Australian Book Design Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Thursday, 28 March 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The shortlisted titles in selected categories are: Best designed commercial...
B+P Easter publishing schedule
Thursday, 28 March 2024
Due to the Easter long weekend, the Books+Publishing newsletter will not be published tomorrow, Friday, 29 March or Monday, 1 April. The deadline for classifieds and job advertisements in the next...
George Robertson Award 2024 winners announced, changes to APA board
Thursday, 28 March 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2024 George Robertson Awards, which recognises long and distinguished service to the publishing industry. Annette Barlow (publisher, Allen &...
Women’s Prize for Nonfiction 2024 shortlist announced
Thursday, 28 March 2024
The shortlist for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, worth £30,000 (A$58,000), has been announced. The six titles shortlisted for the award are: Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life...
Wright shortlisted for 2024 James Tait Black Prize
Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) has been shortlisted for the fiction award in the 2024 James Tait Black Prizes. The works shortlisted for the fiction and biography prizes, each worth...
PRH 2023 results flat, despite revenue rise
Wednesday, 27 March 2024
While Penguin Random House (PRH) recorded a 7% revenue rise worldwide for the full year 2023—to €4.53 billion (A$7.51b), up from €4.22 billion (A$7.00b) in 2022—profit dropped slightly, down by...
ABIAs book shortlists; MWF, BWF programs; Marr wins Indie Book of the Year
Wednesday, 27 March 2024
The Australian Publishers’ Association this week announced the book shortlists for the 2024 ABIAs; both the Brisbane and Melbourne Writers Festivals announced their 2024 programs; Copyright Licensing New Zealand has...
Wright shortlisted for 2024 Dublin Literary Award
Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Alexis Wright has been shortlisted for the €100,000 (A$166,000) International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction written in or translated into...
Booktique to open store in Albury
Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Booktique—an independent bookshop currently operating in Wangaratta, Victoria—is opening a second store in Albury, NSW. Michelle Delle Vergin, who owns both stores with husband Mark Bolsius, said that for the...
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Wednesday, 27 March 2024
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Wednesday, 27 March 2024
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Under the Stars Camping Australia & New Zealand
Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Sleep under the stars in Australia and New Zealand's most spectacular spaces. Discover more than 200 out-of-this-world camping hotspots in this epic guide that features breathtaking wild camping pitches, picturesque...
Change for dr.Herriot
Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Publisher: dr.Herriot ISBN prefix: 978-84-09-10754; 978-84-09-37894; 978-84-09-38757 Old distributor: None New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 April 2024 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk
Dylan Thomas Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 26 March 2024
In the UK, the Swansea University has announced the shortlist of the 2024 Dylan Thomas Prize. The shortlisted titles, chosen from a longlist announced in January, are: A Spell of...
Marr’s ‘Killing for Country’ wins 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award
Monday, 25 March 2024
David Marr’s Killing for Country: A family story (Black Inc.) has been named Book of the Year in the Indie Book Awards. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Edenglassie (Melissa...
Murray awarded 2024 Boundless mentorship
Monday, 25 March 2024
Bardi writer Kalem Murray is the winner of the 2024 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship, presented by Text Publishing and Writing NSW with the support of the First Nations Australia Writers...
Sterlin wins Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award
Monday, 25 March 2024
Meanjin (Brisbane) poet Svetlana Sterlin has won the 2023 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award for her unpublished book-length collection ‘If Movement Were a Language’. Selected from a shortlist of...
Blake Poetry Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Monday, 25 March 2024
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, in collaboration with WestWords, has announced the shortlist for the 68th Blake Poetry Prize, worth $5000. The Blake Prize is an open poetry prize that ‘challenges...
QBD named in Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies program
Monday, 25 March 2024
Bookselling chain QBD has been named as one of Australia’s Best Managed Companies in an award program run by Deloitte Australia. Accepting the award on behalf of the organisation, QBD...
Brisbane Writers Festival releases 2024 program
Monday, 25 March 2024
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has launched its 2024 program, which will run from 30 May until 2 June. Over 150 live events are planned for the 2024 festival, with...
Pham named UTS writer in residence
Monday, 25 March 2024
Vietnamese-Australian novelist, essayist and poet Vivian Pham has been awarded the Copyright Agency–UTS New Writer in Residence fellowship for 2024. Pham is the author of the novel The Coconut Children...
‘Greenwild’ wins 2024 Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year
Monday, 25 March 2024
In the UK, Greenwild: The world behind the door (Pari Thomson, illus by Elisa Paganelli, Macmillan) is the overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, reports the Bookseller. Now...
Full 2024 MWF program announced
Friday, 22 March 2024
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has launched the full program for its 2024 festival, to be held in venues across the Melbourne CBD and surrounds from 6 to 12 May. Outgoing MWF...
ABIAs 2024 shortlists announced
Thursday, 21 March 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). The APA will announce the business awards shortlists, including the categories of publisher,...
Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History longlist
Thursday, 21 March 2024
The longlist has been announced for the 2024 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, worth $25,000. The longlisted works are: Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Dogs in Van...
Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award shortlist announced
Thursday, 21 March 2024
The University of Sydney’s faculty of arts and social sciences has announced the shortlist for the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award for 2023. The Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest...
Australian titles with international appeal
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Explore the latest rights opportunities from Australian publishers participating in the Australian Collective Stand at Bologna. View the Stand Catalogue here, featuring over 70 children’s and YA titles with international...
Six Summers of Tash and Leopold
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Leopold and Alytash – Leo and Tash – are neighbours who used to be best friends, but aren't anymore, for reasons that Leo doesn't entirely understand. But now it's the...
Who from Australia is at Bologna? Come and say hello at the Australian Stand party
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
In this Bologna Book Fair issue of Think Australian, we introduce you to Nicola Robinson, who will be attending Bologna for the first time, representing the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. See...
Australian publishers nominated for Bologna Prize
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Australian publishers Affirm Press, Fremantle Press and Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing have been shortlisted for this year’s Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the Oceania...
