Danger Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Friday, 8 September 2023
The BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival has announced the shortlists for the 2023 Danger Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Brunswick Street Blues (Sally Bothroyd, HarperCollins) Daughters...
Environment Award for Children’s Literature, Karajia Award 2023 winners announced
Friday, 8 September 2023
The Wilderness Society has announced the winners of the 2023 Environment Award for Children’s Literature and the Karajia Award for First Nations children’s storytelling. The winners in each category are:...
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2023 winners announced
Friday, 8 September 2023
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the winners for the 2023 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The winning titles in each category are: Australian history prize Elizabeth and John:...
Affirm acquires Downes novel
Thursday, 7 September 2023
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to thriller Red River Road, the third novel from Anna Downes, via Tara Wynne of Curtis Brown. Set along the Western Australian Coral Coast,...
Queensland Literary Awards 2023 winners announced
Thursday, 7 September 2023
The winners of the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced, with a total of $238,500 in prize money awarded across 12 categories. The winning titles in each category are:...
Richell Prize 2023 longlist announced
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
The Emerging Writers’ Festival, Hachette Australia, and the Richell family have announced the 2023 longlist for the Richell Prize for emerging writers. Selected from over 700 entries, the 20 longlisted...
Stager to take over Riverbend Books
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
Riverbend Books owner, and founder of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, Suzy Wilson has sold Riverbend to Fiona Stager, co-owner of Brisbane's Avid Reader bookshop. Wilson—who founded Riverbend Books in 1998...
Canberra Writers Festival reports ‘big and buzzing’ crowds
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) artistic director Beejay Silcox reported ‘big and buzzing’ crowds for this year's festival, which was held from 16–20 August 2023. The program was ‘everything we hoped...
Bowerbird Blues selected for NSS 2024
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has selected Bowerbird Blues by Aura Parker (Scholastic) for the 2024 National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS). The NSS event will be held on Wednesday,...
Nib Literary Award 2023 shortlist announced
Monday, 4 September 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: An Intimate History of Evolution: The story of the Huxley family (Alison...
Ned Kelly Awards 2023 winners announced
Monday, 4 September 2023
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners of the 2023 Ned Kelly Awards. The 2023 winners are: Best debut crime fiction Wake (Shelley Burr, Hachette) Best crime...
Davitt Awards 2023 winners announced
Monday, 4 September 2023
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2023 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women. The winning titles in each category are: Adult novel All...
‘Biblical Critical Theory’ wins 2023 Australian Christian Book of the Year
Friday, 1 September 2023
Christopher Watkin’s Biblical Critical Theory: How the bible’s unfolding story makes sense of modern life and culture (Zondervan Academic) has been named 2023 Australian Christian Book of the Year. The...
We Come With This Place sold to UK
Friday, 1 September 2023
Echo Publishing has sold UK and Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to Debra Dank’s We Come With This Place to Footnote Press. Earlier this year, We Come With This Place won...
Larrikin House acquires Larkin adult fiction novel
Friday, 1 September 2023
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to adult fiction novel The Bogan Book Club by John Larkin. Described by the publisher as a fun and heartfelt story about being an...
Four writers receive Copyright Licensing NZ/PEN NZ research grants
Thursday, 31 August 2023
In Aotearoa New Zealand, four writers have been awarded the NZ$5000 2023 Copyright Licensing New Zealand and New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Research...
Hawker Brownlow to cease operations
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Hawker Brownlow Education has announced that it will cease operations on 1 September 2023 after over 40 years in the educational publishing industry, according to a statement posted to its...
Dymocks to partner with the Age, Sydney Morning Herald, and Brisbane Times for essay prize
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
A new essay prize for young writers has been announced for Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria by the Brisbane Times, Sydney Morning Herald, and Age respectively, supported by Dymocks....
Boffins bookseller joins Fremantle Press
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Former Boffins Books sales and marketing assistant Adam Matthews has joined Fremantle Press as a publicist. ‘Adam has been on our radar for some time,’ said Fremantle CEO Alex Allan...
Booktopia revenue down 18%, earnings down 23.7% in ‘challenging’ year
Monday, 28 August 2023
Online retailer Booktopia has reported its revenue was down 18% in the 12 months to 30 June (FY23), while the company's earnings fell 23.7% over the same period. In its...
UQP sells North American rights to ‘Personal Score’
Monday, 28 August 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American rights to Ellen van Neerven’s nonfiction book Personal Score: Sport. Culture. Identity to Eric Obenauf at Ohio publisher Two Dollar Radio....
Zhan wins 2023 KYD Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize
Monday, 28 August 2023
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced Xiaole Zhan as the winner of the 2023 KYD Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize for their essay ‘Think an Empty Room, Moonly with Phone Glow’....
CBCA Shadow Judging Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners
Friday, 25 August 2023
The winners of the 2023 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Shadow Judging Book of the Year Awards, chosen by groups of young people, have been announced. The winning books...
Transit Lounge acquires Hooper’s debut novel
Friday, 25 August 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Matthew Hooper’s debut novel A Cold Season. ‘This pitch-perfect novel is rich in voice, character and landscape and unlike anything I have read...
S&S acquires Di Lorenzo gut repair title in four-book deal
Friday, 25 August 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to four new titles by nutritionist Sarah Di Lorenzo. The first book in the new deal will be a four-week gut repair...
Readings Young Adult Prize 2023 shortlist announced
Thursday, 24 August 2023
Readings has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Readings Young Adult Book Prize. This year’s six shortlisted books are: Dancing Barefoot (Alice Boyle, Text) Spice Road (Maiya Ibrahim, Hodderscape) Completely...
Australia Reads announces Volume symposium program
Thursday, 24 August 2023
Australia Reads has announced the program for Volume, a free day-long symposium dedicated to creating a stronger reading culture in Australia, to be held on 21 September. The symposium, first...
NewSouth acquires Clift autobiographical novel
Thursday, 24 August 2023
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to Charmian Clift’s unfinished novel The End of the Morning, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. The autobiographical novel about a young woman coming of...
117% increase in sales for NZ CYA Book Awards titles
Thursday, 24 August 2023
Nielsen BookScan figures showed a 117% increase in sales of shortlisted books from the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in the week of the winner announcement,...
Writers for the Voice challenges misinformation about Voice referendum
Thursday, 24 August 2023
Newly established group Writers for the Voice seeks support from writers, publishers and literary agencies to share information and correct misinformation about Australia’s First Nations Voice to Parliament referendum. On...
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