OzCo VIP Program guests announced for SWF 2015
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2015 Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program, to be held during the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May.The visiting international...
International marketplaces, territoriality discussed at VIP industry forum
This year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week included the annual Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program, which offers Australian publishers the opportunity to meet with international publishers and editors. On 3 March several of...
OzCo VIP Program guests announced for AWW 2014
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2014 Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program, to be held during Adelaide Writers’ Week in March. The visiting international...
Publishing trends and challenges discussed at VIP industry forum
This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival included the annual Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program, which offers Australian publishers the opportunity to meet with international publishers and editors. On 22 May several...
OzCo VIP Program guests announced for SWF 2013
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2013 Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program, to be held during the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May. The visiting international...
Byrne appointed to VIP Program committee
The Australia Council has announced Wenona Byrne has joined the Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program committee. Byrne, who is rights and international sales manager at Allen & Unwin, joins existing...
Adelaide Writers Week kicks off; visiting UK publisher laments Amazon ‘stranglehold’ on ebooks
Blue tarpaulin shades have replaced the (famously hot) white tents at this year's Adelaide Writers' Week. It's one of new director Laura Kroetsch's biggest changes to the now-annual event, which...
2012 Adelaide Writers’ Week program launched
The program for the 2012 Adelaide Writers' Week, to be held between 3 and 8 March during the Adelaide festival, has been released. Among the international authors who will participate...
OzCo VIP Program 2012 guests announced
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests for next year's Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program, to be held during Adelaide Writers Week in March 2012. International guests confirmed...
Masson, Tuffield join OzCo VIP program committee
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that Pippa Masson, literary agent at Curtis Brown and Aviva Tuffield, fiction acquisitions editor at Scribe, have joined the committee for the...
Additional guests announced for 2011 SWF VIP program; international guests to visit Auckland
Further to the Weekly Book Newsletter article SWF visiting publishers announced, the Australia Council for the Arts has announced additional guests for this year's Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program at...
VIP program Adelaide 2010: first guests announced
The Australian Council for the Arts has announced the first comfirmed guests of its Visiting International publishers (VIP) program at Adelaide Writers' Week 2010. Those confirmed so far are: Caroline...
Weir appointed to VIP committee
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that Random House rights sales manager Nerrilee Weir has joined the Visiting International Publisher (VIP) committee. ‘Nerrilee's experience and knowledge of international...
VIPs at SWF
The Australia Council-sponsored Visiting International Publisher (VIP) program was again an important part of the Sydney Writers Festival (the annual VIP program alternates between the Sydney and Adelaide festivals). This...
Sydney Writers’ Festival industry events announced
The Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program takes place during the Sydney Writers' festival, which runs from 18 to 24 May, 2009. Editors, publishers and agents from overseas will join in...
VIP Program: Heyward and Darling step down; Duffy and Hamley appointed
UQP publisher Madonna Duffy, and literary agent Sophie Hamley of the Cameron Creswell Agency have joined the Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program committee. They join Fiona Henderson, consulting publisher at...
OzCo committed to supporting ‘the literary sector’
The Australia Council's market development section has reiterated its commitment to ‘an increased investment in literature that responds to the growth and current momentum of the Australian literary sector.'VIPs supportedOzCo...
Adelaide Writers’ Week breaking records despite heat
The 2008 Adelaide Writers' Week got off to a 'record-breaking' start on Sunday, with visiting ex-pat Germaine Greer drawing an adoring crowd--and sales of her most recent book Shakespeare's Wife...
Three changes to VIP program
Three changes have been announced this year's Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program at the Adelaide Writers Week.New guests Andreas Campomar (commissioning editor, Constable & Robinson, UK), Patrick Janson-Smith (literary agent,...
VIP guests announced for Adelaide
The Australia Council-sponsored Visiting International Publisher (VIP) program will be held this year in conjunction with Adelaide Writers' Week.The list of confirmed participants to date is:Richard Beswick, managing director, Little,...