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Bendigo Writers Festival announces 2023 program

Friday, 10 March 2023
The Bendigo Writers Festival (BWF) has announced its program for the festival running from 4–7 May 2023 in Bendigo, Victoria. Based at the 150-year-old Capital Theatre, the festival will feature...

Aurealis Awards shortlists announced

Friday, 10 March 2023
The shortlists for the 2022 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. Among the shortlists are: Best Fantasy Novel The Not So...

Penguin Literary Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Thursday, 9 March 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize. The shortlisted titles are: 'The Elementals' by Liz Allan, the story of The Bastards, a...

Bell wins Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2023

Thursday, 9 March 2023
Writer and anthropologist Diane Bell has been awarded Writers Victoria’s $20,000 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her proposed biography of the relationship between Ngarrindjeri woman Louisa Karpany, née Kontinyeri (c1840–1921)...

VIPs announced for 2023

Thursday, 9 March 2023
The Australia Council has announced the 14 international publishers, editors, and literary agents participating in the 22nd year of the Visiting International Publishers (VIPs).  The program will return this year...

HarperCollins acquires Taffe novel 

Wednesday, 8 March 2023
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the novel Freida by Marion Taffe, in a deal via Jacinta di Mase of Jacinta di Mase Management Literary Agency. Freida is set...

Ockham NZ Book Awards 2023 shortlists announced

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards logo Wednesday, 8 March 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlists titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction Better the Blood (Michael...

Norcliffe announced as 2023 Margaret Mahy Medal winner

Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Children's book author and poet James Norcliffe has won the 2023 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, presented annually for lifetime achievement and distinguished contribution to New Zealand children’s literature. Norcliffe is...

BookPeople releases sustainability report

Tuesday, 7 March 2023
BookPeople, formerly the Australian Booksellers Association, has released its industry sustainability report, Towards a Sustainable Bookselling Future. Written by publisher and author Angela Meyer, the report outlines key areas of concern...

Tsao wins US PEN Translation Prize

Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Sydney-based writer and translator Tiffany Tsao won the US$3000 (A$4450) PEN Translation Prize for her translation of People from Bloomington (Budi Darma, Penguin Classics). The translation prize was one of...

S&S acquires Reid debut novel 

Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia has acquired world rights to a debut novel by Teela Reid, a Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman and co-founder of Instagram account @Blackfulla_Bookclub, via Jane Novak. Legally...

Echo to publish new Morris novel in two-book deal 

a portrait of Heather Morris Monday, 6 March 2023
Echo Publishing’s parent company has acquired world all-language rights to Heather Morris’s forthcoming novel Sisters under the Rising Sun. Margaret Stead, publisher at Zaffre and Manilla Press at Bonnier UK,...

Walker Books to distribute Knights Of 

Friday, 3 March 2023
Walker Books will be the Australian distributor for London-based independent publishing house Knights Of from August this year. Founded in 2017, Knights Of set out to address the lack of...

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced

Thursday, 2 March 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Changes to the awards this year include the $30,000 Indigenous Writers’ Prize now being offered annually; the...

CBCA 2023 Notable Books announced

Wednesday, 1 March 2023
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its list of Notable Books for 2023. The list acts as the longlist for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards....

Kat Muscat Fellowship 2023 shortlist announced 

Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Express Media and the Kat Muscat Fellowship Committee have announced the shortlist for the 2023 Kat Muscat Fellowship, which offers support and development to a young Australian writer or editor...

S&S Australia acquires Ho debut nonfiction 

Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to the debut nonfiction work by writer and influencer Alyssa Ho. Ho began writing publicly for her blog after finishing high...

Writers SA launches Writers in Schools program

Tuesday, 28 February 2023
South Australian writers will be embedded in outer suburban and regional South Australian public high schools, as part of Writers SA’s Writers in Schools program. As part of the program,...

‘A Kunwinjku Counting Book’ named USBBY honour book

Monday, 27 February 2023
A Kunwinjku Counting Book (Gabriel Maralngurra & Felicity Wright, Enchanted Lion Books) has been named a 2023 United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) international honour book. The...

S&S acquires Sales nonfiction 

Friday, 24 February 2023
Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner Australia has acquired world rights to a new work of nonfiction by Leigh Sales. Storytellers: Questions, answers and the craft of journalism will contain 10...

HarperCollins acquires Woods debut in two-book deal 

Thursday, 23 February 2023
HarperCollins Publishers Australia has acquired ANZ rights to debut novel After the Forest by Kell Woods, in a two-book pre-emptive deal brokered by publisher Roberta Ivers and Tor Books. After...

 

 

 

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