Meet ABA Bookseller of the Year Melanie Peacock
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Born and bred on Sydney’s north shore, winner of the 2022 Australian Booksellers Association Bookseller of the Year Melanie Peacock cannot walk past a bookshop without venturing in. Peacock started...
Melanie La’Brooy recommends
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Somehow I made it through most of my life without ever reading a single book by Sir Terry Pratchett. It wasn’t until my teenage son became a Pratchett devotee and...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2022 longlist announced
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
The longlist 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 longlisted titles...
French book sales down 6%
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
French publishers’ sales were down 6% year-on-year for the first half of 2022, but remain 10% higher than the same period the year prior to the pandemic, reports the Bookseller....
Jackson’s ‘Human Looking’ wins ALS Gold Medal
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
The Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been awarded to Andy Jackson for his book of poetry Human Looking (Giramondo). The judges praised Human Looking, chosen from a shortlist of six, as...
B+P employment survey 2022
Monday, 4 July 2022
Books+Publishing's 2022 employment surveys will close at midnight, Friday, 15 July. If you are currently employed by a company in the book industry (e.g. publisher, bookshop, rights agency), please complete our employees’ survey here....
Ned Kelly Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Monday, 4 July 2022
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best debut crime fiction Sweet Jimmy (Bryan...
Mortimer wins 2022 Desmond Elliott Prize
Monday, 4 July 2022
Maddie Mortimer has won the Desmond Elliott Prize for a first-time novelist for Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies (Picador), reports the Bookseller. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a ‘coming-of-age...
Inaugural Deep Creek residency recipient announced
Monday, 4 July 2022
Matilda Bookshop in the Adelaide Hills, in partnership with Writers SA and Ultimo Press, has announced Corrie Hosking as the winner of the inaugural Deep Creek Residency Fellowship for a...
Books in the media this weekend, 2–3 July
Friday, 1 July 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper The Diplomat (Chris Womersley, Picador) Enclave (Claire G Coleman, Hachette) Lapvona...
HarperCollins acquires Mordue novel, second Cave biography
Friday, 1 July 2022
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to two books by Mark Mordue: a sequel to Boy on Fire, the first volume of Mordue's biography of Nick Cave, published by HarperCollins in...
Australia Council announces New York Publishers’ Program, Translation Fund recipients
Thursday, 30 June 2022
The Australia Council has announced a delegation of rights sellers, literary agents and publishers to take part in the 2022 New York Publishers’ Program. The delegation, the largest in the history...
Celestin wins Gold Dagger for ‘Sunset Swing’
Thursday, 30 June 2022
In the UK, the winners of the Crime Writers’ Association Daggers awards for crime writing have been announced. Ray Celestin won the Gold Dagger, awarded to the best crime novel...
CWF 2022 program announced
Thursday, 30 June 2022
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) has announced the full program for the 2022 event, which runs 10–14 August. After being cancelled in 2021 and held with a reduced number of events...
Books yule love: 2022 Christmas nonfiction
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local adult nonfiction titles releasing in time for Christmas 2022. Memoir and biography Themes of joy, love and community run through two highly anticipated memoirs...
Complete our 2022 employment survey
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Books+Publishing is conducting research on wages and working conditions in the Australian book industry for a series of feature articles. We last conducted this survey in 2018 and received an...
Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter program funding ends
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
The Wheeler Centre (TWC) has announced its Next Chapter program will not open for applications in 2022, following the end of the organisation’s partnership with the Aesop Foundation, which had...
A&U announces mentorship program with Voices from the Intersection
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has partnered with Voices from the Intersection (Voices) to offer a mentorship opportunity for emerging children’s and YA Own Voices writers and illustrators. Up to two...
Pasaribu wins $30k Patricia Kailis International Writing Fellowship
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Norman Erikson Pasaribu is the winner of the inaugural Patricia Kailis International Writing Fellowship, worth $30,000. Pasaribu, a writer and poet from Indonesia, will undertake a three-month residency at the...
Tobias Madden recommends
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
A book I recently read and adored was Holden Sheppard’s upcoming YA novel The Brink (Text, August). On the surface, it’s a hard-hitting story about a group of school leavers...
Tobias Madden on ‘Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell’
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Tobias Madden's Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell (Penguin, September) is a Ballarat-set coming-of-age rom-com that follows teens Eli and Noah as they bond online and navigate meeting in person. Featuring...
New report on global digital book sales
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
A new report from Austrian publishing consultant Ruediger Wischenbart has analysed recent digital book sales trends in markets including Brazil, Italy, Spain, German-speaking countries and Latin America. Data in the...
Adsett acquires The Authors’ Agent
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Alex Adsett Literary will acquire The Authors’ Agent from Brian Cook, effective from 1 July. Cook, who will stay with the agency for a 12-month transition period before retiring, said...
MWF announces first guests for 2022 festival
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced the first guests for the 2022 event, which will take place over four days spanning 8–11 September. Mohsin Hamid, author of the Booker-shortlisted novels...
Fraser to leave Fremantle Press
Monday, 27 June 2022
Fremantle Press CEO Jane Fraser is leaving the publishing house after 15 years. Describing her time at Fremantle Press as 'the highlight of my 35+ years in publishing', Fraser said,...
Varuna announces new First Nations, carer fellowships; inaugural QWC fellows
Friday, 24 June 2022
Varuna has announced two new fellowships: a First Nations Flagship Fellowship, and a fellowship for a parent or carer. The new First Nations Flagship Fellowship is a two-week fellowship for...
New APA training for early career rights professionals
Friday, 24 June 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA), which received $10,000 in the most recent round of Australia Council funding, will use the sector development funding to subsidise a new training and mentoring...
Books in the media this weekend, 25–26 June
Friday, 24 June 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Rattled (Ellis Gunn, A&U) The Red Witch (Nathan Hobby, The Miegunyah...
Miles Franklin 2022 shortlist announced
Friday, 24 June 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The five shortlisted novels are: The Other Half of You (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette) Scary Monsters (Michelle de...
Creative Vic latest Creators Fund recipients announced
Thursday, 23 June 2022
The Victorian government has announced the 70 individuals and small collectives sharing in almost $2.7 million in its latest Creators Fund funding round. The following recipients undertaking literature-related projects were...
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