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State Library of NSW 2024 fellowships announced

Wednesday, 6 November 2024
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the recipients of its 2024 research fellowships, worth a total of $186,000 across eight categories, on the 50th anniversary of its research...

Creative Australia Elevate funding recipients announced

Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Creative Australia has announced a new round of recipients of its Elevate: First Nations Storytelling and Literature career development funding program. The recipients—each receiving a $10,000 grant—are: Tahnee Carter Vivienne...

HarperCollins acquires three new McTiernan books

Wednesday, 6 November 2024
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to three new books by Dervla McTiernan, including The Unquiet Grave. The Unquiet Grave features Cormac Reilly—who first appeared in McTiernan’s 2018 debut, The...

Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipients announced

Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Writers Victoria has announced the recipients for the 12th round of the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. The eight recipients—who share in funding of $50,795—are: Poet, producer, editor and weaver...

A&U acquires Scott debut thriller ‘Stillwater’

Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to debut thriller Stillwater by Tanya Scott ‘after a fiercely contested auction’, in a two-book deal brokered by Tom Gilliatt at a4 Literary...

Booktopia administrators call second meeting of creditors

Monday, 4 November 2024
McGrathNicol, the company acting as administrators for Booktopia Group Limited, has issued notice of a second meeting of creditors, and made its report to creditors available on its website. The...

Voss Literary Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Monday, 4 November 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Voss Literary Prize has been announced. Shortlisted works, chosen from a longlist of 10 announced in September, are: Anam (André Dao, Hamish Hamilton) God Forgets...

PRH acquires Noni YA romance in three-book deal

Friday, 1 November 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to three books from YA author Lynette Noni: a standalone contemporary romance, Wandering Wild; and a new fantasy series acquired in a...

Walkley Book Award 2024 shortlist announced

Friday, 1 November 2024
The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for the 69th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The works shortlisted for the Walkley Book Award, chosen from a longlist of...

Speech pathology book awards 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 31 October 2024
The winners of the 2024 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Birth–3 years age category: Let’s Play (Karen...

‘The Truck Cat’ selected for NSS 2025

Thursday, 31 October 2024
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has selected The Truck Cat (HGCP), written by Deborah Frenkel and illustrated by Danny Snell, for the 2025 National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) event. The...

Australian Political Book of the Year Award 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 31 October 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Australian Political Book of the Year Award has been announced. Shortlisted titles, selected from a longlist announced earlier this month, are: Quarterly Essay #93: Bad...

A&U acquires Murray’s ‘Lights, Camera, Love’

Thursday, 31 October 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Lights, Camera, Love by Natalie Murray in a two-book deal by Annette Barlow, via Sarah McKenzie of Sarah McKenzie Literary Management....

Heifetz, Gilliatt, McGuire, Slater form a4 Literary

Thursday, 31 October 2024
Grace Heifetz, Tom Gilliatt, Michaela McGuire and Rebecca Slater have announced the creation of new literary agency a4 Literary. Representing ‘writers and creators of all genres and voices for publication...

Australians on Frankfurt 2024: Busy and upbeat, with no clear ‘book of the fair’

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Australian literary managers and rights agents were among 115,000 trade visitors from 153 countries at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, which ran from 16 to 20 October 2024. The 76th...

Hughes to leave Affirm, Blake and Besliev appointed publishing directors

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has announced Affirm Press publishing director Martin Hughes will step away from the role at the end of the year. In a statement, S&S said...

HG Explore acquires Wilson’s new book

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights to Sarah Wilson’s new book, Walk the World Bigger, under its Hardie Grant Explore imprint. In Walk the World Bigger, Wilson brings together ‘the...

QBD 2024 Book of the Year winners announced

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
QBD has announced the winners of the chain's 2024 Book of the Year. The winning titles are: Fiction The Ledge (Christian White, Affirm) Nonfiction The Voice Inside (John Farnham with...

Left Bank Literary to dissolve

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Left Bank Literary has announced that the agency will dissolve as of 1 December. ‘After five wonderful years, Gaby Naher and Grace Heifetz have decided to explore new opportunities outside...

YABBA Awards 2024 winners announced

Tuesday, 29 October 2024
The winners of the 2024 YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Awards) have been announced. Winning titles and honour books in each category are: Picture storybook Macca the Alpaca (Matt Cosgrove,...

EIBF report: percentage of Australians purchasing books ‘slightly below’ average

Tuesday, 29 October 2024
A study on consumer behaviour by the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) has included Australia among several territories surveyed for the report. Commissioned through EIBF’s RISE Bookselling (‘Resilience, Innovation...