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...
Big Love (Megan Jacobson, illus by Beck Feiner, Walker Studio)
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
This sweet picture book debut draws an immediate comparison with children’s bookshelf classic Guess How Much I Love You. As the borders of Big Love’s world unspool, from house to entire universe, the lyrical...
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...
Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales (ed by Poppy Nwosu, Wakefield Press)
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
To the library of #LoveOzYA anthologies (Begin, End, Begin; Meet Me at the Intersection; Underdog; Kindred) comes Hometown Haunts, a new collection featuring 12 short stories and two graphic novels united...
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...
‘The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name’ sells to North America
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has sold North American rights to The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name by Sandhya Parappukkaran and Michelle Pereira to Abrams Books. The deal,...
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...
Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2021 winners announced
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
The Wilderness Society has announced the winners of the 2021 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Selected from shortlists announced in June, the winning titles in each category are: Picture fiction...
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...
NZ awards news: Kake wins NZ Writers’ Award, Yang wins Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize
Monday, 13 September 2021
Jade Kake has won the 2021 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Writers’ Award, worth NZ$25,000 (A$24,150)....
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Monday, 13 September 2021
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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...
The One That Got Away: Travelling in the time of Covid (Ken Haley, Transit Lounge)
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
The One That Got Away documents journalist and travel writer Ken Haley’s year evading the pandemic. While many of us were kept in captivity as Covid-19 raged across the world,...
Tomorrow is a Brand-New Day (Davina Bell, illus by Allison Colpoys, Scribble)
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
Tomorrow is a Brand-New Day is an ode to making a mistake and then making things right. It follows two children—friends with different styles—who come into conflict with each other...
Marcie Gill and the Caravan Park Cat (Monica McInerney, illus by Danny Snell, Puffin)
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
With a dozen adult novels under her belt, Monica McInerney is now turning her hand to children’s fiction and her first foray into middle-grade territory is just as full of heart and laughter as her...
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
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...
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Monday, 6 September 2021
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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...
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