Mildura program; inaugural Liminal Festival; new Queensland poetry festival; Words on the Waves bestsellers
Thursday, 20 June 2024
Mildura Writers Festival has announced the program for its 2024 festival, running from 18 to 21 July. Guests include Christos Tsiolkas, Charlotte Wood, Nam Le, Melissa Lucashenko, Stan Grant, Julie...
APA Rising Star 2024 shortlist announced
Thursday, 20 June 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlist for its 2024 Rising Star award. The shortlisted professionals, who each began their publishing careers in the past 10 years, are:...
Byron Writers Festival full program announced
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Byron Writers Festival has announced its full program for the 2024 festival, which will take place from 9 to 11 August on Bundjalung Country in Bangalow, in northern New South...
Vale Lynne Spender
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Feminist writer and legal advocate Lynne Spender has died, aged 77. Spinifex Press director Susan Hawthorne writes: I met Lynne Spender in 1987 through my role as an editor at...
Ensure your story is preserved and read by future generations
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Australia’s books + our shelves: The National Library of Australia seeks a complete collection The National Library of Australia has an ambitious mission: to assemble a complete collection of Australian...
Designer (contract, children’s publishing), Sydney
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd For over thirty years, Walker Books Australia has published award-winning and outstanding children’s books for readers of all ages. We have an exciting opportunity for...
Editor (children’s publishing), Sydney
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd For over thirty years, Walker Books Australia has published award-winning and outstanding children’s books for readers of all ages. We have an exciting opportunity for...
Bookseller, children’s specialist, Melbourne
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Readings We are looking for a skilled bookseller to join our Doncaster shop. The ideal candidate will have expertise in children’s literature and will serve as our dedicated Children’s Specialist....
Change for Central Avenue Publishing
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Publisher: Central Avenue Publishing New distributor: Simon & Schuster Australia Changeover date: 1 September 2024
Change for Signs Publishing
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Publisher: Signs Publishing New distributor: Simon & Schuster Australia Changeover date: 1 October 2024
Key dates for change of distribution for Hardie Grant Publishing (HGP)
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
The Distribution and Logistics Company (TDLC) will take over ANZ distribution for Hardie Grant Publishing (HGP) from HEDS as of 1 July 2024. We thank HEDS for their representation and...
Income tax returns and your Books+Publishing subscription
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) provides information on its website about work-related income tax deductions for digital information services, such as Books+Publishing. The ATO website says: 'To claim a deduction...
Ross wins final Vogel
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
First Year by Kristina Ross has won this year’s $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. First Year follows Maeve, a...
Ortiz wins 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Kaya Ortiz has won the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award for their unpublished manuscript, Past and Parallel Lives. Ortiz receives a publishing contract and manuscript development with UWA Publishing, and $10,000...
Ganeshananthan, Klein win Women’s Prizes
Monday, 17 June 2024
In the UK, Brotherless Night by US author V V Ganeshananthan (Viking) has won the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and Doppelganger: A trip into the mirror world by Canadian...
Zheng wins 2024 Island Nonfiction Prize
Monday, 17 June 2024
Island has announced that Cherry Zheng is the winner of the 2024 Island Nonfiction Prize for the piece ‘Fucking with Chineseness’. Zheng is a writer of Cantonese heritage, who was...
Saleh wins Anne Elder Award 2023
Monday, 17 June 2024
Australian Poetry has announced Sara M Saleh as the winner of the Anne Elder Award 2023 for a first book of poetry for The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat (UQP, 2023)....
Stills wins 2024 Text Prize
Monday, 17 June 2024
Melbourne writer Caroline Stills has won the 2024 Text Prize for her debut middle-grade novel A Gift from the Birds. Chosen from a shortlist of five announced earlier this month,...
‘Hungry Ghosts’ wins 2024 Walter Scott Prize
Friday, 14 June 2024
Kevin Jared Hosein has won the £25,000 (A$47,648) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for the novel Hungry Ghosts (Bloomsbury), reports the Bookseller. Set in Trinidad during the 1940s, Hungry...
Former Hachette Livre CEO launches publisher, partners with S&S
Thursday, 13 June 2024
Former Hachette Livre CEO Arnaud Nourry has launched a new group of publishing houses in France, reports the Bookseller. The company, Les Nouveaux Éditeurs, has entered a partnership with Simon...
Karajia and Environment Award for Children’s Literature shortlists announced
Thursday, 13 June 2024
The Wilderness Society has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Environment Award for Children’s Literature and the Karajia Award for First Nations children’s storytelling. Shortlisted titles in each category include:...
Island Nonfiction Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Thursday, 13 June 2024
Island has announced the shortlist for its annual nonfiction prize. Shortlisted essays for the prize include: ‘A Story-Shaped Life’ (Gan Ainm) ‘Writing Task 1’ (Suri Matondkar) ‘seeing Ningaloo’ (Jenny Sinclair)...
Bill to establish Writing Australia, King’s Birthday Honours, WA Premier’s Book Award winners
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Federal arts minister Tony Burke introduced a bill to parliament on 5 June to formally establish Writing Australia and First Nations Arts as bodies within Creative Australia, with Writing Australia...
Summit Books to publish memoir from ‘Alone Australia’ winner
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has announced the first acquisition by Jane Palfreyman as Summit Books publishing director is We Are the Stars, a memoir by Gina Chick, winner of...
Vale Michael Mosley
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
British television personality, medical journalist and author Michael Mosley has died, aged 67. As an advocate for intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate diets, Mosley wrote the Fast 800 series of books...
Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipients announced
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Writers Victoria has announced the 11th round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. The eight successful recipients—who share in a total of $50,419—are: Elfy Scott (NSW), to...
2024 Prix Voltaire shortlist announced
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has announced the 2024 shortlist for the Prix Voltaire. This year’s shortlist, announced at the World Expression Forum, includes: Osman Kavala, Türkiye Dušan Gojkov, Balkan...
Designer (contract, children’s publishing), Sydney
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd For over thirty years, Walker Books Australia has published award-winning and outstanding children’s books for readers of all ages. We have an exciting opportunity for...
Lead booking coordinator, Melbourne
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Booked Out Speakers Agency Booked Out Speakers Agency seeks a Lead Booking Coordinator to oversee a small staff team in arranging public speaking engagements for a diverse range of speakers,...
Editor, Sydney
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Echo Publishing Echo Publishing, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, is looking for an editor with a minimum of five years’ experience editing and project managing titles in a book...
