Bolinda, A&U acquire new Heath crime series
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Allen & Unwin and Bolinda Audio have acquired print and audio book rights, respectively, to two titles in a new crime series by Jack Heath. At Bolinda, audio rights and...
Festivals: Stella, Australian Short Story Festival
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Dates and details for two forthcoming small festivals have been announced. Stella Day Out which took place in Sydney on 19 October, will run in Ballarat on 16 November and...
Readings Prize 2024 winners announced
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Readings has announced the winners of the 2024 Readings Prize in each category and the winner of the Gab Williams Prize. The winning titles are: New Australian Fiction Prize Thanks...
Affirm signs Douglas’s ‘Cosy Vegan’ cookbook
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the cookbook Cosy Vegan by Liz Douglas. Affirm described the book as ‘the ultimate kitchen companion for those wanting to explore a plant-based lifestyle,...
Nix wins best novel at 2024 Ditmar Awards
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
The winners of the 2024 Ditmar Awards were announced on 7 October, as part of the Australian national science fiction convention ‘Conflux 18’ in Canberra. The winning works include: Best novel The...
Kitching, Pickens awarded in Laurel Prize
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Aotearoa New Zealand poets Megan Kitching and Robyn Maree Pickens are among prize recipients for the annual UK nature and environmental poetry award, the Laurel Prize. The 2024 winners are:...
Arts and Disability Initiative funds literature recipients
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Four literature recipients are among Creative Australia’s Arts and Disability Initiative, which supports 10 projects overall, with funding totalling $300,000. The successful recipients related to writing and illustration are: Anthony...
‘Edenglassie’ wins 2024 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James Cook University in Townsville has announced Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko (UQP) is the winner of the $50,000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary...
Nakata Brophy Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Monday, 21 October 2024
Overland journal has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Nakata Brophy Prize for the best poem by a young Indigenous writer. The shortlisted works, selected by judges Karen Wyld and Eugenia...
Rossell wins 2024 Albert Ullin Award
Monday, 21 October 2024
Melbourne author and illustrator Judith Rossell is the recipient of the 2024 Albert Ullin Award, worth $10,000. The prize judging panel said: ‘It is Rossell’s profound love for creating stories...
Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards 2024 winners announced
Monday, 21 October 2024
The winners of the 2024 Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Hush (Ciella Williams, Playlab Theatre) Nonfiction Living in Tin: The...
Shawline liquidation affects hundreds
Monday, 21 October 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has released general advice for authors affected by the Shawline liquidation, following the news that ‘an astounding 600 titles are affected and the authors...
SPN to wind up in 30 days unless new board formed
Monday, 21 October 2024
The board of the Small Press Network (SPN) has informed members that it will apply to Consumer Affairs Victoria to terminate the organisation in 30 days, unless a new board...
Richell Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Thursday, 17 October 2024
Hachette Australia and the Richell family, in partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) and Simpsons Solicitors, has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. The...
Transit Lounge acquires Raszewski’s second novel
Thursday, 17 October 2024
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to For One Visitor at a Time, the second novel by Melbourne-based author Monica Raszewski. For One Visitor at a Time tells the story of...
A&U acquires Chung memoir
Thursday, 17 October 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to the memoir Chinese Parents Don’t Say I Love You by Candice Chung via Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary. In describing the memoir, the publisher...
Black Inc. acquires Grenville’s nonfiction project ‘Unsettled’
Thursday, 17 October 2024
Black Inc. has acquired ANZ rights to Kate Grenville’s nonfiction project Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place. Said Grenville: ‘I’ve been circling this book for twenty years. Researching and...
James awarded 2024 ASA Medal
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Ann James is the recipient of the 2024 ASA Medal. Established in 2003, the ASA Medal is awarded annually to an Australian...
South Australian Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
The winners of the 2024 South Australian Literary Awards have been announced. The debut memoir of Adelaide author Shannon Burns, Childhood (Text), has won the Premier’s Award for the best...
Pan Macmillan acquires Kerr’s adult fiction debut
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Pan Macmillan Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Kay Kerr’s untitled adult fiction debut, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. In the novel, ‘a burnt-out and unravelling young...
UQP acquires Field’s ‘The Eagle and the Crow’
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to J M Field’s book The Eagle and the Crow, which ‘records and provides important insights into Indigenous ways of knowing...
Paragraph Fellowship inaugural shortlist announced
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
The shortlist for the inaugural Paragraph Fellowship has been announced by the new Time to Write initiative. Shortlisted works are: ‘Decadence’ by Hossein Asgari ‘The Heron’ by Jessica Au ‘Reasons...
Promotions at S&S
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has announced the promotions of three staff members in the editorial team and one staff member in the finance team, effective this month. Anthea Bariamis...
McGregor, Sakr, Apolonio awarded Copyright Agency fellowships
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has announced the three recipients of its 2024 writing fellowships, sharing a prize pool of $170,000, which aim to ‘usher in new Australian writing from both...
New Dawn forms audiobook partnership with Bolinda
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Fantasy and speculative fiction publisher New Dawn has formed an ‘exclusive partnership’ with Bolinda Audio for the audiobook company to publish New Dawn's titles into the trade and library audio...
Marahuyo awarded 2024 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Writing NSW has awarded its 2024 Varuna fellowship to J Marahuyo for her poetry manuscript ‘Disclosure of Violence’. ‘Disclosure of Violence’ was described by the judges as a ‘deeply affecting...
Book-to-film adaptations to receive Screen Australia funding
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Two book adaptations are among the 15 projects to share $8.1 million in the latest round of production funding from Screen Australia. Watching You is a six-part psychological thriller series...
UWAP acquires Negri’s YA verse novel
Monday, 14 October 2024
University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Julianne Negri’s young adult verse novel Hunting Bears, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. Hunting Bears is...
Karajia and Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2024 winners announced
Monday, 14 October 2024
The Wilderness Society has announced the winners of the 2024 Environment Award for Children’s Literature and the Karajia Award for First Nations children’s storytelling. Winners in each category are: Environment...
A&U acquires ‘Runt’ sequel
Monday, 14 October 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping, Craig Silvey’s sequel to Runt, via Lesley Thorne at Aitken Alexander Associates. Runt and the Diabolical...
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