S&S acquires Sakakibara memoir
Tuesday, 25 February 2025
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to Olympic gold medallist and BMX champion Saya Sakakibara’s memoir, in a deal brokered by Ryan Chipperfield at Blue Chip Management....
Shand resigns as SWF chair
Tuesday, 25 February 2025
Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) board chair Kathy Shand has tendered her resignation after 12 years on the SWF board, reports the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH). In a resignation statement reported...
NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 shortlists announced
Monday, 24 February 2025
The NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 shortlists have been announced by the organisation. Shortlisted titles include: Best Adult Fiction Book Award Better Left Dead (Catherine Lea, Bateman Books) The Call (Gavin Strawhan,...
Affirm acquires new Brissenden crime novel
Monday, 24 February 2025
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to Michael Brissenden’s upcoming outback noir crime thriller, Dust, via literary agent Daniel Pilkington. Set in the remote Australian town of Lake Herrod, Dust...
Readings to open Chadstone shop
Monday, 24 February 2025
Melbourne independent bookselling chain Readings has announced the business will open a new shop at Melbourne’s Chadstone Shopping Centre in late March. The store will be managed by Belle Katavatis,...
Stewart wins 2025 MUD Literary Prize
Monday, 24 February 2025
Cameron Stewart's Why Do Horses Run? (Allen & Unwin) has been announced as the 2025 winner of the $10,000 MUD Literary Prize. The prize, now in its eighth year, is...
Major wins 2025 Louie Award
Thursday, 20 February 2025
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has named KT Major as the winner of the 2025 Louie Award, worth $500, for her story 'Bitter'. The judges also highly commended two...
Kill Your Darlings announces new flash fiction prize
Thursday, 20 February 2025
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced an inaugural flash fiction prize. Open to KYD members for submissions of previously unpublished flash fiction stories, the prize 'challenges writers to be faster,...
A&U acquires Kirk debut fiction
Thursday, 20 February 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Eleanor Kirk’s debut novel, Very Impressive for Your Age, in a deal brokered by Grace Heifetz at a4 Literary. ‘Twenty-six-year-old Evelyn is...
Text acquires new Winkler fiction
Thursday, 20 February 2025
Text has acquired world rights for Griefdogg by Michael Winkler. The novel introduces Jeffrey Watson-Johnson, a hydrologist living with his wife, Martine, and child, Reggie, in Mildura. After inheriting a...
Program announcements: Newcastle Writers Festival; Whitsundays Writers Festival
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Newcastle Writers Festival (NWF) has announced its full festival program, which will run 4–6 April. Established in 2013, NWF also oversees the Fresh Ink Emerging Writers Prize for regional NSW...
Atlantic acquires Stephens debut
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Atlantic Books Australia, a division of Allen & Unwin (A&U), has acquired ANZ rights to Clare Stephens’s debut novel The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done, in a deal brokered by...
Creative Australia announces 2025 VIPs
Monday, 17 February 2025
Creative Australia has announced the 12 international publishers, editors and agents participating in the 2025 Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program. This year’s participants represent ‘a range of territories; genre specialties;...
Ocean Reeve Publishing declares bankruptcy
Monday, 17 February 2025
Ocean Reeve Publishing, a hybrid publisher based in Queensland and in Aotearoa New Zealand, has declared bankruptcy. In a statement, the Reeve family said, ‘websites, emails, [and] social media related...
Keeperton to publish five TL Swan books
Monday, 17 February 2025
Arndell, an imprint of Keeperton, has announced it will publish worldwide print editions of The Miles High Club series by author and Keeperton founder TL Swan. The series consists of...
Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced
Monday, 17 February 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards have been announced. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Premier’s Prize for Fiction ($25,000) The Angry Women’s Choir (Meg Bignell, Penguin) Heartsease...
DANZ Children’s Book Award 2025 longlists announced
Thursday, 13 February 2025
The 2025 longlists for the Australian School Library Association (ASLA) DANZ (Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children’s Book Award have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category...
Silcox to depart Canberra Writers Festival
Thursday, 13 February 2025
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) has announced the departure of artistic director Beejay Silcox. Silcox joined CWF in 2023, following the departure of Jeanne Ryckmans in 2022, and oversaw the 2023...
‘Tracker’ longlisted for 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
Thursday, 13 February 2025
In the UK, Alexis Wright’s book Tracker (Giramondo) has been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction. Published in the UK in January by Other Stories, the book is one...
HarperCollins acquires Parker historical novel
Thursday, 13 February 2025
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights for Until the Red Leaves Fall by Alli Parker, via Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown. The novel, set in 1957 Melbourne, follows Emmy Darling,...
Bateman acquires Beatnik
Tuesday, 11 February 2025
Aotearoa New Zealand publisher David Bateman Ltd (Bateman Books) has acquired independent publisher Beatnik Publishing, effective from 1 February. In a statement, Bateman Books said Beatnik founder and publisher Sally...
Affirm acquires Johnson debut ‘King Tide’
Tuesday, 11 February 2025
Affirm has acquired ANZ rights to the debut crime novel King Tide by Luke Johnson, via literary agent Daniel Pilkington. Described by the publisher as a ‘beautiful, exhilarating and exquisitely...
Programs announced: Inaugural Footscray West Writers Fest, 2025 Sunshine Coast Hinterland Writers Festival
Monday, 10 February 2025
The inaugural Footscray West Writers Fest will run in the inner Melbourne suburb from 28 to 30 March this year. Supported by Maribyrnong City Council and presented by non-profit cultural...
Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Monday, 10 February 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poems, chosen from almost 500 entries, are: ‘Whistling Space’ by Chris Andrews ‘Finding Pan’ by Jonathan...
ASA announces new rates of pay for literary award judges
Thursday, 6 February 2025
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched rates of pay for literary award judges. This new information, specifically for judges of literary awards for published books, has 'been established...
S&S acquires Morgan’s fiction debut
Thursday, 6 February 2025
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to Rachael Morgan’s commercial women’s fiction debut, in a deal between S&S commercial fiction publisher Cassandra Di Bello and Anjanette Fennell...
Varuna announces 2025 Writer’s Space Fellowship recipients
Thursday, 6 February 2025
Varuna, the National Writers' House has announced the recipients of its 2025 Writer’s Space Fellowships. Six recipients were chosen from a total of 116 submissions, in the fellowship program's first...
Booktopia liquidators investigating potential claim against former directors
Thursday, 6 February 2025
In a statutory report to creditors, the liquidators of Booktopia Group – Matthew Caddy, Damien Pasfield and Keith Crawford of McGrathNicol – said the group's estimated assets were ‘substantially consistent...
UWAP announces Affirm as new sales partner
Thursday, 6 February 2025
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced a new partnership with Affirm Press for sales representation, after 18 years with NewSouth Books. UWAP publisher Kate Pickard said, ‘Affirm Press has earned a...
BookPeople reveals new consumer, member websites
Tuesday, 4 February 2025
BookPeople has updated the organisation’s web presence with a dedicated membership website and a new consumer-facing site. ‘Each site has been designed with a distinct audience in mind,’ BookPeople operations...
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