Dorothy Hewett Award 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 17 May 2024Category: Awards Local news
UWA Publishing has announced shortlist for the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted manuscripts, chosen from over 200 entries, are: ‘The Protector of Fledglings’ by Angella... Read more
Hastings wins 2024 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize
Date: 16 May 2024Category: Awards Local news News
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins imprint HQ have announced that Kathleen Hastings is the winner of the 2024 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. Selected from... Read more
SPN to pause operations, gauge ‘ongoing viability’
Date: 15 May 2024Category: Local news
The board of the Small Press Network (SPN) has announced it will halt operations and social media for two months as it seeks to gauge the ongoing viability of the... Read more
What Do You Call Your Dad? (Ashleigh Barton, illus Martina Heiduczek, ABC Books)
Date: 14 May 2024Category: Reviews
What Do You Call Your Dad? is a love letter to fathers by writer Ashleigh Barton (Freddie Spector, Fact Collector: Space Cadet) and illustrator Martina Heiduczek (Spies in the Sky), the... Read more
The Mires (Tina Makereti, Ultimo)
Date: 14 May 2024Category: Reviews
Tina Makereti’s latest novel, The Mires, is a masterclass in social realism with just a touch of magic. Opening from the perspective of the swampland of the Kāpiti Coast in Aotearoa... Read more
Levitina shortlisted for UK Historical Novel Society’s First Chapters Competition
Date: 8 May 2024Category: Local news
Sydney author Julia Levitina has been shortlisted for the UK Historical Novel Society’s (HNS) First Chapters Competition. Levitina was shortlisted in the 20th-century historical fiction category for the opening chapters... Read more
Pulitzer Prize 2024 winners announced
Date: 8 May 2024Category: International news
In the US, the winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. The winners in the book categories were: Fiction Night Watch (Jayne Anne Phillips, Fleet) Nonfiction A Day... Read more
Wright wins second Stella; NSW, WA premiers’ lit awards shortlists; Hachette on Best Places to Work list
Date: 8 May 2024Category: This week’s news
Last Thursday Alexis Wright became the first author to win the Stella Prize twice, with her fourth novel, Praiseworthy (Giramondo), named the winner of the $60,000 award in a ceremony in... Read more
Publicist, Melbourne
Date: 8 May 2024Category: Jobs
Thames & Hudson Australia Thames & Hudson publishes beautiful, useful books on all aspects of culture and creativity. Family owned, resolutely independent and internationally minded, we aim to create a... Read more
Unlock Books+Publishing
Date: 8 May 2024Category: Classifieds
Unlock Books+Publishing, Australia’s number-one source of news about the book industry, keeping subscribers up to date with the latest book industry news, events, features, interviews, opinion, personnel changes, job advertisements... Read more
Michelle See-Tho on ‘Jade and Emerald’
Date: 7 May 2024Category: Features Interview
Michelle See-Tho is a freelance writer and copywriter whose debut novel, Jade and Emerald (Vintage, July 2024), won the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize. The novel is 'a wonderful escape into the... Read more
S&S agrees to acquire Netherlands publisher VBK
Date: 7 May 2024Category: International news
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Netherlands publisher VBK (Veen Bosch & Keuning). ‘In the months since we became a standalone, independent publishing... Read more
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 6 May 2024Category: Awards Local news
The shortlists for the 2024 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) The Sun Walks Down (Fiona McFarlane,... Read more
ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 2 May 2024Category: Awards Local news
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins publishing division HQ have announced the shortlist for the 2024 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted works, chosen... Read more
Rights round-up
Date: 1 May 2024Category: Rights round-up
Sales Fiction Hachette has sold UK rights to The Fisherman’s Daughter and The Secrets of the Little Greek Taverna (both by Erin Palmisano) to Headline Publishing Group; US rights to... Read more
All the Colours of the Dark
Date: 1 May 2024Category: Advance copy giveaway
Marketing executive, Melbourne
Date: 1 May 2024Category: Jobs
Publishing director, Sydney
Date: 1 May 2024Category: Jobs
Outrider (Mark Wales, Macmillan)
Date: 30 April 2024Category: Reviews
Upswell acquires Spirovski debut, ‘White Hibiscus’
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Ashleigh Barton on ‘Freddie Spector, Fact Collector: Space Cadet’
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Features Interview
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Date: 24 April 2024Category: Classifieds
Publishing assistant, Sydney
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Jobs
Account manager (QLD, NT & NZ), Brisbane
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Jobs
Senior editor, Melbourne
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Jobs
Marketing executive, Melbourne
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Jobs
Pantera acquires Rai debut novel ‘An Onslaught of Light’
Date: 23 April 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Publishing assistant, Sydney
Date: 17 April 2024Category: Jobs
Fragile Creatures (Khin Myint, Black Inc.)
