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Centre for Stories Writing Fellowships 2022 winners announced

Wednesday, 4 May 2022
The Centre for Stories has announced the winners of the 2022 Centre for Stories Writing Fellowships. The six winning writers are: Ana Brawls, for a manuscript of literary fiction Melanie...

Araluen wins Stella Prize; Parker-Chan finalist for Hugo Award; UK paper crisis to worsen

Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Evelyn Araluen has won the 2022 Stella Prize for Dropbear (UQP), the first time a poetry collection has won the award after it opened to works of poetry this year;...

Holy Woman (Louise Omer, Scribe)

Tuesday, 3 May 2022
For Louise Omer, leaving a problematic marriage became leaving a faith. For her, the two went hand-in-hand, one a symbol of the other: the wife is subject to the husband,...

Tarni’s Chance (Paul Collins, illus by Jules Ober, Ford St)

Tuesday, 3 May 2022
In Tarni’s Chance, the world of Paul Collins and Jules Ober’s young protagonist is grey with sadness as her parents argue, and her inner mood is reflected in the monochromatic...

The Snow Laundry (Mette Jakobsen, HarperCollins)

Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Ally, her boyfriend Bon, and hundreds of other homeless young people live together in a former hotel converted into a state-run laundry and kitchen. The new home is courtesy of...

Tedeschi wins 2022 Calibre Essay Prize

Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Sydney-based classical musician Simon Tedeschi has won the 2022 Calibre Essay Prize for his essay ‘This Woman My Grandmother’. Tedeschi, whose debut Fugitive, will be published by Upswell this month,...

Judith Wright Poetry Prize, Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize winners announced

Monday, 2 May 2022
Overland has announced the winners of the 2021 Judith Wright Poetry Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Writer, bookseller and co-founder of Vre Books Ender Baskan won the $6000...

Baxter, Burrows, Reid named SMH Best Young Australian Novelists 2022

Monday, 2 May 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has announced the Best Young Australian Novelists for 2022. The writers and their novels, all debuts, are: Ella Baxter for New Animal (A&U) Michael Burrows for Where the Line Breaks (Fremantle...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Monday, 2 May 2022
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‘Sorrow and Bliss’ shortlisted for 2022 Women’s Prize

Thursday, 28 April 2022
Sydney-based Aotearoa New Zealand writer Meg Mason has been shortlisted for the £30,000 (A$52,800) Women’s Prize for Fiction for her second novel Sorrow and Bliss (Fourth Estate). First published in...

Booksellers’ Choice shortlists, Wheeler Centre 2022 Hot Desk fellows

Thursday, 28 April 2022
In awards news, the Australian Booksellers Association announced the shortlists for the 2022 Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards; local writers Sarah Walker, Eleanor Kirk and Shelley Burne-Field are...

Dorothy Hewett Award 2022 shortlist announced

Thursday, 28 April 2022
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives $10,000 prize money, as well as manuscript development and a...

Old Fellow (Christopher Cheng, illus by Liz Anelli, Walker)

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Old Fellow, written by Christopher Cheng and illustrated by Liz Anelli, is a warm, simple and engaging story of an old man and his old dog. Which one of the...

My Spare Heart (Jared Thomas, A&U)

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
There’s a lot to unpack in this YA novel, which covers issues including alcoholism, climate change, divorce and racism. At the centre of it all is 17-year-old Phoebe. She is...

Forty Nights (Pirooz Jafari, Ultimo)

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Forty Nights is the literary debut of photographer turned lawyer and writer Pirooz Jafari. The novel weaves together three separate timelines, moving between 1360s Sweden, 1980s Iran and present-day Australia—with...

Swimming Home (Judy Cotton, Black Inc.)

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Judy Cotton is an internationally celebrated visual artist who has work in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Australia. Her father, Sir Robert...

WAKE (Shelley Burr, Hachette)

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
The question of what really happened to Evie McCreery has occupied amateur sleuths in online chat forums for years. But for Mina McCreery, ever since her twin sister was taken...

Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year 2022 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the shortlists for the 2022 Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult fiction After Story...

Molloy wins 2021 Anne Elder Award

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Australian Poetry has announced Audrey Molloy's The Important Things (Gallery Press) as the winner of the 2021 Anne Elder Award for a first book of poetry. According to the 2021 prize...

Local authors longlisted for CWA Daggers

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Several Australia-based authors have been longlisted for the UK Crime Writers' Association's (CWA) 2022 Dagger Awards. Jacqueline Bublitz has been longlisted for the Gold Dagger for best novel for her...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Tuesday, 26 April 2022
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Rights round-up

Thursday, 21 April 2022
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold Russian translation rights to The Last Man in Europe (Dennis Glover) and Rose’s Vintage (Kayte Nunn) to MTS Library. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold...

UQP acquires van Neerven nonfiction book on sport

Thursday, 21 April 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to Personal Score, the first work of nonfiction by writer and poet Ellen van Neerven. Described by the publisher as a ‘groundbreaking look at sport...

ABDA shortlists, FALS inaugural residency recipients, Waterstones profits down

Thursday, 21 April 2022
This week, the Australian Book Designers Association announced the shortlists for the 70th Australian Book Design Awards; the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies announced the recipients of its inaugural Writing...

The Eulogy (Jackie Bailey, Hardie Grant)

Wednesday, 20 April 2022
The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey is at once sprawling and intimate: it’s a novel of race, disability, trauma, poverty, abuse and maternal rage that takes place over the course of...

Hip Hop & Hymns (Mawunyo Gbogbo, Penguin)

Wednesday, 20 April 2022
Hip Hop & Hymns is a beautiful and heart-wrenching memoir by Mawunyo Gbogbo, music and pop culture reporter for the ABC. Gbogbo begins her story in Ghana, where her parents...

The Museum of Broken Things (Lauren Draper, Text)

Wednesday, 20 April 2022
The concise opening of Lauren Draper’s debut YA novel immediately had me hooked: a new town, a mysterious statue and a curse all make for intriguing storylines. In The Museum...

An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life (Paul Dalla Rosa, A&U)

Wednesday, 20 April 2022
The fiction of Melbourne-based Paul Dalla Rosa has been published in the Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney's and Meanjin. His debut book, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life, contains 10 short...

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