SWF 2024 program released, Needham wins MUD Literary Prize, International Booker Prize longlist announced
Date: 13 March 2024Category: This week’s news
Over the past week, the program for the 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival was announced, featuring international guests including Bonnie Garmus, Ann Patchett, Michael Connelly and Celeste Ng, and local guests... Read more
How to Avoid a Happy Life (Julia Lawrinson, Fremantle)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Reviews
How to Avoid a Happy Life is a lively memoir by Julia Lawrinson (Losing It), the author of over 15 books for young people. This memoir takes readers through a lifetime of sad and... Read more
Shankari Chandran on ‘Safe Haven’
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Features Interview
Australian Tamil lawyer and author Shankari Chandran, who won the 2023 Miles Franklin Award for her novel Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Ultimo), returns with her fourth novel, Safe Haven (Ultimo,... Read more
Safe Haven (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Reviews
Miles Franklin–winning author Shankari Chandran turns her focus to Australia’s inhumane practice of mandatory detention in her fourth novel, Safe Haven. As in Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, a focal... Read more
To Sing of War (Catherine McKinnon, HarperCollins)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Reviews
From Miles Franklin–shortlisted author Catherine McKinnon (Storyland), To Sing of War confronts the interconnectedness that binds humanity. Against the backdrop of WWII, we find ourselves immersed in the jungles of... Read more
Sort Of Books acquires UK rights to De Kretser novel
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
UK independent publisher Sort Of Books has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to Michelle de Kretser’s forthcoming novel Theory & Practice, via Sarah Lutyens at Lutyens & Rubenstein.... Read more
Needham wins 2024 MUD Literary Prize
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Awards Local news News
Kylie Needham has been announced as the winner of the 2024 MUD Literary Prize, at an event at the Adelaide Festival, for her novel Girl in a Pink Dress (Hamish... Read more
International Booker Prize 2024 longlist
Date: 12 March 2024Category:
The longlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$96,900), has been announced. The titles in the running for this year’s prize are: Crooked Plow (Itamar Vieira Junior, trans... Read more
Zhan receives 2024 Kat Muscat Fellowship
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Awards Local news News
Express Media and the Kat Muscat Fellowship Committee have announced that Xiaole Zhan is the recipient of the 2024 Kat Muscat Fellowship. Selected from a shortlist of six announced last... Read more
Penguin Literary Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 7 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Penguin Literary Prize. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘What Is Left for Us’ by Sophie Stern (Sydney, NSW)—When Rebecca... Read more
Aotearoa publishers receive audiobook funding
Date: 7 March 2024Category: Local news
The successful recipients of the second round of funding in the Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture & Heritage audiobook publishing seed program in Aotearoa New Zealand have been announced by... Read more
Rights round-up
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold UK/Commonwealth (ex India, Canada, ANZ) rights to The Shortest History of Music (Andrew Ford) to Old Street; and Ethiopian (Amharic trans) rights to Their... Read more
Ockham 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Awards
The shortlists for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. Chosen from longlists announced earlier this year, the shortlisted titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn... Read more
Grenville longlisted for 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Awards
In the UK, the longlist for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. Local author Kate Grenville has been longlisted for Restless Dolly Maunder (Text). The longlisted titles... Read more
Amazon ebook anticompetition lawsuit to proceed
Date: 6 March 2024Category: International news News
In the US, a federal judge has formally adopted a magistrate judge’s recommendation that a consumer class action against Amazon for anticompetitive conduct in relation to the ebook market be... Read more
Stella longlist, gender pay gaps in publishing and bookselling, Booktopia revenue and profit down
Date: 6 March 2024Category: This week’s news
Country (Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson, illus Cheryl Davison, Wild Dog)
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Reviews
The Apprentice Witnesser (Bren MacDibble, A&U Children’s)
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Reviews
Ultimo acquires Khurana’s ‘The Passenger Seat’
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
Gender pay gaps revealed for large Australian booksellers
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Local news
Stella Prize 2024 longlist announced
Date: 4 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Spotify adds audiobook-only subscription offer
Date: 4 March 2024Category: International news
T&H announces sales and marketing staff changes
Date: 4 March 2024Category: Local news
Booktopia half-year revenue down 21%; profit down 34%
Date: 4 March 2024Category: Local news
Kat Muscat Fellowship 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 29 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards dates announced
Date: 29 February 2024Category: Local news News
Gender pay gaps revealed for larger Australian publishers
Date: 29 February 2024Category: Local news
Reti resigns from MWF board over program
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Local news
Rights round-up
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Rights round-up
Vale Marion Halligan
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Obituaries
Daisley on Walter Scott longlist; Forge promoted at A&U; Overland, Island prize winners
Date: 28 February 2024Category: This week’s news
The Work (Bri Lee, A&U)
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Bri Lee on ‘The Work’
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Features Interview
Tree (Claire Saxby, illus Jess Racklyeft, A&U Children’s)
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Sanctuary (Garry Disher, Text)
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Deep Water (James Bradley, Hamish Hamilton)
