Spencer wins 2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award for ‘The Age of Fibs’ Archive
Thursday, 11 October 2018
Sydney-based writer Beth Spencer has won the 2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award for her short-story collection The Age of Fibs. Author and prize judge Carmel Bird described The Age...
Winton’s ‘The Riders’ to be adapted for film Archive
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Tim Winton’s The Riders (Penguin) will be adapted into a feature film produced by director Ridley Scott’s production company Scott Free, reports Deadline Hollywood. A director for the film is...
NZ picture book on Trump sold to UK Archive
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
New Zealand publisher Millwood Press has sold UK, Irish and Australian rights to picture book Dear Donald Trump (Sophie Siers, illus by Anne Villeneuve) to Bonnier Books UK imprint Templar...
Giese wins 2018 Victorian Premier’s History Award for ‘The Maddest Place on Earth’ Archive
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Clinical psychologist Jill Giese has won the 2018 Victorian Premier’s History Award, worth $5000, for her book The Maddest Place on Earth (Australian Scholarly Publishing), announced as part of the...
‘Alice-Miranda’ animated telemovie in production Archive
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
SLR Productions has commenced production on an animated telemovie based on Jacqueline Harvey's Alice-Miranda (Random House Children's) series of children's books, reports Mediaweek. Originally announced as a TV series comprising...
Sweatshop to partner with DARTS on first nationwide anthology Archive
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Western Sydney-based literacy collective Sweatshop will partner with Diversity Arts Australia (DARTS) to deliver a series of literary initiatives, including its first nationwide project. Sweatshop and DARTS will produce an...
Digital Writers’ Festival announces 2018 program Archive
Tuesday, 9 October 2018
The program for the 2018 Digital Writers' Festival (DWF), which runs from 30 October to 3 November, has been announced. More than 140 guests will participate in the digital festival,...
Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers 2018 shortlist announced Archive
Tuesday, 9 October 2018
Scribe and Express Media have announced the shortlist for this year’s Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers. The shortlisted works are: ‘Her Body as in an Empty Space’ (Madison Griffiths)...
NZ Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement 2018 announced Archive
Tuesday, 9 October 2018
Creative New Zealand has announced the winners of the 2018 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, worth NZ$60,000 (A$54,760) each. Māori dramatist and fiction writer Renée has been honoured in...
Richell Prize 2018 shortlist announced Archive
Monday, 8 October 2018
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival have announced the shortlist for the 2018 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The shortlisted writers and their works are: 'She is Bright Light...
Hardie Grant acquires book based on podcast ‘The Full Catastrophe’ Archive
Monday, 8 October 2018
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to The Full Catastrophe, based on the podcast of the same name, via Jeanne Ryckmans at Cameron Cresswell Agency. Edited by podcast hosts...
Debut novel ‘Half Moon Lake’ sold to US Archive
Monday, 8 October 2018
US and Canadian rights to Kirsten Alexander’s debut novel Half Moon Lake (Bantam, January 2019) have been acquired by Grand Central, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. Natasha Solomun of...
Transit Lounge acquires new fiction by Savage, Bird Archive
Friday, 5 October 2018
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to new novels by Angela Savage and Carmel Bird. Savage’s fourth novel, Mother of Pearl, is set in Thailand and Australia, and centres on...
Margaret River to collaborate with Singapore’s Ethos Books on anthology Archive
Friday, 5 October 2018
writingWA has announced a collaboration between Margaret River Press and Singapore publisher Ethos Books to publish an anthology of previously unpublished short fiction Due to be released in the third...
Pape’s ‘The Barefoot Investor for Families’ breaks record for first-week sales in Australian nonfiction Archive
Thursday, 4 October 2018
Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor for Families (HarperCollins) has become the fastest-selling Australian nonfiction title, after selling 74,600 copies with a value of $1.7 million since its release on 24...
