Change for New India Publishing Agency – NIPA
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Publisher: New India Publishing Agency – NIPA New distributor: Eurospan Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk
Change for Curtis Press
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Publisher: Curtis Press ISBN prefix: 978-0-9934002; 978-1-8381280 New distributor: Eurospan Changeover date: 1 May 2024 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk
Editor, children’s books, Sydney
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Publishers has an exciting opportunity for an organised and enthusiastic individual to join the HarperCollins Children’s Books (HCCB) division in the role of Editor. The role will...
Read Independent Publishing’s May newsletter
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Independent Publishing is an online resource and a free monthly newsletter publication filled with news and tips for independent publishers, independent authors, hybrid authors and content creators. The Independent Publishing newsletter...
Inaugural ABR Inglis Fellowship announced
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced a new fellowship program—the $5000 ABR Inglis Fellowship. The inaugural year-long program will give one fellow the opportunity to write three review essays...
Text Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, worth $10,000, has been announced. Shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘The Feathers of Farwood’ by Jayne McIntyre (middle grade),...
Bloomsbury reports record year of revenue and profit
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
In the UK, Bloomsbury has reported its highest revenue and profit in its 37-year history, reports the Bookseller, which also said sales of titles by Bloomsbury author Sarah J Maas...
‘Solenoid’ wins 2024 Dublin Literary Award
Monday, 27 May 2024
Solenoid by Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu (Deep Vellum Publishing), translated by US translator Sean Cotter, has won the €100,000 (A$163,706) international Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize...
Bacon awarded 2024 Hedberg Writer-in-Residence
Monday, 27 May 2024
African Australian speculative fiction author Eugen Bacon has been named the 2024 University of Tasmania Hedberg Writer-in-Residence, worth $30,000. Eugen will use the Hobart residency, which consists of three months writing, working...
‘Who’s Afraid of the Light?’ wins ABDA book of the year
Monday, 27 May 2024
The winners for the 2024 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The winners in each category are: Book of the year...
Affirm to distribute Gemini Books
Thursday, 23 May 2024
Affirm Press will distribute titles from new UK-based publishing house Gemini Books in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand from July. Gemini Books was founded by Marcus Leaver, co-founder of Welbeck...
Spotify adds Bonnier and Blackstone audiobooks
Thursday, 23 May 2024
Spotify has announced that audiobooks from Bonnier Books UK and Blackstone Publishing have been added to the platform’s Premium audiobook offering. In announcing the ‘two new publishing partners’, Spotify audiobook...
BookUp 2024 first guests announced
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced this year’s BookUp conference will take place on 7 August at State Library Victoria in Melbourne, with tickets now on sale. Thames &...
Erpenbeck, Hofmann win 2024 International Booker for ‘Kairos’
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
The novel Kairos, written by Jenny Erpenbeck and translated from German by Michael Hofmann (Granta), has won the £50,000 (A$95,325) International Booker Prize, reports the Bookseller. Kairos was chosen from...
Miles Franklin longlist, NSW Premier’s Literary Award winners, Levens resigns as Booktopia CFO
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
The 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist and the NSW Premier's Literary Award winners were both announced this week, with Ali Cobby Eckermann’s verse novel She Is the Earth (Magabala)...
Indigenous Literacy Foundation—Sydney Trivia Night 2024
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
Join us for the 2024 Indigenous Literacy Foundation Trivia Night, on Wednesday 17th July. Kicking off at 6pm and finishing at 10pm, it's going to be a great night of fun,...
Melbourne Prize for Literature 2024 & Awards—entries now open
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
For information and to enter, please visit www.melbourneprize.org. $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature 2024 Four awards, including a new category For published authors and Victorian residents only Celebrating 20 years...
Text congratulates James Islington on Aurealis Award win
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
James Islington’s The Will of the Many has picked up the award for 2023’s Best Fantasy Novel in Australia’s Aurealis Awards for speculative fiction. The novel has already received rapturous...
Have you tried a Books+Publishing classified?
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
Are your communications being seen by the right people? Share important news with the wider industry through a Books+Publishing classified: Announce opening and closing dates of awards Promote event ticket...
PRH merges Penguin Business and Penguin Life imprints
Tuesday, 21 May 2024
In the UK, Penguin Random House has announced it is merging its Penguin Business and Penguin Life imprints with immediate effect, under the name Penguin Life, reports the Bookseller. Publishing...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
Tuesday, 21 May 2024
The winners of the 2024 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were announced on 20 May. Ali Cobby Eckermann's verse novel She Is the Earth won the overall $10,000 Book of the...
Aurealis Awards 2023 winners announced
Tuesday, 21 May 2024
The winners of the 2023 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing published last year in Australia, have been announced. Among longer-form winners, chosen from shortlists announced...
S&S acquires Murphy memoir ‘Madam’
Tuesday, 21 May 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Antonia Murphy’s forthcoming memoir, Madam, at auction, via Alice Tasman and Cole Hildebrand at Jean V Naggar Literary...
BookPeople 2024 Bookseller of the Year shortlists announced
Monday, 20 May 2024
BookPeople has announced the shortlists for its 2024 Bookseller of the Year awards. The awards recognise an individual bookseller for outstanding achievement in the past 12 months, with the young...
Levens resigns as Booktopia CFO
Monday, 20 May 2024
Booktopia chief financial officer (CFO) Fiona Levens has resigned from the company, effective 15 May. In a statement, Booktopia CEO David Nenke acknowledged Levens’ ‘strong leadership during her time with...
Azumah Nelson wins Dylan Thomas Prize
Monday, 20 May 2024
In the UK, British-Ghanaian author Caleb Azumah Nelson has won this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize for his second novel, Small Worlds (Viking), reports the Guardian. Established in 2006,...
Michael Gifkins Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Monday, 20 May 2024
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) have announced the shortlist for the 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished...
New $5000 award for Aotearoa NZ writers
Monday, 20 May 2024
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) has announced a new NZ$5000 award for Aotearoa NZ writers. The NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award, established by...
Walker acquires Marr, Speechley picture book
Monday, 20 May 2024
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to the picture book One Day, written by Shirley Marr and illustrated by Michael Speechley, in a two-book deal. One Day introduces a...
Huang wins Blake Poetry Prize
Monday, 20 May 2024
Coco X Huang has won the 68th Blake Poetry Prize, worth $5000, for her poem 'Three Lessons'. Huang is a Chinese-Australian writer, musician and scientist, who creates interdisciplinary works that...