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Reviews
Looking for Eden (Caroline Overington, HarperCollins)
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Reviews
Yvonne Sewankambo on ‘Good Hair’
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Features Interview
My Father’s Suitcase (Mary Garden, Justitia Books)
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Reviews
Shadows of Winter Robins (Louise Wolhuter, Ultimo)
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Reviews
black&write! Writing Fellowships shortlist announced
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Awards Local news
A third of translators report losing work due to AI
Date: 15 April 2024Category: International news
BookPeople 2024 conference program announced
Date: 11 April 2024Category: Local news
AI and publishing: Concerns beyond copyright
Date: 10 April 2024Category: Features
Rights round-up
Date: 10 April 2024Category: Rights round-up
The Little Clothes (Deborah Callaghan, Viking)
Date: 9 April 2024Category: Reviews
Affirm acquires rights to Welgemoed cookbook
Date: 8 April 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
The ‘Australian’ announces new fiction prize as Vogel ends
Date: 8 April 2024Category: Local news
UWAP acquires On’s third poetry collection
Date: 4 April 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Heartsease (Kate Kruimink, Picador)
Date: 2 April 2024Category: Reviews
Gleebooks completes renovation
Date: 2 April 2024Category: Local news
Women’s Prize for Nonfiction 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 28 March 2024Category: International news
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Date: 27 March 2024Category: Classifieds
Love & Rome (Jenna Lo Bianco, Macmillan)
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Reviews
Jenna Lo Bianco on ‘Love & Rome’
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Features Interview
Author events: Report highlights relationships as key, problematic
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Local news
Murray awarded 2024 Boundless mentorship
Date: 25 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Sterlin wins Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award
Date: 25 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History longlist
Date: 21 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award shortlist announced
Date: 21 March 2024Category: Awards Local news News
B+P, Have you subscribed to Books+Publishing?, Bologna Lower 4
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian 4 Lower banner
Young adult titles on offer at Bologna
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian feature
Award winners to look out for
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian awards
Meet the agent: Lisa Fuller at Alex Adsett Literary
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian profile
Maguire’s historical fiction ‘Rapture’ sells to Sceptre
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
The Midnight Rose
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Title showcase
Administrative assistant, Sydney
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Jobs
Learning consultant primary (QLD), Brisbane
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Jobs
Learning consultant primary (WA/SA), Perth
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Jobs
Because I’m Not Myself, You See (Ariane Beeston, Black Inc.)
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Affirm Press signs Sweatshop mentees Nour and Barnette
Date: 14 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
The party’s over: Publicists, burnout and a ‘far more creative’ role
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Features
New York, New York: Insights from the 2024 Australian publishing delegation
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Features
Hachette acquires Paris debut ‘The Unravelling’ in two-book deal
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging (Cher Tan, NewSouth)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Safe Haven (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
The Unexpected Mess of It All (Gabrielle Tozer, HarperCollins)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Needham wins 2024 MUD Literary Prize
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Awards Local news News
Penguin Literary Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 7 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Former PRH, Macmillan executives launch new profit-share publishing venture
Date: 7 March 2024Category: International news
Rights round-up
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
Stella longlist, gender pay gaps in publishing and bookselling, Booktopia revenue and profit down
Date: 6 March 2024Category: This week’s news
Digital content lead, Melbourne
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Jobs
Professional development and events manager, Sydney
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Jobs
The Mistress of Dara Island (Averil Kenny, Echo)
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Reviews
The Apprentice Witnesser (Bren MacDibble, A&U Children’s)
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Spotify adds audiobook-only subscription offer
Date: 4 March 2024Category: International news
Digital content lead, Melbourne
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Jobs
CBCA 2024 Notable Books announced
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Those Girls (Pamela Rushby, Walker)
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Can ChatGPT edit fiction? Four editors put it to the test
Date: 21 February 2024Category: Features
Association director, Auckland
Date: 21 February 2024Category: Jobs
Learning consultant, secondary, Melbourne
Date: 21 February 2024Category: Jobs
Deep Is the Fen (Lili Wilkinson, A&U Children’s)
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Jerry’s Window (Y K Willemse, Wombat Books)
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Black Silk & Sympathy (Deborah Challinor, HarperCollins)
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Funder longlisted for inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
Date: 19 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
DANZ Children’s Book Award shortlists announced
Date: 15 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
No Church in the Wild (Murray Middleton, Picador)
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
The Gorgon Flower (John Richards, UQP)
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Affirm acquires Micallef anthology
Date: 12 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Rural and regional writers’ festival programs announced
Date: 8 February 2024Category: Local 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
Editor/senior editor, Melbourne
Date: 7 February 2024Category: Jobs