Mātātuhi Foundation to offer writing, reading, literacy grants Archive
Thursday, 4 October 2018
The Auckland Writers Festival (AWF) has launched a new foundation that will support New Zealand writers and fund activities that contribute to New Zealand's literary landscape. The Mātātuhi Foundation aims...
AO presented to literary festival founder Garnaut Archive
Thursday, 4 October 2018
In Beijing, literary festival founder and CEO of M Restaurant Group Michelle Garnaut has been presented with a medal of the Order of Australia (AO) by the Australian ambassador to...
UQP acquires Riwoe’s historical novel ‘On Gold Mountain’ Archive
Thursday, 4 October 2018
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to historical novel On Gold Mountain by Brisbane-based writer Mirandi Riwoe. Set on the goldfields of north Queensland during the...
Pages and Pages opens dedicated event space Archive
Wednesday, 3 October 2018
Pages and Pages Booksellers, situated on Sydney's North Shore in the suburb of Mosman, has announced it is opening a new dedicated event space. Following the consolidation of Pages and...
PRH acquires Ronnie Scott’s ‘The Adversary’ in two-book deal Archive
Wednesday, 3 October 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to Ronnie Scott’s debut novel The Adversary in a two-book deal. PRH acquired rights at auction to The Adversary and a second...
ASA announces 2018 Barbara Jefferis Award shortlist Archive
Tuesday, 2 October 2018
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the 2018 Barbara Jefferis Award. The shortlisted titles are: The Trapeze Act (Libby Angel, Text) Troppo (Madelaine Dickie, Fremantle...
Vu, Thomas win 2018 Inky Awards Archive
Tuesday, 2 October 2018
Peter Vu and Angie Thomas have won the 2018 Inky Awards, presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria. Peter Vu’s Paper Cranes Don’t Fly...
Melbourne bookshop Collected Works to close in November Archive
Tuesday, 2 October 2018
Melbourne bookshop Collected Works will not be renewing its current lease, according to owner Kris Hemensley, who runs the shop with his wife, Loretta. Currently situated in the historic Nicholas...
SPN Independent Publishing Conference 2018 program: publishing in the age of Trump, podcasts, disability awareness Archive
Tuesday, 2 October 2018
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the full program for its 2018 Independent Publishing Conference, which will run at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne from 22-24 November. The three-day...
Brow Books signs Grills in two-book deal; Ord’s ‘diary comic’ to publish in February Archive
Tuesday, 2 October 2018
Brow Books has acquired world rights to big beautiful female theory by writer and artist Eloise Grills as part of a two-book deal. Described as ‘a book-length narrative essay combining...
Inaugural recipients of $150k The Next Chapter initiative announced Archive
Monday, 1 October 2018
The Wheeler Centre (TWC) has announced the 10 inaugural recipients of the 2018 Next Chapter grants for developing writers, each worth $15,000. The recipients of the grants will each be...
PRH sells Stevenson crime-thriller debut in US and UK Archive
Monday, 1 October 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) has sold North American and UK (ex ANZ) rights to debut crime-thriller Greenlight (Michael Joseph) by Sydney-based author Benjamin Stevenson. PRH senior rights manager Nerrilee Weir...
HarperCollins, Hardie Grant, S&S and Walker join forces in NZ sales and marketing agency Archive
Thursday, 27 September 2018
HarperCollins has announced a new combined sales and marketing agency in New Zealand, which will represent Hardie Grant, Simon & Schuster (S&S) and Walker Books. The new Auckland-based agency, which...
Egan announced as incoming ABA CEO Archive
Thursday, 27 September 2018
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced Robbie Egan as incoming CEO, beginning in early December 2018. Currently the group operations manager at Readings, Egan has been treasurer and a...
Minister admits NSW arts funding was redirected to Sydney Symphony Orchestra Archive
Thursday, 27 September 2018
NSW arts minister Don Harwin has admitted that some money from a Create NSW funding round was diverted to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO), meaning 11 arts organisations missed out...
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