S&S acquires Betts autobiography Archive
Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired the autobiography of AFL footballer Eddie Betts. Betts, who has played over 300 games for Carlton and Adelaide during his career and kicked...
‘Intoxicating’ wins André Simon Food and Drink book award Archive
Tuesday, 9 March 2021
In the UK, Max Allen's Intoxicating: Ten drinks that shaped Australia (Thames & Hudson) has won the 2020 Drink Award at the André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards. Awards judge...
joanne burns Microlit Award 2021 winners announced Archive
Friday, 5 March 2021
Writers Jane O’Sullivan and Deborah Van Heekeren have each been awarded prizes in the 2021 joanne burns Microlit Award. This year the prize invited writers to submit fiction or prose...
Centre for Stories’ Wood named Westpac Social Change Fellow Archive
Friday, 5 March 2021
Creative director of Perth's Centre for Stories Robert Wood has won a Westpac Social Change Fellowship. Valued at $50,000, the national prize is awarded by the Westpac Foundation to 10...
Stella Prize 2021 longlist announced Archive
Friday, 5 March 2021
The longlist for the 2021 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Fathoms: The World in the Whale (Rebecca Giggs, Scribe) Revenge: Murder in Three Parts...
PRH acquires Abdel-Magied nonfiction book Archive
Thursday, 4 March 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to Talking About a Revolution, a new nonfiction title by Sudanese-Australian writer Yassmin Abdel-Magied, from Clare Forster of Curtis Brown. In...
ASA writers and illustrators mentorship program winners announced Archive
Thursday, 4 March 2021
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the winners of its 2021 Award Mentorship Program for Writers and Illustrators. Children’s and YA Inda Ahmad Zabri Bianca Breen Kay Crabbe...
Sayer wins Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2021 Archive
Thursday, 4 March 2021
Writers Victoria has announced that Mandy Sayer has been awarded the $15,000 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her proposed biography of Australian silent filmmakers the McDonagh sisters. Between 1926 and...
Wollongong Writers Festival to close Archive
Wednesday, 3 March 2021
Wollongong Writers Festival has announced it is closing following the loss of Create NSW annual organisations funding. Founded in 2013 by writer Chloe Higgins, the not-for-profit festival received annual funding...
S&S signs three ‘Halifax’ novels Archive
Wednesday, 3 March 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to three novels by television writer and creator Roger Simpson, featuring his Halifax f.p. television character Jane...
Hachette Australia reports record year, revenue up 26% Archive
Wednesday, 3 March 2021
Hachette Australia has reported a record year in net sales in 2020, with an increase of 26% on 2019. Hachette UK also reported a record year for sales, while Hachette...
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced Archive
Wednesday, 3 March 2021
The shortlists for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category, chosen from longlists announced in January, are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize...
Oswald, McGahan, St John TV adaptations receive funding Archive
Wednesday, 3 March 2021
Television adaptations of novels The Family Doctor (Debra Oswald, A&U), The Rich Man's House (Andrew McGahan, A&U) and The Ladies in Black (Madeleine St John, Text) are among 21 projects sharing...
Byron Writers Festival announces Restart funding program Archive
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Byron Writers Festival has announced a new residency program funded by Create NSW, which has granted the festival $185,000 to be disbursed in residencies as well as free workshops for...
S&S Australia reports record year, sales up 15% Archive
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Total sales at Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia grew to more than $50 million for the first time, up 15% on 2019, the company reports. S&S Australia managing director Dan...
Pantera acquires debut thriller Archive
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to The Scarlet Cross, a ‘gripping debut psychological thriller’ by Lyn McFarlane, from Jane Novak Literary Agency. McFarlane said she is ‘delighted to be...
UQP to publish Indigenous speculative fiction anthology Archive
Monday, 1 March 2021
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) will publish an anthology of Indigenous speculative fiction in collaboration with Koori and Lebanese writer Mykaela Saunders, who will curate and edit the collection....
Scribner acquires Cave’s ‘Into the Rip’ Archive
Monday, 1 March 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia’s Scribner imprint has acquired ANZ rights to Into the Rip: How the Australian way of risk made my family braver, happier … and less American by...
Readings Children’s Book Prize 2021 shortlist announced Archive
Friday, 26 February 2021
The shortlist for the Readings Children’s Book Prize for 2021 has been announced. This year’s six shortlisted titles, for readers aged 5 to 12, are: The Power of Positive Pranking...
Transit Lounge acquires Bacon short story collection Archive
Friday, 26 February 2021
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Eugen Bacon’s short story collection Danged Black Thing. Bacon is an African-Australian computer scientist and writer of speculative fiction, whose previous titles have...
Wakefield acquires Roff debut short fiction collection Archive
Thursday, 25 February 2021
Wakefield Press has acquired world rights to the debut short fiction collection, provisionally titled Third Heaven, by Adelaide writer Andrew Roff, via Martin Shaw of Shaw Literary. ‘Roff’s daring, irreverent...
ARRA 2020 finalists announced Archive
Thursday, 25 February 2021
The finalists for the 2020 Australian Romance Readers Association's (ARRA) annual awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Favourite paranormal romance Alpha Night (Nalini Singh, Gollancz) Famine...
UQP acquires Atkins picture book Archive
Thursday, 25 February 2021
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Egg, the first picture book by YA author Clare Atkins. A ‘multi-layered picture book with thought-provoking metaphors around environment, generational...
Griffiths appointed HarperCollins sales director Archive
Wednesday, 24 February 2021
HarperCollins has appointed Karen-Maree Griffiths to the position of sales director, replacing Darren Kelly in the role. ‘We are delighted to welcome Karen-Maree back to HarperCollins,' said CEO said Jim...
CBCA 2021 Notable Books announced Archive
Wednesday, 24 February 2021
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its list of Notable Books for 2021. The books in each category are: Older readers The F Team (Rawah Arja, Giramondo)...
Australians longlisted for 2021 Walter Scott Prize Archive
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Four Australian authors have been longlisted for the UK's £25,000 (A$44,440) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Steven Conte was longlisted for The Tolstoy Estate, K M Kruimink for A...
Pantera acquires Fa’Aoso memoir Archive
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to the debut memoir by actor and former professional footballer Aaron Fa'Aoso in a six-figure pre-empt from Danielle Binks at Jacinta di Mase Management....
Williams wins 2021 MUD Literary Prize Archive
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (Affirm Press) has won the fourth annual MUD Literary Prize. Presented annually for the best debut literary novel by an Australian writer,...
Scribner acquires Haigh Evatt history Archive
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Under its Scribner imprint Simon & Schuster Australia has acquired world rights to The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the great Australian dissent, a new work of history by Gideon...
S&S acquires historical fiction debut Archive
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired world rights to The Understudy, a historical fiction debut by Julie Bennett. ‘The Understudy is set in 1973, the year the Opera House opened....
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