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UK sales value up in 2023 as volume declines

Tuesday, 9 January 2024
In the UK, an increase in average selling prices meant the market was up by 1.3% in 2023, despite volume sales being down by 5%, reports the Bookseller. According to...

APA announces 2024 REP editors

Tuesday, 9 January 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the 15 editors selected for the 2024 Residential Editorial Program (REP), an intensive program for mid-career editors to work on an unpublished manuscript...

Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Monday, 8 January 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poems are: ‘Poem of the Dead Woman’ by Judith Nangala Crispin (NSW) ‘Immigration Triction’...

Murphy awarded 2024 Peter Blazey Fellowship

Friday, 15 December 2023
Author, editor and accessibility consultant Fiona Murphy has won the 2024 Peter Blazey Fellowship. Murphy will use the fellowship to work on her second book, 'Livelihood', a narrative nonfiction essay...

Creative Australia funds literature organisations and individuals

Thursday, 14 December 2023
Creative Australia has announced the Four Year Investment for Organisations program for 2025–2028. Among the 159 organisations in Creative Australia’s multi-year investment, 14 literature organisations are listed. Creative Australia also...

Local creators nominated for 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Four local authors, illustrators and organisations have been announced as candidates for the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s richest prize for children’s literature. The Australian candidates are: Ursula...

Vale Dale Spender

Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Editor, author and Copyright Agency founding member Dale Spender has died. The Copyright Agency writes: 'We are saddened to hear of the passing of Dr Dale Spender AM, pioneering feminist,...

Vale Shirley Barber

Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Australian children's author and illustrator Shirley Barber died on Tuesday, 12 December in Melbourne, aged 88. Brolly Books publisher Emma Borghesi writes: 'Shirley Barber, one of Australia’s most loved children’s...

Production co-ordinator, Melbourne

Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Text Publishing Text is looking for a Production Co-ordinator to join our busy, highly efficient team. We’re looking for someone with excellent production and prepress skills coupled with excellent communication...

Introducing Pitch Boot Camp

Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Does your publicity team need a boost? some extra training? Fresh perspective? Pitch Projects is now running book publicity boot camp sessions. Whether you’re a small publisher wearing many hats...

Writers Victoria announces 2023 Writeability fellows

Monday, 11 December 2023
Writers Victoria has announced the 2023 Writeability fellowship recipients. This year’s recipients are: Grace Hall for ‘Off Track’, ‘a young adult novel exploring how physical pain changes a person’s world’...

Indie Book Awards 2024 longlists announced

logo for the Indie Book Awards Thursday, 7 December 2023
The longlists for the 2024 Indie Book Awards, presented by Leading Edge Books, have been announced. The titles longlisted in each category are: Fiction Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton,...

Submit your Christmas closing dates

Wednesday, 6 December 2023
To be included in Books+Publishing’s annual list of publishers’ and distributors’ trade closing dates for the holiday period, please complete our Christmas closing dates survey by noon, Tuesday, 12 December....

Hachette updates and expands inclusive policies

Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Hachette Australia has announced the introduction of several new and updated inclusive policies, which it said ‘promote a safe and supportive environment for all employees; and recognises the critical role...

Sales representative, Melbourne

Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Exisle Publishing Exisle is an independent Australian publisher of nonfiction and children’s books. We have an exciting and growing stable of successful Melbourne authors. We are looking for a Melbourne-based...

Production co-ordinator, Melbourne

Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Text Publishing Text is looking for a Production Co-ordinator to join our busy, highly efficient team. We’re looking for someone with excellent production and prepress skills coupled with excellent communication...

Unlock Books+Publishing

Wednesday, 6 December 2023
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...

Kassab to be inaugural Parramatta Laureate

Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Author Yumna Kassab has been selected as the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature by the Sydney Review of Books (SRB) in partnership with the City of Parramatta and the Writing...

Bongiorno wins ACT Book of the Year

Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Frank Bongiorno has been awarded the 2023 ACT Book of the Year for Dreamers and Schemers: A political history of Australia (La Trobe University Press). Bongiorno's book, which covers social...

 

 

 

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