1.93 billion in 2018. The market...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014
A new survey has found that 35% of New Zealanders prefer reading print books, 22% prefer ebooks and 44% prefer ‘both equally’, reports Stuff.co.nz. The survey of a ‘nationally representative’...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Black Inc. will publish its first YA novel in October.Nona and Me by Clare Atkins is the story of a friendship between Rosie, a white girl, and Nona, an Aboriginal...

Monday, 7 July 2014
John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (Penguin) is at the top of the bestsellers chart for the fourth week in a row, ahead of Minecraft: The Official Construction Handbook (4)...

Monday, 7 July 2014
Five Islands Press has launched the Ron Pretty Poetry Prize. Named after the Australian poet who founded Five Islands Press in 1986, the prize awards $5000 to a single poem...

Monday, 7 July 2014
Zoe Walton, publisher of children’s and young adult books at Random House Australia, has been selected for the 2014 Frankfurt Fellowship Program, which this year focuses exclusively on those working...

Monday, 7 July 2014
The Celebrate Reading National Conference, which will be held at the Literature Centre in Fremantle, WA, from 31 October to 1 November, has announced its author line-up. Each year the conference alternates between children’s literature and YA literature,...

Monday, 7 July 2014
Wiley Australia’s K-12 schools business recorded revenue of US$27.229 million (A$29.107 million) for the financial year ended 30 April.This was down three percent from $US28.081 million ($30.019 million) on the...

Friday, 4 July 2014
Walker Books has announced that Sarah Foster, managing director and publisher for Walker Books Australia and New Zealand, has left the company. Her last day was on 4 July.‘It is with great...

Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Wrights Bookshop in Cambridge, New Zealand, has rebranded as a Paper Plus franchise. Owner Hamish Wright told Books+Publishing that there were a number of reasons for joining the Paper Plus...

Wednesday, 2 July 2014
‘When you go into a bookstore or shop online, start paying attention to the faces on the covers and the names of authors. Are you seeing the complexity and diversity...

Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Melbourne-based book distributor Rainbow Book Agencies and its retail and publishing arm, Mosaic Resources and Mosaic Press, have ceased trading and have entered liquidation.Greg Shilton has been appointed as the...

Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Irish writer and poet Dermot Healy has died, aged 66. Clare Conville from Conville & Walsh Literary Agency writes:‘[Dermot Healy was] an uncompromisingly brilliant writer in the tradition of Samuel...

Tuesday, 1 July 2014
Tickets are now on sale for Book Expo Australia, a new event established to promote the Australian book industry, which will take place at the Sydney Showground on 29-31 August. The...

Tuesday, 1 July 2014
SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold Greek rights to Tuscan Rose (Belinda Alexandra). Text has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding ANZ and Canada) and French rights to The Snow Kimono (Mark Henshaw) to Tinder...