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Aurealis Awards 2023 winners announced

Tuesday, 21 May 2024
The winners of the 2023 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing published last year in Australia, have been announced. Among longer-form winners, chosen from shortlists announced...

S&S acquires Murphy memoir ‘Madam’

Tuesday, 21 May 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Antonia Murphy’s forthcoming memoir, Madam, at auction, via Alice Tasman and Cole Hildebrand at Jean V Naggar Literary...

Levens resigns as Booktopia CFO

Booktopia logo Monday, 20 May 2024
Booktopia chief financial officer (CFO) Fiona Levens has resigned from the company, effective 15 May. In a statement, Booktopia CEO David Nenke acknowledged Levens’ ‘strong leadership during her time with...

Azumah Nelson wins Dylan Thomas Prize

Monday, 20 May 2024
In the UK, British-Ghanaian author Caleb Azumah Nelson has won this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize for his second novel, Small Worlds (Viking), reports the Guardian. Established in 2006,...

Michael Gifkins Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Monday, 20 May 2024
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) have announced the shortlist for the 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished...

New $5000 award for Aotearoa NZ writers

Monday, 20 May 2024
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) has announced a new NZ$5000 award for Aotearoa NZ writers. The NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award, established by...

Walker acquires Marr, Speechley picture book

Monday, 20 May 2024
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to the picture book One Day, written by Shirley Marr and illustrated by Michael Speechley, in a two-book deal. One Day introduces a...

Huang wins Blake Poetry Prize

Monday, 20 May 2024
Coco X Huang has won the 68th Blake Poetry Prize, worth $5000, for her poem 'Three Lessons'. Huang is a Chinese-Australian writer, musician and scientist, who creates interdisciplinary works that...

Dorothy Hewett Award 2024 shortlist announced

Friday, 17 May 2024
UWA Publishing has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted manuscripts, chosen from over 200 entries, are: ‘The Protector of Fledglings’ by...

Miles Franklin 2024 longlist announced

Thursday, 16 May 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The longlisted titles, selected from 104 books, are: Only Sound Remains (Hossein Asgari, Puncher & Wattmann) Wall (Jen...

Ockham NZ Book Awards 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 16 May 2024
The winners of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The fiction prize went to Emily Perkins for Lioness (Bloomsbury). Convenor of fiction judges Juliet Blyth said: ‘At...

Hastings wins 2024 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize

Thursday, 16 May 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins imprint HQ have announced that Kathleen Hastings is the winner of the 2024 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. Selected from...

Wright wins 2024 James Tait Black fiction prize

Cover of Praiseworthy Thursday, 16 May 2024
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) has won the fiction award in the 2024 James Tait Black Prizes. Wright’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of four fiction works for the...

Vale Mark Johnson

Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Bookseller Mark Johnson, longtime proprietor of Forest Bookshop, Forestville, NSW, died on Anzac Day, aged 86 years. Johnson was the partner of Max Oliver of Lindfield Bookshop, who died three...

‘Brotherless Night’ wins 2024 Carol Shields Prize

Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Brotherless Night by V V Ganeshananthan (Penguin) has won the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, worth US$150,000 (A$226,385). The judging jury—made up of Jen Sookfong Lee (chair), Laila Lalami,...

Palmer wins 2024 Ernest Scott Prize

Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and history on a Central Australian pastoral station (Shannyn Palmer, MUP) has won the 2024 Ernest Scott Prize for History. Award judges Grace Karskens and Frank...

ALS Gold Medal 2024 longlist announced

Image of the ALS Gold Medal Wednesday, 15 May 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. Longlisted works include: Frank (Jordie Albiston, NLA Publishing) The Prize (Kim E Anderson, Pantera) Like to...

Editorial and publishing assistant, Sydney

Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Allen & Unwin Capable and organised assistant wanted at Allen & Unwin, Australia’s largest independent book publishing house, to support several publishers and a busy editorial department. To thrive in...

Amba Press welcomes Andrew Fuller and Georgie Brooks

Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Educational publisher Amba Press welcomes clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller (author of The A to Z of Feelings, Unlocking Your Child’s Genius, Your Best Life at Any Age, Tricky Behaviours, Tricky...

Book Face opens store in Northbridge, NSW

Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Bookselling chain Book Face has opened its fifth store—a bookstore in the Sydney suburb of Northbridge. Store manager Luke Holmes said that the company opened a bookstore in the area...

Wellington bookstore Good Books closed

Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Good Books, in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, has ceased trading. The bookshop, established in late 2020 by writers Catherine Robertson and Jane Arthur, had its final day of operation last...

Edgar Awards 2024 winners announced

Monday, 13 May 2024
Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published or produced in 2023....

SLNSW offers new $50K creative writing fellowship

logo for the state library of new south wales Monday, 13 May 2024
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the creation of a new $50,000 creative writing fellowship, as well as a new Summer Scholars Program. The $50,000 Imago Creative Writing...

 

 

 

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