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Pitched at MIFF 2023 

Wednesday, 9 August 2023
Publishers and agents returned to the Melbourne International Film Festival's book-to-screen rights sales event Books@MIFF again this year, with a diverse range of titles selected for on-stage pitching, followed by...

Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Tom Langshaw 

Wednesday, 9 August 2023
The Australian Publishers Association 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 winner announcement at...

Suzie Miller on ‘Prima Facie’ 

Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Suzie Miller is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist who splits her time between the UK and Sydney. Prima Facie (Picador, September) is an adaptation of her smash-hit one-woman play, which...

Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Genevieve Nelsson 

Wednesday, 2 August 2023
The Australian Publishers Association 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 winner announcement at...

Thank you Mark Rubbo, from a sales rep 

Wednesday, 2 August 2023
Mark Rubbo retired as Readings MD on 28 July, after 50 years in the books business. Hardie Grant Books area manager, Victoria and Tasmania, Mandy Wildsmith reflects on working with...

Publishers flock to Threads

Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Meta, the owners of Instagram and Facebook, launched the new app Threads—a very similar platform to Twitter—on 5 July, gaining 100 million users in only five days, as those frustrated...

Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Eloise Plant 

Thursday, 20 July 2023
The Australian Publishers Association 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 winner announcement at...

Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Kathleen O’Neill 

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
The Australian Publishers Association 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 winner...

Kate Mildenhall on ‘The Hummingbird Effect’ 

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Kate Mildenhall is a Melbourne-based writer whose first book, Skylarking, was longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize and Indie Book Awards. Her second novel was the widely lauded The Mother Fault. Her latest, The...

Isolde Martyn & Robyn Ridgeway on ‘Country Town’ 

Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Historian and novelist Isolde Martyn and First Nations author Robyn Ridgeway have collaborated on a history of an imagined Australian country town, decade-by-decade from 1922 to the present day, illustrated...

Christmas 2023 all wrapped up: Local fiction 

Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local fiction titles releasing in time for Christmas 2023. Also see our features for nonfiction as well as children’s and YA titles. Familiar names...

Ash Barty on ‘Ash Barty: Champion’ 

Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Ash Barty is an Australian former professional tennis player and cricketer from Queensland. Those who pick up the new Young Readers edition of her memoir, Ash Barty: Champion (HarperCollins), ‘will...

Christmas 2023 all wrapped up: Local nonfiction 

Wednesday, 28 June 2023
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local nonfiction titles releasing in time for Christmas 2023.  Politics and culture Two books for those ready to read about the pandemic lockdowns: Life as...

Gabbie Stroud on ‘The Things That Matter Most’ 

Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Gabbie Stroud is a self-professed 'recovering teacher' and author of the bestselling Teacher (2018, A&U) based in Merimbula, NSW. Her new adult novel, The Things That Matter Most (A&U, August), is an...

Christmas 2023 all wrapped up: Local children’s and YA 

Wednesday, 21 June 2023
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local children’s and young adult titles releasing in time for Christmas 2023.  Tis the season  Among the children’s and YA titles coming in time for...

Maree Coote on ‘Letters for Lunch’ 

Tuesday, 20 June 2023
Maree Coote is a celebrated Melbourne-based publisher, author and illustrator known for her captivating and intricately detailed illustrations. She won the coveted Bologna Ragnazzi 2017 Special Mention Prize for her...

Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view  

Wednesday, 10 May 2023
In part one of an edited extract from their paper Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, delivered at this year's IPEd conference, Louise Merrington AE and Tanja Gardner outline the...

Amplify Bookstore’s winter picks 

Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Amplify Bookstore is an independent online bookseller specialising in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, founded by Jing Xuan Teo and Marina Sano. Here, they share their...

Time to open a bookshop 

Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Various new bookshops have opened up across Australia this year and the previous year, with most of them being focused on children’s books. We take a brief look at the...

Carl Merrison on ‘Backyard Footy’ 

Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Hailing from Halls Creek, children's author Carl Merrison won a 2020 black&write! fellowship to develop his 'Backyard Sports' picture book series. The first book, Backyard Footy (illus by Samantha Campbell,  Lothian,...

How international book markets performed in 2022 

Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Through the PubMagNet initiative, a collaboration between book industry trade magazines from around the world, representatives from publications in Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK and the US have shared insights...