Account manager (QLD, NT & NZ), Brisbane
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Jobs
Gale Gale is a world leading provider of research resources, including digital archives, databases, and eBooks. We deliver quality resources to university, national, state and public libraries, as well as... Read more
Hazard to leave Hachette, BookPeople conference program, translators losing work to AI
Date: 17 April 2024Category: This week’s news
Headlining this week's news, Hachette Australia and New Zealand announced that group publishing director Fiona Hazard is leaving the role ‘to pursue other opportunities’. In other local news, BookPeople has... Read more
black&write! Writing Fellowships shortlist announced
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Awards Local news
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced the shortlist for this year’s black&write! Writing Fellowships. The six shortlisted writers are: Skye Cusack, for the young adult novel ‘The Dangers... Read more
Hazard to leave Hachette
Date: 11 April 2024Category: Local news
Hachette Australia and New Zealand has announced group publishing director Fiona Hazard is leaving the role ‘to pursue other opportunities’. Hazard joined Hodder Headline in 1999 as publishing manager before... Read more
AI and publishing: Concerns beyond copyright
Date: 10 April 2024Category: Features
The publishing sector’s response to last year’s revelations about the materials used to train generative AI has been characterised by concern over the unauthorised use of pirated books in these... Read more
Bleedthrough: censorship and book banning in Australia
Date: 3 April 2024Category: Features
When Australian writers, publishers, and librarians look at the state of US book banning, we are shocked at the violence and scale of book banning groups. Could attempts to fire... Read more
Spineless Wonders, AAWP announce new novella prize
Date: 2 April 2024Category: Awards Local news
Spineless Wonders has announced the inaugural Novella Prize, in partnership with the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP). Spineless Wonders publisher Bronwyn Mehan said the collaboration with the AAWP on... Read more
Australian publishers headed to Bologna
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Local news
Thirteen publisher representatives will attend this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair as part of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Collective Stand, which will be managed by APA events manager... Read more
Sterlin wins Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award
Date: 25 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Meanjin (Brisbane) poet Svetlana Sterlin has won the 2023 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award for her unpublished book-length collection ‘If Movement Were a Language’. Selected from a shortlist of... Read more
Full 2024 MWF program announced
Date: 22 March 2024Category: Local news
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has launched the full program for its 2024 festival, to be held in venues across the Melbourne CBD and surrounds from 6 to 12 May. Outgoing MWF... Read more
Who from Australia is at Bologna? Come and say hello at the Australian Stand party
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian editorial
In this Bologna Book Fair issue of Think Australian, we introduce you to Nicola Robinson, who will be attending Bologna for the first time, representing the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. See... Read more
Junior and middle-grade titles on offer at Bologna
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian feature
Junior Affirm Press describes its junior fiction title Forbidden Journal of Rufus Rumble #1: Worst Space Crew Ever (Nick Long, illus by Robin Tatlow-Lord) as Diary of A Wimpy Kid... Read more
Asian-Australian booksellers championing diversity
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Features
Emma Pei Yin is a British-born Hong Kong-Chinese author. She was also nominated for Bookseller of the Year in 2023. In this feature, Emma writes for Books+Publishing on the insights of three Asian-Australian... Read more
Learning consultant primary (QLD), Brisbane
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Jobs
Cengage Learning Pty Ltd About us Cengage is a leading educational content, technology, and services company for the higher education, vocational, school, professional and library markets. We provide superior content,... Read more
Learning consultant primary (WA/SA), Perth
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Jobs
Cengage Learning Pty Ltd About us Cengage is a leading educational content, technology, and services company for the higher education, vocational, school, professional and library markets. We provide superior content,... Read more
Publishers ask court to uphold finding against Internet Archive
Date: 19 March 2024Category: International news
SWF 2024 program released, Needham wins MUD Literary Prize, International Booker Prize longlist announced
Date: 13 March 2024Category: This week’s news
Garmus, Patchett, Connelly, Ng to headline SWF
Date: 8 March 2024Category: Local news
MWF announces Cunningham, Murray and Jamison as first guests
Date: 29 February 2024Category: Local news
Rights round-up
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Rights round-up
Entries to the 2024 NSW Premier’s History Awards are now open
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Classifieds
Perth Writers Weekend programming remains unchanged, despite open letter
Date: 21 February 2024Category:
Learning consultant, secondary, Melbourne
Date: 21 February 2024Category: Jobs
Copyright Agency announces recipients of $440k in Cultural Fund grants
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Local news
DANZ Children’s Book Award shortlists announced
Date: 15 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Stuart Kells on ‘Alice™’
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Features Interview
Alice™: The biggest untold story in the history of money (Stuart Kells, MUP)
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
How international markets performed in 2023
Date: 7 February 2024Category: Features
Rights round-up
Date: 7 February 2024Category: Rights round-up
Learning consultant Vic—higher education, Melbourne
Date: 7 February 2024Category: Jobs
Fellowship prize added to City of Fremantle Hungerford Award
Date: 6 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Entries closing soon
Date: 31 January 2024Category: Classifieds
‘Better than expected’ Christmas for booksellers, despite almost a quarter reporting sales dropped
Date: 24 January 2024Category: Features
Newbery, Caldecott, Printz 2024 winners announced
Date: 23 January 2024Category: International news
DANZ Children’s Book Award longlists announced
Date: 18 January 2024Category: Awards Local news
HarperCollins acquires Dalgarno novel
Date: 17 January 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Reader development manager, Melbourne
Date: 17 January 2024Category: Jobs
Inclusive publishing leaders at the Sharjah Publishers Conference
Date: 10 January 2024Category: Features
Explainer: What is accessible publishing?
Date: 10 January 2024Category: Features
Key account manager, Sydney
Date: 10 January 2024Category: Jobs
Books in the media this weekend, 16–17 December
Date: 15 December 2023Category: Books in the media
Vale Dale Spender
Date: 13 December 2023Category: Obituaries
New year, new books: Children’s and young adult stories from local publishers
Date: 13 December 2023Category: Features Title preview feature
Indie Book Awards 2024 longlists announced
Date: 7 December 2023Category: Awards Local news
The facts on 2024’s nonfiction releases
Date: 6 December 2023Category: Features Title preview feature
Birch named Royal Society of Literature international fellow, signs with UQP for two new books
Date: 1 December 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Inaugural SA Literary Fellowships announced
Date: 30 November 2023Category: Awards Local news
Reading into the year ahead: 2024 fiction and poetry preview
Date: 29 November 2023Category: Features Title preview feature
Independent Publishing Conference 2023: Conversations and communities
Date: 29 November 2023Category: Features
Rzechowicz wins first prize in 2023 Scarlet Stiletto Awards
Date: 28 November 2023Category: Awards Local news
Lynch wins 2023 Booker Prize for ‘Prophet Song’, Aus reprint available from Friday
Date: 27 November 2023Category: International news
Woollahra Digital Literary Award 2023 winners announced
Date: 23 November 2023Category: Awards Local news
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2023 winners announced
Date: 16 November 2023Category: Awards Local news
Colin Simpson Keynote, ASA Medal presented, O’Donnell Essay Prize announced
Date: 16 November 2023Category: Local news
Vale Kevin Weldon
Date: 15 November 2023Category: Obituaries
Explainer: What are the costs and considerations of making audiobooks?
Date: 8 November 2023Category: Features
Listen up: How booksellers are getting in on the audiobook boom
Date: 8 November 2023Category: Features
Jennings, Graham nominated for 2024 Yoto Carnegie Medal
Date: 8 November 2023Category: Awards Local news
New England Illustration Prize 2023 winners announced
Date: 8 November 2023Category: Awards Local news
Production assistant, Melbourne
Date: 8 November 2023Category: Jobs
Woollahra Digital Literary Award shortlists announced
Date: 6 November 2023Category: Awards Local news
Hobart named a UNESCO City of Literature
Date: 2 November 2023Category: Local news
Australian Reading Hour to end
Date: 2 November 2023Category: Local news
SoA calls for UK government to ‘urgently review’ proposed cuts to PLR rate
Date: 27 October 2023Category: International news
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Date: 26 October 2023Category: Awards Local news
Director, Melbourne
Date: 25 October 2023Category: Jobs
Events coordinator and bookseller, Sydney
Date: 25 October 2023Category: Jobs
Skovron wins 2023 Patrick White Award
Date: 23 October 2023Category: Awards Local news
Ultimo acquires book on doomed 1910 South Pole expedition
Date: 20 October 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
What do teens want to read? Six key insights from the Deakin University Teen Reading research team
Date: 18 October 2023Category: Features
Emergency Exit Only (Michelle Upton, HarperCollins)
Date: 17 October 2023Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Newcastle Poetry Prize 2023 shortlist announced
Date: 11 October 2023Category: Awards
The Community Publishing Research Project
Date: 11 October 2023Category: Features
Writing WA to present 2024 Perth Writers Weekend
Date: 10 October 2023Category: Local news
Antigny steps down at Pantera, Draper promoted
Date: 5 October 2023Category: Local news
Publications project manager, Melbourne
Date: 4 October 2023Category: Jobs
Angourie Rice and Kate Rice on ‘Stuck Up & Stupid’
Date: 3 October 2023Category: Features
Australian book market overview: 2023 so far
Date: 3 October 2023Category: Think Australian feature
NT Literary Awards 2023 winners announced
Date: 28 September 2023Category: Awards Local news
Volume symposium: Australia Reads on building a reading nation
Date: 27 September 2023Category: Features
Decline in reading engagement, Koens wins Banjo Prize, Booker shortlist
Date: 27 September 2023Category: This week’s news
Booker Prize 2023 shortlist announced
Date: 22 September 2023Category: Awards International news
ALA report shows surge in book challenges
Date: 21 September 2023Category: International news
Upswell acquires Dominic Gordon debut
Date: 20 September 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Eighteen Summers (Penny Harrison, illus Leila Rudge, Little Hare)
Date: 19 September 2023Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
IBBY reveals change to Ena Noël Award
Date: 15 September 2023Category: Local news
Australian book market overview: 2023 so far
Date: 13 September 2023Category: Features
Australian bestsellers 2023 YTD
Date: 13 September 2023Category: Bestsellers Think Australian bestsellers
Inaugural SA Literary Fellowships open for applications
Date: 11 September 2023Category: Awards Local news
Danger Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Date: 8 September 2023Category: Awards Local news
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2023 winners announced
Date: 8 September 2023Category: Awards Local news
Queensland Literary Awards 2023 winners announced
Date: 7 September 2023Category: Awards Local news
Account manager GALE (NSW/ACT) 12-month maternity leave contract, Sydney
Date: 6 September 2023Category: Jobs
Artichoke to Zucchini (Alice Oehr, Scribble)
Date: 5 September 2023Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Bowerbird Blues selected for NSS 2024
Date: 5 September 2023Category: Local news
Publications project manager, Melbourne
Date: 30 August 2023Category: Jobs