Nature Writing Prize 2023 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 8 November 2023
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Australia has announced the writers shortlisted for the 2023 Nature Writing Prize. The shortlisted writers are: Bonny Cassidy (Chewton Bushlands) for 'A Custodial Species', which 'draws...
Handsel offers Hardie Grant books in gift packs
Wednesday, 8 November 2023
Hardie Grant is selling books in gift packs through its new online gift-giving service Handsel. Created by HGX, the Hardie Grant–owned digital venture studio, Handsel is described as ‘reimagining the...
Cathro to leave Campion in 2024
Monday, 6 November 2023
Campion Education managing director James Cathro will leave his position in late 2024, after over 25 years with the company. In a statement, Cathro said: ‘After more than two decades...
Woollahra Digital Literary Award shortlists announced
Monday, 6 November 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 Woollahra Digital Literary Award have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Fiction 'The Life of a Folk Devil' (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Meanjin)...
Neilma Sidney Travel Fund recipients announced
Monday, 6 November 2023
Writers Victoria has announced the tenth round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. The nine successful recipients—who share in a total of $69,761—are: Alana Hicks (NSW), to...
Danger Awards 2023 winners announced
Friday, 3 November 2023
The winners of the 2023 Danger Awards have been announced at the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival. Novelist Chris Hammer, who took out the award for best crime fiction, has...
Walkley Book Award shortlist announced
Friday, 3 November 2023
The shortlist for the Walkley Book Award has been announced. The shortlisted works are: Ghosts of the Orphanage (Christine Kenneally, Hachette Australia) The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of...
Sawyer wins 2023 Richell Prize
Thursday, 2 November 2023
Alex Sawyer is the 2023 winner of the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for the manuscript ‘Rat Daniels’, Hachette Australia has announced. Sawyer is a clinical psychologist, volunteer firefighter and...
Hobart named a UNESCO City of Literature
Thursday, 2 November 2023
The United Nations’ cultural arm UNESCO has named Hobart a City of Literature. The Hobart City of Literature Working Group (HCLWG) was formed in January 2023 to present the bid...
Eckermann’s ‘She Is the Earth’ sells to North America
Thursday, 2 November 2023
Magabala Books has sold North American rights to Ali Cobby Eckermann’s She Is the Earth to Flood Editions. The publisher said She Is the Earth is ‘a luminous verse novel...
Australian Reading Hour to end
Thursday, 2 November 2023
Australia Reads will retire its annual Australian Reading Hour event in favour of 'a practical, unified, and year-round approach to advocating for reading in Australia'. In a statement, Australia Reads...
Completely Normal (and Other Lies) wins inaugural Gab Williams Prize
Wednesday, 1 November 2023
Completely Normal (and Other Lies) by Biffy James (HGCP) is the winner of the inaugural Gab Williams Prize. Readings established the Gab Williams Prize in addition to its annual Readings...
McNicol Smith to depart Affirm
Wednesday, 1 November 2023
Affirm Press publicity manager Laura McNicol Smith is departing the organisation. Discussing the move, McNicol Smith said: 'After six wonderful years at Affirm Press, I’ve decided it’s time for a...
AI, Spotify, high/low fiction: Australian impressions of Frankfurt
Wednesday, 1 November 2023
AI dominated conversations at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair, according to Australians in attendance. 'A day didn’t pass at the book fair without a conversation about AI, the good, the...
Transit Lounge acquires Downes novel
Wednesday, 1 November 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Stephen Downes’ new novel, Mural. Publisher Barry Scott said Mural is 'a haunting "confession" by a psychopath held in a secure facility'. Told...
New S&S imprint Bundyi acquires Walton historical novel
Wednesday, 1 November 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia imprint Bundyi Publishing has announced its first acquisition, acquiring world rights to I Am Nan’nert’garrook, a historical fiction novel from author and actor Tasma Walton. Walton...
Mayo, O’Brien donate The Voice to Parliament Handbook royalties to the ILF
Wednesday, 1 November 2023
Thomas Mayo and Kerry O’Brien have donated royalties from The Voice to Parliament Handbook (Hardie Grant) to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF). Totalling $30,080.66, the authors’ donation is from the...
Ottley wins at World Fantasy Awards
Tuesday, 31 October 2023
Australian author, visual artist and composer Matt Ottley has been recognised in the category of special award—professional in the 2023 World Fantasy Awards for his book The Tree of Ecstasy...
Lim, Sworder on 2024 IBBY Honour List
Tuesday, 31 October 2023
IBBY Australia has announced its 2024 selection for the biennial IBBY Honour List: for writing, Rebecca Lim’s Tiger Daughter (A&U, 2021), and for illustration, Zeno Sworder’s My Strange Shrinking Parents...
Hearts ‘reignite’ for 20th Ubud program
Tuesday, 31 October 2023
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) recorded over 15,000 festival attendees for its 20th-anniversary festival program, held from 18–22 October 2023 in Ubud, Indonesia. Festival director Janet DeNeefe said, ‘We...
My Little Bookshop wins National Retail Association award
Monday, 30 October 2023
West Australian indie bookshop My Little Bookshop was named Small Retailer of the Year (shopfront) at the National Retail Association’s National Retail Awards on 26 October. My Little Bookshop is...
Shaw sells US and Canada rights to Adam novel
Monday, 30 October 2023
Martin Shaw from Shaw Literary has sold North American rights to Aotearoa New Zealand author Pip Adam's latest novel, Audition. Audition was acquired in the US by Coffee House Press...
HarperCollins acquires Almond debut novel
Monday, 30 October 2023
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Alexandra Almond's debut fantasy novel, titled Thoroughly Disenchanted, via Abigail Nathan at Alex Adsett Literary. Described by the agent as a ‘cosy fantasy’, Thoroughly...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Thursday, 26 October 2023
Creative Australia has announced the titles shortlisted for the 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Sun Walks Down (Fiona McFarlane, A&U) Losing...
HarperCollins acquires debut crime novel The Wolf Tree
Thursday, 26 October 2023
HarperCollins has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) to Laura McCluskey’s debut novel The Wolf Tree in a two-book deal. HarperCollins fiction publisher Anna Valdinger and HarperCollins UK publisher,...
Crawford wins inaugural Walker Books Manuscript Prize
Thursday, 26 October 2023
Melbourne-based writer Ange Crawford has won the inaugural Walker Books Manuscript Prize for her YA novel, How to Be Normal. The shortlist was judged by authors Sally Murphy, Jared Thomas...
Savva’s Bulldozed wins Australian Political Book of the Year
Thursday, 26 October 2023
Niki Savva has won the 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year award for her book Bulldozed (Scribe). Bulldozed was announced as the winner at an event at the National...
Master, Liang, Lien win 2023 Readings Prizes
Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Readings has announced Maryam Master, Ann Liang, and Tracey Lien as the 2023 winners of the Readings Prizes at an event at Readings Emporium, Melbourne, on 25 October. The winning...
Ultimo acquires A Postcard from the Future
Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Ben Hamer's A Postcard from the Future, a nonfiction book which envisions the next twenty years, via Jane Novak. The book will imagine...
ADS adds Border Express
Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) has announced it has added Border Express as a secondary freight carrier 'to support operations through the 2023 peak book-selling season and into 2024'. ADS said...
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