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Clunes Booktown Festival 2025 program announced 

Tuesday, 4 February 2025
Clunes Booktown Festival has announced its 2025 program. Festival director Suzi Cordell said this year’s program will explore the art of storytelling in all its diverse forms, with panels on...

MUD Literary Prize 2025 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 4 February 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 MUD Literary Prize, worth $10,000, has been announced. The shortlisted works, selected from 31 submissions, are: Translations (Jumaana Abdu, Vintage) The End and Everything Before...

Bundyi Publishing announces unpublished manuscript prize

bundyi logo Monday, 3 February 2025
Simon & Schuster imprint Bundyi Publishing has announced the Bundyi Writing Prize, which will be awarded to an outstanding unpublished manuscript of adult fiction by an emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres...

Bookshop.org turns 5, introduces ebooks

bookshop logo Monday, 3 February 2025
In the US, Bookshop.org has celebrated its fifth anniversary by introducing an ebook platform, available now. Discussing the development, Bookshop founder and CEO Andy Hunter told the New York Times...

Vale Michael Webster

Photograph of Michael Webster. Credit: Debora Webster-Bain Friday, 31 January 2025
Publisher, editor and academic Michael Webster has died. Webster had a long and distinguished career in the Australian publishing industry, with roles as a publisher, academic, and board member. He...

Herron awarded CWA diamond dagger

a portrait of Mick Herron Thursday, 30 January 2025
In the UK, Mick Herron, author of the Slough House series (adapted for Apple TV+ as Slow Horses), has been awarded the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Diamond Dagger. Vaseem Khan,...

Martin selected for Bologna illustrator exhibition 

a portrait of Marc Martin Thursday, 30 January 2025
Melbourne-based illustrator, artist and book maker Marc Martin has been selected for the 2025 Illustrators Exhibition at the Bologna Children's Book Fair (BCBF). Of 4374 total applications, 77 illustrators from...

Ockham 2025 longlists announced

The ockham new zealand book awards logo. Thursday, 30 January 2025
The longlists for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction (NZ$65,000) All That We...

IPEd announces student editor prize shortlist 

IPEd logo Thursday, 30 January 2025
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced the shortlist for the 2025 IPEd Student Prize. The shortlisted editors and their projects are: Portia Abbott (RMIT University), for her essay...

How international book markets performed in 2024 

Photograph of a glove in front of shelves of books Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Results were mixed for international book markets in 2024. While sales were slightly up in the United States and significantly in Brazil, they were down in France, slightly down in...

Hardie Grant Books acquires Nat Thaipun cookbook 

a portrait of Nat Thaipun Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world print and ebook rights to Thai: Anywhere and Everywhere, the debut cookbook from MasterChef Australia 2024 winner Nat Thaipun, through Ben Liebmann of Understory....

Adelaide Writers’ Week full program announced 

adelaide writers week (aww) logo in blue and white Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Adelaide Writers’ Week director Louise Adler today announced the full program for 2025 Adelaide Writers' Week (AWW), which will mark the 40th anniversary of the event. In a statement, Adler...

UQP sells rights to ‘Edenglassie’ to Oneworld

Edenglassie Wednesday, 29 January 2025
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold world English (ex ANZ) and audio rights to Melissa Lucashenko’s Edenglassie to Oneworld Publications. The deal was struck between UQP rights and contacts...

Text discontinues Michael Gifkins Prize 

text logo (a black underlined letter t in a black circle) Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Text Publishing has announced that the Michael Gifkins Prize for unpublished manuscripts in Aotearoa New Zealand has ceased. Established in 2017, the prize honoured the late literary agent, writer, critic...

Sweatshop & NewSouth announce Pasifika-Australian literary initiative

a portrait of Winnie Dunn Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Sweatshop Literacy Movement and NewSouth Publishing have announced Fresh Off the Books: The Pasifika Australian Literary Initiative, described as Australia’s first literary program for Pasifika-Australian writers. Twelve successful applicants will...

Osborne-Crowley shortlisted for 2025 Gordon Burn Prize 

the cover of the book The Lasting Harm, Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell by Lucia Osborne-Crowley Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been shortlisted for the 2025 Gordon Burn Prize for her book The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell (A&U). The other shortlisted titles for the prize...

Local author, voice actor among Audie Awards finalists 

Thursday, 23 January 2025
In the United States, the Audio Publishers Association has announced the finalists for the 2025 Audie Awards for audiobooks and spoken word entertainment. Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand finalists include:...

‘Kindness’ voted OUP UK children’s word of the year

a graphic in green and pink. It reads 'oxford children's word of the year 2024' and 'kindness' Thursday, 23 January 2025
In the UK, Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced 'kindness' as the Oxford Children's Word of the Year for 2024. Each year, OUP's 'language experts and academic researchers’ announce a word...

PRH acquires Text Publishing 

text logo (a black underlined letter t in a black circle) Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Text Publishing has announced it will become part of Penguin Random House Australia (PRH), effective immediately. In a statement, Text said the acquisition ‘includes all of Text Publishing’. However, Text...

Ethicool Books deregistered 

Ethicool logo Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Children’s publisher Ethicool Books has been deregistered. The publisher, which launched in 2020, was founded by Teigan Margetts with the intention of publishing books that ‘educate, entertain and encourage children...

 

 

 

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