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The University of Western Australia (UWA) has announced its publishing arm will open for submissions from May, following UWA Publishing’s (UWAP) shift to a hybrid... Read more |
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Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a middle-grade series by Kate Temple. The first book in the series of the same name, The Dangerous... Read more |
The program for this year’s Australian Booksellers Association conference, to be held in person and online from 20–22 June at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, has been announced.
In awards news, Penny Tangey’s middle-grade novel As Fast as I Can (UQP) has won the 2021 Readings Children’s Book Prize. Arnold Zable has been honoured with the Australia Council’s Lifetime Achievement in Literature, while this year’s ABIA business awards shortlists and the inductees into the ABIA Hall of Fame have been announced. Four Australians and one New Zealander are among the finalists for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the recipient of the Creative NZ Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary was announced this week.
Overseas, this year’s London Book Fair will run as digital-only event, the organisers of the Rathbones Folio Prize revealed they lost £30,000 prize money to a cyber scam, and the shortlist for the 2021 Jhalak Prize for BAME writers was announced.
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Each year Vision Australia runs a 12-month graduate program for graduates who are blind or who have low vision, with a component of the program... Read more |
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The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than... Read more |
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Lisa Emanuel’s 2019 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award–shortlisted debut The Covered Wife (Pantera, June) centres on Sarah, a lawyer whose new relationship leads to... Read more |
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Sales Children’s Berbay Publishing has sold complex Chinese rights to Sneaky Shadows (S C Manchild, illus by Sam Caldwell) to Sharp Point (Taiwan) and Korean... Read more |
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After four consecutive weeks in the top spot, Bluey: Easter Fun! has fallen out of the top 10 bestsellers chart entirely, making way for the latest Dog... Read more |
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When young lawyer Sarah meets the smart, handsome Daniel, the attraction is instant. Influenced by the charismatic Rabbi Menachem Lev and his wife Chani, who... Read more |
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Brendan James Murray is a full-time high school English teacher and an award-winning writer. His new nonfiction work The School chronicles a year in his... Read more |
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Campbell Mattinson’s We Were Not Men charts the story of twin brothers Jon and Eden in an episodic exploration of male kinship. Told from Jon’s perspective,... Read more |
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Combining their expertise in and passion for botanical work, wild landscapes and the culture of the Top End bush, authors Diane Lucas and Ben Tyler... Read more |
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Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine.... Read more |
Global Publishers Group representing sales, marketing and distribution of Red Wheel/Weiser announces it has appointed NewSouth Books to manage sales, marketing, and distribution for Red Wheel/Weiser in Australia effective 1 May 2021.
Red Wheel/Weiser imprints previously purchased from Brumby Sunstate will not be accepted by Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) for return.
From 1 May 2021, all orders for Red Wheel/Weiser should be sent to ADS (adscs@alliancedist.com.au). Please see your NewSouth Books account manager for further information.
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