Rusher departs MUP for Hachette
Emma Rusher will leave her position as head of sales and marketing at Melbourne University Publishing for a new role as communications director at Hachette Australia. Hachette’s marketing and publicity...
MUP appoints new directors, editorial advisory board
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has appointed two new directors to its board, and announced eight members of its new editorial advisory board. Former managing director of Oxford University Press Australia...
Hamad’s ‘White Tears/Brown Scars’ sold to US
North American rights to journalist and academic Ruby Hamad’s forthcoming book White Tears/Brown Scars (MUP) have been sold via auction to US publisher Catapult. Rachel Crawford at MacKenzie Wolf sold...
‘Cardinal’ available in Victoria after suppression order lifts
After court suppression orders relating to the trial of Cardinal George Pell were lifted yesterday, 26 February, ABC journalist Louise Milligan’s book Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell...
Victorian government calls on university to reverse decision on MUP
Victorian minister for creative industries Martin Foley has called on the University of Melbourne to reverse its decision to overhaul Melbourne University Publishing (MUP). In his speech at the Victorian...
Adler, MUP board directors resign amid university tensions
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) CEO Louise Adler and four independent directors of the MUP board have resigned after the university proposed a new focus on scholarly publishing for the press,...
MUP acquires Hanson-Young book on slut-shaming
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has acquired ANZ rights to En Garde by Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young. ‘Senator Sarah Hanson-Young’s private life became a matter of public interest when she was...
Greer’s ‘On Rape’ sold to Bloomsbury UK
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has sold UK and Irish rights to Germaine Greer’s On Rape to Bloomsbury UK. Bloomsbury won the rights at auction after 12 UK publishers reviewed the submission....
The Art of Reading (Damon Young, MUP)
What’s the difference between a writer and a reader? In an ideal world, you would be both. After all, they say everyone has a story to tell. Damon Young’s story...
MUP to publish Payne autobiography
Melbourne University Publishing has acquired the rights to My Story, the autobiography of Michelle Payne, who in 2015 became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. In a...
Van Tiggelen appointed editor of ‘Meanjin’ in 2016, ‘influential Australians’ to guest edit in 2015
Journalist John van Tiggelen has been appointed editor of Melbourne-based literary journal Meanjin from February 2016.Van Tiggelen, who has previously worked as a staff writer and editor at the Monthly...
MUP memoir subject of legal action
A forthcoming memoir from the former executive producer of TV breakfast show ‘Sunrise’ is the subject of legal action.Publisher MUP said in a statement that the Seven Network has issued...
Read ahead: Preview of 2014 titles
Kate Blackwood rounds up publishers’ top picks for 2014. Fiction Maxine Beneba Clarke’s debut short-story collection is Hodder and Headline sales and marketing director Justin Ractliffe’s top pick for 2014....
Publishers make the Arts Top 50 in the ‘Australian’
Griffith REVIEW founding editor Julianne Schultz, Melbourne University Publishing CEO Louise Adler, Text publisher Michael Heyward, Lonely Planet founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler and Black Inc. owner Morry Schwartz have...
Publishers make the Arts Top 50 in the ‘Australian’
Griffith REVIEW founding editor Julianne Schultz, Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) CEO Louise Adler, Text publisher Michael Heyward, Lonely Planet founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler and Black Inc. owner Morry Schwartz have...
McInnis appointed ‘Meanjin’ deputy editor
Catherine McInnis has been appointed deputy editor of Melbourne-based literary journal Meanjin. McInnis, who also works for Melbourne University Publishing in the role of digital marketing assistant, joined Meanjin in...
MUP, Harlequin Escape join NetGalley
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) and Harlequin Escape are the latest local publishers to make electronic advance reading copies of their books available through NetGalley. The US-based NetGalley allows registered readers,...
The proof is in the printing: Print-on-demand and short-run digital
Publishers regularly extol the virtues of print-on-demand (POD) and short-run digital printing. Eloise Keating asked several publishers to share recent examples of their benefits. Black Inc.’s US choice for POD...
New editor for ‘Meanjin’
Zora Sanders will take over the role of editor of Melbourne-based literary journal Meanjin in March. Current editor Sally Heath, who joined Meanjin at the start of 2011, is stepping...
MUP moves offices
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has moved into new offices. The publisher, which was formerly housed, along with the literary journal Meanjin, in Grattan Street, Carlton, in Melbourne, has moved ‘up...