Affirm acquires Brissenden novel
Thursday, 5 October 2023
Affirm has acquired ANZ rights to Smoke, a new crime thriller from journalist Michael Brissenden, via Shane Salerno and Daniel Pilkington of The Story Factory. The publisher described Smoke as...
HarperCollins signs Rogers follow-up in two-book deal
Thursday, 5 October 2023
HarperCollins Publishers Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a new novel, The Anatomy of Tears, from Megan Rogers—author of The Heart Is a Star—in a two-book deal brokered by Benython...
Spotify offers Australian subscribers 15 hours of audiobooks per month
Wednesday, 4 October 2023
Music streaming platform Spotify has announced it is making over 150,000 audiobooks available to its premium subscribers in Australia and the UK, who will receive 15 hours of listening per...
Beveridge wins $10k ACU Poetry Prize
Wednesday, 4 October 2023
Sydney-based poet Judith Beveridge has won the $10,000 Australian Catholic University (ACU) Prize for Poetry for her poem ‘Two Houses’. Responding to this year’s theme of ‘Love’, Beveridge’s poem is...
Magabala to offer two $10k AIC Creative Grants
Wednesday, 4 October 2023
Magabala Books will offer two $10,000 creative grants for First Nations storytellers, writers, illustrators and artists, in partnership with Australian Indigenous Coffee (AIC). The publisher said the grants ‘are intended...
Inaugural ABDA ‘Baseline’ Book Design Internship opens for applications
Wednesday, 4 October 2023
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has opened applications for its ‘Baseline’ Book Design Internship, after its initial announcement at the Australian Book Design Awards. The 'Baseline' program is a paid...
Europa Editions acquires new Azar novel
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Europa Editions has acquired world rights to a new novel by Iranian-Australian author and journalist Shokoofeh Azar, via Europa editor in chief Michael Reynolds, in a deal brokered by Victoria...
Drama series inspired by ‘Fake’ to screen next year
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
An eight-part drama series inspired by journalist Stephanie Wood’s 2019 nonfiction book Fake (Penguin) will screen on Paramount+ in 2024. Fake has been created for TV by screenwriter Anya Beyersdorf and...
2023 Ditmar Award winners announced
Monday, 2 October 2023
The winners of the 2023 Ditmar Awards were announced on 30 September, as part of the 2023 Australian National Science Fiction Convention in Canberra. These awards recognise achievement in Australian...
ASA responds to use of Australian books to train AI
Thursday, 28 September 2023
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has responded to the large-scale unauthorised use of books by Australian authors in a dataset used to train generative artificial intelligence. The training dataset,...
APA releases AI statement
Thursday, 28 September 2023
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released a statement ‘responding to the rapid advances in artificial intelligence’, seeking a focus on ethics, transparency, incentives and protections, and responsibility. Coming amidst...
NT Literary Awards 2023 winners announced
Thursday, 28 September 2023
The winners of the 2023 Northern Territory Literary Awards, which celebrate the unpublished work of established and emerging NT writers, have been announced. Winners in seven categories were announced, including:...
Pung awarded Creative Australia Fellowship for literature
Thursday, 28 September 2023
Writer Alice Pung is the recipient of the 2023 Creative Australia Fellowship for literature. Pung’s writing ‘has focused on people living on the margins—pregnant teenagers, illiterate mothers, poorer Australians and...
ABC Books acquires Georgiadis children’s gardening book series
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
ABC Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Books, has acquired four picture books by Costa Georgiadis, host of ABC TV’s Gardening Australia and Gardening Australia Junior, and illustrator Brenna Quinlan....
ARA Historical Novel Prize shortlists announced
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the shortlists for the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize. This year’s shortlisted titles are: Adult category Salonika Burning (Gail Jones, Text) Iris...
Australian Political Book of the Year 2023 longlist revealed
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Judges have announced the 2023 longlist for the Australian Political Book of the Year awards. This year's longlist includes ten titles: Dreamers and Schemers: A political history of Australia (Frank...
Arts participation survey: engagement with reading slightly down
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Creative Australia has released the results of the National Arts Participation Survey, which shows that engagement in reading has reduced slightly since 2019. However, over two thirds of Australians are...
Fourth Estate acquires Morton’s book on robodebt
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
HarperCollins Australia imprint Fourth Estate has acquired world rights to a new nonfiction book from Rick Morton: Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion government...
Koens wins 2023 Banjo Prize for Fiction
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Stefanie Koens has won the HarperCollins Banjo Prize for Fiction for her unpublished manuscript ‘Islands of Secrets’. In ‘Island of Secrets’, ‘a woman searching for answers in her own life...
Transit Lounge acquires Jung novel
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to My Name Is Gucci, a second novel from Sun Jung. Publisher Barry Scott describes My Name Is Gucci as ‘a charming novel about...
In Other Words 2023 program announced
Monday, 25 September 2023
OzAsia Festival has announced the program for In Other Words, its three-day writing and ideas event, to be held in Adelaide from 3 to 5 November, as part of the festival's...
UWAP acquires Steed’s third book
Monday, 25 September 2023
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Laurie Steed’s third book, short story collection Greater City Shadows. Greater City Shadows previously won the 2021 Henry Handel Richardson flagship fellowship for...
Rockpool acquires Forsyth’s oracle deck
Friday, 22 September 2023
Rockpool Publishing has acquired world rights to Kate Forsyth’s Fairy Tale Wisdom Oracle. Forsyth’s first oracle deck will ‘spin together myth, folklore and history in new and surprising ways’. The deck...
Fraser receives inaugural Australian Short Story Festival mentorship
Friday, 22 September 2023
The Australian Short Story Festival (ASSF) has announced John A D Fraser as the winner of the 2023 ASSF Mentorship prize, for the story ‘Seven Smokes’. Fraser receives a three-month...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2023 winners announced
Friday, 22 September 2023
The Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) has announced the winners of its Book Design Awards 2023. The winners in each category are: Gerard Reid Award...
SRB, WSU, City of Parramatta to award Laureateship in Literature
Thursday, 21 September 2023
The Sydney Review of Books (SRB) has announced a call for applications for the inaugural $50,000 Parramatta Laureateship in Literature, in partnership with the City of Parramatta and the Western...
HarperCollins acquires Serong novel
Thursday, 21 September 2023
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Jock Serong's novel Cherrywood, in an auction brokered by Melanie Ostell of Melanie Ostell Literary. The publisher called the novel ‘an imaginative delight', and...
NewSouth acquires Jacobson memoir
Thursday, 21 September 2023
NewSouth has acquired world rights to How to Knit a Human, a memoir from poet, writer and artist Anna Jacobson. Described by the publisher as a lyrical memoir about ‘Jacobson’s...
Upswell acquires Dominic Gordon debut
Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to Excitable Boy: Essays on risk, a debut book of essays by Melbourne writer Dominic Gordon. The publisher said that the book 'tracks the...
Affirm acquires King debut novel
Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Birds of a Feather, a debut novel from Rhianna King, via Rochelle Fernandez of Alex Adsett Literary. Described by Fernandez as ‘a gorgeously...
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