Open Book 2024 interns announced
Date: 1 May 2024Category: Local news
The successful interns for the 2024 Open Book: Australian Publishing Internship have been announced. Chosen from over 320 applications, the 2024 interns are Olivia Garcia, Tayla Goodman and Nashin Mahee.... Read more
Student-run Elephant Page Publishing launches at Curtin Uni
Date: 18 April 2024Category: Local news
A new student press, Elephant Page Publishing, has been established at Curtin University in Perth (Boorloo), Western Australia. Curtin University’s professional writing and publishing senior lecturer Per Henningsgaard is serving... Read more
black&write! Writing Fellowships shortlist announced
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Awards Local news
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced the shortlist for this year’s black&write! Writing Fellowships. The six shortlisted writers are: Skye Cusack, for the young adult novel ‘The Dangers... Read more
Meet the agent: Lisa Fuller at Alex Adsett Literary
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian profile
Lisa Fuller is a Wuilli Wuilli woman from Eidsvold, Queensland, and is also descended from Gooreng Gooreng and Wakka Wakka peoples. Her debut YA novel Ghost Bird won numerous awards... Read more
Can ChatGPT edit fiction? Four editors put it to the test
Date: 21 February 2024Category: Features
Editors Rose Michael, Sharon Mullins, Renée Otmar and Katherine Day have previously explored how AI tools might work, or be made to work, for editorial. In this extract from an... Read more
Ultimo acquires Holmes debut
Date: 15 February 2024Category: Rights and acquisitions
Ultimo has acquired Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to a debut novel from Gail Holmes, titled In the Margins. Calling Holmes ‘a remarkable new voice in historical fiction’, the publisher described... Read more
Yee wins 2024 Victorian Prize for Literature at VPLAs
Date: 2 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Grace Yee has won Australia’s single richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, for her poetry collection Chinese Fish (Giramondo) at this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs).... Read more
Explainer: What is accessible publishing?
Date: 10 January 2024Category: Features
Accessibility and inclusivity are broad terms that can have different meanings in different contexts. In the book industry, these terms have surfaced at many conferences and events as people come... Read more
Managing editor, Canberra
Date: 10 January 2024Category: Jobs
National Gallery of Australia Location: National Gallery of Australia / remote working arrangements may be considered. Salary range: NGA6 Work type: Full time Application closing date: 14 January 2024 To... Read more
Curry launches VenX self-publishing business, partners with IPEd
Date: 11 December 2023Category: Local news
Jane Curry, founder of independent book publisher Ventura Press, has established 'digital sibling' VenX, a membership-based digital community for writers that provides self-publishing options. Curry told Books+Publishing the idea for... Read more
Independent Publishing Conference 2023: Conversations and communities
Date: 29 November 2023Category: Features
The Small Press Network (SPN) annual Independent Publishing Conference (IPC) was held from 23 to 25 November at the Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, on Wurundjeri Country, and remotely online. Thursday was... Read more
AI: The next, best editorial tool?
Date: 22 November 2023Category: Features
Editors Rose Michael, Sharon Mullins, Renée Otmar and Katherine Day ask how AI tools might work, or be made to work, for editorial. Back when Rose was editor of the... Read more
Rising Stars on AI
Date: 22 November 2023Category: Features
How do the publishing industry's rising stars feel about AI? Editors Rose Michael, Sharon Mullins, Renée Otmar and Katherine Day are interested in how AI tools might work, or be made... Read more
AI and AR at the Sharjah Publishers Conference
Date: 15 November 2023Category: Features
Each year, the Sharjah International Book Fair brings publishing professionals to the United Arab Emirates through its fellowship program. Agata Mrva-Montoya, from the University of Sydney, reports on her first... Read more
‘I wanted to make a meaningful impact’: Reflections from the 2023 Open Book interns
Date: 15 November 2023Category: Features
First run as a pilot program offering two internships in 2022, the Open Book paid internship program is a joint sector initiative that aims to foster cultural and linguistic diversity... Read more
Editor, Sydney
Date: 18 October 2023Category: Jobs
Local editors shortlisted for International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing
Date: 12 October 2023Category: Awards Local news
The Community Publishing Research Project
Date: 11 October 2023Category: Features
Publications project manager, Melbourne
Date: 4 October 2023Category: Jobs
Australian book market overview: 2023 so far
Date: 3 October 2023Category: Think Australian feature
Australian book market overview: 2023 so far
Date: 13 September 2023Category: Features
Publications project manager, Melbourne
Date: 30 August 2023Category: Jobs
Editor—primary (12-month maternity leave contract), Melbourne
Date: 9 August 2023Category: Jobs
Senior editor, Sydney
Date: 26 July 2023Category: Jobs
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Kathleen O’Neill
Date: 18 July 2023Category: Features
Kate Mildenhall on ‘The Hummingbird Effect’
Date: 18 July 2023Category: Features Interview
Pilson receives Steph Bowe mentorship
Date: 20 June 2023Category: Awards Local news
IPEd partners with black&write!
