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Thursday, 11 March 2021
Sales Fiction Jacinta di Mase at Jacinta di Mase Management has sold UK & Europe English-language rights to The Silent Listener by Lyn Yeowart (Viking) to Joffe Books. Rights were...

Vale Simon Player

Thursday, 11 March 2021
Simon Player, co-director of Footprint Books, has died. Player and his wife Kate O'Reilly established the Sydney-based distributor in 1999. It closed in November 2020 due to Player's health issues....

Ultimo acquires Moore-Gilbert memoir 

Thursday, 11 March 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s memoir, in a joint venture with James Erskine at Sports & Entertainment Ltd. Australian–British academic Moore-Gilbert was imprisoned for 804 days...

Byrne to adapt ‘The Geography of Friendship’ for TV 

Thursday, 11 March 2021
Sally Piper's 2018 novel The Geography of Friendship (UQP) will be adapted for television as a six-part series. Dollhouse Pictures, a creative collective and independent production company founded by actress...

Black Inc. sells world rights to ‘Return to Uluru’ 

Wednesday, 10 March 2021
Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna to Stephen Morrow at Dutton, Penguin USA. McKenna’s history–true crime hybrid addresses the actions...

Overland announces Judith Wright Poetry Prize shortlist

Wednesday, 10 March 2021
The shortlist for the 2020 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for new and emerging poets has been announced. The eight shortlisted poems are: ‘Bidjigal Double Brick Dreaming’ by Brooke Scobie ‘Border...

Island launches nonfiction prize

Wednesday, 10 March 2021
Island magazine has launched a new nonfiction prize. With support from the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, the inaugural Island Nonfiction Prize will award the winner $3000, a subscription to Island...

S&S acquires Betts autobiography 

Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired the autobiography of AFL footballer Eddie Betts. Betts, who has played over 300 games for Carlton and Adelaide during his career and kicked...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Tuesday, 9 March 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.

joanne burns Microlit Award 2021 winners announced

Friday, 5 March 2021
Writers Jane O’Sullivan and Deborah Van Heekeren have each been awarded prizes in the 2021 joanne burns Microlit Award. This year the prize invited writers to submit fiction or prose...

Stella Prize 2021 longlist announced

Friday, 5 March 2021
The longlist for the 2021 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Fathoms: The World in the Whale (Rebecca Giggs, Scribe) Revenge: Murder in Three Parts...

PRH acquires Abdel-Magied nonfiction book 

Thursday, 4 March 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to Talking About a Revolution, a new nonfiction title by Sudanese-Australian writer Yassmin Abdel-Magied, from Clare Forster of Curtis Brown. In...

Sayer wins Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2021

Thursday, 4 March 2021
Writers Victoria has announced that Mandy Sayer has been awarded the $15,000 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her proposed biography of Australian silent filmmakers the McDonagh sisters. Between 1926 and...

S&S signs three ‘Halifax’ novels 

Wednesday, 3 March 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to three novels by television writer and creator Roger Simpson, featuring his Halifax f.p. television character Jane...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 3 March 2021
Sales Fiction French rights to Other People’s Houses (Kelli Hawkins, HarperCollins) have been sold to Hauteville by Gregory Messina, Linwood Messina, via Melanie Ostell Literary. Children’s Scholastic Australia has sold...

S&S Australia reports record year, awards news

Wednesday, 3 March 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia has reported a record year of sales in 2020, which were up 15% on 2019 and topped $50 million for the first time. Byron Writers Festival...

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 3 March 2021
The shortlists for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category, chosen from longlists announced in January, are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize...

Artificial Intimacy (Rob Brooks, NewSouth) 

Tuesday, 2 March 2021
According to evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks, the future holds an abundance of artificial intimacy. New sex technologies, from sex robots to virtual reality porn, will anticipate our every desire. So...

Common Wealth (Gregg Dreise, Scholastic) 

Tuesday, 2 March 2021
In light of the recent change to the lyrics of ‘Advance Australia Fair’, as well as the ongoing debate surrounding January 26, this impassioned plea for recognition and unity from...

Pantera acquires debut thriller 

Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to The Scarlet Cross, a ‘gripping debut psychological thriller’ by Lyn McFarlane, from Jane Novak Literary Agency. McFarlane said she is ‘delighted to be...

 

 

 

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