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Ritchie wins 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award

Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Brendan Ritchie has won the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for his novel Eta Draconis. Ritchie, an academic and early-career novelist from the south coast of WA,...

Varuna announces 2023 residential fellowships

Varuna, the National Writers House logo Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of its 2023 residential fellowships. The writers and their projects are: Eleanor Dark flagship fellowship Angela O’Keeffe, for her literary fiction...

Hickey wins 2022 Danger Prize

Monday, 12 September 2022
Margaret Hickey has won the 2022 Danger Prize for her debut novel Cutters End (Penguin). Set in the South Australian outback town of Cutters End, the winning novel follows Detective...

UQP acquires Prosser debut novel ‘Big Time’ 

Monday, 12 September 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Jordan Prosser’s debut novel Big Time. Described as Almost Famous meets Slaughterhouse-Five, Big Time is an anti-fascist ode to the...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 12 September 2022
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. View the edition here.

Parker-Chan wins Hugo Award for Best New Writer

Friday, 9 September 2022
Australian writer Shelley Parker-Chan has won the Best New Writer category at the Hugo Awards for science fiction. Parker-Chan's debut She Who Became the Sun was first published in the...

Allinson, Brennan win Age Book of the Year awards

Friday, 9 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Age Book of the Year Award have been announced. Miles Allinson won the fiction award for his second novel In Moonland (Scribe), while Bernadette Brennan won the...

Queensland Literary Awards 2022 winners

Friday, 9 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance ($25,000) Wounded Country (Quentin Beresford,...

EPAA 2022 winners announced

Thursday, 8 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) have been announced. The winners in each category are:  Secondary publisher of the year Cambridge University Press Primary publisher of...

Mascara, Varuna announce diverse writers residency

mascara logo Thursday, 8 September 2022
Mascara Literary Review has announced the inaugural Mascara Varuna Writers’ and Editors’ Residency, supported by the Copyright Agency and the Adès Family Foundation. The residency is open to First Nations...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Sales  Fiction Black Inc. has sold Russian rights to Factory 19 (Dennis Glover) to MTS Library. Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold French world rights to Your Anxiety Beast and You:...

Scribe acquires new McKay fiction collection 

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Scribe Publications has acquired world rights to Gunflower, a new collection of short fiction by Laura Jean McKay. According to the publisher, Gunflower ‘charts the political, ecological, and bodily themes...

Booker Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Booker Prize has been announced. The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$85,510) prize are: Glory (NoViolet Bulawayo, Viking) The Trees (Percival Everett, Influx) Treacle...

Wang wins 2022 Spark Prize 

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Becca Wang has won the 2022 Spark Prize, presented by Hardie Grant Books and RMIT Writing and Publishing, for her nonfiction book proposal ‘Birth Right’. Chosen from a shortlist of...

Waiting for the Storks (Katrina Nannestad, ABC Books) 

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Waiting for the Storks is the latest historical fiction title from Katrina Nannestad, transporting the reader to the Second World War and the time of Himmler’s Lebensborn Program, in which...

Tell Me Again (Amy Thunig, UQP) 

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Amy Thunig is an academic and social commentator on shows such as ABC’s The Drum. She also grew up in poverty, the child of parents battling drug addictions who provided...

Writing NSW diverse mentorship program winners announced

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Writing NSW has announced the recipients of the 2022 diverse writers mentorship program for emerging writers from Indigenous or culturally diverse backgrounds. The winners are: Azka Hameed Mayu Kanamori Harold...

Richell Prize 2022 longlist announced

Logo for the Richell Prize, featuring a swooping bird Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival have announced the longlist for the 2022 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The 20 longlisted authors, chosen from over 700 entries, are: Alexander...

Banjo Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
HarperCollins Australia has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Banjo Prize for an unpublished work of commercial fiction. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'Pine River Falls' by Christine Gregory 'Next of...

NSW Premier’s History Awards 2022 winners announced

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the winners of the 2022 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The winners in each category receive $15,000. The winning titles, chosen from shortlists...

Gamieldien wins inaugural WestWords/Ultimo Prize

Monday, 5 September 2022
The winner of the inaugural WestWords/Ultimo Prize is The Scope of Permissibility by Zeynab Gamieldien. Chosen from ‘an incredibly high calibre of entries’ by judges Michael Campbell (WestWords executive director),...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 5 September 2022
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. View the edition here.

Wattison wins $10k ACU Poetry Prize

Friday, 2 September 2022
Meredith Wattison has won the $10,000 Australian Catholic University (ACU) Prize for Poetry. Based in the Macarthur Region of NSW, Wattison won first prize for ‘The Loose Wild Grace Of...

Vale Rod Mead

Wednesday, 31 August 2022
Publishing industry figure Rod Mead has died, aged 85. Pamela Petty and Bryony Cosgrove write: Australian publishing has lost one of its much-loved bon vivants. Rod Mead (21 April 1937–31...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 31 August 2022
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Jieli Publishing House Co., Ltd. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold traditional Chinese rights...