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Adelaide Writers’ Week full program announced 

adelaide writers week (aww) logo in blue and white Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Adelaide Writers’ Week director Louise Adler today announced the full program for 2025 Adelaide Writers' Week (AWW), which will mark the 40th anniversary of the event. In a statement, Adler...

UQP sells rights to ‘Edenglassie’ to Oneworld

Edenglassie Wednesday, 29 January 2025
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold world English (ex ANZ) and audio rights to Melissa Lucashenko’s Edenglassie to Oneworld Publications. The deal was struck between UQP rights and contacts...

Text discontinues Michael Gifkins Prize 

text logo (a black underlined letter t in a black circle) Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Text Publishing has announced that the Michael Gifkins Prize for unpublished manuscripts in Aotearoa New Zealand has ceased. Established in 2017, the prize honoured the late literary agent, writer, critic...

Sweatshop & NewSouth announce Pasifika-Australian literary initiative

a portrait of Winnie Dunn Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Sweatshop Literacy Movement and NewSouth Publishing have announced Fresh Off the Books: The Pasifika Australian Literary Initiative, described as Australia’s first literary program for Pasifika-Australian writers. Twelve successful applicants will...

Osborne-Crowley shortlisted for 2025 Gordon Burn Prize 

the cover of the book The Lasting Harm, Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell by Lucia Osborne-Crowley Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been shortlisted for the 2025 Gordon Burn Prize for her book The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell (A&U). The other shortlisted titles for the prize...

Local author, voice actor among Audie Awards finalists 

Thursday, 23 January 2025
In the United States, the Audio Publishers Association has announced the finalists for the 2025 Audie Awards for audiobooks and spoken word entertainment. Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand finalists include:...

PRH acquires Text Publishing 

text logo (a black underlined letter t in a black circle) Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Text Publishing has announced it will become part of Penguin Random House Australia (PRH), effective immediately. In a statement, Text said the acquisition ‘includes all of Text Publishing’. However, Text...

Ethicool Books deregistered 

Ethicool logo Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Children’s publisher Ethicool Books has been deregistered. The publisher, which launched in 2020, was founded by Teigan Margetts with the intention of publishing books that ‘educate, entertain and encourage children...

Aniko Press acquires first title for publication 

Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Aniko Press has acquired world rights to its first title – The Slip, a debut short story collection from Miriam Webster. ‘The Slip is a collection of 10 stories about...

2025 Sargeson Fellows announced

the Sargeson Fellowship logo, a stylised apple in red and grey with the words sargeson and fellowship in a dark red Tuesday, 21 January 2025
The Frank Sargeson Trust has announced the recipients of the 2025 Sargeson Fellowship. The 2025 fellows and their projects are: Rachael King, who will work on YA fantasy novel ‘Song...

EWF announces Zanoni as artistic director, co-CEO 

A photo of Jess Zanoni Monday, 20 January 2025
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) has announced Jess Zanoni as artistic director and co-CEO. Zanoni, who is a writer, producer and musician as well as the organisation's previous program coordinator,...

Ferns to retire, Weir new GM at HarperCollins NZ 

an image of Karen Fern Monday, 20 January 2025
HarperCollins New Zealand has announced the retirement of general manager Karen Ferns. In a statement, the publisher said Ferns would retire ‘after an exceptional career spanning decades in the publishing...

Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship 2025 shortlist announced

the logo for Writers Victoria Friday, 17 January 2025
Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. The shortlist includes nine writers: Jennifer Martin, ‘writing about Australian journalist Eva Sommer, inaugural winner of the...

Christmas sales up 2% by value 

Cover of RecipeTin Eats: Tonight Friday, 17 January 2025
While book sales in Australia for the 2024 year overall were down compared to 2023, Christmas sales – those during the four weeks to 28 December 2024 – were up...

Hardie Grant announces restructure, redundancies 

the Hardie Grant logo, a black speech bubble with a stylised white line drawing of a dog inside Friday, 17 January 2025
Hardie Grant Publishing (HGP) has announced a restructure of its marketing and communications team and four redundancies. In a statement, the publisher told Book+Publishing: ‘In light of market challenges, one...

Local authors on Dublin Literary Award 2025 longlist

dublin literary Award Thursday, 16 January 2025
Several works by authors from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand have been longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000 (A$165,236). The Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand longlisted titles...

Singleton on 2024 Novel Prize shortlist

Thursday, 16 January 2025
Publishers Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions have announced the 2024 shortlist for the Novel Prize. Local author Hollen Singleton is among those shortlisted for the prize, for their novel...

Green wins 2025 Margaret Mahy Medal

a black and white photo of Paula Green Thursday, 16 January 2025
The Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki has announced poet Paula Green as the 2025 recipient of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal. Said Publishers Association of New...

Indie Book Awards 2025 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 15 January 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 Indie Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador) Cherrywood (Jock Serong, Fourth Estate) The Ledge (Christian White, Affirm)...

NLA announces 2025 Fellows

Wednesday, 15 January 2025
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced its 2025 Fellows, awarded to local and international scholars. The recipients and their research projects are: NLA Fellowships Alexis Bergantz, ‘Whose Pacific?...

New independent publisher Spoor Books launches 

Wednesday, 15 January 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, Erena and Balamohan Shingade have launched Spoor Books. Spoor Books is ‘an independent publisher, a community-oriented platform, and a bookshop featuring radical publishers from India and...

 

 

 

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