Report finds acute shortage of skilled workers in publishing roles
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
A new report into skills shortages in the creative industries has identified an acute shortage of skilled workers in editorial, production, and management roles in the publishing industry. Prepared by...
Affirm Press acquires Louise picture-book series
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to six books in the picture-book series Handbooks for Little Humans by Zanni Louise, in a deal between Simon & Schuster and Affirm children’s...
Summit Books acquires Nelson short fiction collection
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Simon & Schuster imprint Summit Books has acquired ANZ rights to the debut short fiction collection Wait Here by Lucy Nelson, via Martin Shaw Literary. Each of the stories in...
BWF announces new venue, timing and bookseller
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) will next year take place at the Brisbane Powerhouse and has announced it will move to a later time of year. In a statement, BWF...
Amplify Bookstore opens physical store
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Amplify Bookstore, which opened in 2020 as an online-only bookseller specialising in in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, has opened a physical bookshop in Melbourne....
Andrew replaces Hardingham at Unity Books Wellington
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
In Aotearoa New Zealand, Susanna Andrew has been appointed manager of Unity Books Wellington, replacing Adrian Hardingham. In a statement, the bookshop’s co-owners Tilly Lloyd and Jo and Lawrie McColl,...
Wood launches communications agency
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Alice Wood has announced the launch of new communications agency Novel Concept Brand Management. Formerly head of marketing and communications for adult books at HarperCollins, Wood established the business after...
Netflix to release ‘The Woman Who Fooled the World’ adaptation
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Netflix, in collaboration with See-Saw Films and Picking Scabs, has released the first trailer of Apple Cider Vinegar, a limited series inspired by the book The Woman Who Fooled the...
Murdoch acquires ‘She Births’
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Murdoch Books has acquired world rights to She Births: A Practical Guide to Creating a Beautiful Birth by Nadine Richardson, via Lou Johnson at Key People Literary Management. Richardson is...
S&S acquire Masen romance series
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to two novels in a new romance series from Kat T Masen. Described as a ‘small-town billionaire romance series’, the series...
Flanagan wins 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
In the UK, Question 7 by Australian author Richard Flanagan (Knopf) has won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, worth £50,000 (A$96,097), becoming the first author to win both this...
‘Nuked’ wins 2024 Walkley Book Award
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Andrew Fowler has won the 2024 Walkley Book Award for Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty (MUP). Walkley judges said: ‘Andrew Fowler’s razor-sharp analysis uses extensive research and interviews...
Bergmoser’s ‘The Hunted’ to be adapted for screen
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Writer and director John Michael McDonagh, with Film Constellation and CAA Media Finance, will adapt The Hunted, a novel by Gabriel Bergmoser (HarperCollins), for film in Australia in 2025. The...
Booktopia Group insolvent since at least 31 January; entities put into liquidation
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Booktopia Group Limited creditors have voted in favour of the resolution that Booktopia Group Limited—and associated entities Booktopia Pty Ltd, Making I. T. Better Pty Ltd, and Virtual Lifestyles Pty...
Gale and Golding to depart Scribe in restructure
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Scribe has announced that trade sales manager Sarina Gale and senior editor David Golding will leave the company after a restructure. Gale and Golding, both based in Melbourne, will leave...
Hardie Grant leadership changes
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Hardie Grant (HG) has announced a new leadership team, following the announcement that Julie Pinkham will be stepping down from the position of group managing director after 27 years with...
HarperCollins acquires Johnston novel ‘The Revisionists’
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to The Revisionists, a new novel by Michelle Johnston, via Martin Shaw of Shaw Literary. The publisher said the book ‘examines the malleability of...
State Library of NSW 2024 fellowships announced
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the recipients of its 2024 research fellowships, worth a total of $186,000 across eight categories, on the 50th anniversary of its research...
Creative Australia Elevate funding recipients announced
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Creative Australia has announced a new round of recipients of its Elevate: First Nations Storytelling and Literature career development funding program. The recipients—each receiving a $10,000 grant—are: Tahnee Carter Vivienne...
HarperCollins acquires three new McTiernan books
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to three new books by Dervla McTiernan, including The Unquiet Grave. The Unquiet Grave features Cormac Reilly—who first appeared in McTiernan’s 2018 debut, The...
Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipients announced
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Writers Victoria has announced the recipients for the 12th round of the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. The eight recipients—who share in funding of $50,795—are: Poet, producer, editor and weaver...
A&U acquires Scott debut thriller ‘Stillwater’
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to debut thriller Stillwater by Tanya Scott ‘after a fiercely contested auction’, in a two-book deal brokered by Tom Gilliatt at a4 Literary...
Australians on Frankfurt 2024: Busy and upbeat, with no clear ‘book of the fair’
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Australian literary managers and rights agents were among 115,000 trade visitors from 153 countries at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, which ran from 16 to 20 October 2024. The 76th...
Hughes to leave Affirm, Blake and Besliev appointed publishing directors
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has announced Affirm Press publishing director Martin Hughes will step away from the role at the end of the year. In a statement, S&S said...
HG Explore acquires Wilson’s new book
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights to Sarah Wilson’s new book, Walk the World Bigger, under its Hardie Grant Explore imprint. In Walk the World Bigger, Wilson brings together ‘the...
QBD 2024 Book of the Year winners announced
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
QBD has announced the winners of the chain's 2024 Book of the Year. The winning titles are: Fiction The Ledge (Christian White, Affirm) Nonfiction The Voice Inside (John Farnham with...
Left Bank Literary to dissolve
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Left Bank Literary has announced that the agency will dissolve as of 1 December. ‘After five wonderful years, Gaby Naher and Grace Heifetz have decided to explore new opportunities outside...
Whitley Awards 2024 winners announced
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Royal Zoological Society of NSW has announced the winners of the 2024 Whitley Awards, presented for outstanding publications that profile the unique wildlife of the Australasian region. The Whitley Medal,...
Australian, Aotearoa New Zealand titles on 2024 White Ravens list
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Several books by Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand authors have been included in the 2024 White Ravens list for international children’s and youth literature. Among the works listed in 2024...
HarperCollins acquires O’Flynn romantasy series at auction
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to two books in The Tides of Ever series by Olivia O’Flynn, via Samuel Bernard of Zeitgeist Agency in a ‘heated auction across several...
