Text Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 8 June 2022
The shortlist for the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, worth $10,000, has been announced. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘Bellamy Jones and the Lost Treeheart’ by Emily Beck...
Neilma Sidney Travel Fund 2022 recipients announced
Wednesday, 8 June 2022
Writers Victoria has announced the seventh round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund, which has opened up to international travel again after pandemic-related travel restrictions in 2021....
Rachel Funari Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
Lip magazine has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction. The shortlisted stories are: ‘The Reliquary’ by Claire Alcock ‘In the Wake of Tokyo’ by Louise...
ALS Gold Medal 2022 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted works of fiction and poetry are: Wild Abandon (Emily Bitto, A&U) Human Looking (Andy Jackson, Giramondo) Pushing...
ABDA awards 2022 winners announced
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
The winners of the 70th Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The winners in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in...
KYD announces ‘New Australian Fiction’ contributors, new editor
Monday, 6 June 2022
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced the contributors to its annual short story anthology, New Australian Fiction. New Australian Fiction 2022, the fourth anthology in the series, is the first to be...
Black Inc. announces ‘Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia’
Friday, 3 June 2022
Black Inc. has announced the latest addition to its ‘Growing Up’ nonfiction anthology series, Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia, to be edited by author and public servant Samantha Faulkner....
PRH to publish Rutledge debut novel
Thursday, 2 June 2022
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to A Man and His Pride, a commercial fiction title by debut novelist Luke Rutledge, via Melanie Ostell Literary. PRH describes...
NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults finalists announced
Thursday, 2 June 2022
The finalists for the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced. The shortlists in each category, chosen from a record 199 entries, are: Picture...
black&write! fellowships 2022 recipients announced
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
The 2022 black&write! fellowships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers have been awarded to Queensland Elder Herbert Wharton and Lay Maloney from Victoria. Each fellowship is worth $10,000 and...
BookUp full 2022 program announced
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released the full program for the one-day BookUp publishing conference, to be held in Sydney next Thursday, 9 June, ahead of the Australian Book...
Grant, Hathorn to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, Rising Star shortlists announced
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
Hardie Grant CEO Sandy Grant and children's author Libby Hathorn will be inducted into the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Hall of Fame at the 2022 ABIA awards ceremony on...
Black Inc. acquires Beeston memoir ‘Because I am Not Myself, You See’
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
Black Inc. has acquired ANZ print, audio and ebook rights to the memoir Because I am Not Myself, You See by Ariane Beeston via Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. Described...
HarperCollins acquires Harrison’s ‘The Visitors’
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the novel The Visitors by Jane Harrison, in 'a highly competitive auction' brokered by Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management Literary Agency....
Transit Lounge acquires Meehan historical novel ‘An Ungrateful Instrument’
Monday, 30 May 2022
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to the novel An Ungrateful Instrument by Michael Meehan, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans at Cameron’s Management. An Ungrateful Instrument is Meehan’s...
Money wins First Nations Arts Award
Monday, 30 May 2022
Wiradjuri poet and artist Jazz Money has won a 2022 Dreaming Award for a young and emerging artist, presented as part of the Australia Council's First Nations Arts Awards. Money's...
Vucic awarded $50k Marten Bequest scholarship
Monday, 30 May 2022
Dženana Vucic, a Bosnian-Australian writer, editor, critic and recipient of the 2021 Kat Muscat Fellowship, is among the seven recipients of the 2022 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, each worth $50,000....
Over two million participate in ALIA National Simultaneous Storytime
Friday, 27 May 2022
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced that this year's National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) was the biggest in the event's 22-year history, with over two million participants registered...
Collins celebrates 100 years with new prize for political writing
Friday, 27 May 2022
Collins Booksellers has announced the establishment of a new literary prize, the Australian Political Book of the Year Award. Collins chairman Duncan Johnston said in a statement that recognition of...
Gervay wins 2022 Crystal Kite award
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Susanne Gervay has won the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards, presented by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). Gervay...
Mabey awarded Creative NZ Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Claire Mabey has been named the recipient of Creative New Zealand’s 2022 Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary, receiving funding of NZ$23,150 (A$21,150). Based in Pōneke (Wellington), Mabey is a writer...
ASAL announces book awards finalists
Thursday, 26 May 2022
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the finalists for several literary awards that the organisation oversees. Magarey Medal ASAL and the Australian Historical Association have...
Mason wins fiction book of the year at 2022 British Book Awards
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Sydney-based Aotearoa New Zealand writer Meg Mason has won the 2022 British Book Award for fiction book of the year for her second novel Sorrow and Bliss (Fourth Estate). The...
Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards, which celebrate excellence in writing across the Northern Territory, have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction...
Lui acquires first three books for Joan imprint
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced the first three titles to be published under its new Nakkiah Lui-curated Joan imprint, acquiring ANZ rights to debuts by Brooke Boney, Sarah Firth...
SWF: 2022 festival wraps up with change of government
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
This year's Sydney Writers Festival (SWF), the final for outgoing artistic director Michael Williams, has all but wrapped up, having run from 16 to 22 May. Two events, The SWF...
Solomun to wind up The Rights Hive
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Natasha Solomun, who founded The Rights Hive agency in 2017, has announced the business will cease operating at the end of June. Solumun, who has worked in international rights for...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2022 longlist announced
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
The longlist for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The 12 longlisted novels are: The Other Half of You (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette) After Story...
A&U acquires Gray debut novel ‘Green Dot’
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to the novel Green Dot by Madeleine Gray, in a pre-empt deal brokered by Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary. UK rights...
Quilliam named ILF ambassador
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced a new ILF ambassador, Aboriginal artist and adjunct professor Wayne Quilliam. A photographer, artist, filmmaker, author and cultural advisor, Quilliam has 30 years...
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