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Dymocks Parramatta under new ownership

Wednesday, 6 April 2022
Dymocks Parramatta, located in Westfield Parramatta, has been sold by Perry Lennon after 21 years of ownership. Parramatta local Shaveta Sharma took over management on Friday, 1 April and will...

LBF sees some Australian publishers returning in person

Wednesday, 30 March 2022
After more than two years attending rights fairs virtually, several Australian publishers will be attending London Book Fair (LBF) in person when it runs in the UK next week from...

Staff changes at Hardie Grant

Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Hardie Grant has announced several staffing changes. From next month, current managing director of Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) Troy Lewis will become the company's first people and culture director,...

A&U acquires Yong debut YA novel

Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to Sydney author Leanne Yong’s debut young adult novel Two Can Play that Game, in a deal brokered by Andrea Cascardi of Transatlantic...

CBCA 2022 Book of the Year shortlists announced

Wednesday, 30 March 2022
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its 2022 Book of the Year shortlists. The shortlisted books in each category are: Older readers The Boy from the Mish (Gary...

ABIA 2022 longlists announced

Wednesday, 23 March 2022
The longlists for the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles longlisted in each category are: General fiction book of the year After Story (Larissa Behrendt,...

PANZ launches New Zealand Books website

Wednesday, 23 March 2022
The Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) has launched a new website, NewZealandBooks.com, to ‘overcome the tyranny of distance and the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19...

Beatnik named Bologna publisher of the year, Oceania

Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand publisher Beatnik Publishing is the winner of the Oceania category of the 2022 Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year. The Bologna Children’s Book...

Scribble, Think+DO Tank Foundation announce Mirror Mentorship program details

Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Scribe children's imprint Scribble and Sydney-based Think+DO Tank Foundation, which runs multilingual bookshop Lost in Books, have released details of their Mirror Mentorship program, supported by Australia Council funding. The...

Perth Festival Literature & Ideas program: ‘a joy’ despite Covid restrictions, border closures

Thursday, 17 March 2022
Perth Festival's 2022 Writers Weekend, running across 26–27 February in the gardens of Fremantle Arts Centre (FAC), attracted over 6500 attendees to sessions featuring guests both in person or by...

Pandiella joins Welbeck ANZ

Thursday, 17 March 2022
Welbeck ANZ has announced the appointment of Anabel Pandiella as head of publicity and marketing. Pandiella joins the publisher from Simon & Schuster (S&S), where she was appointed marketing and...

Nielsen: Manga, romance, sci-fi drive Aus market growth in 2021

Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Overall growth in value in the Australian book market—which was up 2.5% in value to $1.3 billion in 2021 compared to 2020—has been driven by adult fiction, and most notably...

ASA, writers festivals receive RISE funding

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA), the Australian Short Story Festival and the Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival have each received funding in the seventh and final round of...

Chidgey, Mason longlisted for 2022 Women’s Prize

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand writers Catherine Chidgey and Meg Mason have been longlisted for the £30,000 (A$54,000) Women’s Prize for Fiction. Chidgey, the author of six novels, is longlisted for Remote Sympathy,...

Wang appointed Australian Children’s Laureate 2022–23

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation (ACLF) has named Gabrielle Wang as the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2022–23. Melbourne-based Wang is an award-winning author and illustrator of over 20 books, including...

APA: proposed copyright changes would ‘gift’ publishing rights to libraries

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Australian Society of Authors (ASA) have, in separate responses to the federal government’s proposed copyright amendment bill, highlighted their concern that the draft bill...

A&U acquires trans and gender diverse anthology

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to the anthology Nothing to Hide: Voices of trans and gender diverse Australia. Edited by Sam Elkin, Alex Gallagher, Yves Rees and...

A&U acquires Kostakis YA novel

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to a new novel by YA author Will Kostakis, We Could Be Something. The queer contemporary YA novel is, according to the publisher,...

UQP acquires two more books from Thompson

Wednesday, 2 March 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to two new books by Aboriginal (pakana) author Adam Thompson. The first book, a novel set in Launceston and focused on pakana man Rusty, ‘a...

APA Bologna stand to feature 15 publishers

Wednesday, 2 March 2022
The Australian stand at the 2022 Bologna Book Fair, which this year runs 21–24 March, will feature books from 15 local publishers, three of which will send representatives to the...

Ockham NZ Book Awards 2022 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 2 March 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted books, chosen from longlists announced in January, are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction A...

Australia Council announces 2022 leadership programs participants

Wednesday, 23 February 2022
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the participants of its three leadership programs—Arts Leaders, Future Leaders and International Leadership—for emerging, mid-career and established creative practitioners in Australia and...