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ASA launches Authors Legal  Archive

Monday, 4 April 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched a new non-profit law firm to provide low-cost legal advice to its members. Authors Legal will be headed by managing lawyer and...

Chidgey shortlisted for Dublin Literary Award  Archive

Monday, 4 April 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey has been shortlisted for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000 (A$147,400), for her novel Remote Sympathy. First published by Te Herenga Waka University...

Pung’s ‘Laurinda’ optioned for TV  Archive

Thursday, 31 March 2022
Development and production rights to Alice Pung’s YA novel Laurinda have been acquired by production company EQ Media, in a deal negotiated by Sophy Williams at Black Inc. EQ Media...

Stella Prize 2022 shortlist announced  Archive

Thursday, 31 March 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, has been announced. The six shortlisted books are: TAKE CARE (Eunice Andrada, Giramondo) Dropbear (Evelyn Araluen, UQP) No Document (Anwen Crawford, Giramondo)...

Staff changes at Hardie Grant  Archive

the Hardie Grant logo, a black speech bubble with a stylised white line drawing of a dog inside Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Hardie Grant has announced several staffing changes. From next month, current managing director of Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) Troy Lewis will become the company's first people and culture director,...

A&U acquires Yong debut YA novel  Archive

Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to Sydney author Leanne Yong’s debut young adult novel Two Can Play that Game, in a deal brokered by Andrea Cascardi of Transatlantic...

Morison awarded 2022 Boundless Mentorship  Archive

Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Gamilaroi writer Judi Morison has won the 2022 Boundless Indigenous Writer's Mentorship for her family saga ‘When Grandmothers Speak’. Set in Queensland and northern New South Wales in the 1950s,...

AWW 2022: ‘energising and uplifting’  Archive

Tuesday, 29 March 2022
The 2022 Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW), which ran from 5­–10 March in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden, hosted 180 authors and 41 chairs across 108 sessions of open-air readings, panel...

New Westwords/Ultimo Prize announced  Archive

Monday, 28 March 2022
WestWords and Ultimo Press have partnered to offer a new prize for emerging writers with ‘a connection to Western Sydney’. Free to enter, the Westwords/Ultimo Prize offers the winner $5000...

BookUp 2022 keynotes announced  Archive

Monday, 28 March 2022
The Australian Publisher’s Association (APA) has announced the first guests for its second BookUp conference, which will take place at the ICC Sydney on Thursday, 9 June. The APA said...

SWF 2022 program announced  Archive

Friday, 25 March 2022
The program for the 2022 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which runs Monday 16 – Sunday 22 May, has been announced. Themed ‘Change My Mind’, the 25th SWF features 234 events...

Collins awarded 2021 Leila St John Award  Archive

Friday, 25 March 2022
Ford Street Publishing founder Paul Collins has received the annual Leila St John Award, presented by the Victorian branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA). Collins is commended...

#LoveOzYA becomes registered charity  Archive

Thursday, 24 March 2022
The Australian Young Adult Literature Alliance, a grassroots organisation established in 2015 to promote Australian youth literature and more popularly known by the hashtag #LoveOzYA, has become a registered charity...

Puncher & Wattmann acquires ‘Grimmish’  Archive

Thursday, 24 March 2022
Puncher & Wattmann has acquired world rights to Michael Winkler's previously self-published book Grimmish in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. Described by Shaw as a 'cult...

ABIA 2022 longlists announced  Archive

Wednesday, 23 March 2022
The longlists for the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles longlisted in each category are: General fiction book of the year After Story (Larissa Behrendt,...

PANZ launches New Zealand Books website  Archive

Wednesday, 23 March 2022
The Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) has launched a new website, NewZealandBooks.com, to ‘overcome the tyranny of distance and the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19...

UQP acquires Sakr poetry collection  Archive

Monday, 21 March 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired Non-Essential Work, the third poetry collection by Sydney-based Arab Australian poet Omar Sakr. UQP says Sakr's 'much-anticipated' follow-up to his 2019 collection The...

QBD opens new Adelaide store  Archive

QBD books logo Monday, 21 March 2022
QBD Books will open its biggest store to date in Adelaide's Rundle Mall in late March. The new store at 138 Rundle Mall will have 300 square metres of books...

 

 

 

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