Akec, Kemp win UWAP Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript
Friday, 11 June 2021
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced Kgshak Akec and Joshua Kemp as this year’s joint winners of the Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript, for their respective manuscripts ‘Hopeless Kingdom’...
Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction 2021 shortlist announced
Thursday, 10 June 2021
Lip magazine has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Homing Stars’ by Tiffany Korssen ‘Lady Finger’ by Keshe Chow ‘The Tooth...
NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2021 finalists announced
Thursday, 10 June 2021
The finalists for the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced. The shortlists in each category, chosen from 166 entries, are: Picture Book Award...
The Spectacular Suit (Kat Patrick, illus by Hayley Wells, Scribble)
Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Parties can be extremely important for children. Especially for Frankie, the protagonist of The Spectacular Suit, who has never asked for a party before. With everyone in her class coming,...
MUP profit up 19%, Fogarty Literary Award winner
Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Following its move to increase its focus on scholarly publishing, MUP has reported an operating profit increase of 19%. In other news, Spineless Wonders has launched a new imprint that...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold Hungarian translation rights to Southern Ruby (Belina Alexandra) to IPC Könyvek. Nonfiction HarperCollins has sold German translation rights to 30 Days 30 Ways to Overcome...
Malla Nunn on ‘Sugar Town Queens’
Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens (A&U, August) is a young adult novel set in Sugar Town, South Africa. This coming-of-age story follows 15-year-old Amandla as she uncovers her family history and...
The First Time I Thought I Was Dying (Sarah Walker, UQP)
Tuesday, 8 June 2021
This is an essay collection in which the most difficult and abject parts of being a human in a body are examined with full and unflinching frankness, from our unacknowledged...
Sugar Town Queens (Malla Nunn, A&U)
Tuesday, 8 June 2021
Sugar Town Queens is a young adult coming-of-age novel by Malla Nunn, author of When the Ground is Hard. Her latest book follows 15-year-old Amandla, who is mixed-raced and growing...
Small Joys of Real Life (Allee Richards, Hachette)
Tuesday, 8 June 2021
Small Joys of Real Life begins at a house party in Northcote, Melbourne, where the narrator, actress Eva McMillan, meets a cute guy, Pat. Two weeks later, they meet again...
HarperCollins acquires Funnell’s ‘Let Her Speak’
Tuesday, 8 June 2021
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Let Her Speak by investigative journalist Nina Funnell. Let Her Speak traces the stories of sexual assault survivors across Australia as they work to...
Scribner acquires Ballard’s ‘I, Millennial’
Monday, 7 June 2021
Simon & Schuster has acquired I, Millennial: One snowflake’s screed against plague, boomers, billionaires & everything else by comedian Tom Ballard, to be published under its Scribner imprint. The publisher...
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Monday, 7 June 2021
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HarperCollins acquires ‘This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch’
Friday, 4 June 2021
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch, an ‘irrepressibly clever and uplifting book about the role of joy in women’s lives’ by...
UQP acquires Haddad debut novel ‘Losing Face’
Thursday, 3 June 2021
UQP has acquired world rights to Losing Face, the debut novel by Sydney writer George Haddad. Losing Face interweaves the stories of Joey, who has recently finished school and is...
Inaugural Kuracca Prize longlist announced
Thursday, 3 June 2021
Overland has announced the longlist for the inaugural Kuracca Prize for Australian Literature, created in honour of the late Wiradjuri elder, poet, writer, activist and artist Kerry Reed-Gilbert. The longlisted...
Ultimo acquires Hyland crime fiction in two-book deal
Thursday, 3 June 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to Canticle Creek and a second book by crime writer Adrian Hyland. ‘When Adam Lawson's wrecked car is found a kilometre from Daisy Baker’s...
Dunnell wins Fogarty Literary Award for ‘The Glass House’
Thursday, 3 June 2021
Perth writer Brooke Dunnell has won the Fogarty Literary Award for her novel The Glass House. Dunnell receives a $20,000 cash prize from the Fogarty Foundation and a publishing contract...
HGCP to publish ‘Freedom Day’, sponsor Freedom Day Festival
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has announced the acquisition of picture book Freedom Day, which will be released under the new Bright Light Books imprint in August. Freedom Day tells...
ALIA Online Storytime earns over $50k, Hassett joins Pantera
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
The ALIA Online Storytime pilot program has earned over $50,000 to be distributed to creators and publishers in its first three months of operation. In personnel moves, Pantera Press has...
‘The Nancys’ optioned for screen
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
Screen adaptation rights to crime novel The Nancys by Melbourne-based New Zealand author R W R McDonald (A&U) have been optioned by Queensland production company Hoodlum Entertainment, via Grace Heifetz...
HarperCollins acquires Maiden book on ‘toxic Canberra bubble’
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
HarperCollins Australia has announced its acquisition of world rights to an as yet untitled book on the ‘toxic Canberra bubble’ by Walkley Award-winning journalist Samantha Maiden in ‘a fiercely contested...
Australian children’s book creators sign open letter in support of Palestine
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
Almost 300 publishing professionals, authors, illustrators and others with a connection to the children’s book industry have signed an open letter in support of Palestinian liberation since it was posted online on...
Muddy People (Sara El Sayed, Black Inc.)
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
With elegant lyricism, compelling urgency and a dark sense of humour, Muddy People by Sara El Sayed is an impressive debut memoir from the young Egyptian–Australian writer. El Sayed’s work...
Readings YA Book Prize 2021 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Readings Young Adult Book Prize has been announced. The shortlisted YA novels are: The F Team (Rawah Arja, Giramondo) Future Girl (Asphyxia, A&U) The End of the...
Albert Namatjira (Vincent Namatjira, Magabala)
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
In his picture book biography Albert Namatjira, Vincent Namatjira paints a stoic and quietly devastating portrait of his great-grandfather Albert, one of the most iconic figures in Australian painting. An...
Girls in Boys’ Cars (Felicity Castagna, Pan)
Tuesday, 1 June 2021
Felicity Castagna’s Girls in Boys’ Cars is not dissimilar to her Prime Minister’s Literary Award–winning young adult novel The Incredible Here and Now, which centres on a 15-year-old coming of...
Empires (Nick Earls, Vintage)
Tuesday, 1 June 2021
With his latest novel, Nick Earls again proves his talent for compelling and convincing storytelling. A novel in five parts, Empires tracks backwards through history from 2018 to 1809 before...
The Night Village (Zoe Deleuil, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 1 June 2021
A year ago, Paul and Simone met at a party—young, carefree and living separate lives. Now, they’re parents to a tiny new baby and nothing between them is the same....
PRH announces 2021 Write It fellowship recipients
Tuesday, 1 June 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the recipients of the 2021 Write It fellowship program, which 'aspires to find, nurture and develop unpublished writers across all genres, with a...
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