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Conversation launches books and ideas newsletter
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Local news
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing acquires Rossell middle-grade novel
Date: 26 February 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
HG Explore acquires Mayo’s Always Was, Always Will Be
Date: 26 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
PRH to turn Grantham facility into new hub for PRH US in Europe
Date: 26 February 2024Category: International news
Brooks wins 2023 Judith Wright Poetry Prize
Date: 26 February 2024Category: Awards Local news News
Zhang wins 2023 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize
Date: 26 February 2024Category: Awards Local news News
Affirm Press sells screen rights to Funny Ethnics
Date: 22 February 2024Category: Rights and acquisitions
The Heart Is a Star screen option sold to Aquarius Films
Date: 22 February 2024Category: Rights and acquisitions
Rowland joins Booksellers Aotearoa NZ
Date: 21 February 2024Category: Moves/personnel
Rights round-up
Date: 21 February 2024Category: Rights round-up
Can ChatGPT edit fiction? Four editors put it to the test
Date: 21 February 2024Category: Features
Perth Writers Weekend programming remains unchanged, despite open letter
Date: 21 February 2024Category:
Kroetsch appointed Writers SA CEO, Cultural Fund grants for literary orgs, Funder on inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction longlist
Date: 21 February 2024Category: This week’s news
Canberra Writers Festival moves to October
Date: 21 February 2024Category:
Deep Is the Fen (Lili Wilkinson, A&U Children’s)
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Frog Squad: Dessert Disaster (Kate Temple & Jol Temple, illus Shiloh Gordon, HarperCollins)
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
UQP acquires Behrendt novel
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Kroetsch appointed Writers SA CEO
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Local news News
Glasgow Worldcon chair promises transparency following Hugo censorship
Date: 19 February 2024Category: International news
Rodrick wins inaugural Pearl Prize
Date: 19 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
DANZ Children’s Book Award shortlists announced
Date: 15 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Blak & Bright Festival 2024 program announced
Date: 15 February 2024Category: Local news
B&N plans to open five stores in Chicago angers Volumes
Date: 15 February 2024Category: International news
Graham longlisted for Carnegie Medal for Illustration
Date: 14 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Booktopia results down, Ena Noël shortlists, rural and regional writers’ festivals
Date: 14 February 2024Category: This week’s news
Stuart Kells on ‘Alice™’
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Features Interview
Pidge’s Poppies (Jan Andrews, illus Timothy Ide, Ford St)
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Abadee, Barnes, Mayo join Indigenous Literacy Foundation board
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Local news
Spears memoir most listened to as Spotify pays publishers ‘tens of millions’
Date: 13 February 2024Category: International news
Bundyi acquires Stan Grant memoir
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Rights and acquisitions
Ena Noël Award 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 12 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Affirm acquires Micallef anthology
Date: 12 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 12 February 2024Category: Awards International news
How international markets performed in 2023
Date: 7 February 2024Category: Features
Rippin appointed Australian Children’s Laureate 2024–25
Date: 7 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Yee wins at VPLAs, Vivendi plans to put Hachette on stock market, moves at Scribe and Ultimo
Date: 7 February 2024Category: This week’s news
Hamilton to leave Writers Victoria
Date: 7 February 2024Category: Local news
Rights round-up
Date: 7 February 2024Category: Rights round-up
Indigo considers offer to take chain private
Date: 7 February 2024Category: International news
Vallance promoted to CYA publisher at UQP
Date: 7 February 2024Category: Local news News
Larrikin acquires Betoota Advocate series
Date: 7 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Seed to Sky: Life in the Daintree (Pamela Freeman, illus Liz Anelli, Walker)
Date: 6 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Pheasants Nest (Louise Milligan, A&U)
Date: 6 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Fellowship prize added to City of Fremantle Hungerford Award
Date: 6 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Johnstons ‘positive about the future of Hill of Content’ in Melbourne
Date: 5 February 2024Category: Local news
McKenzie wins Victorian Premier’s History Award
Date: 5 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Gumnior joins Scribe
Date: 5 February 2024Category: Local news
Judith Wright Poetry Prize shortlist announced
Date: 5 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Craig leaves Ultimo
Date: 5 February 2024Category: Local news
Vivendi considers plans to put Hachette on stock market
Date: 5 February 2024Category: International news Local news
Yee wins 2024 Victorian Prize for Literature at VPLAs
Date: 2 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Ockham 2024 longlists announced
Date: 1 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
APA to join Attorney-General’s AI reference group
Date: 1 February 2024Category: Local news
APA releases diversity and inclusion plan
Date: 1 February 2024Category:
Romantasy, audio and b-format: Bookseller and publisher predictions for 2024
Date: 31 January 2024Category: Features
Publishers on Christmas 2023: Black Friday changes buying patterns as fiction holds strong
Date: 31 January 2024Category: Features
Rights round-up
Date: 31 January 2024Category: Rights round-up
Hardie Grant moves distribution to TDLC; authors receive Australia Day honours; Horman, Robinsons Books apologise for X comments
Date: 31 January 2024Category: This week’s news
Inaugural Nero Book Award category winners announced
Date: 31 January 2024Category: International news
Neil joins Monash University Publishing
Date: 31 January 2024Category: Moves/personnel
Joy Moody Is Out of Time (Kerryn Mayne, Bantam)
Date: 30 January 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Kin: Family in the 21st century (Marina Kamenev, NewSouth)
Date: 30 January 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
To The River (Vikki Wakefield, Text)
Date: 30 January 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews