Conference: @BookPeopleAU has announced the program for its 100th anniversary conference and trade exhibition, to be held at Pullman Melbourne on the Park on 14 to 17 June.
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Rights news: UQPBooks has acquired world rights to debut author Sandy Bigna’s middle-grade verse novel Little Bones, in a two-book deal via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management.
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Personnel changes: Hachette Australia Books has announced group publishing director Fiona Hazard is leaving the role ‘to pursue other opportunities’.
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Awards: @BookPeopleAU has announced the longlists for its Book of the Year awards.
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Rights news: Penguin Books Aus has acquired rights to a romantasy duology from Tasmanian debut author Sophie Clark, as part of a global PRH co-publishing deal with Knopf in the US and Penguin in the UK, in a pre-empt …
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Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to The Voice Inside, a memoir by John Farnham.
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The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has won the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), worth five million Swedish kronor (A$710,000).
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Huia Publishers, based in Aotearoa New Zealand, is the 2024 Oceania winner of the Bologna Prize (BOP) for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year.
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HarperCollins Australia has appointed Sophie Ambrose to the role of publisher, commissioning nonfiction for the ABC Books and HarperCollins imprints.
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The ARA Historical Novel Prize this year will have a prize pool of $150,000, with the winner of the adult category to receive $100,000—making this 'the richest individual literary prize in Australasia' according to the organisers.
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Eleanor Catton has been shortlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, worth US$150,000 (A$226,245).
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Australian author T L Swan has announced the launch of new publishing venture Keeperton, to be distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster.

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Eight publishers are exhibiting at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair as part of the Aotearoa New Zealand collective stand.

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Quite the thrill to be a part of the Bologna Children's Book Fair this year with our new Hardie Grant Books book In the Rockpool the hero face of Australian Publishers Association picture books

Booktique—an independent bookshop currently operating in Wangaratta, Victoria—is opening a second store in Albury, NSW.
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