Booktopia appoints administrators
Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Online bookseller Booktopia has appointed McGrathNicol as voluntary administrators of the company and its subsidiaries. Listed as insolvent are Booktopia Group Limited and associated entities Booktopia Pty Limited, Making I....
UQP acquires Vowles debut novel
Wednesday, 3 July 2024
UQP has acquired world rights to a debut novel from screenwriter and author Thomas Vowles, titled The End of Everything. ‘A psychological thriller set in Melbourne’s queer scene, The End...
Creative Australia international program recipients announced
Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Creative Australia has announced the recipients of grants through its international programs. The programs include the International Travel Fund, the International Engagement Fund and the International Touring and Presentation Fund,...
Affirm acquires Lishman self-help book
Tuesday, 2 July 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Marny Lishman’s self-help book Crisis to Contentment, via The Lifestyle Suite. Lishman is a health and community psychologist, wellbeing and mindset coach, keynote...
Hachette acquires Brooks memoir
Tuesday, 2 July 2024
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Geraldine Brooks’ memoir Memorial Days. Described by the publisher as a ‘heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey toward peace’,...
Merkel wins 2024 Hope Prize
Tuesday, 2 July 2024
John Merkel has won the 2024 Hope Prize, presented by Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S), for the story ‘Shadows Cast by the Moon’. Merkel won the inaugural award, worth $10,000,...
Miles Franklin 2024 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 2 July 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles, selected from a longlist announced in May, are: Only Sound Remains (Hossein Asgari, Puncher & Wattmann)...
PRH acquires Bindi Irwin picture book
Monday, 1 July 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired rights to Bindi Irwin’s debut picture book, titled You Are a Wildlife Warrior! Saving animals & the planet, illustrated by Ramona Kaulitzki (Sisters...
Dao wins Pascall Prize
Monday, 1 July 2024
André Dao has won the 2024 Pascall Prize for Cultural Criticism, worth $5000. Dao received the award for pieces published in the Saturday Paper, Meanjin and Liminal Review of Books: ‘Review of Nam...
Booktopia requests further extension to voluntary trading suspension, previously announced funding terminated
Friday, 28 June 2024
In requesting another extension to the voluntary suspension placed on its securities, until it is capable of making an announcement in relation to the additional funding it is seeking from...
Bradley appointed Campion Group CEO
Thursday, 27 June 2024
Education resource supplier Campion Group has appointed Tom Bradley as its CEO. Bradley was previously the general manager of customer experience at Kmart Group Ltd. As CEO of Campion, Bradley...
Heyman, Hoey recipients of Varuna exchange
Thursday, 27 June 2024
Australian writer Kathryn Heyman and Aotearoa New Zealand writer Dominic Hoey are the recipients of the 2024 New Zealand–Australia Residency Exchange, an international residency program held by Varuna, The National...
Jane Harrison steps down from Blak & Bright
Thursday, 27 June 2024
Blak & Bright has announced that Jane Harrison has stepped down from her role as artistic director and CEO. Harrison has been in the role since the four-day First Nations...
PLR/ELR payments up $3.3m as digital lending included
Thursday, 27 June 2024
The total value of payments made to Australian creators through the Public and Educational Lending Right (PLR/ELR) schemes for the 2023–24 period totalled $26.6 million, an increase of $3.3 million...
Scribe acquires new Horton novel ‘Time Together’
Thursday, 27 June 2024
Scribe has acquired world rights to Time Together, a new novel from Luke Horton, via Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary. The publisher said Time Together is ‘a novel about...
Literature organisations, writers among latest Creative Aus grant recipients
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Many literature organisations and writers have been successful in the latest round of Creative Australia funding. Among the recipients of Creative Australia’s current $16.4 million investment round decided over the...
Affirm acquires second Solly novel
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Kate Solly’s second novel, The Paradise Heights Craft Store Stitch-Up. Solly is a mother of six and author of Tuesday Evenings with the...
APA CEO Gordon-Smith steps down, Di Biase-Dyson promoted
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced CEO Michael Gordon-Smith will retire from the position at the end of June, after 11 years in the role, with current APA chief...
EWF to launch 2024 program in August
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced that its 2024 program launch will take place at the Wheeler Centre, Naarm/Melbourne, on 1 August. This program launch—which will be the festival’s...
Niland, McKinnon among James Beard Award winners
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Fish Butchery by chef Josh Niland (Hardie Grant) and Tenderheart: A cookbook about vegetables and unbreakable family bonds by Hetty Lui McKinnon (Plum) are among the winners of the 2024...
A&U NZ: Hurley appointed publishing director, Hellen to build children’s list as publisher at large
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Allen & Unwin New Zealand (A&U NZ) has appointed publishing director Jenny Hellen to the newly created role of publisher at large, and appointed Michelle Hurley to Hellen’s former role,...
New poetry journal launches
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
The Marrow, a new online poetry journal, will launch with a first issue on 30 June. The journal, founded by poets and editors Audrey Molloy, Daragh Byrne and Natalie Bühler,...
Pantera acquires Madigan nonfiction ‘Torn’
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Pantera has acquired world rights to Nicole Madigan’s nonfiction book Torn, via Jeanne Ryckmans of Key People Literary Management. The book follows individual stories of women who have faced major...
Inaugural recipients announced for NZSA mentorships
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa Te Kaituhi Māori (NZSA) has announced the inaugural recipients of its NZSA Kaituhi Māori Mentorship and Kupu Kaitiaki programs....
Upswell acquires White’s essay collection
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Upswell has acquired world rights to Jessica White’s collection Silence Is My Habitat: Ecobiological essays. Upswell publisher Terri-ann White said White’s new book of essays ‘contains multiple dimensions’, with ‘a...
Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre receives $100K for inclusion program
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
The Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP) Writers’ Centre in Perth, Western Australia, has been awarded approximately $100,000 from Creative Australia to run its Inclusive Residency Pilot Program for emerging Australian writers...
Farr wins NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Tracy Farr has won the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) (NZSA) Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize for Wonderland, an alt-history set on...
APA announces Children’s Editorial Program
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced a new Children’s Editorial Program, following the model of the existing Residential Editorial Program, with a picture book editing intensive to run for...
UQP acquires Morton’s VPLA-winning debut
Monday, 24 June 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Rachel Morton’s debut novel, The Sun Was Electric Light, which won the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished...
Rossell’s ‘The Midwatch’ sells to North America, European territories
Monday, 24 June 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) imprint Dial Books for Younger Readers has acquired North American rights to Judith Rossell’s forthcoming illustrated middle-grade novel The Midwatch, via Daniel Lazar at Writers House...
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