Wang wins 2022 Spark Prize
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Becca Wang has won the 2022 Spark Prize, presented by Hardie Grant Books and RMIT Writing and Publishing, for her nonfiction book proposal ‘Birth Right’. Chosen from a shortlist of...
Writing NSW diverse mentorship program winners announced
Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Writing NSW has announced the recipients of the 2022 diverse writers mentorship program for emerging writers from Indigenous or culturally diverse backgrounds. The winners are: Azka Hameed Mayu Kanamori Harold...
Richell Prize 2022 longlist announced
Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival have announced the longlist for the 2022 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The 20 longlisted authors, chosen from over 700 entries, are: Alexander...
Banjo Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 6 September 2022
HarperCollins Australia has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Banjo Prize for an unpublished work of commercial fiction. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'Pine River Falls' by Christine Gregory 'Next of...
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2022 winners announced
Tuesday, 6 September 2022
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the winners of the 2022 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The winners in each category receive $15,000. The winning titles, chosen from shortlists...
Allan appointed Fremantle Press CEO
Monday, 5 September 2022
Former DK global publisher Alex Allan has been appointed Fremantle Press CEO, replacing Jane Fraser, who is stepping down after 15 years in the role. Allan, who has 20 years’...
Gamieldien wins inaugural WestWords/Ultimo Prize
Monday, 5 September 2022
The winner of the inaugural WestWords/Ultimo Prize is The Scope of Permissibility by Zeynab Gamieldien. Chosen from ‘an incredibly high calibre of entries’ by judges Michael Campbell (WestWords executive director),...
Wattison wins $10k ACU Poetry Prize
Friday, 2 September 2022
Meredith Wattison has won the $10,000 Australian Catholic University (ACU) Prize for Poetry. Based in the Macarthur Region of NSW, Wattison won first prize for ‘The Loose Wild Grace Of...
PRH earnings down 21% in first half of the year
Thursday, 1 September 2022
Penguin Random House’s (PRH) revenue was up but earnings were down in the first half of 2022, parent company Bertelsmann has reported. While global revenue in the six months to...
Inaugural Berry Writers Festival program announced
Thursday, 1 September 2022
The full program for the inaugural Berry Writers Festival, to be held 21–23 October in Shoalhaven, NSW, has been announced. The three-day program includes panel discussions, conversations, performances, author signings,...
APA convenes diversity & inclusion working group; releases UniMelb ‘baseline’ survey results
Wednesday, 31 August 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released the results of a ‘baseline’ survey of the Australian publishing industry undertaken by University of Melbourne researchers, and convened a Diversity & Inclusion...
Delaney’s ‘Reasons Not to Worry’ sells in multiple territories
Wednesday, 31 August 2022
Rights to Brigid Delaney’s nonfiction work Reasons Not to Worry (A&U, September) have been sold to North America, the UK and Commonwealth (ex ANZ and Canada), Greece and Serbia, in...
Byron Writers Festival returns after two years of upheaval
Wednesday, 31 August 2022
The 2022 Byron Writers Festival, which ran 26 to 28 August, was ‘a resounding success’, according to the organisers. The first in-person festival since 2019, following the cancellation of the...
Michelle Kadarusman on ‘Berani’
Tuesday, 30 August 2022
A powerful middle-grade story about animal activism, Berani (A&U, November), Michelle Kadarusman's latest novel, follows two young protagonists, Malia and Ari, who work together to rescue orangutan Ginger Juice. Our...
Michelle Kadarusman recommends
Tuesday, 30 August 2022
I usually have a few books on the go, both children and adult reads. Two newer books that really stood out for me recently were Rainfish by Andrew Paterson (Text)...
Bookshop tour: Lamplight Books, Auckland
Tuesday, 30 August 2022
Auckland's Lamplight Books is a newly established independent bookshop with a special focus on architecture and design books. Recently celebrating its first birthday, the shop has quickly become a staple...
‘Tiddas’ stage adaptation to play as part of Brisbane Festival 2022
Tuesday, 30 August 2022
Anita Heiss’s 2014 novel Tiddas (S&S) has been adapted for stage in a joint production with La Boite Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) and Brisbane Festival. Tiddas, which will...
Ridgway, Chaudhuri win James Tait Black prizes
Tuesday, 30 August 2022
In the UK, Keith Ridgway and Amit Chaudhuri have won the James Tait Black prizes for fiction and biography respectively. Ridgway won the fiction prize for A Shock (Picador), a...
Booktopia reports revenue up 7.5%; earnings down 54%; reaches agreement with ACCC
Monday, 29 August 2022
Online retailer Booktopia grew its revenue 7.5% in the 12 months to 30 June, while its underlying earnings fell 54% over the same period. In its full-year preliminary results, Booktopia...
A&U acquires new Morton novel
Monday, 29 August 2022
Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to Kate Morton’s new novel Homecoming. Described by the publisher as ‘an epic novel that spans generations’, Homecoming explores the power of motherhood,...
Davitt Awards 2022 winners announced
Monday, 29 August 2022
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2022 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women. The winning titles in each category are: Adult crime novel...
CBCA Shadowers’ Choice Awards 2022 winners
Monday, 29 August 2022
The winners of the inaugural 2022 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Sun Project: Shadowers’ Choice Awards, chosen by groups of young people, have been announced. The winning books in...
Gunty wins inaugural Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
Monday, 29 August 2022
In the UK, US author Tess Gunty has won the inaugural £5000 (A$8520) Waterstones Debut Fiction prize for The Rabbit Hutch (Oneworld), reports the Bookseller. The Rabbit Hutch describes the...
Ned Kelly Awards 2022 winners announced
Monday, 29 August 2022
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners of the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards. The winning titles in each category are: Best debut crime fiction Banjawarn (Josh Kemp,...
Books in the media this weekend, 27–28 August
Friday, 26 August 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper August in Kabul (Andrew Quilty, MUP) The Nerves and their Endings...
Jaigirdar wins YA Book Prize
Friday, 26 August 2022
In the UK, Adiba Jaigirdar has won the 2022 YA Book Prize for her second novel Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating (Hodder Children’s), reports the Bookseller. Described as...
T S Bookshop closes temporarily, makes staff redundant
Friday, 26 August 2022
The board of the Melbourne Theosophical Society (MTS) has temporarily closed the T S Bookshop and Theosophical Society Library, with all seven staff made redundant on Friday, 12 August. As...
UQP acquires third Leane poetry collection ‘Gawimarra: Gathering’
Friday, 26 August 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Gawimarra: Gathering, the third poetry collection by Wiradjuri writer, critic and poet Jeanine Leane. The product of decades of poetic,...
NT Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Thursday, 25 August 2022
The shortlists have been announced for the 2022 Northern Territory Literary Awards, which celebrate the unpublished work of established and emerging NT writers. Shortlists in seven categories were announced, including:...
Hachette acquires two new Binks novels
Thursday, 25 August 2022
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ and UK rights to a new middle-grade novel from Danielle Binks in a two-book deal, via Jacinta di Mase Management. Publisher Kate Stevens acquired upper...
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