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Humanity’s Moment (Joëlle Gergis, Black Inc.)

Tuesday, 19 July 2022
‘In a single lifetime, humans have become a force of nature,’ Joëlle Gergis reminds us in Humanity’s Moment. As a climate scientist and lead author of the UN’s IPCC Sixth...

Charlie’s Whale (Libby Gleeson, illus by Hannah Sommerville, Lothian)

Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Distinguished writer Libby Gleeson and CBCA-shortlisted illustrator Hannah Sommerville have successfully collaborated on Charlie’s Whale, a picture book that is destined for awards, and for popularity with children aged two...

PANZ Book Design Awards 2022 finalists announced

Tuesday, 19 July 2022
The finalists for the 2022 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. Finalists were announced in 10 categories including: Best illustrated book Bill Hammond: Across...

HarperCollins acquires two crime novels by Lando

Tuesday, 19 July 2022
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to two novels by Veronica Lando, via Benjamin Paz at Curtis Brown. The first book, The Drowning Girls, is a ‘darkly absorbing’ mystery set in...

Batt awarded Reading Australia fellowship

Monday, 18 July 2022
The Copyright Agency has named Jantiena Batt, a deputy principal working within the ACT Education Directorate, as the 2022 Reading Australia Fellow for Teachers of English Literacy. Batt receives a...

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Monday, 18 July 2022
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Sidnam wins 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize

Friday, 15 July 2022
Wellington-based poet and student Emma Sidnam has been awarded the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished manuscript by an Aotearoa New Zealand writer. Chosen from a shortlist of four,...

Ultimo acquires debut novel ‘Higher Education’

Friday, 15 July 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to debut novel Higher Education by Kira McPherson, in a deal brokered by Cara Lee Simpson from UK-based agency Peters Fraser + Dunlop. According...

Affirm acquires Barron debut novel ‘Golden Days’

Thursday, 14 July 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Golden Days, the debut novel by Aotearoa New Zealand author Caroline Barron, via Nadine Rubin Nathan of High Spot Literary. Described by the...

National Biography Award 2022 shortlist announced

Thursday, 14 July 2022
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the $25,000 National Biography Award. The shortlisted books are: Car Crash: A memoir (Lech Blaine, Black Inc.) Home...

Vale Suzanne Bellamy

Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Artist, writer and scholar Suzanne Bellamy died on 20 June in Braidwood, NSW. Spinifex Press publisher Susan Hawthorne writes: Spinifex Press is saddened by the death of artist, writer and...

Vale Jean Ferguson

Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Book industry leader Jean Ferguson OAM passed away aged 90 on Sunday, July 3. Angus Dalton, Ferguson’s grandson, writes: ‘If you are looking for a fascinating, compulsive industry where one...

Try Not to Think of a Pink Elephant (Fremantle Press)

Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Mental illness is so misunderstood—often even by those of us who live with it—but obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) gets an odd deal. The phrase 'a little bit OCD' infantalises the...

Rights round-up

Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth (ex ANZ, India and Canada) rights to The Shortest History of the World (David Baker) to Scribe, and Russian rights to...

Speech Pathology book awards shortlist, Aus publishers to attend Frankfurt in person, Rimmer buys Collins Orange

Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Australian publishers will be attending this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair in person, with publishers either taking part in the Australian Publishers Association stand or attending independently. In bookshop news, author...

The Sun Walks Down (Fiona McFarlane, A&U)

Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Fiona McFarlane’s debut novel The Night Guest and short story collection The High Places received critical acclaim. Now teaching creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley, the author seals...

Griffith Review announces emerging voices competition winners

Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Griffith Review has announced the recipients of its second annual emerging voices writing competition. The winners of the Long and Short of It competition are: Stephanie Barham Melanie Myers Emily...

KYD announces new creative nonfiction prize

Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced a new creative nonfiction prize. Open exclusively to KYD subscribers, the KYD Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize will be judged by essayist Fiona Wright in...

Writers Vic announces 2022 Writeability fellows

Monday, 11 July 2022
Writers Victoria has announced the 2022 Writeability fellows. The following five writers with disability were awarded Writeability fellowships: Dorian Sutton for 'The Passenger', a young adult, queer coming-of-age story about...

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Monday, 11 July 2022
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