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UK ebook purchases drop to lowest point since 2012

Friday, 20 May 2022
UK ebook purchases dropped to their lowest point since 2012 last year after a record 2020, reports the Bookseller. The data from Nielsen BookData, however, shows that the estimated spending...

Affirm Press acquires Swindell fiction debut 

Friday, 20 May 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to comedian Carolyn Swindell's debut novel We Only Want What’s Best, via Sandy Wagner Creative Agents. Described by the publisher as 'a tense examination...

Orwell Prizes 2022 shortlists announced

Thursday, 19 May 2022
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2022 Orwell Prizes for political writing have been announced. The titles shortlisted for the political writing book prize are: Behind Closed Doors (Polly...

Mamun replaces Pandiella at S&S 

Thursday, 19 May 2022
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has announced the appointment of Ace Mamun as marketing and publicity director, replacing Anabel Pandiella, who was appointed head of publicity and marketing at Welbeck...

Prize money increase for Spark Prize 

Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Hardie Grant Books and RMIT Writing and Publishing have announced the prize money for the Spark Prize has increased from $2000 to $5000. The biennial developmental prize for narrative nonfiction,...

Vivas replaces Byng at HarperCollins 

Wednesday, 18 May 2022
HarperCollins Australia has announced the appointment of Ana Vivas as its new head of Australian children's publishing. Currently children's publisher at Hardie Grant, Vivas replaces Chren Byng, who was appointed...

UQP acquires Saleh debut poetry collection

Wednesday, 18 May 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to the debut poetry collection The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazel el-Banat by Arab-Australian writer and activist Sara M Saleh. Described...

ABA 2022 Bookseller of the Year shortlists announced

Wednesday, 18 May 2022
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the shortlists for the 2022 ABA Bookseller of the Year awards. The awards recognise an individual bookseller for their outstanding achievement in the...

Pip Harry on ‘August & Jones’ 

Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Inspired by the friendship between two real-life children in Victoria, Pip Harry's latest middle-grade novel August & Jones (Lothian) is a heartwarming story about friendship and resilience. Jones meets August...

‘A Place Near Eden’ wins 2022 Vogel

Tuesday, 17 May 2022
A Place Near Eden by Melbourne writer Nell Pierce has won this year’s $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. Described...

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2022 winners announced

Tuesday, 17 May 2022
The winners of the 2022 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Safdar Ahmed’s graphic novel Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s immigration detention system (Twelve Panels Press) was...

Green to leave Meanjin

Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Meanjin editor Jonathan Green has announced that the December 2022 edition of the literary journal will be his last. Green, who has has been in the role since 2015, is...

Bublitz shortlisted for Gold Dagger

Monday, 16 May 2022
Australia-based author Jacqueline Bublitz has been shortlisted for the Gold Dagger, awarded to the best crime novel originally written in English by an author of any nationality, in the UK...

Michael Gifkins Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Monday, 16 May 2022
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) have announced the shortlist for the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished...

Books in the media this weekend, 14–15 May 

Friday, 13 May 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National  The Saturday Paper  Daisy and Woolf (Michelle Cahill, Hachette) The Secret of Emu Field...

New writers festival for Wollongong

Friday, 13 May 2022
The South Coast Writers Centre (SCWC) has announced a new literary festival, to take place in the Illawarra region of New South Wales. The South Coast Writers Festival will run...

Australian Reading Hour moves to March from 2023

Friday, 13 May 2022
Australia Reads has announced that its flagship event the Australian Reading Hour, which has run each year in September for the past decade, will not take place in 2022, with...

Ockham NZ Book Awards 2022 winners announced

Thursday, 12 May 2022
The winners of the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The NZ$60,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, Aotearoa New Zealand's richest writing prize, went to Wellington...

New PRH longform mentoring program

Wednesday, 11 May 2022
The Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas (JNI) has partnered with Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) and the Copyright Agency on a new initiative to provide practical experience and...

UK publishing staff report stress, burnout

Wednesday, 11 May 2022
A survey by the Bookseller has found the UK publishing trade is facing ‘industry-wide burnout’, with nearly nine out of 10 (89%) respondents having experienced work-related stress over the past...

Sun shines on Clunes Booktown 2022 

Wednesday, 11 May 2022
After two years of cancellations, in late April the first post-lockdown Clunes Booktown Festival was held in regional Victoria. Angela Crocombe from festival bookseller Readings reports. After predictions of dire...

 

 

 

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