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Marahuyo awarded 2024 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship

J Marahuyo Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Writing NSW has awarded its 2024 Varuna fellowship to J Marahuyo for her poetry manuscript ‘Disclosure of Violence’. ‘Disclosure of Violence’ was described by the judges as a ‘deeply affecting...

UWAP acquires Negri’s YA verse novel 

Monday, 14 October 2024
University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Julianne Negri’s young adult verse novel Hunting Bears, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. Hunting Bears is...

A&U acquires ‘Runt’ sequel 

Craig Silvey. Credit Daniel Grant Monday, 14 October 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping, Craig Silvey’s sequel to Runt, via Lesley Thorne at Aitken Alexander Associates. Runt and the Diabolical...

Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature

Han Kang Monday, 14 October 2024
South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature ‘for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’. Han...

A&U acquires second Spencer novel 

Thursday, 10 October 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Broke Road, the second novel from Matthew Spencer, via Catherine Drayton at InkWell Management Literary Agency. Broke Road is set in the...

Australian Political Book of the Year Award 2024 longlist

Wednesday, 9 October 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Australian Political Book of the Year Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Odd Couple: The Australia-America Relationship (Allan Behm, Upswell) Quarterly Essay...

Kitching, Pickens shortlisted in Laurel Prize

Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Aotearoa New Zealand poets Megan Kitching and Robyn Maree Pickens are among those shortlisted for the annual UK nature and environmental poetry award, the Laurel Prize. The shortlisted titles are:...

Vale Nicky Byam Shaw 

Nicky Byam Shaw Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Former Macmillan Publishers CEO and chair Nicholas 'Nicky' Byam Shaw has died, aged 90. Pan Macmillan Australia and New Zealand managing director Praveen Naidoo writes: Nicky was a vitally important...

HarperCollins acquires Ablett memoir 

Photograph of Jordan Ablett Wednesday, 9 October 2024
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to ‘inspirational memoir’ One Day at a Time by Jordan Ablett. ‘On a quiet Melbourne afternoon in the eerie early days of the pandemic, young...

Affirm acquires Brownlee rom-com 

Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to Victoria Brownlee’s foodie rom-com novel, Eat Your Heart Out, via Linwood Messina Literary Agency. Eat Your Heart Out follows six competing food writers...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 9 October 2024
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.

Special Delivery (Leesa Ronald, A&U) 

Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Leesa Ronald’s debut novel, Special Delivery, is an enemies-to-lovers rom-com with some hilarious side characters, steamy love scenes and a snarky, highly relatable protagonist. Poppy McKellar is unexpectedly pregnant, and...

Rights round-up 

Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Sales Fiction Giramondo has sold North American rights to The Island (Antigone Kefala) to Transit Books. Nonfiction Giramondo has sold North American rights to Sydney Journals (Antigone Kefala) to Transit Books. Black...

Derby wins 2024 CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award

Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Mark Derby has won the 2024 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Writers’ Award, worth...

Hachette acquires Harry middle-grade verse novel 

Photograph of Pip Harry Monday, 7 October 2024
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Pip Harry’s middle-grade verse novel Drift, via agent Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. According to the author, Drift tells the story of Nate and...

HarperCollins acquires three Ringland books 

Photograph of Holly Ringland Monday, 7 October 2024
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to three new books by Holly Ringland, via Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. The first book scheduled for release under the deal is a...

A&U acquires Gorry memoir 

Thursday, 3 October 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Katrina Gorry: A Matildas Hero’s Story of Football, Motherhood and Breaking Down Barriers, written by Katrina Gorry with Robert Wainwright, in...

Goldsmiths Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 3 October 2024
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize, worth £10,000 (A$19,268), has been announced. The shortlisted novels are: All My Precious Madness (Mark Bowles, Galley Beggar Press) Tell...

Vale Stephen Matthews

Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Publisher Stephen Matthews has died, aged 78. Matthews founded the independent publisher Ginninderra Press in 1996 in Canberra, later moving to Adelaide. He received an Order of Australia Medal (OAM)...

Rights round-up 

Photograph of Jessica Stanely Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Sales Children’s/YA Scholastic has sold French rights to Spy Academy books 1 and 2 (Jack Heath); English language rights within Korea to Zoo School (Heath McKenzie); Croatian rights to Bad Guys...

ARA Historical Novel Prize shortlists announced

Wednesday, 2 October 2024
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize. Shortlisted titles, selected from longlists announced last month, are: Adult The Unearthed (Lenny...

 

 

 

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