Styles wins UK Wilbur Smith Prize for No Country for Girls
Thursday, 19 October 2023
Australian author Emma Styles has won the UK’s Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Published Novel, worth £10,000 (A$19,160), for her debut outback noir No Country for Girls (Sphere)....
Rural and regional writers’ festival programs announced
Thursday, 19 October 2023
Several rural and regional writers’ festivals have announced details about their upcoming events. Blue Mountains Writers' Festival The Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival, presented by Varuna, the National Writers’ House, will...
Garner awarded 2023 ASA Medal
Thursday, 19 October 2023
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Helen Garner is the recipient of the 2023 ASA Medal. Established in 2003, the ASA Medal is awarded biennially to an Australian...
Barnes wins Wesley Michel Wright Prize
Thursday, 19 October 2023
Stuart Barnes has won the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize for his poetry collection Like to the Lark (Upswell). The prize selection committee described Barnes’ work as filled with ‘extraordinary...
Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2023 shortlist announced
Thursday, 19 October 2023
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘Buried treasure’ by Jo Chandler ‘Point of view’ by Lauren Fuge...
Martin awarded 2023 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Writing NSW has awarded its 2023 Varuna fellowship to Alison Martin for her novel manuscript, 'The Wild'. 'The Wild' is about the last woman hanged in New South Wales, who...
Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand launches BookHub
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand (BSANZ) has launched a consumer-facing centralised website called BookHub for book sales from bricks and mortar bookstores in that market. The new BookHub site follows a...
S&S acquires Callahan’s yoga book
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Simon & Schuster has acquired world rights to Growing with Grace by Simone Callahan. A Melbourne-based yoga teacher, Callahan shares her insights on how yoga has been instrumental in ‘embracing...
MEAA surveys publishing employees
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) has created a survey for publishing industry employees. The survey considers age, gender, diversity factors, employment status and number of years in the...
Affirm acquires Hills novel
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to the novel The Desert Knows Her Name by Lia Hills, via InkWell Management. The Desert Knows Her Name revolves around a girl who...
Nielsen: LYBD sales down on last year, up on 2021
Monday, 16 October 2023
Nielsen BookData has reported a decline in book sales during Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) week 2023, compared to the same week last year, although there was a considerable increase...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award prize money increases to $50k
Monday, 16 October 2023
The winner of next year’s Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award will receive $50,000, up from $30,000 in 2023. The increase in prize money is due to an annual contribution...
QBD, My Little Bookshop among National Retail Awards finalists
Monday, 16 October 2023
Bookstore chain QBD and West Australian indie bookstore My Little Bookshop—as well as a QBD bookseller—are among the 2023 finalists for the National Retail Association’s National Retail Awards. QBD is...
Australian Political Book of the Year 2023 shortlist revealed
Friday, 13 October 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year award has been announced. This year’s shortlist includes four titles: Australia’s China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear (James Curran, NewSouth)...
Walkley Book Award longlist announced
Friday, 13 October 2023
The longlist for the Walkley Book Award has been announced. The longlisted works are: The Great Dead Body Teachers (Jackie Dent, Ultimo Press) Ghosts of the Orphanage (Christine Kenneally, Hachette Australia) The...
Robinsons Bookshop celebrates 60th anniversary
Friday, 13 October 2023
Independent chain Robinsons Bookshop is celebrating its 60th anniversary this month. Philip and Moira Robinson opened the first Robinsons Bookshop in Frankston, Victoria, in 1963. The shop moved in 1992...
Inaugural Varuna Ann Moyal Nonfiction Fellowship winners
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Varuna, the National Writers’ House, has announced Sarah Holland-Batt, Cathy Perkins and Geordie Williamson as the recipients of the inaugural Ann Moyal Nonfiction Fellowship. Holland-Batt, Perkins and Williamson were chosen...
Womersley, Mullins, Limbrick awarded Copyright Agency fellowships
Thursday, 12 October 2023
The 2023 Copyright Agency Author Fellowship and Fellowship for Nonfiction Writing have been awarded to Chris Womersley and Patrick Mullins respectively, while Scott Limbrick is the inaugural recipient of the...
How to Be Remembered to be adapted to film
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Michael Thompson’s novel How to Be Remembered (A&U) will be adapted as a feature film by MRC Film in the US. According to Deadline, the novel will be adapted for...
‘The Sitter’ rights sold, awarded Joan C Bell Prize
Thursday, 12 October 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American rights to Angela O’Keeffe’s latest novel, The Sitter, to Jim Gauer at Zerogram, in a deal brokered by UQP rights and...
Affirm Press acquires Duckor-Jones coming-of-age novel
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Max, a coming-of-age novel by Avi Duckor-Jones, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. The titular protagonist is ‘grappling with questions about his birth parents and...
Local editors shortlisted for International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Julie Ganner and Agata Mrva-Montoya, both University of Sydney Master of Publishing lecturers and Institute of Professional Editors Limited (IPEd) members, have been shortlisted for the Accessible Books Consortium’s (ABC)...
Inaugural Stella Day Out announced
Wednesday, 11 October 2023
Stella has announced the inaugural Stella Day Out, a free one-day literary festival that ‘celebrates and promotes the outstanding contributions of women and non-binary writers to Australian literature’. The event...
Richell Prize 2023 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 11 October 2023
Hachette, in partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. The five shortlisted entries are: ‘When I Was Your...
Newcastle Poetry Prize 2023 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 11 October 2023
The Hunter Writers’ Centre has announced the 2023 shortlist for the $15,000 Newcastle Poetry Prize, with several poets reaching the shortlist with more than one entry. Shortlisted poets include: Eileen...
Pickard appointed OUP ANZ general manager
Wednesday, 11 October 2023
OUP ANZ has announced that former operations director Selina Pickard is returning to the organisation in the role of general manager. At OUP, Pickard was previously a digital and creative...
QBD takes over former Dymocks Broadway site, adds vinyl offering
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
QBD has announced it will take over operations of the former Dymocks store in Sydney's Broadway Shopping Centre, which closed on 18 September. QBD announced it will hold a grand...
Larrikin House acquires two graphic novels
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to two graphic novels set for release in 2024. One title is Ultra Violet by Cristy Burne, illustrated by Rebel Challenger, which ‘follows Violet, a science...
Hachette acquires Blakiston and Hawkins nonfiction debut
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Hachette has acquired ANZ rights to Make It Make Sense, a debut nonfiction book from Shit You Should Care About (SYSCA) writers Lucy Blakiston and Bel Hawkins, via Abigail Bergstrom...
Tighe wins 2023 Varuna-NEWC Fellowship
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
The New England Writers’ Centre (NEWC)—in partnership with Varuna, the National Writers’ House—has announced Matthew Tighe as the winner of the 2023 Varuna-NEWC Fellowship. Tighe will work on his steampunk...
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