Authors, literary organisations among Copyright Agency Cultural Fund recipients
Monday, 5 August 2024
The Copyright Agency has announced the projects to be funded through its 2024 Cultural Fund program, among which are 20 organisations with literary projects and three authors. Among the 25...
Hazard to join Keeperton
Monday, 5 August 2024
New publishing venture Keeperton has announced the appointment of former Hachette Australia group publishing director Fiona Hazard as head of global strategy and development. In a statement, Keeperton said the...
UQP acquires two Sakr collections
Monday, 5 August 2024
UQP has acquired two new books by Omar Sakr. The first, The Nightmare Sequence, is a collection of poetry responding to the ongoing situation in Gaza, with a foreword by...
Australian Geographic, Hardie Grant announce publishing partnership
Monday, 5 August 2024
Australian Geographic and Hardie Grant are partnering on a new publishing program. The program will comprise new titles and updated editions of Australian Geographic’s core range of publications. In a...
Wiley, OUP confirm AI partnerships
Monday, 5 August 2024
In the UK, the Bookseller reports that academic publishers Wiley and Oxford University Press (OUP) have confirmed artificial intelligence (AI) partnerships, following the recent news that Taylor & Francis has...
Wright awarded 2024 Miles Franklin for ‘Praiseworthy’, becomes two-time winner
Thursday, 1 August 2024
Alexis Wright has won the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for her novel Praiseworthy (Giramondo). Wright previously won the award in 2007 for her novel Carpentaria (Giramondo), and now...
Middle-grade sales fall 5% in US
Thursday, 1 August 2024
In the US, a new report from Circana BookScan shows print sales of middle-grade books fell 5% in the first half of 2024 from the comparable period in 2023, with...
Creative Australia International Travel, Translation, and Rights Funds for Literature recipients announced
Thursday, 1 August 2024
Creative Australia has announced 2024 recipients of grants from several funds supporting Australian literature. The recipients are: International Travel Fund Katherine Brabon Sarah Firth Chris Gooch Hasib Blaik Hourani Dinuka...
Mulhall awarded 2024 Reading Australia Fellowship
Thursday, 1 August 2024
The Copyright Agency has named Maya Mulhall, a teacher from Blackburn High School in Victoria, the 2024 Reading Australia Fellow for teachers of English and literacy and teacher librarians. Mulhall...
Wilson wins 2024 Desperate Literature Prize, Australian writer shortlisted
Thursday, 1 August 2024
London-based writer Sukie Wilson has won the 2024 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, while Australian author Amanda Hildebrandt and UK-based writer Richie Jones are runners-up. Wilson won for their work...
Queensland Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Thursday, 1 August 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. In several categories, the awards' value has increased this year, with the total value of the awards now standing...
UBD to rebrand as Penguin Random House Distribution
Thursday, 1 August 2024
United Book Distributors (UBD), the distribution facility of Penguin Random House (PRH), has announced it will rebrand to Penguin Random House Distribution from 1 August, with the new name to...
Sullivan appointed MWF festival director
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Veronica Sullivan, head of programming at the Wheeler Centre (TWC), will step down from the role at the end of August to become festival director at Melbourne Writers Festival. Said...
Deadline for next Booktopia meeting of creditors extended
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Booktopia administrators have until early December to find a buyer for the company after a Federal Court judge ordered a three-month extension to the deadline before the next meeting of...
Lauren Stewart on BookNet Canada
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Lauren Stewart, president and CEO of BookNet Canada, will present a keynote at the Australian Publishers Association's BookUp conference in Melbourne on 7 August. Ahead of this appearance, Stewart spoke...
Taylor wins 2024 Ackerley Prize
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
In the UK, journalist and author Catherine Taylor has won the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize 2024 for The Stirrings (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), reports the Bookseller. Taylor receives £4000 (A$7852). Also shortlisted for...
Wood longlisted for 2024 Booker Prize
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Australian author Charlotte Wood has been longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Stone Yard Devotional (A&U). The 13 books shortlist for the £50,000 (A$98,124) prize are: Creation...
Meet the Rising Stars: Yasmin Smith
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the...
Hamouda wins 2024 National Biography Award for ‘The Shape of Dust’
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
The Shape of Dust: A father wrongly imprisoned, a daughter’s quest to free him (Lamisse Hamouda with Hazem Hamouda, Pantera) has won the 2024 National Biography Award. Hamouda wins $25,000,...
Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
The Australian Book Review has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The shortlisted works are: ‘First Snow’ by Kerry Greer (WA) ‘Pornwald’ by Jill Van...
Hasib Hourani recommends
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
I keep returning to Jumaana Abdu’s Translations, which will be released in August. It’s an expertly paced work of fiction about a woman trying to build a home for herself...
Pantera acquires Sheppard adult novel
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights for Holden Sheppard’s first novel for adults, Two Kings, in a deal brokered by Gaby Naher at Left Bank Literary. Two Kings is described...
Mentoring matters: Arpita Das on the myths, realities and importance of mentoring
Tuesday, 30 July 2024
Arpita Das will appear at the Australian Publishers Association's BookUp conference in Melbourne in August as a keynote speaker. Das is the founder and publisher of the New Delhi–based independent...
Hasib Hourani on ‘rock flight’
Tuesday, 30 July 2024
Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker and educator living on Wangal Country in Sydney. His debut book, rock flight (Giramondo, September 2024), is a 'structurally experimental long-form poem...
Hardie Grant acquires Petracca cookbook
Tuesday, 30 July 2024
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to AFL star and Norm Smith medallist Christian Petracca’s debut cookbook, Christian Petracca’s On Trac Cookbook. A premiership player and midfielder for the...
Ingram titles added to Spotify
Tuesday, 30 July 2024
In the US, distributor Ingram Content Group has announced a ‘collaboration with streaming giant Spotify to bring audiobooks of independent publishers to the subscribers of Spotify Premium’. The company said...
Ann Moyal Nonfiction Fellowship 2024 recipients announced
Monday, 29 July 2024
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the three recipients of the 2024 Ann Moyal Nonfiction Fellowship. The recipients are Anna Hickey-Moody, director of the Arts and Humanities Institute at...
Lomer wins 2024 Furphy Literary Award
Monday, 29 July 2024
Kathryn Lomer has won the $15,000 first prize in the 2024 Furphy Literary Award for the short story ‘Nothing about Kissing’. Lomer is a poet, YA author and novelist from...
QWC Varuna fellowship 2024 recipients announced
Monday, 29 July 2024
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced the recipients of its two 2024 residential fellowships to be held at Varuna, the National Writers’ House. Recipients of the 2024 fellowships are...
Weber to lead new audiobooks research project
Monday, 29 July 2024
A new research project, led by lecturer Millicent Weber at the Australian National University (ANU), will investigate ‘how audiobooks are reshaping Australian book culture, including publishing, circulation and reading practices’....
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