ABDA shortlists, FALS inaugural residency recipients, Waterstones profits down Archive
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...
Publishers report ‘phenomenal’ Bologna fair; ‘Crawdads’ tops Dymocks list; Petraitis wins A&U Crime Fiction Prize Archive
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...
Stella Prize, CBCA, NSW Prem’s shortlists Archive
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...
ABIA 2022 longlist, Puncher & Wattmann acquires ‘Grimmish’, SWF 2022 program Archive
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...
Williams to leave SWF, Perth Writers Weekend 2022 wrap, Manga and adult fiction drive 2021 sales Archive
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...
Penguin Literary Prize shortlist, floods devastate Lismore Library and Book Warehouse, ABDA longlists Archive
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...
Stella Count results, ILF moves to Hachette offices, Varuna First Nations Fellowship recipients Archive
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...
Stella Prize longlist, Booktopia profits drop, appointments at Welbeck and Byron Writer’s Festival Archive
Wednesday, 2 March 2022
In this week’s news, Welbeck ANZ has appointed Gareth Woods-Jack and Zoe Knowles to its sales, marketing and publicity team as head of sales and marketing executive, respectively. Meanwhile, Zoe...
Cassim joins ILF, ANZ publishers shortlisted for Bologna Prize, S&S reports growth in revenue Archive
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...
ABA commissions report on sustainability, Hachette partners with Law, Liminal & SA and Sydney Opera House mentorship recipients Archive
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...
VPLA winners, Webb-Pullman appointed publisher, Blak & Bright full program Archive
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...
AWW 2022 program, new SA fellowship, WAYRBA, NBCC shortlists Archive
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
In this week’s news, Adelaide Writers’ Week has announced the full program for this year’s festival, with Bruce Pascoe, Grace Tame, Liane Moriarty and Richard Flanagan among the 165 guests...
BRTD enterprise agreement, ABA ICYMI campaign, Newbery, Caldecott winners Archive
Thursday, 27 January 2022
In news this week, following industrial action in November last year, workers and management at Sydney bookshop Better Read Than Dead have signed an enterprise agreement, which has been submitted...
New appointments at HarperCollins and Bloomsbury, Hazel Rowley shortlist Archive
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of Michelle Weisz as publishing director of HarperCollins Australia’s children’s books division. Weisz replaces Cristina Cappelluto, who has joined Bloomsbury Australia as managing director. The...
PMLA winners, ACCC lodges case against Booktopia Archive
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Late last year, the winners of the 2021 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced. Amanda Lohrey, who won the fiction prize for her novel The Labyrinth, was also named the...
Paterson to lead Atlantic Books Australia, VPLAs shortlists Archive
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Pan Macmillan publishing director Cate Paterson is leaving the company to lead Atlantic Book Australia, a new division of Allen & Unwin. In other moves news, Louise Adler will leave...
Engaged readers driving book sales, latest awards news Archive
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
A new survey by Australia Reads has found that engaged readers were driving the growth in book sales during the pandemic. In other news, ADS has announced it is working...
NZ book sales up, National Book Award winners Archive
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Since Auckland and Waikato emerged from lockdown, New Zealand print book sales are up 4% on value on the same time in 2020, while year-to-date sales are up 17%. The...
Supply chain chaos, Melbourne Prize for Literature winners Archive
Wednesday, 17 November 2021
Booksellers on Australia’s east coast are reporting serious delivery delays, missing deliveries and damaged stock, with reports that the problems are particularly acute in Queensland. The ABA will hold its...
Jordan wins Richell Prize, ‘The Promise’ wins 2021 Booker Prize Archive
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
This week the Australian Society of Authors alerted authors and publishers that the decision by the National Library of New Zealand to donate more than 400,000 books to the Internet...
Parliamentary inquiry into the arts, US DoJ seeks to block PRH, S&S deal Archive
Thursday, 4 November 2021
A parliamentary inquiry has made a slate of recommendations to support Australia’s cultural and creative industries, including a review of PLR/ELR schemes, minimum thresholds of local content and increased funding...
Record-breaking week for book sales, PMLAs shortlists Archive
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Australian book sales for the week ending 16 October broke the 10-year average BookScan weekly sales record for this time of year, as New South Wales booksellers were finally able...
Laguna wins Colin Roderick Literary Award, new paid internship recipients Archive
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Sofie Laguna has won the $20,000 Colin Roderick Literary Award and the H T Priestley Medal for her novel Infinite Splendours (A&U), while the Australia Council released the long-awaited results of...
Agius to head Welbeck ANZ, NSW bookstores reopen Archive
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Bernadette Agius has been named as the inaugural managing director of Welbeck ANZ, while Juliet Rogers has been appointed managing director of Echo Publishing. After a long lockdown, retail in...
Canberra Writers Festival cancelled, Open Book internship pilot to run in 2022 Archive
Wednesday, 6 October 2021
After an initial postponement, the Canberra Writers Festival has announced the event will not go ahead in 2021, due to ongoing Covid outbreaks in the ACT. Open Book, a new...
New Readings shop, McKay wins Arthur C Clarke Award Archive
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Melbourne bookseller Readings will open a new shop—the chain’s eighth—in the Emporium shopping complex in the Melbourne CBD. In other retail news, performing arts specialist Book Nook has been saved...
Love Your Bookshop Day, Varuna Residential Fellowships Archive
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
The Australian Booksellers Association has announced details about this year’s Love Your Bookshop Day celebrations on 9 October, which will take place online ‘so that everyone can engage from wherever...
New distribution centre for Booktopia, QLA winners Archive
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Booktopia has secured a new warehousing and distribution space in Sydney’s South West, with the facility to provide increased capacity in time for Christmas. The program for the inaugural Ubud...
RISE funding for Australia Reads, latest awards Archive
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
The Australia Reads campaign and ALIA’s Online Storytime initiative are among the latest recipients of the federal government’s RISE funding. A new bookshop, The Chestnut Tree, has opened in Melbourne’s...
Booktopia yearly results, latest award winners Archive
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Booktopia has posted revenue growth of 35% and a 125% rise in profit for the 2021 financial year—its first full year results as an ASX-listed company. In other news, Brisbane Writers Festival...
