Wednesday, 24 August 2022
The Children’s Book Council of Australia has announced the winners of the 2022 Book of the Year Awards; Booktopia founder Tony Nash has notified the company of his intention to...

Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Late last week Bernadette Brennan won the 2022 National Biography Award for Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears (A&U), while the State Library of NSW announced the shortlists for...

Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Opus Group has confirmed that Griffin Press will cease its print on demand services; Publishers Association of NZ/TeRau o Tākupu have reported that its trade publishers’ revenue grew 0.8% last...

Wednesday, 3 August 2022
The shortlists for the Age Book of the Year 2022, which this year includes a nonfiction category, and the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize have been announced, while the longlist...

Wednesday, 27 July 2022
Jennifer Down has won the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her second novel Bodies of Light; Hachette Australia has appointed Scott Henderson as senior nonfiction publisher, starting 1 September;...

Wednesday, 20 July 2022
The board of Booktopia Group has given founder and CEO Tony Nash notice to step away from executive management, appointing current CFO Geoff Stalley as interim CEO. The State Library...

Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Australian publishers will be attending this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair in person, with publishers either taking part in the Australian Publishers Association stand or attending independently. In bookshop news, author...

Wednesday, 6 July 2022
The Australia Council has announced the rights sellers, literary agents and publishers to take part in the 2022 New York Publishers’ Program, as well as the recipients of the Translation...

Wednesday, 29 June 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award was announced in the past week, as well as the winners of the 2022 Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards. Melbourne Writers...

Wednesday, 22 June 2022
John Hughes’ novel The Dogs (Upswell) has been removed from the Miles Franklin longlist following instances of plagiarism found by the Guardian, which has since uncovered further examples, while Upswell...

Thursday, 16 June 2022
Affirm Press has announced the launch of its own national sales team which will be fully operational from January 2023, while the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has reported its members...

Wednesday, 8 June 2022
In news from the past week, the winners of this year’s Australian Book Design Awards have been announced, along with the shortlists for the 2022 NZ Book Awards for Children...

Tuesday, 31 May 2022
To celebrate its centenary, Collins Booksellers has established the Australian Political Book of the Year Award, a new literary prize worth $10,000. Meanwhile, the Australian Library and Information Association has...

Wednesday, 25 May 2022
This week, the longlist for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award was revealed. Simon & Schuster Australia has appointed Ace Mamun as marketing and publicity director, replacing Anabel Pandiella; the...

Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Australia Reads has announced its annual flagship event the Australian Reading Hour, which runs in September, will not take place this year, and will instead moves to March from next...

Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Booktopia has announced co-founder Tony Nash will step down as CEO, but continue working within the company in a new position focused exclusively on growth, as company earnings fell 65%....

Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Evelyn Araluen has won the 2022 Stella Prize for Dropbear (UQP), the first time a poetry collection has won the award after it opened to works of poetry this year;...

Thursday, 28 April 2022
In awards news, the Australian Booksellers Association announced the shortlists for the 2022 Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards; local writers Sarah Walker, Eleanor Kirk and Shelley Burne-Field are...

Thursday, 21 April 2022
This week, the Australian Book Designers Association announced the shortlists for the 70th Australian Book Design Awards; the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies announced the recipients of its inaugural Writing...

Wednesday, 13 April 2022
Australian publishers who attended the 2022 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which wrapped up on 24 March, reported a 'phenomenal' fair; The Lifted Brow has announced a new board with plans...

Wednesday, 6 April 2022
The London Book Fair, which runs this week, sees several Australian publishers attending in person after more than two years of attending rights fairs virtually, while Canberra Writers Festival has...

Wednesday, 30 March 2022
WestWords and Ultimo Press have partnered to offer a new prize for emerging writers ‘with a connection to Western Sydney’; Scribe children’s imprint Scribble and Sydney-based Think+DO Tank Foundation have...

Wednesday, 23 March 2022
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the 2022 program for its conference, to be held in person 12–13 June at the Sheraton Grand Hyde Park in Sydney, while Perth...

Thursday, 17 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors, the Australian Short Story Festival and the Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival are among the latest and final recipients of the Restart Investment to...

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The results of the 2019/2020 Stella Count have revealed gender parity has been achieved for the first time since the count began in 2012. Meanwhile, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation has...

Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Five Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand publishers have been shortlisted for the 2022 Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the Oceania category, with the winner to...

Wednesday, 16 February 2022
In this week’s news, the ABA has commissioned a report on sustainability in the book industry, to be produced by freelance editor Angela Meyer. The ABA has also announced a...

Wednesday, 9 February 2022
The winners of the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced, including Veronica Gorrie who took out the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for Black and Blue: A memoir...