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Indie Book Awards 2023 longlists announced

Thursday, 8 December 2022
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2023 Indie Book Awards. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica...

Hay wins 2022 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship

Thursday, 8 December 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Ashley Hay as the winner of the $20,000 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship for her manuscript ‘The Running Dream’. Selected from a shortlist of...

New category added to WA Prem’s awards

Wednesday, 7 December 2022
The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards has added a new category for the 2023 awards. The Premier's Prize for Book of the Year Award, worth $15,000, will be sponsored by...

Credit for the edit?

Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Should editors come out from behind the curtain? Alice Grundy ponders the benefits of a more visible role for publishing's 'invisible menders'. Having worked in publishing for 15 years, a...

Rich encounters: Terri-ann White on the Sharjah International Book Fair

Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Each year the Sharjah International Book Fair brings publishing professionals to the United Arab Emirates through its fellowship program. Terri-ann White of Upswell Publishing, who attended in 2022, reports on...

Ultimo acquires Knight memoir

Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to the memoir Strange Little Girl by Melbourne-based writer, performer and zine maker Jess Knight. Described by the publisher as a ‘heart-warming, unapologetic and...

A&U, Voices from the Intersection mentorship recipients announced

Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) and Voices from the Intersection have announced the recipients of their partnership mentorship program for emerging children’s and YA own voices writers and illustrators. The successful...

Miller wins FT Book of the Year for ‘Chip War’

Wednesday, 7 December 2022
In the UK, Chip War: The Fight for the world’s most critical technology (Chris Miller, S&S) has won the 2022 Financial Times (FT) Book of the Year Award. In Chip War, Miller unpicks the...

Hachette UK acquires Welbeck

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Hachette UK has acquired independent Welbeck Publishing Group (WPG), reports the Bookseller. Welbeck’s adult trade, gift and illustrated titles will become part of Headline Publishing Group, while Welbeck’s children’s list...

Booktopia sells stake in Welbeck ANZ

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Online bookseller Booktopia has sold its share in Welbeck Publishing Australia New Zealand (Welbeck ANZ) for $1.5 million. Booktopia, which invested $3 million for a 25% stake in Welbeck ANZ...

Copyright Agency funding: Au, Tsao receive $25k Create grants, new fellowship for young writers

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Twenty-one arts organisations have received a total of $274,517 in the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. The major capital city writers’ festivals and Byron Writers’...

Hachette Aotearoa launches Moa Press

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Hachette Aotearoa has established a new imprint, Moa Press, which ‘aims to champion a diverse range of voices, representing a multitude of cultures and perspectives from within Aotearoa New Zealand’....

UWAP acquires Akhurst YA novel

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired ANZ rights to Graham Akhurst’s young adult novel Borderland, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. Set in Brisbane and the fictional rural town of...

Ross wins first prize in 2022 Scarlet Stiletto Awards

Monday, 5 December 2022
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2022 Scarlet Stiletto Awards. ‘Tuesday Jocks’ by Fin J Ross won first prize ($2000); last year’s winner Hayley Young won...

Text acquires new Lohrey novel

Monday, 5 December 2022
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to Amanda Lohrey's new novel The Conversion, via Lyn Tranter of Australian Literary Management. The Conversion follows Zoe, who leaves Sydney for a small...

A&U acquires Bolton debut ‘Life Itself’

Monday, 5 December 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Trish Bolton’s debut novel Life Itself. Rights were acquired by A&U publisher Jane Palfreyman and executive editor Genevieve Buzo. Life Itself...

Hessel wins Waterstones Book of the Year for ‘The Story of Art Without Men’

Monday, 5 December 2022
In the UK, Waterstones has named Katy Hessel’s The Story of Art Without Men (Hutchinson Heinemann) its Book of the Year for 2022, reports the Bookseller. Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in...

HarperCollins acquires Whitlam biography by Bramston

Friday, 2 December 2022
HarperCollins Australia has acquired Troy Bramston’s biography of former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam. The currently untitled work will be a ‘thorough, highly readable’ biography drawing on newly discovered archival...