Margaret and Colin Roderick Award 2022 shortlist announced
Thursday, 18 August 2022
The shortlist for the $20,000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James Cook University, has been announced. The shortlisted books...
New mentorship program for Tasmanian writers, illustrators
Thursday, 18 August 2022
Arts Tasmania and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) have announced a new mentorship program for writers and illustrators. The 2022 Tasmanian Writers and Illustrators Mentorship program is designed to...
The Campus Bookstore closes down
Thursday, 18 August 2022
The Campus Bookstore, which operated an online store and retail stores at several tertiary institutions in Victoria, has closed both its online and physical stores after declaring insolvency. The not-for-profit...
Oscar and Friends to close Double Bay store
Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Oscar and Friends bookshop has announced the closure of its original Double Bay store in Sydney. In a statement, the bookshop said that ‘sadly due to the redevelopment of our...
Readings YA Book Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 17 August 2022
The shortlist for the 2021 Readings Young Adult Book Prize has been announced. The shortlisted YA novels are: The Museum of Broken Things (Lauren Draper, Text) Sugar Town Queens (Malla...
Aus market up 4.1%, romance up 77% YTD
Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Australian book sales are up by 4.1% in value compared to this time last year, according to Nielsen BookData, which reports Australian book market sales of $544 million year to...
Berbay partners with Vision Australia on children’s series
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Berbay Books is partnering with Vision Australia on a new series of children’s books due to be published in 2023. The 32-page hardcover picture books will portray ‘significant Australians living...
Readings buys new warehouse
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Melbourne independent bookselling chain Readings has purchased a new warehouse space in West Melbourne, which will replace the chain’s current Carlton warehouse. ‘We had outgrown our current warehouse space and...
PRH acquires Seaborn debut in two-book deal
Monday, 15 August 2022
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to Jessica Seaborn’s debut ‘anti-romcom’ novel Perfect-ish, in a two-book deal via Caitlan Cooper-Trent at Curtis Brown. PRH described Perfect-ish as a...
UBD drops XL for Startrack
Monday, 15 August 2022
United Book Distributors (UBD) has announced it will be replacing XL Express with Startrack Express as a main distribution partner alongside FedEx (TNT), effective by later this month. ‘Startrack Express...
Ellis wins 2022 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Friday, 12 August 2022
Tracy Ellis has won the 2022 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Natural Wonder’. Chosen from a shortlist of three announced in July, Ellis receives $6000. Nina...
Readings announces Children’s Book Prize 2022 shortlist
Friday, 12 August 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Readings Children’s Book Prize has been announced. This year’s six shortlisted books are: A Glasshouse of Stars (Shirley Marr, Puffin) Little Gem (Anna Zobel, Puffin)...
‘Atua: Māori gods and heroes’ wins Margaret Mahy Book of the Year
Friday, 12 August 2022
Author and illustrator Gavin Bishop has won three categories in the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, including the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year, for...
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Thursday, 11 August 2022
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2022 NSW Premier’s History Awards, worth $15,000 in each category. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Australian...
Booktopia leases new warehouse
Thursday, 11 August 2022
Booktopia has secured a lease for a new customer fulfilment centre (CFC) in South Strathfield in Sydney’s west. According to Booktopia, after constant retrofitting, its current Lidcombe facility has become...
Brennan wins 2022 National Biography Award for ‘Leaping into Waterfalls’
Thursday, 11 August 2022
Bernadette Brennan has won the 2022 National Biography Award for Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears (A&U). Brennan receives $25,000, while the other shortlisted authors receive $2000 each. Judges...
Readings union members to consider industrial action
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) members at Readings bookshop will consider industrial action, following on from a protest outside the independent chain’s Carlton store in Melbourne on 6...
ILF announces digital event for ILD 2022
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced two events in collaboration with the Sydney Opera House for Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD), which falls on Wednesday, 7 September this year. The...
Caro’s ‘The Mother’ optioned for film
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Film rights for Jane Caro’s first novel for adults, The Mother (A&U), have been optioned by New Town Films in a deal negotiated by Jacinta di Mase of Jacinta di...
Griffin Press ceases POD
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
Opus Group has confirmed that Griffin Press, which it acquired from Ovato earlier this year, will cease its print on demand (POD) services. In a statement to clients on Friday,...
Scribe & Varuna announce 2022 fellows
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
The recipients of the 2022 Scribe & Varuna Fellowships have been announced. The fellows and their projects are: Sam Elkin for ‘Shapeshifting’ Jacqueline Wright for ‘Beauty and Menace’ Nevo Zisin...
UQP acquires Taylor debut ‘Flinch’
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to debut novel Flinch by 2022 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize winner Saraid Taylor. A coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of elite sport and...
Dessaix honoured for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
Monday, 8 August 2022
Robert Dessaix has won the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, which ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over the age of 60 who have made an...
Renée crime fiction debut sells to UK in two-book deal
Monday, 8 August 2022
Nadine Rubin Nathan at High Spot Literary has sold world English-language rights (ex NZ) to two crime novels, The Wild Card and Blood Matters (The Cuba Press), by Māori writer...
Aotearoa NZ publishers grow 0.8%; Te Reo Māori publishing up 40%
Friday, 5 August 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand trade publishers’ revenue last year grew 0.8%, according to a new report from the Publishers Association of NZ/Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ). The Book Industry Market Size...
Masson, Carrington launch Pardalote Press
Friday, 5 August 2022
Author Sophie Masson and illustrator Lorena Carrington have partnered on a new micropublisher, Pardalote Press, which aims to publish ‘small, surprising things which help the imagination take flight’. A crowdfunding...
Ultimo acquires Kalagian Blunt thriller ‘Dark Mode’
Thursday, 4 August 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights for Ashley Kalagian Blunt’s thriller Dark Mode, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson from Curtis Brown. Described by the publisher as ‘compulsive and...
Qld Literary Awards 2022 shortlists
Thursday, 4 August 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance ($25,000) Wounded Country...
Pantera announces Public Holiday Swap initiative
Wednesday, 3 August 2022
Pantera Press has announced a new Public Holiday Swap initiative that gives permanent employees the option to work on a public holiday and take a different day of leave in...
Weir, Henderson launch Bold Type Agency
Wednesday, 3 August 2022
Former Penguin Random House (PRH) senior rights manager Nerrilee Weir and former Simon & Schuster (S&S) publishing director Fiona Henderson have announced the creation of a new rights agency. Bold...
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