Hachette Aotearoa launches Moa Press
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Hachette Aotearoa has established a new imprint, Moa Press, which ‘aims to champion a diverse range of voices, representing a multitude of cultures and perspectives from within Aotearoa New Zealand’....
UWAP acquires Akhurst YA novel
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired ANZ rights to Graham Akhurst’s young adult novel Borderland, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. Set in Brisbane and the fictional rural town of...
Ross wins first prize in 2022 Scarlet Stiletto Awards
Monday, 5 December 2022
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2022 Scarlet Stiletto Awards. ‘Tuesday Jocks’ by Fin J Ross won first prize ($2000); last year’s winner Hayley Young won...
Text acquires new Lohrey novel
Monday, 5 December 2022
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to Amanda Lohrey's new novel The Conversion, via Lyn Tranter of Australian Literary Management. The Conversion follows Zoe, who leaves Sydney for a small...
A&U acquires Bolton debut ‘Life Itself’
Monday, 5 December 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Trish Bolton’s debut novel Life Itself. Rights were acquired by A&U publisher Jane Palfreyman and executive editor Genevieve Buzo. Life Itself...
HarperCollins acquires Whitlam biography by Bramston
Friday, 2 December 2022
HarperCollins Australia has acquired Troy Bramston’s biography of former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam. The currently untitled work will be a ‘thorough, highly readable’ biography drawing on newly discovered archival...
Pantera acquires James book on human sexuality
Friday, 2 December 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to Kinky History: The stories behind our intimate lives, past and present by Esmé Louise James. Drawing on James’s popular online lecture series Kinky...
George appointed Booktopia chair
Friday, 2 December 2022
Online bookseller Booktopia has appointed Retail Food Group (RFG) executive chairman Peter George as its new chair. George replaces Chris Beare in the role, who resigned yesterday, 1 December after...
NZ PM’s Awards for Literary Achievement winners announced
Friday, 2 December 2022
Creative New Zealand has announced the recipients of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, worth NZ$60,000 (A$56,000) each. In recognition of their contribution to New Zealand literature, Stephanie...
UQP announces new First Nations Classics series
Thursday, 1 December 2022
UQP has announced the launch of a First Nations Classics series, with the first instalment to be released in June 2023. The publisher said the inspiration behind the new series...
Gilliatt joins Left Bank Literary
Thursday, 1 December 2022
Former Allen & Unwin (A&U) publishing director Tom Gilliatt has joined Left Bank Literary (LBL) as an agent. Gilliatt joined A&U in 2014 and finished in late September this year....
Sorrento Writers Festival announce new writing prize
Thursday, 1 December 2022
The Sorrento Writers Festival, a new four-day event created by former bookseller Corrie Perkin and scheduled for April 2023 on Victoria’s Morning Peninsula, has established a $5000 new writing prize....
SPN conference 2022 ‘demonstrated breadth of Australian publishing’
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
The 11th annual Small Press Network (SPN) Independent Publishing Conference was held last week, 24–26 November, in a hybrid event taking place at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre, the State Library Victoria...
Cornegé to leave UQP
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) marketing and publicity manager Louise Cornegé has been appointed marketing and campaigns manager at the Conversation and will leave UQP on 15 December. Appointed in 2019,...
Hunterland joins Affirm sales team
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Affirm Press has announced the appointment of Jane Hunterland as the publisher’s Queensland account manager. Hunterland, who comes to the role with 12 years’ experience as an account manager for...
Two Brabon novels to Ultimo
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ and UK rights to two new novels by Katherine Brabon, in a deal via Clare Forster at Curtis Brown. In Body Friend, the narrator leaves...
Harry Hartog Penrith to open in April
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Berkelouw Books will open a new Harry Hartog-branded store in Penrith in April 2023. The 750sqm Harry Hartog Penrith store will be located at 384 High Street Penrith, and will...
Nash re-elected to Booktopia board; CFC funding ‘hampered by EGM and board activity’
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Booktopia founder and former CEO Tony Nash was re-elected to the company’s board at yesterday’s annual general meeting (AGM). Nash, who was given notice to step away from executive management...
National Survey of Australian Book Authors 2022 findings released
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Macquarie researchers Jan Zwar, Paul Crosby and David Throsby have released the findings of the team’s National Survey of Australian Book Authors. The research, which follows on from a similar...
Transit Lounge acquires new Matthews novel on online dating
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Never Look Desperate by Rachel Matthews, in a direct author to publisher deal. Matthews's third novel is described by Transit Lounge publisher Barry...
‘Lessons in Chemistry’ wins Dymocks 2022 Book of the Year
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
London-based American writer Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry (Doubleday) has been named Dymocks Book of the Year for 2022. Set in the early 1960s, Garmus's debut novel follows chemist Elizabeth Zott,...
Fegan wins 2022 Catalyse Nonfiction Prize
Monday, 28 November 2022
Express Media and Deakin University have announced Sar Fegan as the winner of the Catalyse Nonfiction Prize, formerly the Deakin University Nonfiction Prize. Fegan won for their piece 'A Fiery...
Piper wins 2022 SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition
Monday, 28 November 2022
Tessa Piper, a 37-year-old public servant from Melbourne, has won this year's SBS Emerging Writers' Competition, worth $5000. Piper's winning story 'The Usual' was selected by judges Alice Pung and...
NSW Prem’s History Awards adds $10,000 prize
Monday, 28 November 2022
The NSW Government has announced the establishment of a new history prize category in the NSW Premier’s History Awards. The Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize, valued at $10,000, will...
Jackson wins 2022 SPN Book of the Year Award
Monday, 28 November 2022
Eleanor Jackson has won the 2022 Small Press Network (SPN) Book of the Year Award for her poetry collection Gravidity and Parity (Vagabond Press). The winner was chosen from a...
Affirm acquires Daley anthology about teachers
Friday, 25 November 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a forthcoming anthology about teachers, to be edited by Megan Daley. The anthology will showcase educators who nurture, inspire, champion and create change, in...
Pantera acquires Cohen debut ‘Everyone and Everything’
Thursday, 24 November 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights for the debut novel Everyone and Everything by Nadine J Cohen, who is represented by Stacey Testro International. A tale of ‘family, mental health...
Kefala wins 2022 Patrick White Award
Thursday, 24 November 2022
Sydney-based author Antigone Kefala is the winner of this year’s $15,000 Patrick White Literary Award. The award recognises Kefala’s achievements as a poet, and a writer of fiction and nonfiction....
Pettit, Hawkins to join Affirm sales team
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
Affirm Press has announced the appointment of Priscilla Pettit and Christopher Hawkins as key account managers for NSW/ACT. Pettit has spent three years with Dymocks stores as assistant manager at...
Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship 2022 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 2022 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship shortlist. The shortlisted applicants, chosen by authors Shankari Chandran and Jennifer Mills, are: Ashley Hay for ‘The...
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