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Ockham 2024 longlists announced

1 February 2024
The longlists for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction (NZ$65,000) Audition (Pip Adam,...

APA to join Attorney-General’s AI reference group 

1 February 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has been invited onto the Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus’s Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Reference Group. The reference group, which was announced at the end of 2023...

APA releases diversity and inclusion plan

1 February 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released a diversity and inclusion plan ‘to guide and support industry progress over the next two years’. Listed on the organisation’s website, the plan...

Adelaide Writers’ Week announces 2024 program

31 January 2024
Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) has announced its 2024 program, running from 2 to 7 March. Held in Adelaide's Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden, the week features 194 writers across 135 sessions, under...

Forrest wins Newcastle Short Story Award

31 January 2024
Western Sydney writer Patrick Cruz Forrest has taken first place in the 2023 Newcastle Short Story Award for his short story ‘Kuya’. The winners, which will be published in an...

Inaugural Nero Book Award category winners announced

31 January 2024
The four category winners of the inaugural Nero Book Awards have been announced. Winners are: Children’s fiction The Swifts (Beth Lincoln, illus by Claire Powell, Puffin) Debut fiction Close to...

Horman, Robinsons Books apologise for X comments

30 January 2024
Susanne Horman, owner of Robinsons Bookshop, has apologised for comments about diverse books posted to her X account, reported the Age yesterday. On the weekend, Instagrammer @coffeebooksandmagic posted screenshots from...

Hardie Grant to move distribution to TDLC 

30 January 2024
Hardie Grant Publishing will move its Australian distribution from HEDS (Harper Entertainment Distribution Services) to TDLC (The Distribution and Logistics Company). Distribution with TDLC will commence on 1 July 2024,...

Authors among Australia Day honours

29 January 2024
Several authors have been recognised in the annual Australia Day honours. Aotearoa New Zealand children's writer and illustrator Pamela Allen has been appointed as a Member of the Order of...

A&U acquires Scolyer memoir 

Photograph of Richard Scolyer 29 January 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced it has acquired world rights to a memoir from Australian of the Year Richard Scolyer. Scolyer and Georgina Long, co–medical directors of the Sydney-based...

Bacon nominated for Philip K Dick Award

Cover image for Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon 29 January 2024
Local author Eugen Bacon is among the six nominees for the 2024 Philip K Dick Awards. Nominated titles include: Danged Black Thing (Eugen Bacon, Apex Book Company) The Museum of...

Staff changes at Red Room Poetry

25 January 2024
Red Room Poetry has announced several staff changes, including appointments of joint artistic directors, a new CEO, and two new managers, as part of the organisation's 'restructured director and management...

Texas book rating law blocked in Court of Appeals

25 January 2024
In a development Publishers Weekly described as ‘a major victory for freedom to read advocates’, the Fifth Circuit of the US Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision to...

Ultimo acquires debut Evans novel 

An author photograph of Liz Evans 25 January 2024
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Liz Evans’ debut novel, Catherine Wheel, via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown in a two-book deal. The publisher described the book as 'a...

Gecko Press acquired by Lerner Publishing Group 

24 January 2024
Aotearoa New Zealand publishing house Gecko Press has been acquired by US Lerner Publishing Group, reported the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ). According to an...

Hachette acquires Hampton, Daniher picture books 

A photograph of Taylor Hampton and Jacinta Daniher and their family in an outdoor environment 24 January 2024
Hachette has acquired world rights to two picture books celebrating First Nations culture by Taylor Hampton and Jacinta Daniher via Rochelle Fernandez at Alex Adsett Literary. According to the publisher,...

Hogan wins 2024 ABR Peter Porter Poetry Prize 

24 January 2024
Australian poet Dan Hogan has won the Australian Book Review (ABR) 2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for their poem ‘Workarounds’. Hogan receives $6000, while the other four shortlisted poets—Judith Nangala Crispin,...

S&S acquires Aston’s ‘The Chairman’s Lounge’ 

An author photograph of Joe Aston 23 January 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to The Chairman’s Lounge, an ‘explosive work of narrative nonfiction’ with 'fresh interviews and revelations' about Qantas’s handling of the Covid-19...

First Nations Storytelling funding recipients announced 

23 January 2024
Creative Australia has announced the recipients of its Elevate: First Nations Storytelling (Literature) career development funding. The six successful applicants to share almost $60,000 through the program are: Tisha Perrurle...

Newbery, Caldecott, Printz 2024 winners announced

23 January 2024
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has announced the winners of its Youth Media Awards, including the Newbery and Caldecott medals and the Printz award, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). Dave...

ANZ authors among 2024 Dublin Literary Award longlistees

19 January 2024
Several books by Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the €100,000 (A$166,000) International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work...

Strong Christmas boosts 2023 book sales 

Cover of Lola in the Mirror 18 January 2024
While book sales for the year overall were down on 2022 figures, 2023 finished strong, with Christmas sales up overall according to Nielsen BookScan figures. According to Nielsen, Australian sales...

DANZ Children’s Book Award longlists announced

18 January 2024
The longlists for the inaugural DANZ (Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children’s Book Award have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Picture books Echo (Lisa...

 

 

 

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