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Text acquires Carlyle’s ‘No One Will Know’

Monday, 11 December 2023
Text Publishing has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to the new novel No One Will Know by Rose Carlyle, via Jenny Meyer. No One Will Know is a...

Writers Victoria announces 2023 Writeability fellows

Monday, 11 December 2023
Writers Victoria has announced the 2023 Writeability fellowship recipients. This year’s recipients are: Grace Hall for ‘Off Track’, ‘a young adult novel exploring how physical pain changes a person’s world’...

Pan Macmillan acquires Hardcastle novel

Monday, 11 December 2023
Pan Macmillan has acquired ANZ rights to the novel A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle, via Zeitgeist Agency’s Benython Oldfield, who has also sold North American rights to the...

Magabala announces annual fellowship, creative development grants and scholarship recipients

Monday, 11 December 2023
Magabala Books has announced the 15 First Nations creators who will receive the publisher's annual fellowship, scholarships and Australian Indigenous Coffee (AIC) Creative Development Grants, sharing in over $65,000 of...

Curry launches VenX self-publishing business, partners with IPEd

Monday, 11 December 2023
Jane Curry, founder of independent book publisher Ventura Press, has established 'digital sibling' VenX, a membership-based digital community for writers that provides self-publishing options. Curry told Books+Publishing the idea for...

Khalsa awarded inaugural P F Rowland Manuscript Development Grant

Thursday, 7 December 2023
The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) has announced Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa as the recipient of the inaugural $5000 P F Rowland Manuscript Development Grant. Offered in partnership with Upswell...

MidnightSun acquires Prewer science fiction novel

Thursday, 7 December 2023
MidnightSun has acquired world rights to a literary science fiction novel, titled R E Generation, by debut author Michael Prewer. Described by the publisher as ‘a fast-paced, futuristic tale of...

Indie Book Awards 2024 longlists announced

Thursday, 7 December 2023
The longlists for the 2024 Indie Book Awards, presented by Leading Edge Books, have been announced. The titles longlisted in each category are: Fiction Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton,...

Kassab to be inaugural Parramatta Laureate

Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Author Yumna Kassab has been selected as the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature by the Sydney Review of Books (SRB) in partnership with the City of Parramatta and the Writing...

Kelly joins Affirm

Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Affirm Press has appointed Tace Kelly to the role of publicity manager. Kelly was most recently a senior publicist at Scribe, and formerly worked in bookselling, with roles at The...

Bongiorno wins ACT Book of the Year

Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Frank Bongiorno has been awarded the 2023 ACT Book of the Year for Dreamers and Schemers: A political history of Australia (La Trobe University Press). Bongiorno's book, which covers social...

Running Water Community Press seeks film project funding

Monday, 4 December 2023
First Nations publisher Running Water Community Press (RWCP) is seeking funding for a proposed film project ‘kwatye urrewe—uplifting desert stories’. The publisher plans to collaborate with First Nations storytelling agency...

CLNZ Contestable Fund Grant 2023 recipients announced

Monday, 4 December 2023
In Aotearoa New Zealand, Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) has announced the 15 successful recipients of the 2023 Contestable Fund Grants. Project funding was awarded to the following individuals and...

FNAWN Varuna Fellowship 2024 recipients announced

Monday, 4 December 2023
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the six 2024 recipients of the inaugural First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) Varuna Fellowship. Successful applicants include: Lystra Bisschop for ‘The Upwarping’,...

Text acquires De Kretser novel

Thursday, 30 November 2023
Text Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to a new novel by Michelle de Kretser. Theory & Practice is a short novel set in Melbourne in the 1980s, where a young...

Dymocks, Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times essay prize inaugural winners announced

Thursday, 30 November 2023
The inaugural winners of a new essay prize for young writers, supported by Dymocks, have been announced by the Age, Brisbane Times and Sydney Morning Herald. The winners of the Age...

Pantera signs Messenger and Megginson’s ‘The Power of Two’

Thursday, 30 November 2023
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights to The Power of Two by Lisa Messenger and Sarah Megginson via Lou Johnson at Key People Literary Management. After eight years of trying...

QBD to open Forest Hill store, announces 2023 Books of the Year

Thursday, 30 November 2023
QBD Books has announced it will open a new store in Forest Hill in Melbourne's east. The store's grand opening will take place on Saturday 9 December, featuring authors including...

PRH signs Pignatiello romantic suspense duology

Thursday, 30 November 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world English-language rights to duology 'The Barbarani Estate' by debut author Emma Pignatiello, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. Last Shot and Last Breath...