Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Affirm Press has appointed Ariane Ryan to the role of publicist. Ryan was most recently publicist at Text Publishing, following working as sales coordinator at UQP. She began in the...

Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Australian Society of Authors CEO Olivia Lanchester has been appointed chair of the federal government's Public Lending Right Committee.

Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Sydney Writers’ Festival has appointed Anna Minns to the newly established role of ambassador for children and families.

Wednesday, 11 October 2023
Zoë Victoria has joined Ultimo Press as media officer.

Wednesday, 9 August 2023
Ruby Ashby-Orr, previously senior editor at Affirm Press, has been appointed to the role of commissioning editor.

Wednesday, 26 July 2023
Caraline Douglas, former head of marketing and partnerships at Schwartz, has been appointed head of marketing and engagement at the Wheeler Centre.

Wednesday, 26 July 2023
Abigail Nathan has joined Alex Adsett Literary as agent at large.

Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Katy Mutton has been appointed to the role of CEO of Marion, formerly the ACT Writers Centre. Employed by the organisation since 2019, Mutton has been serving as interim CEO...

Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Jaclyn Booton has left the role of creative director and co-CEO at the Stella Prize. Booton had joined the organisation in 2019 in the role of executive director.

Wednesday, 28 June 2023
Hayley Tomlinson has joined Rockpool as rights manager, after leaving the position of rights and contracts manager at University of Queensland Press.

Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Varuna creative director Amy Sambrooke is leaving the role in July after six years at the organisation.

Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Fremantle Press has appointed Siana Liffers as office and customer service coordinator and Lisa Fehnle as sales and marketing assistant.

Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Eleanor Limprecht has been appointed chair of the Writing NSW board.

Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Alyson O'Brien has been appointed publishing director at Little Book Press, the publishing arm at Raising Literacy Australia. O'Brien was previously associate publisher at Hardie Grant Children's Publishing, where she...

Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Jemma Birrell has joined Powerhouse as head of writing. Birrell was previously the creative director of Tablo Publishing.

Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Joanna Lewin, senior retail leader at Booktopia, is leaving the business as part of Booktopia's recently announced round of redundancies.

Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Melissa Whitwell has joined the Australian Publishers Association (APA) as events manager, Patrizia Di Biase-Dyson has returned from maternity leave to her role as chief of staff and Gillian Haines...

Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Shannon Britza, formerly CEO of the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre, has been appointed as Writing WA’s operations manager and Jessica Checkland has been appointed marketing and communications officer.

Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Becc Finney has joined the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) as marketing manager, replacing Lisa Flower who resigned from the full time position last year, but has been retained to manage...

Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Kathy Shand has been appointed chair of Sydney Writers’ Festival. Shand has served nine years on the festival board, the last two as deputy chair. Shand takes over the position...

Wednesday, 11 January 2023
Writing WA has announced Sharon Flindell has resigned as CEO of Writing WA, effective 23 December 2022. The board of Writing WA will commence a recruitment process to replace Flindell...

Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Paul Petrulis will retire from Cengage ANZ and his role as vice president of higher education at the end of December 2022. Marius du Plessis will be taking on the...

Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Jordan Meek will be stepping down from her role as senior rights executive at Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) to join CSIRO Publishing as the rights, permissions and sales officer....

Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has appointed former Melbourne Writers Festival associate director Gene Smith as its inaugural head of programming, to work alongside festival founder and director Janet DeNeefe.

Wednesday, 23 November 2022
Robin Derricourt has stepped down from his role compiling the Australian Publishing Association's Australian Publishing Industry Report, also known as the Benchmark Survey, after 11 years.

Wednesday, 23 November 2022
The Copyright Agency has announced the appointment of Sophie Cunningham to its board as one of two Australian Society of Authors (ASA) nominee directors, taking the place of outgoing author...