12 August 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 South Australian Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Fiction Award ($15,000) All That’s Left Unsaid (Tracey Lien, HQ) Hydra (Adriane Howell,…
12 August 2024
The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James Cook University has announced the shortlist for the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, worth USD 50,000. The eight titles shortlisted for the prize…
12 August 2024
HarperCollins parent company News Corp has announced its fourth-quarter and full-year results. The company reported that its book publishing division saw revenue rise 6% in fiscal 2024…
12 August 2024
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards. The shortlisted works in each category are: Best Crime Novel Killer Traitor Spy (Tim Ayliffe, S&S) Ripper…
12 August 2024
Chris Hammer has won the 2024 ACT Book of the Year Award, worth $10,000, for “The Seven” (A&U), “Untethered” (Ayesha Inoon, HQ Fiction), and “The Measure of Sorrow: Stories” (J…).
8 August 2024
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Australian History Prize ($15,000) Donald Horne:…
8 August 2024
Riikka Dunn, Sales Director of Alliance Distribution Services (ADS), has been named the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star 2024. Dunn was selected from a shortlist that also included Rebecca Allen…
8 August 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Because I’m Not Myself, You See (Ariane Beeston, Black…)
8 August 2024
An article in the Australian Financial Review (AFR) on August 7 said private electronics retailer digiDirect had “all but secured” the Booktopia business, according to people familiar with the company…
8 August 2024
The 2023 Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) Publishing Market Size Report, presented at the PANZ Conference in Auckland on 1 and 2 August, showed that there are …
8 August 2024
Orbit UK has launched a new horror imprint called Run For It, reports Bookseller. The imprint is Hachette UK’s first dedicated horror list and shares its name with a new…
7 August 2024
The winners of the 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand Book Industry Awards have been announced. Moa Press, an imprint of Hachette, was named Publisher of the Year, while Petronella’s Bookstore and…
7 August 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired the ANZ rights to Debra Oswald’s One Hundred Years of Betty. The deal was brokered by Anthony Blair at Cameron’s. On the eve of…
7 August 2024
In the UK, Scottish writer Martin MacInnes has won this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Prize for In Ascension (Atlantic), reports The Guardian. MacInnes’ third novel, In Ascension, is about marine biologist…
6 August 2024
In the unique new picture book My Dad’s Gone Away (Magabala, October 2024), authors Andrew Krakouer, a Minang (Nyoongar) and Inggarda (Yamatji) man and former AFL player, and Jacqueline Dinan …
6 August 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star Award recognises emerging talent in Australian publishing who have been in the industry for less than 10 years. In the run-up to the awards…
6 August 2024
Hachette Australia and Media Diversity Australia (MDA) have announced a “significant partnership”, with Hachette becoming MDA’s first book publishing member. In announcing the partnership, Hachette and MDA also…
6 August 2024
Blues Point Bookshop, which has been operating in McMahons Point, Sydney for 30 years, will be moving from its current location to a shopfront across the road later this month. Owner…
6 August 2024
UQP has announced that Director Ben James will step down from his post at the end of September. James was appointed UQP Director in 2019. During his time at the…
6 August 2024
Robbie Arnott has won the 2024 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, worth US$25,000, for his novel Limberlost (text). Limberlost is based on the life of Arnott’s…
6 August 2024
In the UK, the United Independent Distributors (UID) group, which includes Marston Book Services, Orca Book Services and Eurospan and was acquired by the US-based Independent Publishers Group (IPG), has been…
5 August 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Danger Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Debut novel Violet Kelly and the Jade Owl (Fiona Britton, A&U) The…
5 August 2024
The Copyright Agency has announced the projects to be supported under its 2024 Cultural Fund program. Among them are 20 organizations with literary projects and three authors. Among the 25…
5 August 2024
New publishing company Keeperton has announced the appointment of former Hachette Australia Group Publishing Director Fiona Hazard as Head of Global Strategy and Development. In a statement, Keeperton said the…
5 August 2024
UQP has acquired two new books by Omar Sakr. The first, The Nightmare Sequence, is a collection of poems in response to the ongoing situation in Gaza, with a foreword by…
5 August 2024
Australian Geographic and Hardie Grant are working together on a new publishing program. The program includes new titles and updated editions of the core Australian Geographic range. In a…
5 August 2024
In the UK, Bookseller reports that academic publishers Wiley and Oxford University Press (OUP) have confirmed partnerships in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), following the recent announcement that Taylor & Francis …
1 August 2024
Alexis Wright has won the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for her novel Praiseworthy (Giramondo). Wright had already won the award in 2007 for her novel Carpentaria (Giramondo) and now…
1 August 2024
In the US, a new report from Circana BookScan shows that print sales of middle grade books fell 5% in the first half of 2024 compared to the corresponding period in 2023, with…
1 August 2024
Creative Australia has announced the recipients of 2024 grants from various funds supporting Australian literature. The recipients are: International Travel Fund Katherine Brabon Sarah Firth Chris Gooch Hasib Blaik Hourani Dinuka…
