Arnott shortlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize
Friday, 24 March 2023
Tasmanian writer Robbie Arnott has been shortlisted for Swansea University's Dylan Thomas Prize, awarded for the best literary work published in English and written by an author aged 39 or...
ASAL announces pilot fellowship program recipients
Thursday, 23 March 2023
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the recipients of a pilot program of Copyright Agency-funded writers’ fellowships. Luisa Mitchell and Fiona Murphy are the winners...
HarperCollins acquires Ringland book on unblocking creativity
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Holly Ringland’s book The House That Joy Built: The pleasure and power of giving ourselves permission to create, via Benython Oldfield of Zeitgeist...
Screen Australia funds ‘Eggshell Skull’ adaptation development
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Screen Australia has announced story development funding for a feature film adaptation of Eggshell Skull (Bri Lee, A&U), as one of 20 projects sharing in $700,000 development funding. Actor Mia...
Indies winners announced, SWF program released, Open Book expands
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
The program for the 2023 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which runs 22–28 May, has been announced, as has a draft of program for the 2023 a BookPeople conference and trade...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Sales Fiction Giramondo has sold North American rights to the forthcoming novel Praiseworthy (Alexis Wright, April) and Wright's Miles Franklin winning novel Carpentaria to New York-based independent press New Directions, and...
Vale Ross Gibson
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Filmmaker and author Ross Gibson has died. Gibson was the author of several books including The Summer Exercises (2009), 26 Views of the Starburst World (2012), Changescapes (2015) and Memoryscopes (2015), all...
The Albatross (Nina Wan, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
It’s widely known that an albatross is a very rare bird. In golf, it’s a move that’s even rarer—one that’s considered lucky, executed with the utmost finesse. And golf is...
Echo Lake (Joan Sauers, A&U)
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Set in the brooding wilderness of the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Echo Lake is the compelling debut thriller by author and screenwriter Joan Sauers. Sitting on the cosier...
We Could Be Something (Will Kostakis, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Will Kostakis’s first novel Loathing Lola was published when he was 19 years old. This uncommon experience inspires his latest book, a semi-autobiographical YA novel for readers aged 14–17. We...
Who’s Afraid of the Light? (Anna McGregor, Scribble)
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Two seagulls bob on top of a flat ocean on a sunny day. ‘Oh, hi!’ says one. ‘The story starts down there,’ says the other, dipping its head beneath the...
My Little Barlaagany Sunshine (Melissa Greenwood, ABC Books)
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Teeming with vibrant artworks centred around the healing of intergenerational trauma, My Little Barlaagany Sunshine is a picture book created by artist and author Melissa Greenwood, a Saltwater Country woman...
Eta Draconis (Brendan Ritchie, UWAP)
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Eta Draconis is Brendan Ritchie’s impressive third novel and the winner of the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award. This road trip story centres around two sisters, Elora and Vivienne, who are...
Jess Racklyeft on Bologna
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft was the winner of one of two Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) International Bologna Scholarships to attend this year’s Bologna Book Fair....
Hachette Australia acquires Unreich memoir of mother’s Holocaust survival
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired the ANZ rights to A Brilliant Life: My mother’s inspiring story of surviving the Holocaust by Australian journalist Rachelle Unreich. In Australia, Hachette head of literary...
‘Runt’ wins 2023 Indie Book of the Year
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Runt by Craig Silvey (Allen & Unwin) has been named Book of the Year at the 2023 Indie Book Awards. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Horse (Geraldine...
Crismani wins 2023 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship
Monday, 20 March 2023
Wiradjuri writer and filmmaker Edoardo Crismani has been awarded the 2023 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship for the manuscript ‘Finding Billy Brown’ and will be mentored by Wiradjuri author Tara June...
Pantera sells ‘The Deadly Daylight’ to Holiday House
Monday, 20 March 2023
Pantera Press has sold World English rights (excluding ANZ) to Ash Harrier’s The Deadly Daylight to New York-based independent publisher Holiday House. The first Alice England Mysteries book, The Deadly...
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Monday, 20 March 2023
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Affirm acquires Ham debut nonfiction ‘The Lucky Ones’
Friday, 17 March 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the debut nonfiction work by journalist and activist Melinda Ham, via Rochelle Fernandez of Alex Adsett Literary. The Lucky Ones is about refugees...
Holland-Batt longlisted for 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize
Thursday, 16 March 2023
Sarah Holland-Batt’s poetry collection The Jaguar (UQP) has been longlisted for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize, worth C$130,000 (A$142,700). The Griffin Poetry Prize is awarded annually for the best collection of poetry...
Giramondo sells US, UK rights to Wright titles
Thursday, 16 March 2023
Giramondo has sold international rights to several Alexis Wright books. In North America, New York-based independent press New Directions will publish Alexis Wright's forthcoming novel Praiseworthy (April) and her novel...
Moriarty’s ‘Apples Never Fall’ to be adapted for screen
Thursday, 16 March 2023
Liane Moriarty’s novel Apples Never Fall (Macmillan) will be adapted as a limited series. Apples Never Fall centres on the Delaneys, who appear to be a contented family. Former tennis coaches...
Judith Wright Poetry Prize, Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize 2022 winners announced
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Overland has announced the winners of the 2022 Judith Wright Poetry Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Abbra Kotlarczyk has won the $6000 Judith Wright Poetry Prize for outstanding...
Transit Lounge acquires anaesthetist’s thriller
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to All You Took From Me by NSW author and doctor Lisa Kenway in a direct publisher-to-author deal. ‘This is a dark, twisty thriller...
Llewellyn steps down; Bell named Hazel Rowley fellow; 2023 VIPs announced
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
The Wheeler Centre CEO Caro Llewellyn has announced her resignation and will vacate the role at the end of her contract in July this year, to focus on writing and...
PRH acquires new Flanagan book
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Question 7 by Richard Flanagan via PRH publisher at large Nikki Christer. Question 7 melds fiction and nonfiction, 'beginning at...
International Booker 2023 longlist announced
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
The longlist for the 2023 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$90,950), has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Ninth Building (Zou Jingzhi, trans by Jeremy Tiang, Open Letter) A System...
The Heart is a Star (Megan Rogers, HarperCollins)
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
The Heart is a Star is the captivating debut novel by talented writer Megan Rogers. We are introduced to anaesthetist Layla Byrnes, a middle-aged woman struggling to reconcile her career,...
Glimpse (Jane Higgins, Text)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Jane Higgins’s dystopian YA debut The Bridge was the winner of the 2010 Text Prize, and her latest, Glimpse, has the same qualities that won Higgins the prize. Inspired by...
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