‘RecipeTin Eats: Dinner’ wins 2023 ABIA book of the year
Thursday, 25 May 2023
The winners of the 2023 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. In the business awards, Allen & Unwin won publisher of the year while the University of Queensland...
Caffè Nero to fund major new UK book awards
Thursday, 25 May 2023
In the UK, coffee chain Caffè Nero has launched a new set of book awards, worth a total of £50,000 (A$94,500), a year after Costa Coffee announced the end of...
Hachette makes Commitment to Professional Behaviour in Publishing
Thursday, 25 May 2023
Hachette Australia has released a Commitment to Professional Behaviour in Publishing, which is adapted from the British version established by industry groups the Association of Authors’ Agents, the Booksellers Association,...
Audiobook platform Libro.fm to launch locally in July
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
The US-based digital audiobook platform Libro.fm, which partners with independent bookshops, has announced it will launch in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand in July. Co-founder and CEO Mark Pearson...
Alice Wood on HarperCollins’s ABIA-shortlisted marketing campaigns
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
HarperCollins, under head of marketing communications Alice Wood, has received three of the five nominations for the inaugural Marketing Strategy of the Year award in this year's Australian Book Industry...
Gospodinov, Rodel win 2023 International Booker
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
The novel Time Shelter by Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, has won the £50,000 (A$93,900) International Booker Prize. Time Shelter was chosen...
Pantera sells Kinky History in six-figure pre-empt
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Pantera Press has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to Kinky History by Esmé Louise James to Nina Shield at TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in a 'significant...
Dank wins record four awards in 2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
The winners of the 2023 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Debra Dank's We Come With This Place (Echo) has taken out a record four awards, including...
TikTok to launch new book awards
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
Social media platform TikTok is launching its own book awards for the UK and Ireland, aiming to celebrate ‘titles, authors, content and creators of BookTok’, reports the Bookseller. The awards...
HarperCollins acquires Hayes memoir
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to I’m Liz Hayes, the memoir of broadcast journalist Liz Hayes. Hayes has spent over 40 years as a reporter and presenter for Nine Entertainment,...
2023 First Nations Writers Festival to be held in Townsville
Monday, 22 May 2023
The First Nations Writers Festival, featuring First Nations writers of the greater Pacific region, will take place in Townsville from 26–27 May. Among the featured writers are Julie Janson, author...
Davies awarded 2023 Janet Mackenzie Medal
Monday, 22 May 2023
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Kerry Davies as the winner of the 2023 Janet Mackenzie Medal for services to editing. Davies has worked in publishing and communications since...
UQP acquires Metcalfe debut memoir
Monday, 22 May 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to the debut memoir Breath by Carly-Jay Metcalfe, via Jeanne Ryckmans of Cameron’s Management. Breath was the winner of the 2022...
Carmichael, Gibson, Haddad named SMH Best Young Australian Novelists 2023
Friday, 19 May 2023
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has announced the Best Young Australian Novelists for 2023. The writers and their novels are: Jay Carmichael for Marlo (Scribe) Katerina Gibson for Women I Know (Scribner) George...
Emerging Writers Festival 2023 program launched
Friday, 19 May 2023
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) has launched its 20th anniversary program for 14–24 June, featuring nearly 200 artists in over 60 events in various locations across Melbourne. The opening night...
Hachette acquires nonfiction from Schlegl, Qin via Law partnership
Friday, 19 May 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired two nonfiction titles via its publishing scout partnership with Australian screenwriter, author and broadcaster Benjamin Law. Adult nonfiction publisher Sophie Hamley acquired ANZ, UK and Commonwealth...
Ockham NZ Book Awards 2023 winners announced
Thursday, 18 May 2023
The winners of the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The fiction prize went to Catherine Chidgey for The Axeman’s Carnival (Te Herenga Waka University Press), a...
ASA survey: authors, illustrators concerned about publisher use of AI
Thursday, 18 May 2023
A survey of over 200 authors and illustrators by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has found the majority of respondents (74%) expressed significant concern about the threat of generative...
McInnes wins 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Pacific category
Thursday, 18 May 2023
Aotearoa New Zealand author Himali McInnes has won the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Pacific region for her story ‘Kilinochchi’, about a mother who leaves her adopted country...
Davis to retire from Hardie Grant
Thursday, 18 May 2023
Hardie Grant has announced chief operating officer (COO) Andrew Davis will retire at the end of this financial year, ending 'an enormously successful and distinguished career'. Davis joined Hardie Grant...
The Speedy Sloth to be read for NSS at new Sydney Zoo
Thursday, 18 May 2023
The Speedy Sloth (Rebecca Young, illus by Heath McKenzie, Scholastic) will be read for the 23rd National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) event at 11am (AEST) on Wednesday, 24 May 2023, with...
PRH, Pen America file suit over Florida book bans
Thursday, 18 May 2023
In the US, Penguin Random House (PRH), together with PEN America, a group of authors and a group of parents, have filed a federal lawsuit against a Florida school district...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023 longlist announced
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
The longlist for the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The 11 longlisted novels are: Hopeless Kingdom (Kgshak Akec, UWAP) Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Cold Enough...
Echo acquires Thomas debut murder mystery
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to Paul Thomas’s debut murder mystery The Beacon, as part of a two-book deal, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. With a career as...
Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, part two
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
In part two of an edited extract from their paper Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, delivered at this year's IPEd conference, Louise Merrington AE and Tanja Gardner share the...
Puncher & Wattmann acquires Dimitriadis’s ‘The Mother Must Die’
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
Puncher & Wattmann (P&W) has acquired ANZ rights to debut short story collection The Mother Must Die by Koraly Dimitriadis via the author. Dimitriadis, a Melbourne-based bestselling poet who self-published her poetry...
BookPeople 2023 Bookseller of the Year shortlists announced
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
BookPeople has announced the shortlists for its 2023 Bookseller of the Year awards. The awards recognise an individual bookseller for their outstanding achievement in the past 12 months, with the...
WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: The Western Australian Writer's Fellowship ($60,000) Carolyn Wadley Dowley Madison...
‘Menopausing’ wins Book of the Year at the British Book Awards
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Davina McCall and Naomi Potter’s Menopausing (HQ) has won book of the year at the British Book Awards, reports the Bookseller. McCall and Potter’s book, which also won the nonfiction lifestyle and...
ALS Gold Medal 2023 longlist announced
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
The longlist for the 2023 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The longlisted works are: Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au, Giramondo) Daisy...
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