Monday, 22 June 2020
Fremantle Press will publish a new anthology, Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak+Black Fiction, to provide ‘the chance for established and emerging First Nations writers and Black writers to share the...

Thursday, 18 June 2020
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the novel Gunk Baby by Jamie Marina Lau. Hachette head of literary Robert Watkins said he is excited to be publishing the novel,...

Tuesday, 9 June 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired a collection of essays on identity by South Sudanese–Australian lawyer, community advocate, writer and public speaker Nyadol Nyuon. Nyuon is a lawyer...

Friday, 5 June 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired Belief, the life story of Richmond Tigers player Marlion Pickett from the Jane Novak Literary Agency via Pickett’s agent, Anthony Van Der Wielen...

Friday, 29 May 2020
Film and TV rights to Sydney author Joanne Fedler's novel Things Without A Name (Joanne Fedler Media) have been optioned by Bunya Productions, producers of the ABC series Mystery Road....

Thursday, 28 May 2020
MidnightSun Publishing has acquired debut novel The Breaking by Irma Gold. ‘Vivid and sharply observed, The Breaking is an intensely moving story about the magnetic bond between two young women,...

Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Black Inc. has sold world rights (ex ANZ) to Australian cartoonist Oslo Davis's new colouring book This Annoying Home Life: A Mindless Coloring Book for the Whole Family to Chronicle...

Tuesday, 19 May 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired Evelyn Araluen’s debut poetry collection Dropbear. Dropbear is the second work the publisher has acquired from the Wheeler Centre’s inaugural Next Chapter...

Thursday, 14 May 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia's Scribner imprint has acquired ANZ rights to Chloe Wilson's debut short story collection Hold Your Fire, from Rach Crawford at Mackenzie Wolf in a four-way auction....

Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Scribe has acquired The Palace Letters by Jenny Hocking via Jenny Darling & Associates. The book will cover Hocking’s efforts to make Australia’s National Archive release letters between former Australian...

Thursday, 30 April 2020
Picador has acquired ANZ rights to The Dressmaker's Secret by Rosalie Ham via Jenny Darling & Associates. The Dressmaker's Secret is a direct sequel following the events of Ham's debut novel...

Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has sold its ‘Real Pigeons’ series by Andrew McDonald (illus by Ben Wood) to an as-yet-unnamed UK publisher, which will ‘crash the series into early 2021’,...

Wednesday, 22 April 2020
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a new nonfiction book on millennials by journalist and novelist Bridie Jabour. The as-yet-untitled book on ‘the most miserable generation yet’ was acquired...

Friday, 17 April 2020
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights to a memoir by Australian father–daughter pair Lamisse and Hazem Hamouda, from Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. The joint memoir, told from alternating perspectives,...

Thursday, 16 April 2020
Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary has sold US and Canadian rights to Nicholas Turner's novel Hang Him When He Is Not There to US indie publisher Zerogram. The sale is the...

Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired ANZ rights to debut women’s fiction novel Grace Under Pressure by Sydney-based food and travel writer Tori Haschka. Rights were acquired from Catherine Drayton...