UQP acquires Prosser debut novel ‘Big Time’
Monday, 12 September 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Jordan Prosser’s debut novel Big Time. Described as Almost Famous meets Slaughterhouse-Five, Big Time is an anti-fascist ode to the...
Harper wins Glass Bell Award for ‘The Wolf Den’
Monday, 12 September 2022
In the UK, Elodie Harper has won the £2000 (A$3390) Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award for her novel The Wolf Den (Head of Zeus), reports the Bookseller. Harper’s novel is the first in a...
Books in the media this weekend, 10–11 September
Friday, 9 September 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Bon and Lesley (Shaun Prescott, Giramondo) New Australian Fiction 2022 (ed...
Parker-Chan wins Hugo Award for Best New Writer
Friday, 9 September 2022
Australian writer Shelley Parker-Chan has won the Best New Writer category at the Hugo Awards for science fiction. Parker-Chan's debut She Who Became the Sun was first published in the...
Allinson, Brennan win Age Book of the Year awards
Friday, 9 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Age Book of the Year Award have been announced. Miles Allinson won the fiction award for his second novel In Moonland (Scribe), while Bernadette Brennan won the...
Queensland Literary Awards 2022 winners
Friday, 9 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance ($25,000) Wounded Country (Quentin Beresford,...
Shortlist for £25k British Academy Book Prize announced
Thursday, 8 September 2022
In the UK, the shortlist for the £25,000 (A$42,650) British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The shortlisted books are: The Invention of...
EPAA 2022 winners announced
Thursday, 8 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) have been announced. The winners in each category are: Secondary publisher of the year Cambridge University Press Primary publisher of...
Mascara, Varuna announce diverse writers residency
Thursday, 8 September 2022
Mascara Literary Review has announced the inaugural Mascara Varuna Writers’ and Editors’ Residency, supported by the Copyright Agency and the Adès Family Foundation. The residency is open to First Nations...
Luff appointed SWF manager of children’s and YA
Thursday, 8 September 2022
Nathan Luff has been appointed manager of children’s and YA at Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), replacing Amelia Lush, who programed the 2019–22 children’s and YA programs. Luff will program the...
Moore establishes locum booksellers business
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Stacey Moore, owner and founder of independent bookshop Bookgrove in Ocean Grove, Victoria, has started another business, BreakAway Books locum booksellers. As part of the new business, Moore is offering...
Scribe acquires new McKay fiction collection
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Scribe Publications has acquired world rights to Gunflower, a new collection of short fiction by Laura Jean McKay. According to the publisher, Gunflower ‘charts the political, ecological, and bodily themes...
Drury appointed to new Affirm national sales team
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Affirm Press has appointed former Simon & Schuster national field sales manager Kay Drury as the first member of its new sales team. The new national sales team, which Affirm...
Big Issue fiction edition returns
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
The Big Issue has announced the authors chosen for its annual fiction edition. The 2022 edition includes works from 12 writers selected from 905 submissions. The selected works were anonymously...
Booker Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Booker Prize has been announced. The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$85,510) prize are: Glory (NoViolet Bulawayo, Viking) The Trees (Percival Everett, Influx) Treacle...
Amplify Bookstore’s spring picks
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Amplify Bookstore, an independent online bookseller specialising in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, shares the shop’s top picks for spring. Spring has arrived, and we...
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...
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