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Naoum launches consulting business, Critical Mass

Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Former Momentum publisher Joel Naoum has launched Critical Mass, a consulting business for authors, publishers and content producers. Naoum, who left Momentum in February after Pan Macmillan decided to scale...

Bain to step down as UQP CEO in November 

Wednesday, 13 July 2016
University of Queensland Press (UQP) CEO Greg Bain will step down in November after 14 years in the role. The publisher said Bain had ‘successfully navigated UQP through unprecedented changes...

NYWF announces first author line-up for 2016 program

Tuesday, 12 July 2016
The National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF) has announced its first line-up of artists for its 2016 program, which runs in Newcastle from 29 September to 2 October. The writers announced include Omar Musa,...

Jolly to retire as Scholastic chairman

Tuesday, 12 July 2016
Scholastic International and Scholastic Australia chairman Ken Jolly has announced his retirement after 46 years with the publisher. Jolly joined the then H J Ashton Company in 1970 as a...

UWA Publishing establishes poetry imprint

Friday, 8 July 2016
UWA Publishing has established a new poetry imprint, UWAP Poetry, in response to ‘a threefold increase in submissions from highly established and new voices alike’. The imprint will allow the...

‘Mannix’ wins ALS Gold Medal 2016

Mannix cover Friday, 8 July 2016
Brenda Niall’s Mannix (Text), a biography of the former Archbishop of Melbourne Daniel Mannix, has won the 2016 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal. Niall’s book was chosen from a...

Over 100 guests attend PANZ international conference 

Thursday, 7 July 2016
Over 100 delegates attended the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) International Conference 2016, which ran in Auckland from 30 June to 1 July. The conference, which ran under the...

Henson joins SLV

Thursday, 7 July 2016
Rebecca Henson has been appointed reading and literacy development manager at the State Library of Victoria, responsible for the library’s children’s and family programs and the Centre for Youth Literature...

WA Premier’s Book Awards 2016 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 6 July 2016
The shortlists for the biennial WA Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Fever of Animals (Miles Allinson, Scribe) Clade (James Bradley, Hamish...

Debut novel ‘Man in the Corner’ optioned for film

Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Film producers Simon Baker and Rebecca Rigg have optioned the film rights to Australian writer Nathan Besser’s debut novel Man in the Corner (Vintage), ahead of its publication on 1...

WORD Christchurch 2016 program announced

Wednesday, 6 July 2016
The program for the 2016 WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival, which runs from 24-28 August, has been announced. Among the international guests attending this year’s festival, which embraces the...

National Biography Award 2016 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 5 July 2016
The State Library of NSW has announced the shortlist for the 2016 National Biography Award for biographical writing and memoir. The shortlisted titles are:  Battarbee and Namatjira (Martin Edmond, Giramondo) Comrade...

Howard appointed DWF director

Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Writer and critic Jane Howard has been appointed as Digital Writers’ Festival director. Howard has worked with numerous Adelaide-based arts organisations, been commissioned for work by the Lifted Brow and...

MWF international authors announced

Tuesday, 5 July 2016
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced the first of its international authors who will appear at the 2016 festival, which runs from 26 August to 4 September. The line-up...

Film rights to Australian YA debut sold to US producers

Krystal Sutherland Monday, 4 July 2016
US film production company Awesomeness Films has acquired film rights to Townsville author Krystal Sutherland’s forthcoming debut YA novel Our Chemical Hearts (Penguin). The book, which will be simultaneously published...

Lonely Planet opens new headquarters

Friday, 1 July 2016
Lonely Planet’s new headquarters in the inner-city suburb of Carlton, Melbourne opened this week. The offices are across levels two and three of The Malt Store building, the former Carlton...

Publishers selected for SPN mentorship program

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Eight small publishers based in Victoria have been selected for the Small Press Network’s (SPN) mentorship program. The publishers are: Celapene Press, Empowering Resources, Monash University Publishing, Miscellaneous Press, Three...

‘Letters to Tiptree’ wins Locus Award

Letters to Tiptree Wednesday, 29 June 2016
An anthology by Australian speculative-fiction publisher Twelfth Planet Press has won a 2016 Locus Award for science-fiction and fantasy, announced at a ceremony in Seattle, US, on 25 June. Letters...

Ex MUP and Black Inc. publicists form PR agency

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
A new PR agency has been launched by former Melbourne University Publishing publicists Terri King and Dina Kluska and former Black Inc. publicist Anna Lensky. Pitch Projects ‘specialises in publicity,...

‘The Pearl Frontier’ wins NT History Book Award

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Julia Martinez and Adrian Vickers have won the 2016 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award for their book The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern...

 

 

 

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