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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...

Books in the media this weekend, 26–27 November 

Friday, 25 November 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper  Chokepoint Capitalism (Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow, Scribe) The God of No...

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...

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...

Christmas predictions 2023: Amplify Bookstore 

Wednesday, 23 November 2022
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and surprise sellers. In this final...

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...

Rundell wins 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

Wednesday, 23 November 2022
In the UK, Katherine Rundell has won the £50,000 (A$89,000) Baillie Gifford Prize for Super-Infinite: The transformations of John Donne (Faber & Faber). Judges described Super-Infinite as a ‘glorious celebration...

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...

Send us your Christmas closing dates

Wednesday, 23 November 2022
To be included in Books+Publishing’s annual list of publishers’ and distributors’ trade closing dates for the holiday period, please complete our Christmas closing dates survey by noon, Tuesday, 29 November....

PRH, S&S deal scrapped

PRH logo Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Penguin Random House (PRH) parent company Bertelsmann won’t appeal a US court’s decision to block its acquisition of Simon & Schuster (S&S). In a statement, Bertelsmann said it will ‘advance...

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...

TikTok Shop UK launches books category

Monday, 21 November 2022
TikTok Shop UK has launched a new books category to enable users to buy titles from partner organisations via the social media platform, reports the Bookseller. Partner organisations at launch...

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...

Books in the media this weekend, 19–20 November 

Friday, 18 November 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National  The Saturday Paper  Liberation Day (George Saunders, Bloomsbury)  Salonika Burning (Gail Jones, Text)  The...

 

 

 

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