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Australian publishers on Frankfurt APA collective stand

Tuesday, 13 August 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has confirmed 14 publishers will appear on the Australian Collective Stand at the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair later this year. Publishers set to appear on...

Creative Australia to combine International Travel Fund with other programs

Tuesday, 13 August 2024
Creative Australia has announced it is reviewing how it delivers funding to support international engagement, travel and presentations, ‘with the aim of reducing duplication’ across programs. Creative Australia said the...

Byron Writers Festival attendance up 18%

Tuesday, 13 August 2024
The 2024 Byron Writers Festival, which ran from 9 to 11 August, was a ‘great success’, according to organisers. The festival reported an 18% increase on the previous year’s box...

South Australian Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Monday, 12 August 2024
The 2024 South Australian Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Fiction award ($15,000) All That's Left Unsaid (Tracey Lien, HQ) Hydra (Adriane Howell,...

Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2024 shortlist announced

Monday, 12 August 2024
The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James Cook University has announced the shortlist for the $50,000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award. The eight titles shortlisted for the...

Ned Kelly Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Monday, 12 August 2024
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards shortlists. The shortlisted works in each category are: Best crime fiction Killer Traitor Spy (Tim Ayliffe, S&S) Ripper...

Hammer wins 2024 ACT Book of the Year

Monday, 12 August 2024
Chris Hammer has won the 2024 ACT Book of the Year Award, worth $10,000, for The Seven (A&U). Untethered (Ayesha Inoon, HQ Fiction) and The Measure of Sorrow: Stories (J...

NSW Premier’s History Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Thursday, 8 August 2024
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Australian history prize ($15,000) Donald Horne:...

Dunn awarded 2024 Rising Star Award

Thursday, 8 August 2024
Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) distribution director Riikka Dunn has been named the Australian Publishers Association (APA) 2024 Rising Star. Dunn was selected from a shortlist that also included Rebecca Allen...

Nib Literary Award 2024 longlist announced

Thursday, 8 August 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Because I'm Not Myself, You See (Ariane Beeston, Black...

AFR reports new owner for Booktopia after 100 EOIs

Thursday, 8 August 2024
An article in the Australian Financial Review (AFR) dated 7 August reports that privately held electronics retailer digiDirect has ‘all but secured’ the Booktopia business, according to people with knowledge...

PANZ Publishing Market Size Report released

Thursday, 8 August 2024
The 2023 Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) Publishing Market Size Report, presented at the PANZ conference in Auckland on 1 and 2 August, showed there...

Aotearoa New Zealand Book Industry Awards 2024 announced

Wednesday, 7 August 2024
The winners of the 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand Book Industry Awards have been announced. Moa Press, an imprint of Hachette, was named publisher of the year, while Petronella’s Bookstore and...

A&U acquires Oswald novel

Wednesday, 7 August 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to One Hundred Years of Betty by Debra Oswald, in a deal brokered by Anthony Blair at Cameron’s. One the eve of...

Hachette, Media Diversity Australia partner on new traineeship

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
Hachette Australia and Media Diversity Australia (MDA) have announced ‘a significant partnership’, with Hachette becoming the inaugural book publisher member of MDA. Announcing the partnership, Hachette and MDA have also...

Blues Point Bookshop to relocate across the road

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
The Blues Point Bookshop, which has traded in McMahons Point, Sydney, for 30 years, will relocate to a shopfront over the road from its current location later this month. Owner...

James to step down at UQP

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
UQP has announced that director Ben James will step down from his position at the end of September. James was appointed UQP director in 2019. During his time in the...

‘Limberlost’ wins 2024 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
Robbie Arnott has won the 2024 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, worth $25,000, for his novel Limberlost (Text). Limberlost is based on the life of Arnott’s...

Danger Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Monday, 5 August 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Danger Awards have been announced. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Debut fiction Violet Kelly and the Jade Owl (Fiona Britton, A&U) The...

Authors, literary organisations among Copyright Agency Cultural Fund recipients

Monday, 5 August 2024
The Copyright Agency has announced the projects to be funded through its 2024 Cultural Fund program, among which are 20 organisations with literary projects and three authors. Among the 25...

Hazard to join Keeperton

Monday, 5 August 2024
New publishing venture Keeperton has announced the appointment of former Hachette Australia group publishing director Fiona Hazard as head of global strategy and development. In a statement, Keeperton said the...

UQP acquires two Sakr collections

Monday, 5 August 2024
UQP has acquired two new books by Omar Sakr. The first, The Nightmare Sequence, is a collection of poetry responding to the ongoing situation in Gaza, with a foreword by...

Australian Geographic, Hardie Grant announce publishing partnership

Monday, 5 August 2024
Australian Geographic and Hardie Grant are partnering on a new publishing program. The program will comprise new titles and updated editions of Australian Geographic’s core range of publications. In a...

Wright awarded 2024 Miles Franklin for ‘Praiseworthy’, becomes two-time winner

Thursday, 1 August 2024
Alexis Wright has won the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for her novel Praiseworthy (Giramondo). Wright previously won the award in 2007 for her novel Carpentaria (Giramondo), and now...

Creative Australia International Travel, Translation, and Rights Funds for Literature recipients announced

Thursday, 1 August 2024
Creative Australia has announced 2024 recipients of grants from several funds supporting Australian literature. The recipients are: International Travel Fund Katherine Brabon Sarah Firth Chris Gooch Hasib Blaik Hourani Dinuka...