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Monster (Ashleigh Synnott, Puncher & Wattmann)

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Monster is a collection of dark, finely written short stories by debut author Ashleigh Synnott. The stories are peopled with eccentric, predominantly female characters living atomised, often isolated lives. Mental...

SWF program announced, guests revealed for BookUp, IPEd

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
In a big week for events announcements, the Sydney and Auckland writers’ festival programs have been revealed, and the first speakers for the BookUp and IPEd conferences—the second of which...

Text signs Sheppard in two-book deal

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to The Brink, the second YA novel by Holden Sheppard, in a two-book deal via Gaby Naher of Left Bank Literary Agency. The Brink follows a...

Scribner acquires Hooper’s ‘Bedtime Story’

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia’s Scribner imprint has acquired ANZ rights to Bedtime Story, a new work of nonfiction by Chloe Hooper, from Andrew Wylie at The Wylie Agency. When her...

Before You Knew My Name (Jacqueline Bublitz, A&U)

Tuesday, 16 March 2021
We know the phrase from books, from crime shows, from the news: ‘The body was found by a jogger.’ Someone is murdered and somebody else finds them, while just going...

Transit Lounge acquires debut novel ‘The Signal Line’

Monday, 15 March 2021
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to The Signal Line, the debut novel by Tasmanian writer Brendan Colley, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. Transit Lounge publisher Barry Scott said...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Monday, 15 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.

PRH acquires debut romantic comedy ‘The Matchmaker’

Friday, 12 March 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to The Matchmaker by debut Pakistani–Australian author Saman Shad via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown. It is the first local adult...

Rights round-up

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...

Stella Prize longlist, Frankfurt announces hybrid event

Thursday, 11 March 2021
The longlist for this year’s Stella Prize, announced last week, includes short fiction, a young adult novel, three works of nonfiction and a novel in translation, and comprises five works...

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...

Two-Week Wait: An IVF story (Luke C Jackson & Kelly Jackson, illus by Mara Wild, Scribe)

Thursday, 11 March 2021
This graphic novel is the delicately told story of one couple’s journey through the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) process. Two-Week Wait is based on the IVF experiences of authors Luke and...

The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen (Krissy Kneen, Text)

Wednesday, 10 March 2021
According to many writers, examining memory is a largely creative act. If so, then Krissy Kneen shows us in The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen that it is also an...

Flock: First Nations stories then and now (ed by Ellen van Neerven, UQP)

Wednesday, 10 March 2021
Flock is a far-roaming collection of short fiction showcasing the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers. The 20 stories are by a mix of established luminaries and emerging...

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...

Overland announces Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize shortlist

Wednesday, 10 March 2021
Overland has announced the 2020 shortlist for the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. The shortlisted stories, chosen from over 500 entries, are: ‘Crossroads' by Adam Thompson 'Six Facts About Monarchs'...

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...

‘Intoxicating’ wins André Simon Food and Drink book award

Tuesday, 9 March 2021
In the UK, Max Allen's Intoxicating: Ten drinks that shaped Australia (Thames & Hudson) has won the 2020 Drink Award at the André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards. Awards judge...

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...

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