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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...

A&U acquires Oswald novel 

Photograph of Debra Oswald 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 

Photograph of the front of the Blues Point Bookshop 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...

Danger Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Logo for the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival 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...

Hazard to join Keeperton 

Photograph of Fiona Hazard 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 

Photograph of Omar Sakr 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...

Mulhall awarded 2024 Reading Australia Fellowship

Photograph of Maya Mulhall Thursday, 1 August 2024
The Copyright Agency has named Maya Mulhall, a teacher from Blackburn High School in Victoria, the 2024 Reading Australia Fellow for teachers of English and literacy and teacher librarians. Mulhall...

Queensland Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Thursday, 1 August 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. In several categories, the awards' value has increased this year, with the total value of the awards now standing...

UBD to rebrand as Penguin Random House Distribution 

Thursday, 1 August 2024
United Book Distributors (UBD), the distribution facility of Penguin Random House (PRH), has announced it will rebrand to Penguin Random House Distribution from 1 August, with the new name to...

Sullivan appointed MWF festival director

Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Veronica Sullivan, head of programming at the Wheeler Centre (TWC), will step down from the role at the end of August to become festival director at Melbourne Writers Festival. Said...

Wood longlisted for 2024 Booker Prize

Cover of Stoneyard Devotional Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Australian author Charlotte Wood has been longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Stone Yard Devotional (A&U). The 13 books shortlist for the £50,000 (A$98,124) prize are: Creation...

Pantera acquires Sheppard adult novel 

Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights for Holden Sheppard’s first novel for adults, Two Kings, in a deal brokered by Gaby Naher at Left Bank Literary. Two Kings is described...

Hardie Grant acquires Petracca cookbook 

Tuesday, 30 July 2024
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to AFL star and Norm Smith medallist Christian Petracca’s debut cookbook, Christian Petracca’s On Trac Cookbook. A premiership player and midfielder for the...

Ann Moyal Nonfiction Fellowship 2024 recipients announced

Varuna, The National Writers House Monday, 29 July 2024
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the three recipients of the 2024 Ann Moyal Nonfiction Fellowship. The recipients are Anna Hickey-Moody, director of the Arts and Humanities Institute at...

Lomer wins 2024 Furphy Literary Award

Monday, 29 July 2024
Kathryn Lomer has won the $15,000 first prize in the 2024 Furphy Literary Award for the short story ‘Nothing about Kissing’. Lomer is a poet, YA author and novelist from...

QWC Varuna fellowship 2024 recipients announced

Monday, 29 July 2024
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced the recipients of its two 2024 residential fellowships to be held at Varuna, the National Writers’ House. Recipients of the 2024 fellowships are...

 

 

 

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