Scribble, Think+DO Tank Foundation announce Mirror Mentorship program details
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Scribe children's imprint Scribble and Sydney-based Think+DO Tank Foundation, which runs multilingual bookshop Lost in Books, have released details of their Mirror Mentorship program, supported by Australia Council funding. The...
Williams to leave SWF, Perth Writers Weekend 2022 wrap, Manga and adult fiction drive 2021 sales
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the 2022 program for its conference, to be held in person 12–13 June at the Sheraton Grand Hyde Park in Sydney, while Perth...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Sales Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Eczema Detox: The low-chemical diet for eliminating skin inflammation (Karen Fischer) and Your Anxiety Beast and You: A compassionate...
Homesickness (Janine Mikosza, Ultimo Press)
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
‘I can’t escape myself or my past. There’s no way out,’ a character named Janine (‘Jin’) muses to an unknown interviewer near the beginning of artist and writer Janine Mikosza’s...
Sunbathing (Isobel Beech, A&U)
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
After her father dies of suicide, the unnamed narrator of Sunbathing travels from her hometown of Melbourne to the Italian countryside. There, she stays with friends Fabrizio and Giulia in...
All the Little Tricky Things (Karys McEwen, Text)
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
This debut middle-grade novel is a gentle and empathetic story about navigating the period between primary and high school, as well as the complex ways in which adolescent female friendships...
Dirt Town (Hayley Scrivenor, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor is a complex and multi-layered whodunnit, peppered with red-herrings and shocking revelations. In the rural New South Wales town of Durton, a young girl, Esther,...
Storytorch acquires Godwin environmental picture book
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Storytorch Press has acquired world rights to Nicole Godwin's picture book Bower Bob, which explores the harm plastic has on native birdlife. Godwin is a children’s author known for her...
‘Love Stories’ wins 2022 Indie Book of the Year
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Trent Dalton’s Love Stories (Fourth Estate) has been named Book of the Year at the 2022 Indie Book Awards. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Once There Were...
UQP acquires Sakr poetry collection
Monday, 21 March 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired Non-Essential Work, the third poetry collection by Sydney-based Arab Australian poet Omar Sakr. UQP says Sakr's 'much-anticipated' follow-up to his 2019 collection The...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Monday, 21 March 2022
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ASA Award Mentorship Program for Writers and Illustrators winners announced
Friday, 18 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the winners of its 2022 Award Mentorship Program for Writers and Illustrators. With support from the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, each winner receives a...
Vale Blaise van Hecke
Thursday, 17 March 2022
Blaise van Hecke, co-founder and publisher of Melbourne-based Busybird Publishing, died suddenly on Sunday, 13 March. She was 53 years old. Small Press Network (SPN) general manager Tim Coronel writes:...
Penguin Literary Prize shortlist, floods devastate Lismore Library and Book Warehouse, ABDA longlists
Thursday, 17 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors, the Australian Short Story Festival and the Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival are among the latest and final recipients of the Restart Investment to...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 17 March 2022
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold German translation rights to The Truth About Her (Jacqueline Maley) to HarperCollins Germany GmbH, and English rights to The Fossil Hunter (Tea Cooper, HQ Fiction)...
The Greatest Thing (Sarah Winifred Searle, A&U Children’s)
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
The Greatest Thing is a graphic novel about friendship and self-actualisation, with a dash of queer romance. Semi-autobiographical in nature, it’s set in America in 2002 where Winifred (Searle) meets...
The Callers (Kiah Thomas, HarperCollins)
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Publishing simultaneously in Australia and the US, The Callers—Kiah Thomas’s first foray into middle-grade fiction—is a thoughtful, nuanced fantasy adventure in which two young people fight back against a colonising...
Daisy & Woolf (Michelle Cahill, Hachette)
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Michelle Cahill’s debut novel tells the story of a struggling writer, Mina, as she expands upon the often disregarded character Daisy Simmons from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway. Daisy & Woolf...
The Red Witch: A biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard (Nathan Hobby, MUP)
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Fifty years after the writer Katharine Susannah Prichard’s death, Nathan Hobby has produced this highly detailed, meticulously researched biography, both a revealing account of Prichard’s thrilling life and a sensitive...
Australian Book Design Awards 2022 longlists announced
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
The longlists for the 2022 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The longlisted titles in some of the categories are: Best...
Walker Books acquires four titles from Sewankambo
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to the picture book First There Was Me, Then There Was You by Yvonne Sewankambo, in a four-book deal via Sarah McKenzie at...
Varuna Pitch Me! inaugural fellows announced
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Varuna has announced the two recipients of the inaugural Pitch Me! Fellowship, established to connect Australian writers with the publishing industry. The two successful applicants, chosen from 39 submissions, are:...
HarperCollins acquires Blurton memoir
Tuesday, 15 March 2022
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to The Bachelorette star Brooke Blurton's memoir Big Love, in a publishing deal across all editions including audio. Blurton is also collaborating with Bigambul and Wakka...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Tuesday, 15 March 2022
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International Booker 2022 longlist announced
Friday, 11 March 2022
The longlist for the 2022 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$90k), has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Cursed Bunny (Bora Chung, trans by Anton Hur, Honford Star) After The Sun...
Penguin Literary Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Friday, 11 March 2022
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'On a Bright Hillside in Paradise' by Annette Higgs, about a...
ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 11 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins publishing division HQ have announced the shortlist for the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. The winner will receive...
MacLehose Press acquires two new Papathanasiou novels
Thursday, 10 March 2022
MacLehose Press, an imprint of Hachette-owned UK publisher Quercus, has acquired world rights to two new novels by Peter Papathanasiou in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary....
Vale Jordie Albiston
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Melbourne-based poet Jordie Albiston has died, aged 60. Born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, Albiston studied music at the Victorian College of the Arts and received a Doctorate in English...
Stella Count results, ILF moves to Hachette offices, Varuna First Nations Fellowship recipients
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The results of the 2019/2020 Stella Count have revealed gender parity has been achieved for the first time since the count began in 2012. Meanwhile, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation has...
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