McGaughey wins Nakata Brophy prize Archive
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Jasmin McGaughey has won the Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for 'Sweet Anticipation'. McGaughey receives $5000 and a three-month writing residence at Trinity College at the University of...
‘People Who Lunch’ sells to Little, Brown Spark Archive
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Talia Krohn at Little, Brown Spark has acquired world English language rights (ex ANZ) to People Who Lunch: Essays on work, leisure & loose living by Sally Olds (Upswell), via Black...
Reflections from an Open Book intern: Maya Hodge Archive
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
The Open Book: Australian Publishing Internship is a six-month internship program aimed at increasing cultural diversity in the Australian publishing workforce. Maya Hodge was this year’s Melbourne-based intern; she shares her...
Educational publishers respond to Grattan report Archive
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has criticised a recommendation by the Grattan Institute that governments should consider buying curriculum materials overseas ‘as an immediate priority’. In its report Ending the...
Picador acquires ‘Prima Facie’ novelisation Archive
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Picador has acquired rights to the novelisation of Australian playwright Suzie Miller’s multi-award-winning play Prima Facie, plus an as yet untitled second novel, in ‘a heated auction’. Pan Macmillan publisher...
Australian Political Book of the Year Award 2022 shortlist announced Archive
Monday, 24 October 2022
The shortlist for the inaugural Australian Political Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted books, chosen from a longlist announced in early October, are: Bob Hawke: Demons...
Tasmanian Literary Awards longlists announced Archive
Monday, 24 October 2022
The longlists for the 2022 Tasmanian Literary Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category, worth $25,000 each, are: Young readers and children Aster’s Good, Right Things (Kate...
‘Vandemonians’ wins 2022 Victorian Premier’s History Award Archive
Monday, 24 October 2022
Janet McCalman has won the Victorian Premier’s History Award, worth $5000, for her book Vandemonians: The repressed history of colonial Victoria (MUP). Chosen from a shortlist of 21 books, Vandemonians...
S&S acquires Paterson debut historical novel Archive
Monday, 24 October 2022
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired the debut novel Where Light Meets Water by Susan Paterson. Former S&S publishing director Fiona Henderson acquired ANZ rights to the novel from...
VPLAs add children’s award Archive
Monday, 24 October 2022
The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs) will add a new children’s book award worth $25,000. The Award for Children’s Literature will be presented to the creators of the best children’s...
Around 90,000 attend Frankfurt Archive
Monday, 24 October 2022
Around 90,000 visitors from more than 100 nations attended Frankfurt Book Fair’s (FBF) official trade days, reports Publishing Perspectives. FBF president and CEO Juergen Boos said the number of visitors...
What does the future look like for bookselling? Archive
Friday, 21 October 2022
As the Australian Booksellers Association rebrands to BookPeople and prepares to re-launch its national vouchers scheme, CEO Robbie Egan says the industry is 'criminally under-using data', but argues bookshops won't...
Books in the media this weekend, 22–23 October Archive
Friday, 21 October 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Moon Sugar (Angela Meyer, Transit Lounge) The Passenger (Cormac McCarthy, Picador) ...
Keneally, Nannestad win $100K Historical Novel Prize Archive
Friday, 21 October 2022
Tom Keneally has won the $50,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize in the adult category for Corporal Hitler's Pistol (Penguin), while Katrina Nannestad has won the $30,000 children and young adult...
Schmidt wins 2022 Hungerford Award Archive
Friday, 21 October 2022
Molly Schmidt has won the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award for her manuscript Salt River Road. She receives $15,000 in prize money and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press....
MWF moves to May Archive
Friday, 21 October 2022
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced that next year it is moving from September to the first weekend in May. In a statement, MWF said the organisation made the decision...
US$75K Cundill History Prize finalists announced Archive
Friday, 21 October 2022
The finalists for the 2022 Cundill History Prize, which rewards ‘the best history writing in English’, have been announced. The finalists are: Cuba: An American history (Ada Ferrer, Scribner) All That...
Frankfurt Book Fair opens Archive
Thursday, 20 October 2022
The first full-scale Frankfurt Book Fair in three years has opened. The Bookseller reported rights-traders have noted ‘an appetite for literary works’ and a ‘later’ Frankfurt season, with ‘more pre-empts...
Wallman awarded Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Writing Fellowship Archive
Thursday, 20 October 2022
Centre for Stories has announced Sam Wallman as the recipient of the 2022 Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Fellowship. Wallman receives $12,000, a workspace at the Centre for Stories in Perth, and access...
Walkley Book Award longlist announced Archive
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
The longlist for this year’s Walkley Book Award has been announced. The nine longlisted titles are: Currowan (Bronwyn Adcock, Black Inc.) QAnon and On (Van Badham, Hardie Grant) Making Australian...
Ping’s ‘The Poison of Polygamy’ adapted for stage Archive
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Wong Shee Ping’s novel The Poison of Polygamy (translated by Ely Finch, Sydney University Press) has been adapted for stage in a joint production with La Boite Theatre and Sydney...
Bookshops in Shepparton, Echuca, Kyneton closed due to floods Archive
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Collins Booksellers in Shepparton and Echuca, Victoria, have announced these stores will be closed until further notice due to flooding in the region. ‘We had a bit of water that...
The numbers boggle: an Australian in New York Archive
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Agent Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management recently visited New York as part of the Australia Council's New York Publishers’ Program. Here, she shares her impressions of the US...
HarperCollins US staff vote to strike Archive
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Representatives for unionised HarperCollins US employees will go on strike on 7 November, reports Publishers Weekly. Employees have been negotiating for 11 months for a new employment agreement but have...
Neilma Sidney Travel Fund recipients announced Archive
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Writers Victoria has announced the eighth round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. The successful recipients, who share in a total of $56,925, are: Eunice Andrada, for...
Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ Archive
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
In the UK, Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$90,250), for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Sort Of Books). The Seven Moons of...
Ultimo acquires Day memoir ‘Reckless’ Archive
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights for Reckless by Marele Day, via Jenny Darling of Jenny Darling & Associates. Described by the publisher as a 'brilliantly crafted' ‘literary detective memoir’,...
Tanner wins 2022 Albert Ullin award Archive
Monday, 17 October 2022
Illustrator and author Jane Tanner is the recipient of the 2022 Albert Ullin Award. The $10,000 biennial award was created with a bequest from the late Albert Ullin, a co-founder...
HarperCollins US lays off ‘small number’ of employees Archive
Monday, 17 October 2022
HarperCollins US has eliminated ‘a small number of positions’ due to slowing industry sales and rising costs, reports Publishers Weekly. In a memo to employees, CEO Brian Murphy said job...
Queer YA novel wins 2022 Ampersand Prize Archive
Monday, 17 October 2022
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has announced Adelaide teacher and writer Elisa Chenoweth has won the 2022 Ampersand Prize for her young adult novel Maria Petranelli is Prepared for Anything...
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