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‘Nevermoor’ wins Book of the Year at 2018 Indie Book Awards

Tuesday, 27 March 2018
Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Hachette) has been named Book of the Year at the 2018 Indie Book Awards, presented at the Leading Edge Books Conference in Hobart...

Winners of the 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Awards announced

Tuesday, 27 March 2018
The winners of the 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Awards have been announced at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, administered by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). The...

Australian Book Design Awards 2018 longlist announced

Tuesday, 27 March 2018
The 2018 Australian Book Design Awards longlist has been announced. Longlisted titles in some of the categories are: Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover And the Fire Came Down (Emma Viskic, Echo),...

Melbourne Jewish Book Week launches inaugural program

Monday, 26 March 2018
Melbourne Jewish Book Week has launched its inaugural 2018 program, which will be held from 3 to 9 May. The week-long program of Jewish writing, literary culture and ideas is...

Irish booksellers contribute €132 million to economy

Monday, 26 March 2018
A report commissioned by Bookselling Ireland has found the bookselling and supply chain sector contributes €132 million (A$211.7 million) to the Irish economy, reports the Irish Times. The report by...

Staff changes at Murdoch Books

Monday, 26 March 2018
Murdoch Books has appointed Carol Warwick, Kelly Doust and Kirsty Rizzo to new roles. Warwick has assumed leadership of the Sydney publisher’s newly integrated promotional team as head of marketing...

PRH acquires ‘Star-Crossed’

Monday, 26 March 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Star-Crossed by Minnie Darke, the pen-name of Tasmanian literary author Danielle Wood. Rights were secured by PRH commercial fiction publisher...

VanOver to join S&S

Friday, 23 March 2018
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has appointed Brandon VanOver to the newly created role of associate publisher, nonfiction. VanOver has worked across fiction, nonfiction and children’s titles as managing editor at...

Queensland Writers Centre appoints new CEO

Friday, 23 March 2018
Lori-Jay Ellis has been appointed the new chief executive officer of Queensland Writers Centre (QWC), effective from 16 April. Ellis will replace outgoing CEO, Katie Woods, who joined QWC in...

More UK publishers report gender pay gaps

Friday, 23 March 2018
Hachette, HarperCollins and Springer Nature are among the latest UK publishers to report gender pay gaps as part of new government regulations that require companies with 250 or more employees...

Thomas wins Waterstones children’s prize, ‘Nevermoor’ wins younger readers category

Friday, 23 March 2018
Jessica Townsend’s middle-grade novel Nevermoor (Lothian) has won the younger readers category of the 2018 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. The UK retailer described the Queensland writer’s debut as ‘one of the...

Black Inc. to publish Ludlam book

Friday, 23 March 2018
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to a book by former deputy leader of the Australian Greens, Scott Ludlam. The as-yet-untitled book, scheduled for publication in 2019, is described as...

‘Meanjin’ relaunches podcast after three-year hiatus

Friday, 23 March 2018
Literary journal Meanjin has relaunched its podcast, after a three-year absence. The Meanjin podcast is pitched as ‘a spoken version of Australia’s favourite literary quarterly’, and will provide new content...

FWF announces 2018 Victorian festival program

Friday, 23 March 2018
The Feminist Writers Festival (FWF) has launched the program for its Victorian festival, which will be held in Melbourne and Geelong from 25-27 May. The Victorian program is the first...

Antigny and Prendergast join Giramondo

Thursday, 22 March 2018
Giramondo Publishing has appointed Léa Antigny to the newly created position of publicity manager. Antigny previously worked as a publicist at Pan Macmillan and Text Publishing, as well as in...

UK booksellers accused of selling far-right and anti-Semitic titles

Thursday, 22 March 2018
British anti-racism group Hope Not Hate has accused UK bookselling chains Foyles, Waterstones, WH Smith and Amazon of lending ‘respectability’ to several Holocaust denial books and far-right titles by selling...

ANZ authors nominated for 2018 RITA Awards

Thursday, 22 March 2018
Several Australian and New Zealand authors have been nominated for the Romance Writers of America (RWA) 2018 RITA Awards for excellence in published romance novels and novellas. Avril Tremayne is...

Red Room Poetry fellowship 2018 shortlist announced

Thursday, 22 March 2018
The shortlist has been announced for the 2018 Red Room Poetry fellowship, which recognises the achievements and artistic goals of contemporary Australian poets. The 11 shortlisted poets are: Zenobia Frost...

Brow Books enters into co-publishing agreement with Tilted Axis Press

Thursday, 22 March 2018
Brow Books has announced it will enter into a co-publishing agreement with UK-based Tilted Axis Press. Under the new agreement, Tilted Axis will hold world English rights for each title...

NZ library places second in international marketing award

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
New Zealand's Invercargill City Library has placed second in the 2018 BibLibre International Marketing Award, run by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), reports Newshub. Invercargall City...

IFLA, IPA and STM release joint statement on supporting ‘quality information’

Wednesday, 21 March 2018
The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), the International Publishers Association (IPA) and the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) have issued a joint statement about creating...