Harris leaves PRH
Friday, 21 July 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) publishing director young readers Laura Harris has chosen to leave the company. Her decision to leave came following a review of the publisher’s local children’s...
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Eloise Plant
Thursday, 20 July 2023
The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner announcement at...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2023 longlist announced
Thursday, 20 July 2023
The longlist for the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, which has increased in value to $30,000 and is administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James...
ByteDance’s new publishing arm begins approaching authors
Thursday, 20 July 2023
8th Note Press, the new publishing arm of TikTok parent company ByteDance, has begun approaching authors with publication offers, reports the Bookseller. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, ByteDance filed a...
Hodge awarded 2023 Marion fellowship
Thursday, 20 July 2023
Lardil and Yangkaal writer Maya Hodge has been awarded the inaugural Marion fellowship for 2023, the ACT writing organisation has announced. Marion said Hodge’s ‘writing practice is not just a...
Additional funding for Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter program
Thursday, 20 July 2023
The Wheeler Centre has received $30,000 in funding for the Next Chapter writing development program from the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. The funding will specifically support Australian poets and poetry, allowing...
Over 300 attendees for 2023 BookPeople conference; 2024 conference to be held in Melbourne
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
More than 300 delegates, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors attended the BookPeople conference and trade exhibition held in Adelaide on 18–19 June 2023, including over 140 bookshop and library delegates. BookPeople...
Big W pulls ‘Welcome to Sex’ from physical stores
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Big W will stop selling the book Welcome to Sex: Your no-silly-questions guide to sexuality, pleasure and figuring it out (Melissa Kang & Yumi Stynes, HGCP) in physical stores, following...
Layoffs at PRH US
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
In the US, Penguin Random House (PRH) has confirmed in a letter to staff it has made a number of layoffs in addition to its previously announced voluntary redundancy plan,...
Pantera acquires Matthiesson debut
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights to debut novel Together We Fall Apart by Sophie Matthiesson from Clare Forster at Curtis Brown. The publisher described the debut as 'a compelling...
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Kathleen O’Neill
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner...
Kate Mildenhall on ‘The Hummingbird Effect’
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Kate Mildenhall is a Melbourne-based writer whose first book, Skylarking, was longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize and Indie Book Awards. Her second novel was the widely lauded The Mother Fault. Her latest, The...
Local authors affected by late cancellation of Asian American Literature Festival
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
A delegation of 10 Australian and New Zealand writers that were due to attend the Asian American Literature Festival in the United States in August have been informed the event...
Inaugural UK BookTok awards shortlists announced
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
In the UK, the shortlists for the inaugural TikTok Book Awards UK and Ireland have been announced, reports the Bookseller. In contention for BookTok book of the year are Honey...
Hore wins inaugural Marilyn Lake Prize
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Academic Jarrod Hore has won the inaugural $2000 Marilyn Lake Prize for Australian Transnational History for Visions of Nature: How landscape photography shaped settler colonialism (University of California Press). Judges...
Waterstones debut fiction prize shortlist announced
Monday, 17 July 2023
In the UK, the shortlist for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, worth £5000 (A$9570), has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The six titles shortlisted for the award are: Wandering Souls...
UQP acquires creative nonfiction work by Holland-Batt
Monday, 17 July 2023
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to an as yet untitled 'brave, moving work' of creative nonfiction from Stella Prize winner Sarah Holland-Batt, from Clare Forster...
National Biography Award 2023 shortlist announced
Monday, 17 July 2023
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the $25,000 National Biography Award. The shortlisted works, selected from 94 entries, are: Unknown: A refugee’s story...
New report finds mixed trends for international book sales
Friday, 14 July 2023
A new report published by the European and International Booksellers Federation presents a global overview of the bookselling markets in 2022, reports Publishers Weekly. The report is based on reporting...
Pantera acquires Daddo nonfiction book on confidence
Friday, 14 July 2023
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to a nonfiction book by actor, presenter and singer-songwriter Cameron Daddo via Cathy Baker at CMC Talent Management. Part memoir and part roadmap to...
‘Paper Cage’ sells to UK, US
Thursday, 13 July 2023
Rights to Michael Gifkins Prize-winning novel Paper Cage (Tom Baragwanath, Text) have been sold to the US and UK, reports the Bookseller. In the UK the book will be published...
US publishers lose export sales over Amazon policy change
Thursday, 13 July 2023
In the US, several publishers have told Publishers Weekly (PW) that a change in Amazon’s sourcing policy has raised costs and led to lost sales in European markets. Until recently,...
Isolde Martyn & Robyn Ridgeway on ‘Country Town’
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Historian and novelist Isolde Martyn and First Nations author Robyn Ridgeway have collaborated on a history of an imagined Australian country town, decade-by-decade from 1922 to the present day, illustrated...
Lonely Planet’s ‘blue spine’ guidebooks reimagined as publisher celebrates 50 years
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
As the travel category recovers from its pandemic low-point, Lonely Planet is celebrating 50 years. The publisher's senior director, trade sales & marketing Chris Zeiher talks to Books+Publishing about the...
Murdoch appointed PANZ president
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
The Publishers Association of New Zealand/Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) has appointed a new president and vice president and two new council members at its annual general meeting. Penguin Random...
Harlequin to introduce TikTok-inspired imprint
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
In the US, Harlequin will launch a new imprint, Afterglow Books, reports Publishers Weekly. Harlequin said the imprint will ‘build upon the popularity of TikTok's #spicytok content’, and target contemporary...
Affirm signs Tuohy memoir
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a memoir by AFL Geelong Cats defender Zach Tuohy, to be co-written by ABC sports journalist Catherine Murphy. Tuohy, who has played 120...
Groom appointed Writing NSW CEO
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Writing NSW has announced the appointment of Sophie Groom as CEO, replacing Jane McCredie who announced earlier this year that she would be leaving the organisation in July. Groom's experience...
US book sales down 2.7% YTD
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
In the US, book sales in the first half of the year were down 2.7% compared to the same period last year according to data from Circana BookScan, reports Publishers...
Hachette withdraws memoir after police raise concerns about accuracy
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
The memoir Special Operations Group by retired former member of the Victoria Police Special Operations Group (SOG) Christophe Glasl has been withdrawn from publication by Hachette Australia after Victoria Police raised...
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