Australian authors on Daggers shortlist
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
In the UK, the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced the shortlists for its Dagger Awards. Authors from Australia are among those shortlisted for the annual crime writing awards. Hayley...
NewSouth acquires Kean science book
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
NewSouth has acquired world rights to science writer Zoe Kean’s popular science title Why are we like this? What can scuba diving at Shark Bay uncover about the evolution of...
Prize money increase for Aus Political Book of the Year
Monday, 15 May 2023
The prize money for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award has increased in its second year to $15,000 for the winner, with each shortlisted author to also receive...
Every Version of You optioned for film
Monday, 15 May 2023
Cognito Entertainment, a new independent film and television production company launched last week in the United States, has optioned Every Version of You (Grace Chan, Affirm) for adaptation into an international...
Anaxagorou wins Ondaatje prize
Monday, 15 May 2023
In the UK, British-Cypriot poet Anthony Anaxagorou has won the Royal Society of Literature’s (RSL) £10,000 (A$18,730) Ondaatje prize for his collection Heritage Aesthetics (Granta), reports the Guardian. Heritage Aesthetics...
Dunn appointed distribution director at ADS
Monday, 15 May 2023
Riikka Dunn has been appointed distribution director at Alliance Distribution Services (ADS). Dunn, who started at ADS on Monday, 8 May, joins the business from Ikea, where she gained experience...
Ifeakandu wins Dylan Thomas Prize
Friday, 12 May 2023
In the UK, Nigerian author Arinze Ifeakandu has been awarded the £20,000 (A$37,350) Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize for his debut God’s Children Are Little Broken Things (W&N). Judges praised the...
The Speechwriter wins Russell Prize for Humour Writing
Friday, 12 May 2023
Martin McKenzie-Murray’s 'savage, dark and uproariously funny’ satirical memoir The Speechwriter (Scribe) has won the $10,000 biennial Russell Prize for Humour Writing, Australia’s only humour writing prize. McKenzie-Murray’s fictional debut...
Reid, Ell win 2022 Anne Elder Award
Thursday, 11 May 2023
Australian Poetry has announced Harry Reid’s Leave Me Alone (Cordite Books) and Theodore Ell’s Beginning In Sight (RWP) as the joint winners of the 2022 Anne Elder Award for a first book...
George Robertson Award 2023 winners announced, changes to APA board
Thursday, 11 May 2023
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2023 George Robertson Awards, which recognises long and distinguished service to the publishing industry. The recipients are: Astrid Browne...
Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
In part one 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 outline the...
New Dawn sales and distribution to Affirm
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Perth-based publisher New Dawn Publishing has signed a sales and distribution agreement with Affirm Press. The publisher of speculative fiction was founded in September 2021 by Dylan Ingram with an...
First Nations storytellers in cultural exchange to Auckland Writers Festival
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Five local First Nations storytellers will travel as part of a cultural exchange delegation to Auckland Writers Festival, with the support of the Australia Council. Auckland Writers Festival, which runs...
TikTok owner flags move into publishing
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
TikTok owner ByteDance has filed a US trademark application for a book-publishing entity called 8th Note Press, reports Business Insider. The company has also begun recruiting staff for publishing roles,...
Winton, Berryman to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, publisher shortlists announced
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Author Tim Winton and HarperCollins children's publisher Lisa Berryman will be inducted into the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Hall of Fame at the 2023 ABIA awards ceremony on 25...
Pulitzer Prize winners announced
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
In the US, the winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. The Pulitzer Prize for fiction was jointly awarded to Hernan Diaz and Barbara Kingsolver for Trust (Picador)...
Hollier leaves MUP
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) CEO Nathan Hollier has left the publisher. MUP chair Warren Bebbington told Books+Publishing that Hollier had left the publishing house in March, with chief operating officer...
Fogarty Literary Award shortlist announced
Monday, 8 May 2023
Fremantle Press has announced the shortlist for the $20,000 Fogarty Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted manuscripts are: Katherine Allum for ‘The Skeleton House’ Prema Arasu for ‘The Anatomy of...
Michael Gifkins Prize 2023 shortlist announced
Monday, 8 May 2023
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) have announced the shortlist for the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished...
Dorothy Hewett 2023 shortlist announced
Monday, 8 May 2023
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives $10,000 prize money, as well as manuscript development and a...
PRH US reportedly offers redundancy to older works
Monday, 8 May 2023
Penguin Random House US (PRH) is offering redundancy packages to employees aged 60 or older with 15 years of service or more, reports Publishers Lunch. Eligible employees have until 20...
Mary Gilmore Award 2023 shortlist announced
Monday, 8 May 2023
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the shortlist for the annual Mary Gilmore Award for the best first book of poetry. The shortlisted collections are:...
A&U announces Fagan resignation
Friday, 5 May 2023
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced publisher Kelly Fagan has resigned and will be leaving the company. In its statement announcing Fagan's resignation A&U said: 'Kelly joined A&U in October...
Record quarter at S&S; sale could be made this year
Friday, 5 May 2023
In the US, Simon & Schuster (S&S) recorded a 17% and 85% jump in sales and earnings respectively in the first quarter of 2022, compared to the same period in...
Arnott, Mahood win Age Book of the Year awards
Friday, 5 May 2023
The winners of the 2023 Age Book of the Year Award have been announced. Robbie Arnott won the fiction award for Limberlost (Text) and Kim Mahood won the nonfiction prize for...
New Draper YA to Pan Mac, HarperTeen
Friday, 5 May 2023
Pan Macmillan Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a new YA novel by Lauren Draper via literary agent Annabel Barker, with world English rights (ex ANZ) going to HarperTeen US,...
Vallance wins 2023 Rosie Award
Thursday, 4 May 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) senior editor Cathy Vallance has won the Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as the Rosie, for her editorial work on Zana Fraillon’s middle-grade verse novel...
BookPeople gift card program, new research
Thursday, 4 May 2023
BookPeople launched its new gift cards program last month, selling both digital and physical cards which can be redeemed at BookPeople member bookshops and Collins and Dymocks shops across Australia....
Romance Writers of Australia Conference 2023 program announced
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
The Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) annual conference will be held in Sydney from 11–13 August at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth. Under the theme of ‘All That Glitters’, the program...
Upswell acquires Boland essay collection
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to Brooke Boland’s first collection of essays. Gulp, Swallow reflects on the uncertainty of identity in a young woman’s life, ‘when who we...
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