Robotham: the government’s neglect of writers is political
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
'We writers give far more to the economy and society and our culture than we ever take back. We are not looking for patronage or political favours, we are simply...
Little Gem (Anna Zobel, Puffin)
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Little Gem is a witch-in-training who has the best intentions but doesn’t always get things quite right. When a travelling spell goes wrong Gem finds herself in the unusual village...
The Women and the Girls (Laura Bloom, A&U)
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
The Women and the Girls follows three mothers as they walk away from their unhappy marriages and move their children into a share house in Sydney. Against a backdrop of...
Dingo Bold: The life and death of K’gari dingoes (Rowena Lennox, Sydney University Press)
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
In Dingo Bold, Rowena Lennox wrestles with the emotionally laden subject of the human–wild divide through the lens of the policies managing the dingoes on K’gari (Fraser Island). Along the...
Repentance (Alison Gibbs, Scribe)
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
It’s 1976, a time of change and cultural shifts. The town of Repentance perches on the edge of the Great Dividing Range: the old families cut timber and the new...
Robotham wins Gold Dagger, new publishing houses launched
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
In awards news this week, crime writer Michael Robotham won this year’s CWA Gold Dagger award for best crime novel, becoming the first Australian to win the award twice. Maria...
Text acquires Webb ‘anti-usage’ guide
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to an 'anti-usage' language guide by ABC journalist Tiger Webb. Webb is the ABC’s language research specialist, providing broadcasters with pronunciation guidelines, updating the...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Sales Nonfiction Alessandra Stucchi at Berla & Griffini has sold Italian rights to White Tears/Brown Scars (Ruby Hamad, MUP) to Tlon, on behalf of Rach Crawford at MacKenzie Wolf for...
Ibrahim wins 2020 Heyman Mentorship Award
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
HarperCollins Australia and Kathryn Heyman of the Australian Writers Mentoring Program have announced Naima Ibrahim as the winner of the 2020 Heyman Mentorship Award. Ibrahim’s winning fiction manuscript follows 10-year-old...
NewSouth acquires Janke’s ‘True Tracks’
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
NewSouth has acquired world English-language rights to True Tracks: Working with Indigenous knowledge and culture by Terri Janke of law firm Terri Janke and Company. ‘For Indigenous people, arts, language...
Affirm acquires Stubbins memoir
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Melbourne writer Sinéad Stubbins’s debut memoir In My Defence, I Have No Defence, via Danielle Binks and Jacinta of Jacinta di Mase Management...
Danger Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Monday, 26 October 2020
The Bad: Sydney Crime Writers Festival has announced the shortlist for this year’s Danger Prize, awarded for the best book, film, podcast or TV drama about Sydney and crime. The...
‘Mophead’ takes PANZ Book Design Awards hat-trick
Monday, 26 October 2020
The winners of the 2020 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. Mophead by Selina Tusitala Marsh (Auckland University Press) took a hat-trick at the...
Robotham wins Gold Dagger
Monday, 26 October 2020
Michael Robotham has won the 2020 UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Gold Dagger for Good Girl Bad Girl (Hachette). Good Girl Bad Girl was one of six titles shortlisted for...
Papas wins 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award
Monday, 26 October 2020
Perth writer Maria Papas has won the 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award for an unpublished manuscript for 'I Belong to the Lake', a work of literary fiction about a family's...
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Monday, 26 October 2020
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Scribe to publish first graphic novel, acquires two more book-length comics
Thursday, 22 October 2020
Scribe Publications has acquired world rights to two book-length comics: a work of graphic nonfiction by artist and organiser Sam Wallman, and a graphic novel written by Luke C Jackson...
McGuire wins 2020 Ray Koppe Residency
Thursday, 22 October 2020
Melbourne writer Tim McGuire has won the Australian Society of Authors (ASA)’s 2020 Ray Koppe Young Writers Residency for his manuscript ‘Game Farm’. McGuire's literary suspense novel is a creative...
Ampersand Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing (HGCP) has announced the shortlist for its 2020 Ampersand Prize for unpublished young adult and middle-grade fiction. The five shortlisted authors and their works are: Conan...
The arts as a social justice project
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
‘There’s no possible diverse, thriving, funded art sector without a materially just society that acts on issues like decommodifying housing and issuing a universal basic income. Diversity in the arts...
CBCA Book of the Year winners; Watkins appointed Ultimo publishing director
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
The winners of the CBCA Book of the Year awards were announced last week, while a new study found CBCA early childhood category shortlisted books to be overwhelmingly white. In...
Shelter (Catherine Jinks, Text)
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Meg has taken in three strangers—Nerine and her two small daughters—in a bid to hide them from Nerine’s abusive ex-husband. The house is secluded, safe, but Nerine can’t shake the...
Fire, Flood, Plague: Australian writers respond to 2020 (ed by Sophie Cunningham, Vintage)
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
This deeply unsettling book bravely attempts to interpret, chronicle and reflect on the nightmarish events of this year. While I relished the opportunity to try to make sense of 2020,...
McLean receives inaugural $10k Albert Ullin Award
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Andrew McLean is the winner of the inaugural Albert Ullin Award. The $10,000 biennial award, created with a bequest from the late The Little Book Room co-founder Albert Ullin, is...
Let’s Go, Little Roo (Renée Treml, Puffin)
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Prolific author Renée Treml says she wrote Let's Go, Little Roo from experience with her own shy child, and Little Roo’s stubborn emotions and thought processes are certainly recognisable. (Though...
The Carbon-Neutral Adventures of the Indefatigable EnviroTeens (First Dog on the Moon, A&U)
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Political cartoonist First Dog on the Moon’s debut book for children is a delightfully absurd metatextual picture book/graphic novel hybrid starring a genius wombat inventor, a superhero social media celebrity...
Scribner acquires Lucy’s ‘Turns Out, I’m Fine’
Tuesday, 20 October 2020
Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ rights to comedian Judith Lucy’s new book Turns Out, I’m Fine, from Kevin Whyte at Token Artists. ‘For a while, Judith didn’t know what this...
Book Links announces new children’s historical fiction award
Monday, 19 October 2020
Book Links, the Centre for Children’s Literature in Queensland, has announced a new biennial award, the Book Links Award for Children's Historical Fiction. A prize of $1000 will be awarded...
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Monday, 19 October 2020
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CBCA Book of the Year 2020 winners announced
Friday, 16 October 2020
The winners of the 2020 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles and honour books in each category are: Older...
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