ABIA 2023 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 19 April 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category, including the new category of social impact book of the year,...
Rural and regional writers’ festival programs announced
Wednesday, 12 April 2023
Several rural and regional writers' festivals have revealed the programs for their upcoming events. Sorrento Writers Festival will run from 27–30 April on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. More than 140 writers,...
Walker Books establishes biennial Manuscript Prize
Wednesday, 12 April 2023
Walker Books Australia (WBA) has announced the establishment of a new manuscript prize to coincide with the publisher’s 30th anniversary in Australia. The inaugural Walker Books Manuscript Prize will offer...
BookTok hit leads Dymocks Top 101
Wednesday, 12 April 2023
BookTok hit The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is the number one book on the Dymocks annual Top 101 online poll, with 39% of books on the list being titles...
Cate Paterson appointed A&U publishing director
Wednesday, 5 April 2023
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has appointed Cate Paterson as publishing director. Paterson, who was publishing director at Pan Macmillan prior to joining A&U to establish Atlantic Books Australia in 2022,...
BookPeople 2023 Book of the Year longlists announced
Wednesday, 5 April 2023
BookPeople has announced the longlists for the 2023 Book of the Year Awards, formerly the Booksellers Choice awards. The longlisted titles in each category are: Adult fiction book of the...
UQP appoints joint marketing and publicity managers
Wednesday, 5 April 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has appointed Jean Smith and Sally Wilson as joint marketing and publicity managers. Smith and Wilson will take over the role left by former marketing...
McFarlane shortlisted for Walter Scott Prize
Wednesday, 5 April 2023
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane (A&U) has been shortlisted for the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, worth £25,000 (A$46,000) and open to novels published in the...
Bolinda titles shortlisted in British Book Awards
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Two titles by Bolinda have been shortlisted for Audiobook of the Year: Fiction at the 2023 British Book Awards. The Seven Moons of Almeida (Shehan Karunatilaka, narrated by Shivantha Wijesinha)...
CBCA Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
The shortlists for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Older readers Ask No Questions (Eva Collins,...
Baker steps down at OUP, joins Copyright Agency
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Oxford University Press ANZ managing director Arthur Baker has resigned from his role. Baker, who was appointed to the position in 2017, will join the Copyright Agency as director: strategy...
HarperCollins acquires Ringland book on unblocking creativity
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Holly Ringland’s book The House That Joy Built: The pleasure and power of giving ourselves permission to create, via Benython Oldfield of Zeitgeist...
Screen Australia funds ‘Eggshell Skull’ adaptation development
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Screen Australia has announced story development funding for a feature film adaptation of Eggshell Skull (Bri Lee, A&U), as one of 20 projects sharing in $700,000 development funding. Actor Mia...
Australian Reading Hour digital event attracts 17,000
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
The 2023 Australian Reading Hour on Thursday 9 March involved more than 250 events across the country. Over 17,000 students watched the The Magic of Storytelling live digital event, held...
Judith Wright Poetry Prize, Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize 2022 winners announced
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Overland has announced the winners of the 2022 Judith Wright Poetry Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Abbra Kotlarczyk has won the $6000 Judith Wright Poetry Prize for outstanding...
Transit Lounge acquires anaesthetist’s thriller
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to All You Took From Me by NSW author and doctor Lisa Kenway in a direct publisher-to-author deal. ‘This is a dark, twisty thriller...
PRH acquires new Flanagan book
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Question 7 by Richard Flanagan via PRH publisher at large Nikki Christer. Question 7 melds fiction and nonfiction, 'beginning at...
HarperCollins acquires Taffe novel
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the novel Freida by Marion Taffe, in a deal via Jacinta di Mase of Jacinta di Mase Management Literary Agency. Freida is set...
Ockham NZ Book Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlists titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction Better the Blood (Michael...
Norcliffe announced as 2023 Margaret Mahy Medal winner
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Children's book author and poet James Norcliffe has won the 2023 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, presented annually for lifetime achievement and distinguished contribution to New Zealand children’s literature. Norcliffe is...
Crew, Ottley nominated for 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Awards
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Writer Gary Crew and illustrator Matt Ottley have been nominated by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Australia as the Australian candidates for the 2024 Hans Christian Andersen...
Magabala wins 2023 Bologna Prize, Oceania region
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Magabala is the 2023 Oceania winner of the Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publisher of the Year. 'This is such an honour as the voting is by our peers...
CBCA 2023 Notable Books announced
Wednesday, 1 March 2023
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its list of Notable Books for 2023. The list acts as the longlist for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards....
Booktopia half-year revenue, earnings down, new CFC to open in November
Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Booktopia’s revenue for the six months to 31 December was down 15.3% while earnings dropped 67.7% compared to the corresponding period last financial year. Revenue fell to $110.08 million from...
Kat Muscat Fellowship 2023 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Express Media and the Kat Muscat Fellowship Committee have announced the shortlist for the 2023 Kat Muscat Fellowship, which offers support and development to a young Australian writer or editor...
Affirm acquires VPLA 2023 unpublished manuscript winner
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to One Divine Night by Mick Cummins, the winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (VPLA) for an unpublished manuscript, in a deal...
Betts, Di Lorenzo drive 48% local publishing growth at S&S
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has recorded a ‘record year of sales, profit, and market share’, according to managing director Dan Ruffino, who told Books+Publishing that 2022 was the ‘third...
Linwood Messina sells ‘The Dreaming Path’ to HarperOne
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Gregory Messina of Linwood Messina Literary Agency has sold world English rights (ex ANZ) to Paul Callaghan’s The Dreaming Path: Indigenous thinking to change your life written with Uncle Paul...
VIPs 2023 in-person program to run alongside SWF
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
The Australia Council has announced the Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program will return this year as an in-person program, for the first time since 2019. The 2023 VIPs program will...
Ultimo acquires Yankovich debut book on friendship in ‘heated auction’
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired UK/Commonwealth rights to Gyan Yankovich’s debut work of nonfiction Just Friends. Rights were acquired in a ‘heated auction’ in a deal agented by Rach Crawford at...
