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Melbourne Prize for Literature finalists announced

Wednesday, 15 September 2021
The Melbourne Prize Trust has announced the finalists for the triennial Melbourne Prize for Literature. The finalists are: Melbourne Prize for Literature ($60,000) Jordie Albiston Maxine Beneba Clarke Pi O...

New distribution centre for Booktopia, QLA winners

Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Booktopia has secured a new warehousing and distribution space in Sydney’s South West, with the facility to provide increased capacity in time for Christmas. The program for the inaugural Ubud...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Sales Fiction Hachette has sold UK and Commonwealth (ex Canada) rights to The Tea Ladies of St Jude’s Hospital (Joanna Nell), and UK and Commonwealth (ex Canada) rights to Kayte...

Danged Black Thing (Eugen Bacon, Transit Lounge)  

Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Lyrical, rich, oftentimes dark and sometimes hopeful, Danged Black Thing is a speculative fiction collection that takes the reader on a journey from Africa to Australia. The cities and villages the stories are set...

Skimming Stones (Maria Papas, Fremantle Press)  

Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Thrombolites—living rocks made from microbes—exist in only a few places on Earth, including Lake Clifton, south of Perth. Here, the thrombolites are thousands of years old and incredibly fragile. This...

Merriman YA novels optioned for screen 

Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Screen adaption rights to YA novels Catch Me When You Fall and Invisibly Breathing by New Zealand author Eileen Merriman have been optioned by Enjoy Entertainment, in a deal negotiated...

Hachette acquires Burr crime debut in two-book deal

Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Hachette has acquired world rights to two crime novels by Canberra debut author Shelley Burr in a ‘hotly contested’ international auction. The six-figure, two-book deal was struck between Hachette Australia...

Bourke wins 2021 Stanner Award

Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Sarah Bourke has won the 2021 Stanner Award, presented biannually by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) to the best academic manuscript written by an...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 13 September 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.

EPAA 2021 winners announced

Friday, 10 September 2021
The winners of the 2021 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) have been announced. The winners in each category are: Secondary publisher of the year Jacaranda Primary publisher of the year...

Queensland Literary Awards 2021 winners announced

Friday, 10 September 2021
The winners of the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. Visual artist Fiona Foley was awarded the $25,000 Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance for her...

$100k Historical Novel Prize longlists announced

Thursday, 9 September 2021
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the longlist for the second annual ARA Historical Novel Prize and the inaugural longlist for its children's and young adult (CYA) category....

RISE funding for Australia Reads, latest awards

Wednesday, 8 September 2021
The Australia Reads campaign and ALIA’s Online Storytime initiative are among the latest recipients of the federal government’s RISE funding. A new bookshop, The Chestnut Tree, has opened in Melbourne’s...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 8 September 2021
Sales Fiction  Affirm Press has sold Arabic rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to SRMG. Black Inc. has sold North American rights to A World With No...

Banjo Prize 2021 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 8 September 2021
HarperCollins Australia has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Banjo Prize for an unpublished work of commercial fiction. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘My Father the Whale’ (Gina Perry) ‘The Wishbone...

The Younger Wife (Sally Hepworth, Macmillan)  

Wednesday, 8 September 2021
Readers won’t be shocked to learn that Sally Hepworth’s new novel The Younger Wife features a May–December romance between a younger woman and an older man, and the effects the relationship has...

Murchison wins $10k ACU Poetry Prize

Tuesday, 7 September 2021
Hobart-based poet Anna Murchison has won the 2021 Australian Catholic University (ACU) Poetry Prize, Australia's richest poetry award. Murchison receives $10,000 for her poem ‘Child of Gath-hepher’. Carolyn Masel was...

‘The Rain Heron’ wins Age Book of the Year

Monday, 6 September 2021
Robbie Arnott has won the 2021 Age Book of the Year for his novel The Rain Heron (Text). It's the 40th time the award has been presented following a nine-year hiatus....

Richell Prize 2021 longlist announced

Logo for the Richell Prize, featuring a swooping bird Monday, 6 September 2021
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) have announced the longlist for the 2021 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The longlisted writers will be judged on the first three...

NSW Premier’s History Awards 2021 winners announced

Monday, 6 September 2021
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the winners of the 2021 NSW Premier's History Awards, worth $15,000 each. Selected from shortlists announced in August, the winning titles in...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 6 September 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.

Wright wins 2021 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award

Friday, 3 September 2021
David Thomas Henry Wright has won the 2021 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award for A Condensed History of the Australian Camel. Judge Roanna Gonsalves described Wright’s entry as ‘a work...