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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 1 April 2020
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to On the Line: Notes from a factory (Joseph Ponthus, trans by Stephanie Smee, July) to Bolinda. Nonfiction Black Inc. has...

Pub dates: To move or not to move

Wednesday, 1 April 2020
‘The great debate is over what to do with forthcoming books: Do you move them, like the new James Bond movie ... Or do you plow ahead, and hope the...

CBCA Awards 2020 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 31 March 2020
The shortlists for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Older readers The Boy Who Steals Houses...

Bothroyd wins ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize

Monday, 30 March 2020
Sally Bothroyd has won the inaugural ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for her manuscript ‘Brunswick Street Blues’. Bothroyd, who is a director of the Northern Territory Writers Centre and former journalist,...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 30 March 2020
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.

Aurealis Awards 2019 finalists announced

Friday, 27 March 2020
The finalists for the 2019 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. The finalists are:  Best science fiction novel The Subjects (Sarah...

Van Neerven wins inaugural UQP Quentin Bryce Award

Friday, 27 March 2020
Ellen van Neerven has been named the winner of The University of Queensland Press' (UQP) inaugural Quentin Bryce Award, for their poetry collection Throat. The Quentin Bryce Award recognises a...

The Rain Heron (Robbie Arnott, Text) 

Thursday, 26 March 2020
Ren has retreated from the world. After the country is torn apart by a coup, she hides herself away on a mountain, barely seeing another living soul beyond the animals...

Sticks and Stones (Katherine Firkin, Bantam) 

Thursday, 26 March 2020
Detective senior constable Emmett Corban works for Missing Persons, a department under threat of downsizing: most of the people they’re looking for don’t want to be found. When a man...

Brow Books to reissue Tumarkin’s ‘Traumascapes’

Thursday, 26 March 2020
Brow Books has acquired world rights to Maria Tumarkin's nonfiction book Traumascapes, which was originally published by Melbourne University Press in 2005. Tumarkin recently won a Windham Campbell prize for...

Covid-19 is already affecting writers’ incomes

Wednesday, 25 March 2020
'As review space has shrunk over the years, live events have become even more crucial. Writers' festivals, launches and events promote our books, our passion, our intellectual capital. They give...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 25 March 2020
Sales Fiction Hachette has sold Czech-language rights to There Was Still Love (Favel Parrett) to Grada. HarperCollins has sold North American rights to The Woman in the Green Dress (Tea Cooper,...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 23 March 2020
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.

NewSouth acquires book on journalism for kids 

Friday, 20 March 2020
NewSouth Books has acquired ANZ rights to children's nonfiction book Kid Reporter: The secret to breaking news from Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. Written by journalists Dhana Quinn and Saffron Howden,...

Tumarkin wins 2020 Windham Campell prize for nonfiction

Friday, 20 March 2020
Melbourne-based writer and academic Maria Tumarkin is one of eight winners of the 2020 Windham Campbell Prize, the world's richest literary prize. Each winner receives a cash prize of US$165,000...

Tan shortlisted for 2020 Kate Greenaway Medal

Thursday, 19 March 2020
Shaun Tan has been shortlisted for the 2020 Kate Greenaway Medal for distinguished illustration in a book for children and young people for his book Tales from the Inner City...

Pantera acquires Courtney Act memoir 

Thursday, 19 March 2020
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights to It’s All an Act, the debut memoir by Shane Jenek, the performer behind drag queen Courtney Act, via Wendy Richards at Working Management....

Richardson wins Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2020

Thursday, 19 March 2020
Writers Victoria has announced that Lance Richardson has been awarded the $15,000 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for his proposed biography of writer, naturalist and Zen Buddhist, Peter Matthiessen. ‘Lance’s subject...