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Lonesborough wins IBBY Ena Noël Award 2022

Monday, 4 April 2022
Gary Lonesborough’s debut YA novel The Boy from the Mish (A&U) has won the biennial Ena Noël Award, presented by the Australian branch of the International Board on Books for...

ASA launches Authors Legal

Monday, 4 April 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched a new non-profit law firm to provide low-cost legal advice to its members. Authors Legal will be headed by managing lawyer and...

Chidgey shortlisted for Dublin Literary Award

Monday, 4 April 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey has been shortlisted for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000 (A$147,400), for her novel Remote Sympathy. First published by Te Herenga Waka University...

Dylan Thomas Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Monday, 4 April 2022
The shortlist for the £30,000 (A$52,500) International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. The shortlisted books are: No One is Talking About This (Patricia Lockwood, Bloomsbury) Open Water (Caleb Azumah...

Canberra Writers Festival 2022 dates announced

Friday, 1 April 2022
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) has announced that the 2022 festival will be staged from 10–14 August, ‘with a welcome return to a full program of live events’. CWF was cancelled...

Books in the media this weekend, 2–3 April

Friday, 1 April 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper A History of Dreams (Jane Rawson, Brio) The Fish (Lloyd Jones,...

Pung’s ‘Laurinda’ optioned for TV 

Thursday, 31 March 2022
Development and production rights to Alice Pung’s YA novel Laurinda have been acquired by production company EQ Media, in a deal negotiated by Sophy Williams at Black Inc. EQ Media...

Stella Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Thursday, 31 March 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, has been announced. The six shortlisted books are: TAKE CARE (Eunice Andrada, Giramondo) Dropbear (Evelyn Araluen, UQP) No Document (Anwen Crawford, Giramondo)...

Staff changes at Hardie Grant 

the Hardie Grant logo, a black speech bubble with a stylised white line drawing of a dog inside Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Hardie Grant has announced several staffing changes. From next month, current managing director of Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) Troy Lewis will become the company's first people and culture director,...

A&U acquires Yong debut YA novel 

Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to Sydney author Leanne Yong’s debut young adult novel Two Can Play that Game, in a deal brokered by Andrea Cascardi of Transatlantic...

Windham-Campbell Prizes 2022 recipients announced

Wednesday, 30 March 2022
In the US, the recipients of the 2022 Windham-Campbell Prizes, worth US$165,000 (A$219,000) each, have been announced. This year’s recipients are US playwright Sharon Bridgforth and British playwright Winsome Pinnock...

CBCA 2022 Book of the Year shortlists announced

Wednesday, 30 March 2022
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its 2022 Book of the Year shortlists. The shortlisted books in each category are: Older readers The Boy from the Mish (Gary...

Morison awarded 2022 Boundless Mentorship

Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Gamilaroi writer Judi Morison has won the 2022 Boundless Indigenous Writer's Mentorship for her family saga ‘When Grandmothers Speak’. Set in Queensland and northern New South Wales in the 1950s,...

Republic of Consciousness Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 29 March 2022
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses has been announced. The books shortlisted for this year's prize are: Dark Neighbourhood (Vanessa Onwuemezi,...

AWW 2022: ‘energising and uplifting’ 

Tuesday, 29 March 2022
The 2022 Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW), which ran from 5­–10 March in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden, hosted 180 authors and 41 chairs across 108 sessions of open-air readings, panel...

Tallinn bookshop wins LBF Bookstore of the Year 2022

Monday, 28 March 2022
The London Book Fair (LBF) has announced the winners of its annual International Excellence Awards. The winners in each category, chosen from shortlists announced earlier this month, are: Bookstore of...

New Westwords/Ultimo Prize announced

Monday, 28 March 2022
WestWords and Ultimo Press have partnered to offer a new prize for emerging writers with ‘a connection to Western Sydney’. Free to enter, the Westwords/Ultimo Prize offers the winner $5000...

BookUp 2022 keynotes announced

Monday, 28 March 2022
The Australian Publisher’s Association (APA) has announced the first guests for its second BookUp conference, which will take place at the ICC Sydney on Thursday, 9 June. The APA said...

Carnegie, Greenaway Medals 2022 shortlists announced

Friday, 25 March 2022
In the UK, the shortlists for this year’s Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, celebrating outstanding achievement in children’s writing and illustration respectively, have been announced. The works shortlisted for the...

SWF 2022 program announced

Friday, 25 March 2022
The program for the 2022 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which runs Monday 16 – Sunday 22 May, has been announced. Themed ‘Change My Mind’, the 25th SWF features 234 events...

Collins awarded 2021 Leila St John Award

Friday, 25 March 2022
Ford Street Publishing founder Paul Collins has received the annual Leila St John Award, presented by the Victorian branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA). Collins is commended...

Tóibín wins 2022 Folio Prize

Thursday, 24 March 2022
Irish novelist Colm Tóibín has won the 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize, worth £30,000 (A$52,850), for his novel The Magician (Picador). Tóibín's 10th novel traces the life of author, essayist, philanthropist and...

#LoveOzYA becomes registered charity

Thursday, 24 March 2022
The Australian Young Adult Literature Alliance, a grassroots organisation established in 2015 to promote Australian youth literature and more popularly known by the hashtag #LoveOzYA, has become a registered charity...

Inoon wins 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize

Thursday, 24 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HQ, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, have announced Ayesha Inoon as the winner of the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished...

Puncher & Wattmann acquires ‘Grimmish’ 

Thursday, 24 March 2022
Puncher & Wattmann has acquired world rights to Michael Winkler's previously self-published book Grimmish in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. Described by Shaw as a 'cult...

 

 

 

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