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AI: The next, best editorial tool? 

Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Editors Rose Michael, Sharon Mullins, Renée Otmar and Katherine Day ask how AI tools might work, or be made to work, for editorial. Back when Rose was editor of the...

Rising Stars on AI 

Wednesday, 22 November 2023
How do the publishing industry's rising stars feel about AI? Editors Rose Michael, Sharon Mullins, Renée Otmar and Katherine Day are interested in how AI tools might work, or be made...

Ingram’s David Taylor on POD

Wednesday, 22 November 2023
David Taylor is senior vice president at Ingram Content Group and has responsibility for Ingram’s print-on-demand (POD) activities outside Ingram’s US base. These include the Ingram-owned Lightning Source businesses in...

Melbourne Books acquires Pascoe historical fiction 

Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to a historical war fiction novel from Bruce Pascoe, titled Imperial Harvest, via the Fran Moore Literary Agency. In the book, which is set...

Vaillant wins Baillie Gifford Prize

Tuesday, 21 November 2023
In the UK, John Vaillant has won the £50,000 (A$95,350) Baillie Gifford Prize for Fire Weather: A true story from a hotter world (Sceptre). Judges said Fire Weather is a ‘meticulously researched,...

Inaugural Hope Prize seeks submissions

Tuesday, 21 November 2023
A new Australia-based international writing prize, The Hope Prize, is seeking ‘stories of hope, courage, and resilience’. Fiction and nonfiction submissions between 2000 and 5000 words are sought, responding to...

National Book Awards 2023 winners announced

Monday, 20 November 2023
In the US, the winners of the 2023 National Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Blackouts (Justin Torres, FSG) Nonfiction The Rediscovery of America:...

A&U acquires Rodda junior fiction

Author photograph of Emily Rodda Monday, 20 November 2023
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Landovel, a three-part junior fantasy adventure story from Emily Rodda. Publisher Eva Mills described the work as ‘compulsive and engaging’, and...

Newcastle Poetry Prize 2023 winners announced

Monday, 20 November 2023
The Hunter Writers’ Centre has announced the winners of the 2023 Newcastle Poetry Prize. The prize-winning pieces are: First prize ($15,000) ‘The Crossing’ by Kevin Smith Second prize ($5000) ‘Lines...

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2023 winners announced

Logo for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards Thursday, 16 November 2023
The recipients of the 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards (PMLAs) have been announced. The winners in each category receive $80,000, and the shortlisted writers each receive $5000. All prizes are...

2023 Storylines Notable Book Award winners announced

Logo for the Storylines Notable Book Awards Thursday, 16 November 2023
Storylines Children’s Literature Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki o Aotearoa has announced the 2023 Storylines Notable Book Award winners. This year’s winners are: Nonfiction Critters of Aotearoa: 50 bizarre but...

Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship 2023 shortlist announced

Thursday, 16 November 2023
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 2023 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship shortlist. The shortlisted applicants, chosen by authors Mirandi Riwoe and Anna Spargo-Ryan, are: Emily Bitto for ‘Reasons...

Vivendi closes Editis sale

Thursday, 16 November 2023
French media company Vivendi has closed the sale of publishing house Editis to International Media Invest for €653 million (A$1.1b), reports the Bookseller. The sale price is less than the...

The Next Chapter 2024 recipients announced

Wednesday, 15 November 2023
The Wheeler Centre has announced the 2024 recipients of The Next Chapter writing development program. This year's five recipients are Raqiya Ahmed, Claire Cao, Jake Corvus, Laniyuk, and Maria van Neerven. The...

Booksellers sign statement of solidarity with Palestine

Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Local and international booksellers have signed an open letter in solidarity with Palestine. Published on Overland and attributed to Booksellers for Palestine, the letter states: ‘We stand against the collective...

AI and AR at the Sharjah Publishers Conference 

Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Each year, the Sharjah International Book Fair brings publishing professionals to the United Arab Emirates through its fellowship program. Agata Mrva-Montoya, from the University of Sydney, reports on her first...

Larrikin acquires Vee, Faber junior fiction 

Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to a junior fiction title by author and illustrator Jules Faber and Larrikin publicist Dani Vee, titled How Not To…. Described by the publisher...

Shelley to lead Hachette in UK and US

Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Hachette Book Group (HBG) in the US and Hachette UK (HUK) will be reorganised under ‘a new English-language management structure’ that will see HUK CEO David Shelley take on the...

Victoria Carless on ‘Lani and the Universe’ 

Tuesday, 14 November 2023
Victoria Carless is a Brisbane-based author who has written for middle-grade readers and young adults, and for theatre. Her debut novel, The Dream Walker (Hachette, 2017), was nominated for the Queensland...

SPN Independent Publishing conference to be held next week

Tuesday, 14 November 2023
The Small Press Network (SPN) 2023 Independent Publishing conference will be held from 23–25 November at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre and livestreamed online. The research day on Thursday, 23 November will...

Larrikin House acquires two junior fantasy series 

Tuesday, 14 November 2023
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to two junior fantasy fiction series from Louise Park and collaborators—the Boy vs Beast series (co-written with Susannah McFarlane, writing as Mac Park), which...

Kochanski wins £50k Wolfson History Prize

Cover image of Resistance by Halik Kochanski Tuesday, 14 November 2023
In the UK, Halik Kochanski has won the £50,000 (A$96,280) Wolfson History Prize for Resistance: The underground war in Europe, 1939–45 (Allen Lane). Kochanski's book was chosen from a shortlist of...

Nielsen reports consistent Black Friday sales boost 

Monday, 13 November 2023
Nielsen BookData has reported a five-year trend of increasing print book sales during the annual Black Friday retail promotion in Australia. Since 2017, volume sales in the Australian book market...

Phillips wins 2023 Bragg Prize

Monday, 13 November 2023
Nicky Phillips has won the 2023 UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing for her essay ‘Trials of the heart’. In the winning essay, Phillips ‘illuminates the scientific evidence presented...

Speech Pathology awards 2023 winners announced

Friday, 10 November 2023
The winners of the 2023 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Age Category: Birth to 3 years Snap!...

Bashford wins 2023 Nib Literary Award

Friday, 10 November 2023
Alison Bashford has won the Waverley Council’s 2023 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, for her book An Intimate History of Evolution: The story of the Huxley family...

Branigan wins 2023 Cundill History Prize

Friday, 10 November 2023
Guardian writer Tania Branigan has won the 2023 Cundill History Prize, worth US$75,000 (A$117,100), for Red Memory: Living, remembering and forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution (Faber). The book is an exploration...

 

 

 

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