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Nicholls wins 2021 CBCA Nan Chauncy Award 

Friday, 25 June 2021
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced Jan Nicholls as the winner of the 2021 Nan Chauncy Award for her contribution to children’s literature. Nicholls was a teacher...

Australian Book Design Awards 2021 winners announced

Friday, 25 June 2021
The winners of the 2021 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. Chosen from shortlists announced in April, the winners in each...

Jakob wins 2021 IPEd Rosie award 

Thursday, 24 June 2021
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Johannes Jakob as the winner of the Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as the Rosie, for his work on The Bluffs (Kyle...

Transit Lounge acquires Howell debut 

Thursday, 24 June 2021
Transit Lounge has acquired world English rights to Adriane Howell's debut novel Hydra, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. The novel’s protagonist is Anja, a disgraced antiquarian who comes to...

Half My Luck (Samera Kamaleddine, HarperCollins) 

Wednesday, 23 June 2021
The first winner of HarperCollins’ Matilda Children’s Literature Prize is a warm-hearted and authentic coming-of-age story about the impact of race and place on our sense of self and belonging....

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 23 June 2021
Sales Nonfiction The Jane Novak Agency has sold Russian-language rights to Lucky’s (Andrew Pippos, Picador) to Eksmo Publishing; and Greek translation rights and UK rights to Mermaid Singing and Peel...

NewSouth acquires Kamenev’s ‘Kin’

Wednesday, 23 June 2021
NewSouth has acquired ANZ rights to Kin: Family in the 21st century by journalist Marina Kamenev via Melanie Ostell Literary. In Kin, Kamenev will investigate how traditional ideas of family...

Chow wins 2021 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction

Wednesday, 23 June 2021
Keshe Chow has won the 2021 Lip magazine Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction for her story ‘Lady Finger’. Judge Nicola Redhouse said Chow’s story ‘achieved a wonderful balance of surprise,...

Dark as Last Night (Tony Birch, UQP) 

Wednesday, 23 June 2021
It’s a deceptively simple premise: two young brothers bond over a newfound love of bike riding. But as ‘Bicycle Thieves’ unfolds, a sweet yet dark and sorrowful undercurrent starts to...

Affirm signs first debut from Sweatshop mentorship 

Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Affirm Press has acquired a debut novel by Shirley Le, the first book to be acquired through the Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers. Le, a Vietnamese-Australian writer from Yagoona,...

‘Fight Like a Girl’ to be adapted for TV

Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Aquarius Films has acquired all development and production rights to Clementine Ford’s nonfiction book Fight Like a Girl (A&U), in a deal negotiated by Jacinta Dimase at Jacinta Dimase Management....

ABA 2021 Booksellers’ Choice winners announced

Monday, 21 June 2021
The winners of the Australian Booksellers Association’s (ABA) 2021 Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are:  Adult Fiction Book of...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 21 June 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.

ALS Gold Medal 2021 shortlist announced

Friday, 18 June 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Rain Heron (Robbie Arnott, Text) Cadaver Dog (Luke Best, UQP) The...

WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced

Friday, 18 June 2021
The shortlists for this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an Emerging Writer ($15,000) Father of the...

Rights round-up 

Thursday, 17 June 2021
Sales Children’s Hardie Grant has sold Spanish rights to Billie B Brown: The Baby Bird, Billie B Brown: The Hat Parade and Billie B Mysteries: Treasure Hunt (Sally Rippin); Dutch...

Watson wins 2021 Penguin Literary Prize

Thursday, 17 June 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced that Denizen by James McKenzie Watson has won the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize. Dubbo-based Watson receives $20,000 as an advance against royalties, with...

Queen’s Birthday Honours, Williams to step down at ILF

Thursday, 17 June 2021
A number of authors and publishing industry figures have been recognised in this year’s 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours. Corrie Perkin’s My Bookshop in the Melbourne suburb of Hawksburn is set...

Welbeck Flame acquires five-book ‘Hedgewitch’ series 

Thursday, 17 June 2021
Welbeck Flame, the children’s imprint of UK publisher Welbeck Publishing Group, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to a five-book middle-grade series by debut Australian author Sky McKenna,...

The Airways (Jennifer Mills, Picador) 

Thursday, 17 June 2021
Jennifer Mills’s The Airways unsettles the boundaries between consciousness, self and the physical world, deep-diving into the parallels between the workings of the human body and the cities we navigate....

 

 

 

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