‘Lessons in Chemistry’ wins Dymocks 2022 Book of the Year
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
London-based American writer Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry (Doubleday) has been named Dymocks Book of the Year for 2022. Set in the early 1960s, Garmus's debut novel follows chemist Elizabeth Zott,...
Fegan wins 2022 Catalyse Nonfiction Prize
Monday, 28 November 2022
Express Media and Deakin University have announced Sar Fegan as the winner of the Catalyse Nonfiction Prize, formerly the Deakin University Nonfiction Prize. Fegan won for their piece 'A Fiery...
Piper wins 2022 SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition
Monday, 28 November 2022
Tessa Piper, a 37-year-old public servant from Melbourne, has won this year's SBS Emerging Writers' Competition, worth $5000. Piper's winning story 'The Usual' was selected by judges Alice Pung and...
NSW Prem’s History Awards adds $10,000 prize
Monday, 28 November 2022
The NSW Government has announced the establishment of a new history prize category in the NSW Premier’s History Awards. The Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize, valued at $10,000, will...
Jackson wins 2022 SPN Book of the Year Award
Monday, 28 November 2022
Eleanor Jackson has won the 2022 Small Press Network (SPN) Book of the Year Award for her poetry collection Gravidity and Parity (Vagabond Press). The winner was chosen from a...
Affirm acquires Daley anthology about teachers
Friday, 25 November 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a forthcoming anthology about teachers, to be edited by Megan Daley. The anthology will showcase educators who nurture, inspire, champion and create change, in...
Pantera acquires Cohen debut ‘Everyone and Everything’
Thursday, 24 November 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights for the debut novel Everyone and Everything by Nadine J Cohen, who is represented by Stacey Testro International. A tale of ‘family, mental health...
Kefala wins 2022 Patrick White Award
Thursday, 24 November 2022
Sydney-based author Antigone Kefala is the winner of this year’s $15,000 Patrick White Literary Award. The award recognises Kefala’s achievements as a poet, and a writer of fiction and nonfiction....
Pettit, Hawkins to join Affirm sales team
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
Affirm Press has announced the appointment of Priscilla Pettit and Christopher Hawkins as key account managers for NSW/ACT. Pettit has spent three years with Dymocks stores as assistant manager at...
Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship 2022 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 2022 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship shortlist. The shortlisted applicants, chosen by authors Shankari Chandran and Jennifer Mills, are: Ashley Hay for ‘The...
Woollahra Digital Literary Award 2022 winners
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
The winners of the 2022 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Fiction ($2500) ‘The Golden Bracelet’ (Deniz Agraz, Meniscus Literary Journal) Nonfiction ($2500) ‘Not...
ACT Writers Centre re-launches as Marion
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
The ACT Writers Centre has re-launched as Marion, with the tagline ‘elevating writers and their art’. The new name is ‘a tipped hat to two creative forces that have influenced...
HarperCollins acquires Grant’s ‘The Queen is Dead’
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to The Queen is Dead, a new work of nonfiction from Stan Grant, in a deal brokered by Tara Wynne of Curtis Brown. To...
Black Inc. sells ‘One Hundred Days’ to HarperVia
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to One Hundred Days by Alice Pung to HarperCollins imprint HarperVia. The deal was made by Black Inc. international director Sophy...
National Trust WA INSPIRE residency recipients announced
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
The successful applicants to the 2022 INSPIRE Writer in Residence initiative, offered by the National Trust of Western Australia in partnership with the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural...
Cramond, Burbidge named BookPeople reps of the year
Monday, 21 November 2022
BookPeople, the newly rebranded Australian Booksellers Association, has announced the recipients of its Rep of the Year awards for 2022. The reps of the year are: NSW Rep of the...
QBD 2022 Books of the Year announced
Monday, 21 November 2022
QBD has announced the chain’s 2022 Books of the Year. The winning titles are: Fiction Lying Beside You (Michael Robotham, Hachette) Nonfiction My Dream Time: A memoir of tennis and...
Erese wins final Deborah Cass Prize
Friday, 18 November 2022
Anneliz Marie Erese has won Writers Victoria’s 2022 Deborah Cass Prize for her story ‘International’. Erese’s story was chosen from a shortlist of 11. She receives $3000 to assist in further development...
‘Currowan’ wins Walkley Book Award
Friday, 18 November 2022
Bronwyn Adcock has won the 2022 Walkley Book Award for Currowan: The story of a fire and a community during Australia's worst summer, published by Black Inc. Chosen from a...
‘Signs and Wonders’ wins 2022 Nib Literary Award
Thursday, 17 November 2022
Delia Falconer has won the Waverley Council’s 2022 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $20,000, for her book Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and...
BookPeople conference 2023 to be held in Adelaide
Thursday, 17 November 2022
The 2023 BookPeople conference and trade exhibition will be held in Adelaide on 18–19 June. The conference will take place at the Adelaide Convention Centre. It will begin on the...
Hamilton appointed S&S marketing and publicity director
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
Simon and Schuster Australia (S&S) has appointed Fleur Hamilton to the role of marketing and publicity director. Hamilton, who replaces Ace Mamun in the role, joins S&S from Allen &...
Tasmanian Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Tasmanian Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Young readers and children ($25,000) Aster’s Good, Right Things (Kate Gordon, Yellow...
Earp joins Affirm sales team
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Melbourne bookseller Michael Earp will join Affirm Press as the publisher's Vic/Tas account manager. Earp comes to the role with almost two decades of industry experience, including seven years in...
Clunes Booktown announces first guests, new dates
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Regional Victoria's Clunes Booktown Festival has revealed an extended program, as well as new dates. The festival, which usually runs in May, will be held next year on the weekend...
A&U acquires debut novel ‘Search History’
Monday, 14 November 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Search History, the debut novel by Melbourne writer Amy Taylor. A&U publisher Jane Palfreyman acquired rights from associate agent Benjamin Paz at...
Pham wins 2022 Heyman Mentorship Award
Friday, 11 November 2022
Kim Pham is the winner of the 2022 Heyman Mentorship Award for her novel manuscript ‘Bird Hands Beaver a Fishmint Bouquet’. Set in the suburbs of Western Sydney, the book...
Ultimo acquires Finkemeyer debut novel
Friday, 11 November 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Melbourne-based writer Pip Finkemeyer’s debut, Sad Girl Novel, in a two-book deal via Claire Friedman at Inkwell Management. The publisher describes Sad Girl...
Inaugural Tas Writers and Illustrators Mentorship program recipients announced
Friday, 11 November 2022
Arts Tasmania and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) have announced the recipients of the inaugural Tasmanian Writers and Illustrators Mentorship program. The 20 recipients are: Children’s Amy Genford Nicole...
‘The Dictionary of Lost Words’ to be adapted for TV
Thursday, 10 November 2022
Screen rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams have been acquired by South Australian production houses Highview Productions and Closer Productions, in a deal made by Anonymous...
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