Hastings wins 2024 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize
Thursday, 16 May 2024
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HarperCollins imprint HQ have announced that Kathleen Hastings is the winner of the 2024 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript.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...
‘Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors’ wins 2024 Ondaatje Prize
Thursday, 16 May 2024
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman (Fitzcarraldo Editions) has won the 2024 Ondaatje Prize, worth £10,000 (A$18,946), reports Book Brunch. Penman’s book was chosen from a shortlist of six...
Wright wins 2024 James Tait Black fiction prize
Thursday, 16 May 2024
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) has won the fiction award in the 2024 James Tait Black Prizes. Wright’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of four fiction works for the...
Federal budget: APA welcomes government investment in copyright/AI review
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Following the announcement of the 2024–25 federal budget last night, the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has welcomed an allocation of funding for the Office of the Attorney-General to review copyright...
ABIAs 2024: This year’s winners on their books, and the industry that produced them
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
At this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs), Books+Publishing digital producer Andrew Wrathall spoke with some of the winners about their books, bookshops and the trends affecting the industry. Those...
Hinkler acquires US publisher Piccadilly
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Melbourne publisher and distributor Hinkler has acquired US-based journal and sketchbook publisher Piccadilly. ‘This is a significant acquisition for Hinkler, aligning with strategic plans for growth in North America and...
SPN to pause operations, gauge ‘ongoing viability’
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
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...
Money wins 2024 UQP Quentin Bryce Award
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
UQP has announced that Jazz Money has won the 2024 Quentin Bryce Award for her poetry collection mark the dawn. mark the dawn is described by the publisher as asking...
Wakefield acquires Pollock novel ‘Starry Eyed’
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Wakefield Press has acquired ANZ rights to a second novel from Katharine Pollock, provisionally titled Starry Eyed, via Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. In Starry Eyed, when Addilyn Acker is...
black&write! 2024 fellowship recipients announced
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced that the recipients of the 2024 black&write! fellowships are poets Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi and Lulu Houdini. Gesa-Fatafehi is a Torres Strait Islander and...
‘Brotherless Night’ wins 2024 Carol Shields Prize
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Brotherless Night by V V Ganeshananthan (Penguin) has won the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, worth US$150,000 (A$226,385). The judging jury—made up of Jen Sookfong Lee (chair), Laila Lalami,...
Palmer wins 2024 Ernest Scott Prize
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and history on a Central Australian pastoral station (Shannyn Palmer, MUP) has won the 2024 Ernest Scott Prize for History. Award judges Grace Karskens and Frank...
ALS Gold Medal 2024 longlist announced
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. Longlisted works include: Frank (Jordie Albiston, NLA Publishing) The Prize (Kim E Anderson, Pantera) Like to...
Niki Horin on new venture Hobartisan Books
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Niki Horin is an editor and author with experience in children's trade publishing at Hardie Grant Egmont and as publishing director at Five Mile from 2018 to 2022. Now located...
Book Face opens store in Northbridge, NSW
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Bookselling chain Book Face has opened its fifth store—a bookstore in the Sydney suburb of Northbridge. Store manager Luke Holmes said that the company opened a bookstore in the area...
Yankovich’s ‘Just Friends’ North American rights sold
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
North American rights for Just Friends (Gyan Yankovich, Ultimo) have been sold to The Experiment, via Rach Crawford at Wolf Literary Services. Just Friends—which The Experiment will publish as Friendship...
Regional, suburban writers’ festival programs announced
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Several writers’ festivals have revealed the programs for their upcoming events. The Words on the Waves Writers Festival will run on the NSW Central Coast from 29 May to 3...
‘Murdle’ wins book of the year at the 2024 British Book Awards
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Murdle, a collection of murder mystery puzzles by G T Karber (Souvenir Press), has won book of the year at the 2024 British Book Awards, as well as taking out...
Wellington bookstore Good Books closed
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Good Books, in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, has ceased trading. The bookshop, established in late 2020 by writers Catherine Robertson and Jane Arthur, had its final day of operation last...
Edgar Awards 2024 winners announced
Monday, 13 May 2024
Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published or produced in 2023....
SLNSW offers new $50K creative writing fellowship
Monday, 13 May 2024
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the creation of a new $50,000 creative writing fellowship, as well as a new Summer Scholars Program. The $50,000 Imago Creative Writing...
NT Writers Festival announces 2024 program
Monday, 13 May 2024
The NT Writers Festival has announced the program for its 2024 festival, which will run from 27 to 30 June on Larrakia Country in Darwin (Garramilla). Events will take place outdoors at...
Aotearoa Booksellers Choice Award shortlist announced
Monday, 13 May 2024
The shortlist for the Aotearoa Book Industry Awards Booksellers Choice Award has been announced. The 16 books in the running for the award, which will be voted for by booksellers,...
Pantera acquires Eley’s romantasy ‘The Rule’
Monday, 13 May 2024
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to The Rule by Bronwyn Eley in a two-book deal. The Rule is a fantasy novel following Zinha, a member of the underground assassin...
Murdoch, Eadie to depart amid ‘structural changes’ at PRHNZ
Monday, 13 May 2024
Penguin Random House New Zealand (PRHNZ) director Becky Innes has confirmed the publisher is undertaking ‘structural changes’, with the Spinoff reporting that head of publishing Claire Murdoch and nonfiction publisher...
The Voice to Parliament Handbook wins ABIA book of the year
Thursday, 9 May 2024
The winners of the 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced, with The Voice to Parliament Handbook (Thomas Mayo & Kerry O’Brien, HG Explore) taking out the overall book...
Hachette announces restructure, King to oversee international divisions
Thursday, 9 May 2024
Hachette has announced a restructure, involving changes to its UK and US operations, that the publisher says is ‘designed to meet consumer needs in all formats and fuel Hachette’s growth...
UQP sells First Nations Classics series to Bolinda
Thursday, 9 May 2024
UQP has sold world audio rights to the First Nations Classics series to Bolinda, in a 15-book deal brokered by rights and contracts manager Erin Sandiford. In 2023, UQP launched...
Birch, McMullin win 2024 Age Book of the Year awards
Thursday, 9 May 2024
The winners of the Age Book of the Year awards have been announced. Tony Birch won the fiction award for his novel Women & Children (UQP) and Ross McMullin won...
Brumby Sunstate acquires Bookreps NZ
Thursday, 9 May 2024
Queensland-based distributor Brumby Sunstate has acquired Bookreps NZ, and its distribution arm Publishers Distribution NZ, based in Auckland. Established in 1996, Bookreps NZ is an agency-based book sales businesses and...