EPAA 2023 winners announced
Friday, 8 September 2023
The winners of the 2023 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) have been announced. The winners in each category are: Primary publisher of the year Seven Steps Secondary publisher of the...
Danger Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Friday, 8 September 2023
The BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival has announced the shortlists for the 2023 Danger Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Brunswick Street Blues (Sally Bothroyd, HarperCollins) Daughters...
Environment Award for Children’s Literature, Karajia Award 2023 winners announced
Friday, 8 September 2023
The Wilderness Society has announced the winners of the 2023 Environment Award for Children’s Literature and the Karajia Award for First Nations children’s storytelling. The winners in each category are:...
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2023 winners announced
Friday, 8 September 2023
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the winners for the 2023 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The winning titles in each category are: Australian history prize Elizabeth and John:...
Affirm acquires Downes novel
Thursday, 7 September 2023
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to thriller Red River Road, the third novel from Anna Downes, via Tara Wynne of Curtis Brown. Set along the Western Australian Coral Coast,...
WHSmith sales grow 28%
Thursday, 7 September 2023
In the UK, retailer WHSmith has reported a 28% year-on-year increase in revenue in the 12 months to 31 August, driven by a 42% spike in its travel business, reports...
Queensland Literary Awards 2023 winners announced
Thursday, 7 September 2023
The winners of the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced, with a total of $238,500 in prize money awarded across 12 categories. The winning titles in each category are:...
Beverley McWilliams on ‘Spies in the Sky’
Wednesday, 6 September 2023
Beverley McWilliams is a children's writer based in South Australia who loves sharing history with children. Books+Publishing reviewer Karys McEwen describes her new book, Spies in the Sky (Pantera, November),...
Scribe acquires ‘When Cops Are Criminals’ essay collection, Gorrie to edit
Wednesday, 6 September 2023
Scribe has acquired world rights to When Cops Are Criminals, a new essay collection edited by Veronica Gorrie. This ‘powerful and provocative’ anthology will include contributors’ ‘experiences, whether personal or...
Stan adaptation of ‘Scrublands’ sold to BBC
Wednesday, 6 September 2023
A four-part adaptation of Scrublands (Chris Hammer, A&U) has been acquired by the BBC from Abacus Media Rights, which has international distribution rights for the series, and will screen on...
Celdran wins 2023 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize
Wednesday, 6 September 2023
Alba Gil Celdran is the winner of the 2023 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize, Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand and the Margaret Mahy Estate have announced. The judging panel praised the humour,...
Book industry organisations announce support for Voice
Wednesday, 6 September 2023
A number of Australian publishers and writing organisations have published statements in support of Australia’s First Nations Voice to Parliament referendum. The Australian Publishers Association (APA) made the following statement...
£50k Wolfson History Prize shortlist announced
Wednesday, 6 September 2023
In the UK, the shortlist for the £50,000 (A$98,500) Wolfson History Prize has been announced. The shortlisted works of history are: African and Caribbean People in Britain: A history (Hakim...
Richell Prize 2023 longlist announced
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
The Emerging Writers’ Festival, Hachette Australia, and the Richell family have announced the 2023 longlist for the Richell Prize for emerging writers. Selected from over 700 entries, the 20 longlisted...
Stager to take over Riverbend Books
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
Riverbend Books owner, and founder of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, Suzy Wilson has sold Riverbend to Fiona Stager, co-owner of Brisbane's Avid Reader bookshop. Wilson—who founded Riverbend Books in 1998...
Canberra Writers Festival reports ‘big and buzzing’ crowds
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) artistic director Beejay Silcox reported ‘big and buzzing’ crowds for this year's festival, which was held from 16–20 August 2023. The program was ‘everything we hoped...
Bowerbird Blues selected for NSS 2024
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has selected Bowerbird Blues by Aura Parker (Scholastic) for the 2024 National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS). The NSS event will be held on Wednesday,...
Nib Literary Award 2023 shortlist announced
Monday, 4 September 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: An Intimate History of Evolution: The story of the Huxley family (Alison...
Ned Kelly Awards 2023 winners announced
Monday, 4 September 2023
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners of the 2023 Ned Kelly Awards. The 2023 winners are: Best debut crime fiction Wake (Shelley Burr, Hachette) Best crime...
Davitt Awards 2023 winners announced
Monday, 4 September 2023
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2023 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women. The winning titles in each category are: Adult novel All...
‘Biblical Critical Theory’ wins 2023 Australian Christian Book of the Year
Friday, 1 September 2023
Christopher Watkin’s Biblical Critical Theory: How the bible’s unfolding story makes sense of modern life and culture (Zondervan Academic) has been named 2023 Australian Christian Book of the Year. The...
We Come With This Place sold to UK
Friday, 1 September 2023
Echo Publishing has sold UK and Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to Debra Dank’s We Come With This Place to Footnote Press. Earlier this year, We Come With This Place won...
Larrikin House acquires Larkin adult fiction novel
Friday, 1 September 2023
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to adult fiction novel The Bogan Book Club by John Larkin. Described by the publisher as a fun and heartfelt story about being an...
SoA calls for new approach to blurbs amid industry debate
Friday, 1 September 2023
In the UK, the Society of Authors (SoA) has called for greater transparency over the use of book jacket blurbs, amid controversy over the practice, reports the Bookseller. Earlier this...
PRH half-year revenue up 9%
Thursday, 31 August 2023
Penguin Random House’s (PRH) global revenue grew 9% in the six months to 30 June, compared to the same period last year. In its half-yearly results, parent company Bertelsmann reported...
Four writers receive Copyright Licensing NZ/PEN NZ research grants
Thursday, 31 August 2023
In Aotearoa New Zealand, four writers have been awarded the NZ$5000 2023 Copyright Licensing New Zealand and New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Research...
Meet the publishers: new small presses to watch
Wednesday, 30 August 2023
The pandemic: book buyers rediscovered their love of reading, authors made use of lockdowns to write, but for some, it was all about publishing. Here, we profile five publishers launched...
UQP acquires second novel from Siang Lu
Wednesday, 30 August 2023
UQP has acquired world rights to Siang Lu’s second novel, Ghost Cities, via Brendan Fredericks of BFredericksPR. Ghost Cities is ‘inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China’. Described by...
Readings New Australian Fiction Prize 2023 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Readings has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Readings New Australian Fiction Prize. This year’s six shortlisted books are: Time and Tide in Sarajevo (Bronwyn Birdsall, Affirm) A Country of...
Hawker Brownlow to cease operations
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Hawker Brownlow Education has announced that it will cease operations on 1 September 2023 after over 40 years in the educational publishing industry, according to a statement posted to its...
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