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Spineless Wonders launches audio production stream

Friday, 11 December 2020
Spineless Wonders has launched its new audio production stream with the release of two audiobooks, My Name Is Revenge by Ashleigh Kalagian Blunt and Siarad by Caroline Reid. Siarad, named...

PRH Canada to split Knopf, Random House divisions

Friday, 11 December 2020
Penguin Random House (PRH) Canada has announced it is dissolving the Knopf Random House Canada Group, to allow the two imprints, Knopf Canada and Random House Canada, to operate independently...

UQP acquires two new books from Riwoe

Friday, 11 December 2020
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to two new works of fiction by Mirandi Riwoe: short story collection Somewhere Between and historical novel Sunbirds. Somewhere Between will include both...

PRH Australia acquires new Tumarkin essay collection, rights to backlist

Friday, 11 December 2020
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired a new collection of essays from Maria Tumarkin, as well as the rights to her backlist titles Traumascapes and Axiomatic, via Clare Forster...

UWA Publishing to become ‘hybrid’ press, management to be ‘re-aligned’

Friday, 11 December 2020
The University of Western Australia (UWA) has announced the university’s publishing arm will become a ‘hybrid’ publisher, and ‘internal management of UWA publishing will be re-aligned to the Library’. Of...

Black Inc. acquires Gergis book on climate change

Friday, 11 December 2020
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to climate scientist Joëlle Gergis’s Witnessing the Unthinkable: Notes from the front line of the climate crisis from Jane Novak Literary Agency in a...

Final ‘Daily’ for 2020 tomorrow

Thursday, 10 December 2020
The final Daily newsletter for 2020 is tomorrow, Friday, 11 December. The Daily will return on Monday, 11 January 2021.

Australia Council, Create NSW, WA arts funding latest rounds announced

Thursday, 10 December 2020
Writing NSW will receive $100,000 from the Australia Council to ‘assist writers to navigate the ongoing disruption caused by Covid-19 that will enable $200,000 in payments to around 300 writers’....

Centre for Stories receives funding for new journal

Thursday, 10 December 2020
Perth's Centre for Stories has received funding for a new online journal and two-year project to support and develop writers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The Centre received $42,465...

Ultimo acquires first novel from Bent

Thursday, 10 December 2020
Ultimo Press has pre-empted ANZ rights to Hannah Bent’s debut novel When Things Are Alive They Hum via Gaby Naher at Left Bank Literary. Set in Hong Kong, London and China...

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2020 winners announced

Thursday, 10 December 2020
The winners of the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction The Yield (Tara June Winch, Hamish Hamilton) Nonfiction (joint winners) Songspirals:...

Wild, Riddle nominated for 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Awards

Thursday, 10 December 2020
Margaret Wild and Tohby Riddle have been nominated by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Australia as the Australian candidates for the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Awards. Wild...

February reviews round-up

Wednesday, 9 December 2020
Looking ahead to February 2021, two forthcoming crime novels, The Silent Listener (Lynn Yeowart, Viking) and The Second Son (Loraine Peck, Text), garnered glowing reviews from Books+Publishing’s crime aficionados, while...

Open Book publishing internship to launch in 2021

Wednesday, 9 December 2020
A new paid internship aimed at increasing cultural diversity in the Australian publishing workforce will launch in 2021 with funding support from the Australia Council and the Copyright Agency’s Cultural...

Debut fiction you might have missed in 2020

Wednesday, 9 December 2020
For all those readers who spent this year's lockdowns catching up on classics or re-reading comforting favourites, never fear—Australia’s independent booksellers have voted for the best debut fiction of 2020...

A Christmas message to European bookshops

Wednesday, 9 December 2020
Dearest bookshops of Europe, This time last year I was sitting on the train in the dark en route to the cosiest place in London. I feel the only way...

From inertia to action: Zeitgeists, decolonisation and structural change in publishing

Wednesday, 9 December 2020
In her final column for Books+Publishing, Veronica Sullivan looks at the positive changes towards diversity and inclusion brought by 2020, and how publishers can ethically navigate the demand for representation...

ALIA to run digital storytime pilot in 2021

Wednesday, 9 December 2020
Australian publishers can opt to have new or backlist titles included in an Online Storytime pilot being run by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) in 2021. The one-year...

Indie Book Awards 2021 longlists announced

Wednesday, 9 December 2020
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2021 Indie Book Awards. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Tolstoy Estate (Steven Conte, Fourth Estate) All Our...

Final ‘WBN’ for 2020

Wednesday, 9 December 2020
Today’s Weekly Book Newsletter is the last for 2020 and the newsletter will return on Wednesday, 13 January. The final Daily newsletter for 2020 is this Friday, 11 December. It will...

‘Fireflies’ establishes book publisher

Tuesday, 8 December 2020
Film magazine Fireflies has announced the creation of independent publishing house Fireflies Press, which aims to 'champion under-represented and stylistically diverse films and film writing'. The inaugural project for the publisher...