‘Rewi’ wins best book at PANZ Book Design Awards
Monday, 23 September 2024
The winners in the 2024 New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu Publishers Association (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced, with Māori and Pasifika designers winning the top honours. Winners...
Leckie awarded 2024 NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship
Monday, 23 September 2024
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) has announced Jacqueline Leckie as the recipient of the 2024 NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship,...
De Tores wins 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize
Monday, 23 September 2024
In the UK, Australian author Francesca de Tores has won the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Published Novel for her novel Saltblood (Bloomsbury). De Tores’ novel charts...
City of Fremantle Hungerford Award 2024 shortlist announced
Monday, 23 September 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award has been announced. Shortlisted manuscripts include: ‘Far From Wonderful’, a fiction work by Howard McKenzie-Murray ‘Screech’, a fiction work by...
Canberra Writers Festival 2024 program announced
Thursday, 19 September 2024
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) has announced its program for the 2024 festival, to be held on 23–27 October, featuring over 100 guests. Among guests speaking at the event are Tim...
The Brand Licensing Group to distribute Phidal children’s books
Thursday, 19 September 2024
Victorian wholesaler The Brand Licensing Group has partnered with Canadian children’s publisher Phidal Publishing to distribute its books into the Australian market, beginning October. Phidal's list includes books for younger...
Perth Festival announces new literature festival
Thursday, 19 September 2024
Perth Festival has announced a new literary festival, which it plans to hold for the first time in spring 2026. Organisers said the as yet unnamed festival will take place...
A&U acquires Schmitz debut novel
Thursday, 19 September 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Toby Schmitz’s debut novel, The Empress Murders, via Edwina Stuart at HLA Management. The publisher described The Empress Murders as a...
Barbara Jefferis Award 2024 shortlist announced
Thursday, 19 September 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Barbara Jefferis Award, worth $50,000. The shortlisted titles are: Salonika Burning (Gail Jones, Text) Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko,...
OzAsia Weekend of Words, Queenscliffe Literary Festival programs announced
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Programs have been announced for the OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words and the Queenscliffe Literary Festival. Weekend of Words The OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words will be held on 8–10...
Nib Literary Award 2024 finalists announced
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
The finalists for the 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, have been announced. Shortlisted titles for the award are: Reaching Through Time (Shauna Bostock, A&U) Book...
Echo acquires Maynard novels
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to two novels by debut author Anna Maynard, via Sally Bird at Calidris Literary Agency. The first novel, Dancing with Bees, is described by...
Hachette acquires Mansour-Nahra debut novel
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Jessica Mansour-Nahra’s debut novel, with a working title of The Farm, in a five-way auction, in a two-book deal via Marina de Pass...
ASA appoints Hayward as CEO
Tuesday, 17 September 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) board has appointed Lucy Hayward to the role of CEO. Hayward moves up from the position of marketing and communications manager, succeeding Olivia Lanchester,...
Wood shortlisted for 2024 Booker Prize
Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Australian author Charlotte Wood has been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Stone Yard Devotional (A&U). The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$97,828) prize are: Creation Lake (Rachel...
Affirm Press to distribute Firefly Press
Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Affirm Press has made a distribution agreement with independent UK publishing house Firefly Press, beginning in 2025. Firefly Press is an independent children's and YA publisher based in Wales, publishing...
Melbourne Books acquires Tania debut cookbook
Monday, 16 September 2024
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Christy Tania’s first cookbook, Imagine: Creating Desserts with Christy Tania. The publisher said that the cookbook features over 50 base recipes for ‘adventurous and...
Riveted Press acquires Teow illustrated book series
Monday, 16 September 2024
Riveted Press has acquired worldwide rights to five picture books in the series The Book of Kin by author/illustrator Tamlyn Teow, beginning with the book SoXiety. In this ‘almost-wordless’ picture...
New prize for humour writing added to VPLAs
Monday, 16 September 2024
A new award category, the John Clarke Prize for Humour Writing, has been added to the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs), named in honour of satirist, writer and actor John...
Fogarty Literary Award funding increased
Monday, 16 September 2024
The Fogarty Literary Award for young Western Australian writers has received an increase in funding. In an announcement, Fremantle Press said the Fogarty Foundation increased funding for the award by...
Hepworth, Griffiths chosen as inaugural LYBD ambassadors
Monday, 16 September 2024
BookPeople has announced that authors Sally Hepworth and Andy Griffiths are the inaugural adult and children’s author ambassadors for this year’s Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) campaign. As ambassadors, Hepworth...
Danger Awards 2024 winners announced
Monday, 16 September 2024
The 2024 winners of the Danger Awards have been announced. Winners in each category are: Fiction The Tea Ladies (Amanda Hampson, Penguin) Debut fiction Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder (Kerryn Mayne,...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
Thursday, 12 September 2024
Creative Australia has announced the winners of the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. The winners in each category, chosen by an expert independent panel of judges from shortlists announced in...
Atlantic acquires new Dettmann novel
Thursday, 12 September 2024
Atlantic Books Australia, a division of Allen & Unwin (A&U), has acquired ANZ rights to a new novel by Jessica Dettmann, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown....
Shawline rebrands
Thursday, 12 September 2024
Shawline Publishing has rebranded as New Found Books. A statement on the publisher’s website said the website had been ‘rebranded and redirected for the protection of our authors and quality...
Grainer, Mouhajer awarded Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Affirm Press and Sweatshop have announced Phoebe Grainer and Adrian Mouhajer as the recipients of the 2024–25 round of the Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers. Grainer is a Kuku...
Smith Street acquires Davies cookbook
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Smith Street Books has acquired world rights to a new Japanese cookbook by Emiko Davies, via Lou Johnson at Key People Literary Management. Davies is an Australian-Japanese food writer, photographer, author...
Christie to join Curtis Brown
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Curtis Brown Australia has announced Alexandra Christie will join the business as an agent. Currently rights director at Giramondo Publishing and the editor of HEAT literary magazine, Christie is also...
Ultimo acquires Reid’s third novel
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Diana Reid’s third novel, Signs of Damage. In Signs of Damage, 13-year-old Cass goes missing while the Kelly family is holidaying in the...
Laura Harris launches publishing services business
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Former publishing director, young readers, at Penguin Random House (PRH) Laura Harris has launched a children’s publishing services business. Laura Harris Publishing offers editorial and advisory services for children’s book...
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