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UQP becomes ‘carbon positive’ through reduction and offsets

Thursday, 14 December 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has announced it has become 'carbon positive' this year, through making operational changes to reduce carbon emissions and offsetting the carbon it produces directly. 'We...

ASA 2023 survey results: Earnings ‘perilously low’, rising royalty agreements increase

Thursday, 14 December 2023
The 2023 Australian Society of Authors (ASA) survey of members has found 'a trend towards authors being paid a rising royalty in their publishing agreements', with 40% of respondents indicating...

Creative Australia funds literature organisations and individuals

Thursday, 14 December 2023
Creative Australia has announced the Four Year Investment for Organisations program for 2025–2028. Among the 159 organisations in Creative Australia’s multi-year investment, 14 literature organisations are listed. Creative Australia also...

Hoskins wins 2023 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize

Thursday, 14 December 2023
Academic and public historian Ian Hoskins has won the 2023 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize for his book Australia and the Pacific: A history (NewSouth). Australia and the...

PRH acquires Hay House

Thursday, 14 December 2023
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced the acquisition of mind, body, spirit publisher Hay House. PRH, which did not disclose terms of the acquisition, said Hay House would 'retain its...

UWAP acquires Polimeni junior fiction series

Thursday, 14 December 2023
UWAP has acquired ANZ rights to a four-book junior fiction series, Ella and the Frogs, from Cassy Polimeni. The forthcoming series is for early readers aged five to eight years,...

Alice to depart Writers SA

Thursday, 14 December 2023
Writers SA has announced that CEO Jessica Alice will depart the organisation in early 2024. Alice was appointed as CEO of Writers SA in 2018. Programs and initiatives commenced during...

Local creators nominated for 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Four local authors, illustrators and organisations have been announced as candidates for the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s richest prize for children’s literature. The Australian candidates are: Ursula...

HarperCollins acquires Katherine Collette duology

Wednesday, 13 December 2023
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Shellsville, a duology for early middle-grade readers by Katherine Collette, via Danielle Binks and Jacinta di Mase of Jacinta di Mase Management. Described by...

APA, ASA welcome establishment of copyright and AI reference group

Wednesday, 13 December 2023
The Australian Publishers Association (APA), Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and the Copyright Agency are among an 'alliance' of 22 organisations to welcome the announcement by Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus that...

Wiley acquires Dalla-Camina nonfiction book

Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Wiley has acquired world rights to a nonfiction title from Megan Dalla-Camina, titled Women Rising, via Lou Johnson at Key People Literary Management. The publisher described the title as ‘the...

Werner Film Productions options Legge memoir screen rights

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Werner Film Productions (WFP) has optioned the screen rights to Kate Legge’s memoir Infidelity & Other Affairs, in a deal negotiated by Thames & Hudson (T&H) Australia on behalf of...

Transit Lounge acquires Goldsmith novel

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Andrea Goldsmith’s novel The Buried Life, via the Jane Novak Literary Agency. Publisher Barry Scott said the book ‘subtly portrays the dangers of...

Text acquires Richardson’s ‘The Degenerates’

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Text Publishing has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to a debut novel by Melbourne writer Raeden Richardson, via Peggy Boulos Smith at Writers House. Following the interconnected lives...

Text acquires Carlyle’s ‘No One Will Know’

Monday, 11 December 2023
Text Publishing has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to the new novel No One Will Know by Rose Carlyle, via Jenny Meyer. No One Will Know is a...

Writers Victoria announces 2023 Writeability fellows

Monday, 11 December 2023
Writers Victoria has announced the 2023 Writeability fellowship recipients. This year’s recipients are: Grace Hall for ‘Off Track’, ‘a young adult novel exploring how physical pain changes a person’s world’...

Pan Macmillan acquires Hardcastle novel

Monday, 11 December 2023
Pan Macmillan has acquired ANZ rights to the novel A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle, via Zeitgeist Agency’s Benython Oldfield, who has also sold North American rights to the...

Magabala announces annual fellowship, creative development grants and scholarship recipients

Monday, 11 December 2023
Magabala Books has announced the 15 First Nations creators who will receive the publisher's annual fellowship, scholarships and Australian Indigenous Coffee (AIC) Creative Development Grants, sharing in over $65,000 of...

Curry launches VenX self-publishing business, partners with IPEd

Monday, 11 December 2023
Jane Curry, founder of independent book publisher Ventura Press, has established 'digital sibling' VenX, a membership-based digital community for writers that provides self-publishing options. Curry told Books+Publishing the idea for...