Black Inc. acquires Beeston memoir ‘Because I am Not Myself, You See’
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
Black Inc. has acquired ANZ print, audio and ebook rights to the memoir Because I am Not Myself, You See by Ariane Beeston via Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. Described...
HarperCollins acquires Harrison’s ‘The Visitors’
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the novel The Visitors by Jane Harrison, in 'a highly competitive auction' brokered by Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management Literary Agency....
Transit Lounge acquires Meehan historical novel ‘An Ungrateful Instrument’
Monday, 30 May 2022
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to the novel An Ungrateful Instrument by Michael Meehan, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans at Cameron’s Management. An Ungrateful Instrument is Meehan’s...
Money wins First Nations Arts Award
Monday, 30 May 2022
Wiradjuri poet and artist Jazz Money has won a 2022 Dreaming Award for a young and emerging artist, presented as part of the Australia Council's First Nations Arts Awards. Money's...
Vucic awarded $50k Marten Bequest scholarship
Monday, 30 May 2022
Dženana Vucic, a Bosnian-Australian writer, editor, critic and recipient of the 2021 Kat Muscat Fellowship, is among the seven recipients of the 2022 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, each worth $50,000....
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Monday, 30 May 2022
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Over two million participate in ALIA National Simultaneous Storytime
Friday, 27 May 2022
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced that this year's National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) was the biggest in the event's 22-year history, with over two million participants registered...
Collins celebrates 100 years with new prize for political writing
Friday, 27 May 2022
Collins Booksellers has announced the establishment of a new literary prize, the Australian Political Book of the Year Award. Collins chairman Duncan Johnston said in a statement that recognition of...
Gervay wins 2022 Crystal Kite award
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Susanne Gervay has won the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards, presented by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). Gervay...
Mabey awarded Creative NZ Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Claire Mabey has been named the recipient of Creative New Zealand’s 2022 Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary, receiving funding of NZ$23,150 (A$21,150). Based in Pōneke (Wellington), Mabey is a writer...
ASAL announces book awards finalists
Thursday, 26 May 2022
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the finalists for several literary awards that the organisation oversees. Magarey Medal ASAL and the Australian Historical Association have...
Vale Caroline Jones
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Broadcaster, television journalist and writer Caroline Jones has died, aged 84. Jones, who presented the ABC radio program The Search for Meaning, authored several books based on the program, as...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Sales Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children's Publishing has sold Spanish and Catalan rights to Naughty Dragons Fire Up! (Natalie Jane Prior, illus by Simon Howe), and Icelandic rights to The Baby Bird, The Best...
Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards, which celebrate excellence in writing across the Northern Territory, have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction...
Lui acquires first three books for Joan imprint
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced the first three titles to be published under its new Nakkiah Lui-curated Joan imprint, acquiring ANZ rights to debuts by Brooke Boney, Sarah Firth...
Miles Franklin 2022 longlist, Commonwealth Short Story Prize Pacific winner, ABIA 2022 shortlists
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
This week, the longlist for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award was revealed. Simon & Schuster Australia has appointed Ace Mamun as marketing and publicity director, replacing Anabel Pandiella; the...
Wild Bush Days (Penny Harrison, illus by Virginia Gray, MidnightSun)
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Wild Bush Days is an illustrated account of two young explorers who go on a journey to find the hiding spot of infamous female outlaw Jessie Hickmans. A real-life historical...
Enclave (Claire G Coleman, Hachette)
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Born of social media algorithms and convenience culture, with a biting critique of modern tribalism, Enclave, Claire G Coleman’s third novel, is Brave New World with every conceit flipped for...
The Shop Train (Josie Wowolla Boyle, illus by Paul Seden, Magabala)
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
With The Shop Train, the late Josie Wowolla Boyle offers a small memory-sketch of the days when the Tea and Sugar train travelled weekly across the Nullarbor to supply food...
Grounded (Alisa Bryce, Text)
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Considering that we are such very clever land-based mammals it’s puzzling how little most of us know about soil—upon which we live, from which we (probably) come, and unto which...
The Unbelieved (Vikki Petraitis, A&U)
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Having already collected Allen & Unwin's in-house crime fiction prize, The Unbelieved is set to launch with a splash as Vikki Petraitis gathers her considerable storytelling experience into an impressive...
Hydra (Adriane Howell, Transit Lounge)
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Adriane Howell’s debut novel Hydra is unsettling and dreamlike. In its folds, the strange and unflinching Anja becomes the reader’s friend—because we’re privy to her thoughts, because she tolerates our...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2022 longlist announced
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
The longlist for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The 12 longlisted novels are: The Other Half of You (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette) After Story...
A&U acquires Gray debut novel ‘Green Dot’
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to the novel Green Dot by Madeleine Gray, in a pre-empt deal brokered by Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary. UK rights...
ABIA 2022 shortlists announced
Monday, 23 May 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: General fiction book of the year When Things Are Alive...
Fijian writer Rokonadravu wins Commonwealth Short Story Prize Pacific category
Monday, 23 May 2022
Fijian writer Mary Rokonadravu has won the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize in the Pacific category for her story 'The Nightwatch', described by Pacific region judge, Wiradjuri writer, poet and...
‘Shifting Grounds’ and ‘Vandemonians’ joint 2022 Ernest Scott Prize winners
Monday, 23 May 2022
Shifting Grounds: Deep histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (Lucy Mackintosh, Bridget Williams Books) and Vandemonians: The repressed history of colonial Victoria (Janet McCalman, Miegunyah Press) have jointly won the 2022...
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Monday, 23 May 2022
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Affirm Press acquires Swindell fiction debut
Friday, 20 May 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to comedian Carolyn Swindell's debut novel We Only Want What’s Best, via Sandy Wagner Creative Agents. Described by the publisher as 'a tense examination...
‘In the Clearing’ to become Disney+ drama series
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
A series adaptation of In the Clearing by J P Pomare (Hachette) has been acquired by Disney for its streaming service Disney+. Pomare's 2019 novel is a fictionalised account of...
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