Date: 6 June 2023Category: Local news
Senior commissioning editor, Melbourne
Date: 31 May 2023Category: Jobs
Early to mid-career editor, Sydney
Date: 31 May 2023Category: Jobs
Ismail, Stewart awarded $50k Marten Bequest scholarship
Date: 29 May 2023Category: Awards Local news
Davis to retire, SMH young novelists, Dank sweeps NSW Prem’s
Date: 24 May 2023Category: This week’s news
Davies awarded 2023 Janet Mackenzie Medal
Date: 22 May 2023Category: Awards Local news
Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, part two
Date: 17 May 2023Category: Features
Puncher & Wattmann acquires Dimitriadis’s ‘The Mother Must Die’
Date: 17 May 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view
Date: 10 May 2023Category: Features
Vale Bruce Sims
Date: 10 May 2023Category: Obituaries
Vallance wins 2023 Rosie Award
Date: 4 May 2023Category: Awards Local news
Books without barriers: a new guide to accessible inclusive publishing
Date: 3 May 2023Category: Features
Open Book 2023 interns announced
Date: 28 April 2023Category: Local news
Editor, Melbourne or Sydney
Date: 12 April 2023Category: Jobs
Editor (children’s publishing), Sydney
Date: 12 April 2023Category: Jobs
Latest acquisitions: Nonfiction
Date: 6 April 2023Category: Think Australian rights
Cate Paterson appointed A&U publishing director
Date: 5 April 2023Category: Local news
Editor, Melbourne or Sydney
Date: 5 April 2023Category: Jobs
Senior editor, Melbourne
Date: 5 April 2023Category: Jobs
Editor (children’s publishing), Sydney
Date: 5 April 2023Category: Jobs
Rubbo to retire, Agius leaves Welbeck, De Kretser wins Folio Prize
Date: 29 March 2023Category: This week’s news
Senior editor, Melbourne
Date: 29 March 2023Category: Jobs
IPEd conference program announced for May
Date: 28 March 2023Category: Local news
Senior editor, Sydney
Date: 15 March 2023Category: Jobs
HarperCollins acquires Taffe novel
Date: 8 March 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Kat Muscat Fellowship 2023 shortlist announced
Date: 1 March 2023Category: Awards Local news
S&S acquires Sales nonfiction
Date: 24 February 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Graphic novel researcher: ‘Australian publishers are hungry for titles’
Date: 21 February 2023Category: Think Australian profile
Australian creators recommend
Date: 21 February 2023Category: Think Australian newsletter Think Australian profile
Senior editor, Sydney
Date: 8 February 2023Category: Jobs
Editors and trauma: Why we need an industry framework
Date: 31 January 2023Category: Features
Vale Jim Molan
Date: 18 January 2023Category: Obituaries
Managing editor children’s publishing, Sydney
Date: 18 January 2023Category: Jobs
Marketing executive, Melbourne
Date: 18 January 2023Category: Jobs
Vale Wendy Jenkins
Date: 11 January 2023Category: Obituaries
Splatt awarded Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship
Date: 9 January 2023Category: Awards Local news
Credit for the edit?
Date: 7 December 2022Category: Features
A&U, Voices from the Intersection mentorship recipients announced
Date: 7 December 2022Category: Awards Local news
Authors survey: Indie publishing, satisfaction up; income ‘remains challenging’
Date: 30 November 2022Category: Features
SPN conference 2022 ‘demonstrated breadth of Australian publishing’
Date: 30 November 2022Category: Local news
Commercial publisher (nonfiction), Auckland
Date: 9 November 2022Category: Jobs
Junior editor, Sydney
Date: 9 November 2022Category: Jobs
Banned books, controversy, WebToon: children’s and YA in the US
Date: 2 November 2022Category: Features
Reflections from an Open Book intern: Maya Hodge
Date: 26 October 2022Category: Features
The numbers boggle: an Australian in New York
Date: 19 October 2022Category: Features
Digital communications specialist, Sydney
Date: 19 October 2022Category: Jobs
Faber Writing Academy appoints editor-in-residence
Date: 14 October 2022Category: Local news
Robinson appointed ILF publishing manager
Date: 30 September 2022Category: Local news
IPEd responds to APA diversity survey
Date: 29 September 2022Category: Local news
High job satisfaction, low pay rates: Freelancers’ survey 2022
Date: 28 September 2022Category: Features
Why we need more Indigenous editors
Date: 21 September 2022Category: Features
Book editor, Remote
Date: 21 September 2022Category: Jobs
Editor-in-residence, Sydney
Date: 7 September 2022Category: Jobs
Senior editor, Sydney
Date: 31 August 2022Category: Jobs
Book editor, remote
Date: 17 August 2022Category: Jobs
Project editor and design coordinator, Melbourne
Date: 10 August 2022Category: Jobs
Managing editor, Sydney
Date: 27 July 2022Category: Jobs
UQP acquires inaugural Kathryn Heyman Mentorship Award–winning novel
Date: 26 July 2022Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Henderson appointed Hachette senior nonfiction publisher
Date: 22 July 2022Category: Local news
Various positions, Melbourne
Date: 13 July 2022Category: Jobs
Commissioning editor, Sydney
Date: 13 July 2022Category: Jobs
Senior editor, Sydney
Date: 6 July 2022Category: Jobs
Melanie La’Brooy on ‘The Wintrish Girl’
Date: 5 July 2022Category: Features Junior
A&U announces mentorship program with Voices from the Intersection
Date: 29 June 2022Category: Junior Local news
Senior editor, Sydney
Date: 29 June 2022Category: Jobs
Tobias Madden on ‘Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell’
Date: 28 June 2022Category: Features
Freelance designer, Sydney
Date: 22 June 2022Category: Jobs
black&write! fellowships 2022 recipients announced
Date: 1 June 2022Category: Awards Local news
Book editor, remote
Date: 1 June 2022Category: Jobs
Assistant editor, Brisbane
Date: 1 June 2022Category: Jobs
ABA Booksellers’ Choice admin assistant, Melbourne
Date: 25 May 2022Category: Jobs