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Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 10 May 2021
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.

Reece YA novel ‘Mice’ to be adapted for film

Friday, 7 May 2021
Gordon Reece's 2010 young adult novel Mice (A&U) will be adapted into a feature film by Nicole Kidman’s production company Blossom Films and Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories. Mice is a psychological...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Sales Fiction Big Sky Publishing has sold Hungarian rights to Hitler's Brothel (Steve Matthews) to IPC. Brazilian rights to the inaugural Novel Prize winner Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au,...

Vale Valerie Parv

Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Canberra-based romance novelist Valerie Parv has died, aged 69. The author of 93 books in 29 languages, spanning romance, nonfiction and writing guides, Parv's writing career began when her first...

Vale Margaret McKenzie

Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Margaret McKenzie, co-owner of the former Seagulls Bookshop in the Melbourne suburb of Williamstown, has died. Co-owner of Seagulls and McKenzie's husband Nick Chapman writes: 'Margaret died suddenly on Saturday,...

ABIA winners, push for EBA at Better Read Than Dead

Wednesday, 5 May 2021
In a big week for awards, the winners of this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards were announced, as were the winners of the Vogel, the Nature Writing Prize, IPEd’s Janet Mackenzie...

The Rabbits (Sophie Overett, Vintage) 

Tuesday, 4 May 2021
The Rabbits is a tense suburban drama that probes the limits of family bonds and human potential. Sophie Overett, who won the 2020 Penguin Literary Prize for the manuscript, has...

Catch Us the Foxes (Nicola West, S&S)

Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Marlowe ‘Lo’ Robertson is an ambitious young journalist given the job of covering the annual show for the local paper. When Lo discovers the body of her friend, reigning showgirl...

Briggs awarded 2021 Janet Mackenzie Medal

Tuesday, 4 May 2021
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Edwin (Ted) Briggs as the recipient of the second annual Janet Mackenzie Medal. The award, which honours the late founding member of...

Thaker awarded 2021 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship

Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Torres Strait Islander storyteller Lenora Thaker has won the 2021 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship. Thaker is the first Torres Strait Islander writer to win the Boundless Indigenous Mentorship, which was launched in...

‘Now That I See You’ wins 2021 Vogel

Monday, 3 May 2021
Now That I See You by Canberra author Emma Batchelor is the winner of this year's $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 3 May 2021
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.

Day wins 2021 Nature Writing Prize

Friday, 30 April 2021
Gregory Day has won the 2021 Nature Writing Prize for his work 'The Watergaw'. Dave Witty was highly commended for 'The Lone Tree of Mackay', and Michael Bradley received an...

Crawford’s ‘No Document’ sells to US 

Thursday, 29 April 2021
North American rights to Anwen Crawford’s nonfiction work No Document have been sold to Transit Books. Adam Levy and Ashley Nelson Levy from Transit acquired rights from Nick Tapper at Giramondo....

‘Phosphorescence’ wins 2021 ABIA Book of the Year

Wednesday, 28 April 2021
The winners of the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. In the business awards, Penguin Random House Australia won publisher of the year while the University of...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Brazilian rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Autêntica. Left Bank Literary has sold US rights to New Animal (Ella Baxter,...

Stella Prize and NSW Prem’s winners, industry moves

Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Evie Wyld has won this year’s Stella Prize, worth $50,000, for her novel The Bass Rock (Vintage). Meanwhile, Ellen van Neerven has scooped the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards with their...

Cameron Nunn on ‘Echo in the Memory’

Wednesday, 28 April 2021
The historical YA novel Echo in the Memory (Walker, June) took author Cameron Nunn 10 years and a PhD in the history of child convicts to write. The book features...

UWAP announces 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist

UWAP logo Wednesday, 28 April 2021
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives a cash prize of $10,000, as well as manuscript development...

Echo in the Memory (Cameron Nunn, Walker Books)

Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Cameron Nunn presents an ambitious work of historical fiction in his latest novel Echo in the Memory. Seamlessly telling the stories of two adolescents existing almost 200 years apart, the...

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 winners announced

Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Ellen van Neerven has scooped the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards with their poetry collection Throat (UQP). Van Neerven’s collection was awarded the overall $10,000 book of the year award,...

 

 

 

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