BookPeople 2023 Bookseller of the Year shortlists announced
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
BookPeople has announced the shortlists for its 2023 Bookseller of the Year awards. The awards recognise an individual bookseller for their outstanding achievement in the past 12 months, with the...
WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: The Western Australian Writer's Fellowship ($60,000) Carolyn Wadley Dowley Madison...
ALS Gold Medal 2023 longlist announced
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
The longlist for the 2023 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The longlisted works are: Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au, Giramondo) Daisy...
Australian authors on Daggers shortlist
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
In the UK, the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced the shortlists for its Dagger Awards. Authors from Australia are among those shortlisted for the annual crime writing awards. Hayley...
NewSouth acquires Kean science book
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
NewSouth has acquired world rights to science writer Zoe Kean’s popular science title Why are we like this? What can scuba diving at Shark Bay uncover about the evolution of...
Prize money increase for Aus Political Book of the Year
Monday, 15 May 2023
The prize money for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award has increased in its second year to $15,000 for the winner, with each shortlisted author to also receive...
Every Version of You optioned for film
Monday, 15 May 2023
Cognito Entertainment, a new independent film and television production company launched last week in the United States, has optioned Every Version of You (Grace Chan, Affirm) for adaptation into an international...
Dunn appointed distribution director at ADS
Monday, 15 May 2023
Riikka Dunn has been appointed distribution director at Alliance Distribution Services (ADS). Dunn, who started at ADS on Monday, 8 May, joins the business from Ikea, where she gained experience...
The Speechwriter wins Russell Prize for Humour Writing
Friday, 12 May 2023
Martin McKenzie-Murray’s 'savage, dark and uproariously funny’ satirical memoir The Speechwriter (Scribe) has won the $10,000 biennial Russell Prize for Humour Writing, Australia’s only humour writing prize. McKenzie-Murray’s fictional debut...
Reid, Ell win 2022 Anne Elder Award
Thursday, 11 May 2023
Australian Poetry has announced Harry Reid’s Leave Me Alone (Cordite Books) and Theodore Ell’s Beginning In Sight (RWP) as the joint winners of the 2022 Anne Elder Award for a first book...
George Robertson Award 2023 winners announced, changes to APA board
Thursday, 11 May 2023
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2023 George Robertson Awards, which recognises long and distinguished service to the publishing industry. The recipients are: Astrid Browne...
New Dawn sales and distribution to Affirm
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Perth-based publisher New Dawn Publishing has signed a sales and distribution agreement with Affirm Press. The publisher of speculative fiction was founded in September 2021 by Dylan Ingram with an...
First Nations storytellers in cultural exchange to Auckland Writers Festival
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Five local First Nations storytellers will travel as part of a cultural exchange delegation to Auckland Writers Festival, with the support of the Australia Council. Auckland Writers Festival, which runs...
Winton, Berryman to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, publisher shortlists announced
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Author Tim Winton and HarperCollins children's publisher Lisa Berryman will be inducted into the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Hall of Fame at the 2023 ABIA awards ceremony on 25...
Hollier leaves MUP
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) CEO Nathan Hollier has left the publisher. MUP chair Warren Bebbington told Books+Publishing that Hollier had left the publishing house in March, with chief operating officer...
Fogarty Literary Award shortlist announced
Monday, 8 May 2023
Fremantle Press has announced the shortlist for the $20,000 Fogarty Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted manuscripts are: Katherine Allum for ‘The Skeleton House’ Prema Arasu for ‘The Anatomy of...
Michael Gifkins Prize 2023 shortlist announced
Monday, 8 May 2023
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) have announced the shortlist for the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished...
Dorothy Hewett 2023 shortlist announced
Monday, 8 May 2023
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives $10,000 prize money, as well as manuscript development and a...
Mary Gilmore Award 2023 shortlist announced
Monday, 8 May 2023
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the shortlist for the annual Mary Gilmore Award for the best first book of poetry. The shortlisted collections are:...
A&U announces Fagan resignation
Friday, 5 May 2023
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced publisher Kelly Fagan has resigned and will be leaving the company. In its statement announcing Fagan's resignation A&U said: 'Kelly joined A&U in October...
Arnott, Mahood win Age Book of the Year awards
Friday, 5 May 2023
The winners of the 2023 Age Book of the Year Award have been announced. Robbie Arnott won the fiction award for Limberlost (Text) and Kim Mahood won the nonfiction prize for...
New Draper YA to Pan Mac, HarperTeen
Friday, 5 May 2023
Pan Macmillan Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a new YA novel by Lauren Draper via literary agent Annabel Barker, with world English rights (ex ANZ) going to HarperTeen US,...
Vallance wins 2023 Rosie Award
Thursday, 4 May 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) senior editor Cathy Vallance has won the Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as the Rosie, for her editorial work on Zana Fraillon’s middle-grade verse novel...
BookPeople gift card program, new research
Thursday, 4 May 2023
BookPeople launched its new gift cards program last month, selling both digital and physical cards which can be redeemed at BookPeople member bookshops and Collins and Dymocks shops across Australia....
Romance Writers of Australia Conference 2023 program announced
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
The Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) annual conference will be held in Sydney from 11–13 August at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth. Under the theme of ‘All That Glitters’, the program...
Upswell acquires Boland essay collection
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to Brooke Boland’s first collection of essays. Gulp, Swallow reflects on the uncertainty of identity in a young woman’s life, ‘when who we...
Local authors on Daggers longlist
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
In the UK, the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) has announced the longlists for its Dagger Awards. Authors from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand are among those longlisted for the annual...
Dale wins 2023 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Queensland Poetry has announced that Madeleine Dale has won the 2023 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for her manuscript The Water-Bearers. Dale receives $2000 and a publishing contract with UQP. Judges...
Best Australian Yarn prize pool grows to $75,000
Tuesday, 2 May 2023
The 2023 Best Australian Yarn short story competition has a $75,000 prize pool, with $50,000 to be awarded to the competition winner. This year’s award includes two new categories, the...
Fagan files suit against A&U
Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Allen & Unwin (A&U) publisher Kelly Fagan has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her employer, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. On 31 March, Justice Robert Bromwich ordered A&U ‘not...
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