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NT Literary Awards 2023 winners announced

Thursday, 28 September 2023
The winners of the 2023 Northern Territory Literary Awards, which celebrate the unpublished work of established and emerging NT writers, have been announced. Winners in seven categories were announced, including:...

Polari Prize 2023 shortlists announced

Thursday, 28 September 2023
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2023 Polari Prizes for LGBTQ+ literature have been announced. The titles shortlisted for the £2000 (A$3820) Polari Prize, which awards an overall book...

Pung awarded Creative Australia Fellowship for literature

Thursday, 28 September 2023
Writer Alice Pung is the recipient of the 2023 Creative Australia Fellowship for literature. Pung’s writing ‘has focused on people living on the margins—pregnant teenagers, illiterate mothers, poorer Australians and...

No newsletter on Friday

Thursday, 28 September 2023
Due to the public holiday in Victoria, Books+Publishing will not publish a newsletter tomorrow, Friday, 29 September.

Around 200 jobs to go at T&F

Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis (T&F) will remove around 200 roles from its business, reports the Bookseller. In a letter to staff, T&F said there would be ‘changes to certain...

ARA Historical Novel Prize shortlists announced

Wednesday, 27 September 2023
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the shortlists for the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize. This year’s shortlisted titles are: Adult category Salonika Burning (Gail Jones, Text) Iris...

Lucy Treloar on ‘Days of Innocence and Wonder’ 

Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Lucy Treloar's Salt Creek (Picador, 2015) claimed the Dobbie Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the UK's Walter Scott Prize, while her second novel,...

Fourth Estate acquires Morton’s book on robodebt 

An author photograph of Rick Morton Tuesday, 26 September 2023
HarperCollins Australia imprint Fourth Estate has acquired world rights to a new nonfiction book from Rick Morton: Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion government...

Koens wins 2023 Banjo Prize for Fiction 

Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Stefanie Koens has won the HarperCollins Banjo Prize for Fiction for her unpublished manuscript ‘Islands of Secrets’. In ‘Island of Secrets’, ‘a woman searching for answers in her own life...

Transit Lounge acquires Jung novel 

An author photograph of Sun Jung Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to My Name Is Gucci, a second novel from Sun Jung. Publisher Barry Scott describes My Name Is Gucci as ‘a charming novel about...

In Other Words 2023 program announced

Monday, 25 September 2023
OzAsia Festival has announced the program for In Other Words, its three-day writing and ideas event, to be held in Adelaide from 3 to 5 November, as part of the festival's...

UWAP acquires Steed’s third book 

Monday, 25 September 2023
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Laurie Steed’s third book, short story collection Greater City Shadows. Greater City Shadows previously won the 2021 Henry Handel Richardson flagship fellowship for...

Rockpool acquires Forsyth’s oracle deck 

Friday, 22 September 2023
Rockpool Publishing has acquired world rights to Kate Forsyth’s Fairy Tale Wisdom Oracle. Forsyth’s first oracle deck will ‘spin together myth, folklore and history in new and surprising ways’. The deck...

PANZ Book Design Awards 2023 winners announced

Friday, 22 September 2023
The Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) has announced the winners of its Book Design Awards 2023. The winners in each category are: Gerard Reid Award...

Booker Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Friday, 22 September 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Booker Prize has been announced. The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$95,756) prize are: Study for Obedience (Sarah Bernstein, Granta) If I Survive You (Jonathan Escoffery,...

HarperCollins acquires Serong novel 

Thursday, 21 September 2023
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Jock Serong's novel Cherrywood, in an auction brokered by Melanie Ostell of Melanie Ostell Literary. The publisher called the novel ‘an imaginative delight', and...

ALA report shows surge in book challenges

Thursday, 21 September 2023
In the US, new data from the American Library Association (ALA) shows a continuing surge in attempts to censor books in libraries this year, reports Publishers Weekly. The ALA documented...

NewSouth acquires Jacobson memoir 

An author photograph of Anna Jacobson, who is pictured in front of a garden with a range of flowering plants Thursday, 21 September 2023
NewSouth has acquired world rights to How to Knit a Human, a memoir from poet, writer and artist Anna Jacobson. Described by the publisher as a lyrical memoir about ‘Jacobson’s...

Upswell acquires Dominic Gordon debut 

Book cover image for Excitable Boy by Dominic Gordon, featuring a photograph of a boy standing on a garden path with a cigarette in hand Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to Excitable Boy: Essays on risk, a debut book of essays by Melbourne writer Dominic Gordon. The publisher said that the book 'tracks the...

Sport and sportspeople in Australian youth literature 

Cover image of Sam Kerr Kicking Goals Journal, featuring a photo of Sam Kerr in the centre and various small drawings, such as lightning bolts and shooting stars, around Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Former bookseller Georgia Strobel recently undertook research into how sport and sportspeople are represented in Australian children's literature. Here, she shares her findings. Earlier this year I was lucky enough...

Affirm acquires King debut novel 

Author photograph of Rhianna King Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Birds of a Feather, a debut novel from Rhianna King, via Rochelle Fernandez of Alex Adsett Literary. Described by Fernandez as ‘a gorgeously...

Brown announced as new Magabala CEO 

A photograph of Dr Lilly Brown Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Magabala Books has announced that Gumbaynggirr educator, researcher and advocate Lilly Brown will be its next CEO. Brown—who has most recently held an executive director role at youth mental health...

Federal judge blocks Texas book rating law

Wednesday, 20 September 2023
In the US, a federal judge has officially blocked Texas’s controversial book rating law, HB 900, from taking effect, reports Publishers Weekly. The 59-page opinion and order is a victory...

 

 

 

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