Nash joins Black Inc.
Former Pan Macmillan publicist Kate Nash has joined Black Inc. in the newly created role of head of marketing and publicity. Nash spent more than seven years at Pan Macmillan...
Black Inc. announces 2016 ‘Best Australian’ editors
Black Inc. has announced the editors for this year’s ‘Best Australian’ anthologies. Geordie Williamson will return as editor of The Best Australian Essays 2016. He will be joined by Charlotte...
From the Outer: Footy Like You’ve Never Heard It (ed by Alicia Sometimes & Nicole Hayes, Black Inc.)
For a pastime beloved by so many Australians, the loudest voices in the world of AFL are invariably straight, white and male. From the Outer provides a valuable contribution to...
Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead (Thornton McCamish, Black Inc.)
Journalist, war correspondent, minor novelist and major popular historian Alan Moorehead was one of the best-known expatriate Australians in the Western world. How is it that he is now almost...
Black Inc. relocates office
Black Inc. is relocating its offices on 14 December 2015. The new contact details are: Level 1, 221 Drummond St. Carlton VIC 3053 Phone: 03 9486 0288 Fax: 03 9011...
Black Inc. and Hachette: how the removal of PIR will affect our business
The federal government’s recent announcement that it plans to remove parallel importation restrictions (PIRs) on books has been heavily criticised by the publishing industry. Books+Publishing asked two publishers, Black Inc....
Tuffield joins Black Inc.
Aviva Tuffield has been appointed publisher at Black Inc.Tuffield will specialise in fiction but will also acquire nonfiction titles. She will work part-time, continuing her role as executive director of...
Black Inc. announces ‘Best Australian’ editors
Black Inc. has announced the editors for this year’s ‘Best Australian’ series of anthologies.Amanda Lohrey and Geoff Page return as editors of The Best Australian Stories 2015 and The Best Australian Poems 2015 respectively....
Black Inc. announces contributors to 2014 ‘Best’ anthologies
Black Inc. has announced the contributors to its 2014 Best Australian Stories, Essays and Poems collections. J M Coetzee, Helen Garner, Clive James, David Malouf, Carrie Tiffany, Noel Pearson, Tim...
Black Inc. partners with Scribd
Black Inc. has partnered with ebook subscription service Scribd to make all of its books available to subscribers.Black Inc. CEO and rights director Sophy Williams told Books+Publishing that the deal...
Rarely seen worlds: Clare Atkins on ‘Nona & Me’
Debut author Clare Atkins’s YA novel Nona & Me (Black Inc., October) is the story of a friendship between Rosie, a white girl, and Nona, an Aboriginal girl, set in...
After the games: Catherine Harris on ‘The Family Men’
The Family Men (Black Inc., September) explores the fallout from an AFL football team’s post-season celebration. ‘[It’s] a nuanced indictment of a sporting culture that forgives appalling behaviour in our...
Black Inc. acquires first YA novel
Black Inc. will publish its first YA novel in October.Nona and Me by Clare Atkins is the story of a friendship between Rosie, a white girl, and Nona, an Aboriginal...
Innes-Will appointed senior editor at Black Inc.
Kirstie Innes-Will has been appointed senior editor at Black Inc., replacing Nikola Lusk, who is leaving to work as a freelancer. Innes-Will is a former senior editor at Macmillan Education,...
Black Inc. says integrity of PMLAs ‘seriously damaged’, calls for list of entries to be published
Black Inc. has called on the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards to publish a list of all entries submitted for the award for nonfiction.In a statement, Black Inc. director Morry Schwarz...
Black Inc. announces ‘Best Australian’ editors
Black Inc. has announced the editors for this year’s ‘Best Australian’ series of anthologies. Amanda Lohrey is the editor of The Best Australian Stories 2014 and Robert Manne is the...
Pearce joins Black Inc.
Jessica Pearce has joined Black Inc. in the newly created role of publicist. Pearce previously worked for Cambridge University Press in the role of development editor. (See classifieds.)
Black Inc. announces ‘Best Australian’ contributors
Black Inc. has announced the contributors for The Best Australian Stories 2013, edited by Kim Scott, The Best Australian Essays 2013, edited by Robert Manne, and The Best Australian Poems...
Read ahead: Preview of 2014 titles
Kate Blackwood rounds up publishers’ top picks for 2014. Fiction Maxine Beneba Clarke’s debut short-story collection is Hodder and Headline sales and marketing director Justin Ractliffe’s top pick for 2014....
White shortlisted for 2013 Bernard Schwartz Book Award
Australian author Hugh White has been shortlisted for the 2013 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award for his book The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power (Black Inc.). White’s...