Think+Do Tank Foundation, Scribble partner to offer Mirror Mentorship
Think+DO Tank Foundation, the Sydney community art charity that owns multilingual bookshop Lost in Books, will partner with Scribe’s Scribble imprint to run a mentorship with funding from the Australia...
Scribe acquires book on Hong Kong protest movement
Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom has acquired world rights to City on Fire: The fight for Hong Kong by Antony Dapiran, an Australian writer and lawyer who has lived in Hong...
Scribe, Varuna partner on new mentorship program
Scribe and Varuna, The Writers’ House, have partnered to offer a new mentorship program to three writers. The partnership combines a Varuna residency with an intensive mentorship with Scribe editors....
‘Trace’ longlisted for CWA Gold Dagger for nonfiction
Rachael Brown’s Trace (Scribe) has been longlisted for the UK Crime Writers Association’s (CWA) Gold Dagger for nonfiction. Brown’s true crime book based on the podcast of the same name...
Scribe acquires Guardian bureau chief’s book on Pell trial
Scribe has acquired world rights in a pre-empt to a book by the Melbourne bureau chief of the Guardian, Melissa Davey, on the trials of Cardinal George Pell. A Fair...
Scribe acquires ‘major title’ on women of ISIS
Scribe has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to The Guest House for Young Widows: the women of ISIS, by journalist, writer and academic Azadeh Moaveni. Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom describes...
Scribble to begin publishing directly into North America
Scribe’s picture-book list Scribble will begin publishing titles directly into North America in September this year. Scribble will launch its North American publishing list with titles All the Ways to be...
Scribe acquires McKay’s debut novel
Scribe has acquired world rights to Laura Jean McKay’s debut novel, The Animals in That Country, a literary spec-fic novel that imagines a world in which humans and animals might finally...
Scribe acquires Louise Omer memoir ‘Holy Woman’
Scribe has acquired world rights to a memoir about 'faith, feminist spirituality, and a search for meaning' by writer and critic Louise Omer, via Jane Novak of Jane Novak Literary...
Douglas-Kinghorn wins 2018 Scribe Nonfiction Prize
Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn has won the 2018 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers for her entry ‘The Invisible Sea’. Douglas-Kinghorn was selected from a shortlist of nine writers and receives a cash...
Scribe sells Giggs’ ‘Fathoms’ to US in record deal
Scribe has sold North American rights at auction to Rebecca Giggs’ forthcoming Fathoms: The World in the Whale to Simon & Schuster (S&S), in what publisher Henry Rosenbloom describes as...
Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers 2018 shortlist announced
Scribe and Express Media have announced the shortlist for this year’s Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers. The shortlisted works are: ‘Her Body as in an Empty Space’ (Madison Griffiths)...
Webb-Pullman awarded Frankfurt Fellowship
Scribe associate publisher Marika Webb-Pullman has been awarded a fellowship by Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF). Webb-Pullman is one of 16 book industry professionals to receive the Frankfurt Fellowship, and was...
Scribe acquires US nonfiction titles by Stack, Villarosa
Scribe has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to two nonfiction books by American authors Megan Stack and Linda Villarosa, reports BookBrunch. Stack's book, Women's Work: A Reckoning with Home and...
Scribble sells North American rights to ‘Under the Love Umbrella’
Scribe’s children’s imprint, Scribble, has sold North American rights to Under the Love Umbrella (Davina Bell, illus by Allison Colpoys) to Simply Read Books. Rights to the title have previously...
Scribe acquires new books by Elson, Carroll
Scribe has acquired rights to a number of new titles, including a biography of post-punk musician Rowland S Howard by Melbourne-based bookseller and writer Gerard Elson. Titled Something Flammable: Approaching...
Two reprints ordered for ‘The Road to Ruin’
Scribe has announced two reprints of Niki Savva’s The Road to Ruin after heavy demand for the title led to stock running out on the day of its release. Scribe...
Between a Wolf and a Dog (Georgia Blain, Scribe)
Georgia Blain’s Between a Wolf and a Dog explores the intricacies of modern family life with the emotional veracity you might expect of a book with a therapist as a...
Fictional realism: Miles Allinson on ‘Fever of Animals’
Artist and writer Miles Allinson’s debut novel Fever of Animals (Scribe, September) is about a young artist and writer, also called Miles, ‘who is chain-smoking his way across Europe, seeking...
Scribe signs second nonfiction prize winner
Scribe has announced that it has signed another winner of its Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers.Briohny Doyle was the co-winner of the inaugural prize in 2013, along with Oliver...