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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

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

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...

Ulverscroft acquires Astley’s 1962 Miles Franklin winner

Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Ulverscroft has acquired world rights to Thea Astley’s 1962 novel The Well Dressed Explorer and will publish large-print and audiobook editions in 2025 to mark the centenary of the author’s...

2025 Sargeson Fellows announced

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

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

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...

Melbourne Books acquires Jensen-Kohl’s ‘Circus Oz’ book

Monday, 20 January 2025
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Circus Oz: From the Pram to the World Stage by Jesse Jensen-Kohl. ‘From the origins of Circus Oz in the 1970s, through to the company’s...

Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship 2025 shortlist announced

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

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

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...

Aotearoa New Zealand authors recognised in New Year’s Honours List

Thursday, 16 January 2025
New Zealand Aotearoa authors are among those recognised in the 2025 New Year’s Honours List. Fiction writer and poet Lee Murray has been appointed an Officer of the New Zealand...

Local authors on Dublin Literary Award 2025 longlist

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

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...

UQP acquires first work of adult fiction by Abdel-Fattah

Thursday, 16 January 2025
UQP has acquired world rights to a first work of adult fiction by writer and activist Randa Abdel-Fattah. The Occupation is set during Israel’s May 2021 bombing of Gaza, and...

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)...