Stewart wins Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Emily Stewart has won the 2021 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award for her manuscript ‘Running Time’. Selected from a shortlist of seven announced earlier this month, the Sydney poet...
Voss Literary Prize 2021 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Voss Literary Prize has been announced. The shortlisted works, chosen from a longlist of 10, are: The Rain Heron (Robbie Arnott, Text) Our Shadows (Gail...
Abul wins Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Hassan Abul is the winner of the inaugural $10,000 Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize. Abul's winning essay 'Third Cowboy From the Sun' was chosen by judges Brian Castro, Maddee...
Affirm Press Mentorship Award winners; NEWC fellowship shortlist
Monday, 15 November 2021
Affirm Press and Varuna, The National Writers' House have announced the winners of the 2021 Affirm Press Mentorship Award. The winners are: Maha Sidaoui for ‘One Arabian Girl’ Alison Whipp for...
Ayliffe’s John Bailey series optioned for screen
Monday, 15 November 2021
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has sold screen rights to Tim Ayliffe’s John Bailey crime thriller series to CJZ Productions, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans of Cameron’s Management. The...
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Monday, 15 November 2021
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Australians nominated for Carnegie, Kate Greenaway medals
Friday, 12 November 2021
Several Australians have been nominated for the 2022 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals for writing and illustration for children and young people, presented annually by the UK’s Chartered Institute of...
Pascoe awarded 2021 ASA Medal
Friday, 12 November 2021
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Bruce Pascoe is the recipient of the 2021 ASA Medal. Author of the bestselling Dark Emu (Magabala), Pascoe has written over 30...
Tsiolkas, Araluen, Grills, Clarke 2021 Melbourne Prize winners
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Christos Tsiolkas, Evelyn Araluen and Eloise Grills are the winners in the 2021 Melbourne Prize for Literature, announced on 10 November. Tsiolkas won the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature for...
Amerena wins 2021 Speculate Prize
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Dominic Amerena has won the inaugural Speculate Prize for his speculative fiction manuscript ‘In Real Life’. ‘Part literary detective story, part gig economy fable, Domenic Amerena’s “In Real Life” is...
Jordan wins Richell Prize, ‘The Promise’ wins 2021 Booker Prize
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
This week the Australian Society of Authors alerted authors and publishers that the decision by the National Library of New Zealand to donate more than 400,000 books to the Internet...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold North American English-language rights to The Shortest History of the World (David Baker) to The Experiment; Arabic, Israeli and Hungarian translation rights to The...
HQ acquires Hearst novel in two-book deal
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
HQ has acquired world rights to a forthcoming novel by Elise Hearst, as part of a ‘hotly contested’ two-book deal brokered by Sarah McKenzie Literary Management. According to the publisher,...
Ouch! Tales of Gravity (Kate Simpson, illus by Andy Hardiman, A&U)
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
How do you explain something as complicated as gravity to a young audience (five-year-olds and above)? Well, humour certainly helps. The narrator in Ouch! Tales of Gravity is knowledgeable and...
Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au, Giramondo)
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
Cold Enough for Snow is Jessica Au’s second novel and the winner of Giramondo Publishing, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions’ inaugural Novel Prize. The book’s narrator travels with her Hong...
This is Me! (Sally Morgan, Magabala)
Tuesday, 9 November 2021
Written and illustrated by well-loved author Sally Morgan, This is Me is a simple and colourful board book for very young children. Morgan’s illustration style features simple shapes and patterns...
Found, Wanting (Natasha Sholl, Ultimo Press)
Tuesday, 9 November 2021
Beginning with a sudden death, Natasha Sholl’s memoir sets us up to expect a traditional grief narrative, ending with the author having processed the loss, found new meaning in their...
‘Lucky’s’ wins 2021 Readings Prize
Monday, 8 November 2021
The winner of the 2021 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction is Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos (Picador). Elizabeth Tan, who won the 2020 prize for her short story collection Smart...
‘Avoiding the Ageing Parent Trap’ wins AJA 2021 book award
Monday, 8 November 2021
Avoiding the Ageing Parent Trap (Brian Herd, Big Sky) has won the 2021 Australasian Journal on Ageing (AJA) Book Award. Brain Body Food (Ngaire Hobbins, self-published) received an honourable mention....
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Monday, 8 November 2021
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Woollahra Digital Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Friday, 5 November 2021
The shortlists for the Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Fiction ($2500) Understanding Almost Nothing of the World (James Hughes, Spineless Wonders)...
Jordan wins 2021 Richell Prize
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Simone Amelia Jordan has won the 2021 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for her memoir manuscript ‘Tell Her She’s Dreamin’’. An Australian journalist, writer, host and media consultant, Jordan founded...
Vale Chrissy Sharp
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Former Sydney Writers Festival CEO and former Wheeler Centre director Chrissy Sharp has died. Sydney Writers’ Festival writes: 'Sydney Writers’ Festival is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Sales Audio Big Sky Publishing has sold audio rights to Dasher: The Kevin Wheatley VC story (Michael C Madden) to Wavesound. Acquisitions Nonfiction Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to...
NZ Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement 2021 announced
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Creative New Zealand has announced the winners of the 2021 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, worth NZ$60,000 (A$57,634) each. Award-winning poet, fiction writer, screenplay editor and teacher Anne Kennedy...
Parliamentary inquiry into the arts, US DoJ seeks to block PRH, S&S deal
Thursday, 4 November 2021
A parliamentary inquiry has made a slate of recommendations to support Australia’s cultural and creative industries, including a review of PLR/ELR schemes, minimum thresholds of local content and increased funding...
Vale Ashley Mallett
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Ashley Mallett, ex-Australian cricketer and author of 35 books, has died in Adelaide at age 76. Born in Sydney in 1945, Mallett moved as a child to Western Australia where...
Vale Robert ‘Bob’ Stafford
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Robert 'Bob' Stafford has passed away at age 91, after a 70-year career across sales, marketing and publishing. Mark Stafford, Bob's son, writes: 'Bob's first job at age 16 was...
Tiny Wonders (Sally Soweol Han, UQP)
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
This story has been told plenty of times but it’s one that is always worth listening to: the idea that our world has become so busy, so grey, so predictable,...
The Competition (Katherine Collette, Text)
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
When 21-year-old Frances’s parents give her the ultimatum to find some direction in her life or find herself a new place to live, she decides to sign up for the...
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