CJZ options film and TV rights to Jaffé novel
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Production company CJZ has optioned film and television rights for The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison (Meredith Jaffé, HarperCollins), in a deal negotiated by Tara Wynne of Curtis Brown Australia. The...
Barbara Jefferis Award 2022 shortlist announced
Monday, 22 August 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award, worth $50,000. The shortlisted titles are: Bodies of Light (Jennifer Down, Text) Ordinary Matter...
Sweatshop acquires Hage book, establishes $10,000 First Nations fellowship
Monday, 22 August 2022
Sweatshop Literacy Movement Inc. has acquired world rights to The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism by anthropologist, public intellectual and cultural critic Ghassan Hage. The book will include new editions...
CBCA announces 2022 Book of the Year Awards
Friday, 19 August 2022
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the winners of the 2022 Book of the Year Awards. The winning books in each category are: Older readers Tiger Daughter (Rebecca...
Danger Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Friday, 19 August 2022
The BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival has announced the shortlist for this year’s Danger Prize. The all-fiction shortlist is: The Enemy Within (Tim Ayliffe, S&S) Unforgiven (Sarah Barrie, HQ) The...
Nash calls for partial spill of Booktopia board
Friday, 19 August 2022
Booktopia founder Tony Nash has given notice to the company of his intention to call an extraordinary general meeting (EGM), with the purpose of ousting two other board members. Nash...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Award 2022 shortlist announced
Thursday, 18 August 2022
The shortlist for the $20,000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James Cook University, has been announced. The shortlisted books...
New mentorship program for Tasmanian writers, illustrators
Thursday, 18 August 2022
Arts Tasmania and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) have announced a new mentorship program for writers and illustrators. The 2022 Tasmanian Writers and Illustrators Mentorship program is designed to...
The Campus Bookstore closes down
Thursday, 18 August 2022
The Campus Bookstore, which operated an online store and retail stores at several tertiary institutions in Victoria, has closed both its online and physical stores after declaring insolvency. The not-for-profit...
Berbay partners with Vision Australia on children’s series
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Berbay Books is partnering with Vision Australia on a new series of children’s books due to be published in 2023. The 32-page hardcover picture books will portray ‘significant Australians living...
Readings buys new warehouse
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Melbourne independent bookselling chain Readings has purchased a new warehouse space in West Melbourne, which will replace the chain’s current Carlton warehouse. ‘We had outgrown our current warehouse space and...
PRH acquires Seaborn debut in two-book deal
Monday, 15 August 2022
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to Jessica Seaborn’s debut ‘anti-romcom’ novel Perfect-ish, in a two-book deal via Caitlan Cooper-Trent at Curtis Brown. PRH described Perfect-ish as a...
UBD drops XL for Startrack
Monday, 15 August 2022
United Book Distributors (UBD) has announced it will be replacing XL Express with Startrack Express as a main distribution partner alongside FedEx (TNT), effective by later this month. ‘Startrack Express...
Ellis wins 2022 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Friday, 12 August 2022
Tracy Ellis has won the 2022 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Natural Wonder’. Chosen from a shortlist of three announced in July, Ellis receives $6000. Nina...
Readings announces Children’s Book Prize 2022 shortlist
Friday, 12 August 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Readings Children’s Book Prize has been announced. This year’s six shortlisted books are: A Glasshouse of Stars (Shirley Marr, Puffin) Little Gem (Anna Zobel, Puffin)...
‘Atua: Māori gods and heroes’ wins Margaret Mahy Book of the Year
Friday, 12 August 2022
Author and illustrator Gavin Bishop has won three categories in the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, including the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year, for...
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Thursday, 11 August 2022
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2022 NSW Premier’s History Awards, worth $15,000 in each category. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Australian...
Booktopia leases new warehouse
Thursday, 11 August 2022
Booktopia has secured a lease for a new customer fulfilment centre (CFC) in South Strathfield in Sydney’s west. According to Booktopia, after constant retrofitting, its current Lidcombe facility has become...
Brennan wins 2022 National Biography Award for ‘Leaping into Waterfalls’
Thursday, 11 August 2022
Bernadette Brennan has won the 2022 National Biography Award for Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears (A&U). Brennan receives $25,000, while the other shortlisted authors receive $2000 each. Judges...
Griffin Press ceases POD
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
Opus Group has confirmed that Griffin Press, which it acquired from Ovato earlier this year, will cease its print on demand (POD) services. In a statement to clients on Friday,...
Scribe & Varuna announce 2022 fellows
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
The recipients of the 2022 Scribe & Varuna Fellowships have been announced. The fellows and their projects are: Sam Elkin for ‘Shapeshifting’ Jacqueline Wright for ‘Beauty and Menace’ Nevo Zisin...
UQP acquires Taylor debut ‘Flinch’
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to debut novel Flinch by 2022 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize winner Saraid Taylor. A coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of elite sport and...
Dessaix honoured for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
Monday, 8 August 2022
Robert Dessaix has won the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, which ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over the age of 60 who have made an...
Renée crime fiction debut sells to UK in two-book deal
Monday, 8 August 2022
Nadine Rubin Nathan at High Spot Literary has sold world English-language rights (ex NZ) to two crime novels, The Wild Card and Blood Matters (The Cuba Press), by Māori writer...
Aotearoa NZ publishers grow 0.8%; Te Reo Māori publishing up 40%
Friday, 5 August 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand trade publishers’ revenue last year grew 0.8%, according to a new report from the Publishers Association of NZ/Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ). The Book Industry Market Size...
Masson, Carrington launch Pardalote Press
Friday, 5 August 2022
Author Sophie Masson and illustrator Lorena Carrington have partnered on a new micropublisher, Pardalote Press, which aims to publish ‘small, surprising things which help the imagination take flight’. A crowdfunding...
Ultimo acquires Kalagian Blunt thriller ‘Dark Mode’
Thursday, 4 August 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights for Ashley Kalagian Blunt’s thriller Dark Mode, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson from Curtis Brown. Described by the publisher as ‘compulsive and...
Qld Literary Awards 2022 shortlists
Thursday, 4 August 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance ($25,000) Wounded Country...
‘Grimmish’ sells to UK, North America
Tuesday, 2 August 2022
Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary, on behalf of Puncher & Wattmann, has sold UK and US rights at auction to Michael Winkler’s debut novel Grimmish, in a co-publishing deal between...
Mossop appointed SWF artistic director
Monday, 1 August 2022
Ann Mossop has been appointed artistic director of the Sydney Writers Festival (SWF) for a three-year term, replacing Michael Williams, who programmed the 2021 and 2022 Festivals. Mossop comes to...
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