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Dymocks Subiaco wins top award at Dymocks conference Archive

Wednesday, 25 July 2018
Dymocks Subiaco in Perth has won the Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at the 2018 Dymocks national conference, which was held on the Gold Coast from 22-24 July. Dymocks managing...

Fantasy imprint Talem Press seeks submissions Archive

Tuesday, 24 July 2018
Online writers’ platform and small publisher Writer’s Edit is seeking manuscript submissions for fantasy fiction imprint Talem Press. The imprint focuses on fantasy fiction, featuring unlikely heroines, mysterious magic and...

Book-industry figures sign open letter in support of ABC Archive

Tuesday, 24 July 2018
Australian Book Review (ABR) has published an open letter against privatisation, political interference and funding cuts to the ABC, which has been signed by 100 people including various book-industry figures....

A&U to publish Thai cave rescue book in October Archive

Tuesday, 24 July 2018
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to The Great Cave Rescue: The Extraordinary Story of the Thai Boy Soccer Team Trapped in a Cave for 18 Days by journalist...

Isaac, Kelly win 2018 RITA Awards Archive

Monday, 23 July 2018
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2018 RITA Awards, which recognise excellence in romance novels and novellas. Among the winners were two New Zealand...

‘Scrublands’ optioned for TV Archive

Monday, 23 July 2018
Chris Hammer’s crime-fiction debut Scrublands (Allen & Unwin) has been optioned for television by producers Ian Collie of Easy Tiger and Martha Coleman of RevLover, via Grace Heifetz at Curtis...

Colin Roderick Award 2018 shortlist announced Archive

Friday, 20 July 2018
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Soon (Lois Murphy, Transit...

Harbour partners with University of the Sunshine Coast to publish students’ work Archive

Friday, 20 July 2018
Small publisher Harbour Publishing House has announced a partnership with the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) to publish one book each year from students within its creative writing program....

NYWF announces artists for 2018 festival Archive

Friday, 20 July 2018
The National Young Writers Festival (NYWF) has announced the artists appearing on its 2018 program, which runs from 27-30 September in Newcastle. Guests announced on this year’s program include Alison...

Tuffield joins UQP Archive

Thursday, 19 July 2018
UQP has announced the appointment of Aviva Tuffield to the publishing team. Tuffield joins UQP this week but will remain based in Melbourne. She will acquire fiction and nonfiction for the Brisbane-based publisher, and will...

Caro, Coslovich, Falconer win in Walkley Mid-Year Awards Archive

Thursday, 19 July 2018
The winners of the Walkley Mid-Year Awards have been announced. Jane Caro won the Walkley Foundation’s Women’s Leadership in Media Award for the nonfiction book she edited Unbreakable: Women Share...

‘Terry’s Dumb Dot Story’ raises over $140k for charity Archive

Thursday, 19 July 2018
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, in partnership with Pan Macmillan Australia, have donated $141,613 to charity from the sale of their short story Terry’s Dumb Dot Story. Published on 27 February,...

HarperCollins signs Treasure for two-book deal Archive

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to White Horses by commercial fiction author Rachael Treasure in a two-book deal, via Margaret Connolly at Margaret Connolly and Associates. White Horses tells the...

NLA Publishing acquires ‘shadow play’ picture book Archive

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
NLA Publishing has acquired world rights to picture book Hiding Moon, written by Emma Allen and illustrated by Sher Rill Ng. Publisher Susan Hall acquired rights directly from Allen, while...

Affirm Press acquires Fiona Hardy’s debut middle-grade novel ‘Rosebud’ Archive

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to debut middle-grade novel Rosebud by Readings bookseller Fiona Hardy. Rights were negotiated by agent Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. Due to be published...

NewSouth to publish official history of Australian operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor Archive

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
The Australian War Memorial (AWM) has awarded a tender to NewSouth Publishing to publish The Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq & Afghanistan and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East...

Melbourne Writers Festival 2018 program launched Archive

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
The program for the 2018 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which runs from 24 August to 2 September, has been announced. This year's festival will open with a gala celebration featuring...

Educational Publishing Awards 2018 shortlists announced Archive

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Educational Publishing Awards Australia. The shortlists in each category are: Primary Student Resource: Arts/Science/Humanities/Social Sciences/Technologies/Health and Physical Education/Languages...

Namoi retires from A&U Archive

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
Angela Namoi will retire from her position as rights and international sales director (children’s) at Allen & Unwin (A&U) on 3 August. During her career, Namoi sold the 'Tashi' series...

Scribble sells North American rights to ‘Under the Love Umbrella’ Archive

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
Scribe’s children’s imprint, Scribble, has sold North American rights to Under the Love Umbrella (Davina Bell, illus by Allison Colpoys) to Simply Read Books. Rights to the title have previously...

WORD Christchurch 2018 program announced Archive

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
The program for the 2018 WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival, which runs from 29 August to 2 September, has been announced. Among the international guests attending this year’s festival...

Castagna’s ‘No More Boats’ sold into North America Archive

Tuesday, 17 July 2018
Giramondo has sold North American rights to Felicity Castagna’s No More Boats to Europa Editions editor-in-chief Michael Reynolds in a pre-empt, via Rach Crawford at literary agency MacKenzie Wolf. The Miles Franklin-shortlisted...