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Griffith Review 2024 Emerging Voices winners announced

Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Griffith Review has announced the five winners of its 2024 Emerging Voices competition: Lily Holloway, Sarah Kanake, Myles McGuire, Kobi Simpson and Emily Tsokos Purtill. Holloway is a powerlifting enthusiast...

Mayne, Mansour receive $50k Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships

Monday, 22 July 2024
Poets Chloe Mayne and Sara Mansour are among the seven recipients of the 2024 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, each worth $50,000. Mayne is a poet and a current creative doctoral...

Lanchester to step down from ASA, Booktopia orders not being filled, ACT Literary Awards winners

Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Olivia Lanchester, CEO of the Australian Society of Authors, is stepping down; meanwhile, in the latest Booktopia news, the website is not taking orders, and customers with outstanding orders will...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold Russia and France rights to The 113th Assistant Librarian (Stuart Wilson) in a two-book deal at auction, on behalf of Melanie Ostell Literary. Ultimo Press...

‘Big Time’ sells to UK, Italy and Russia

Wednesday, 17 July 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold UK/Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to Jordan Prosser’s debut novel, Big Time, to publishing director Harriet Hirshman at Dead Ink, in a deal brokered...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Wednesday, 17 July 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.

Melbourne Books acquires O’Connor’s ‘Bob Dylan for Beginners’

Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Chris O’Connor’s debut nonfiction music title, Bob Dylan for Beginners: You don’t need a weatherman. The publisher said Dylan has been hailed as...

Buchanan wins 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize

Monday, 15 July 2024
Author Jeffrey Buchanan is the winner of the 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished manuscript by an Aotearoa New Zealand writer. Chosen from a shortlist of four, Buchanan wins...

Hogan wins Mary Gilmore Award, Priest wins Magarey Medal

Thursday, 11 July 2024
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced that Dan Hogan is the winner of the 2024 Mary Gilmore Award and Ann-Marie Priest is the winner of...

Australian Jewish Book Awards adds unpublished manuscript prize

Thursday, 11 July 2024
Not-for-profit organisation Shalom Australia has announced the inaugural Australian Jewish Book Awards will include a new $4000 prize for an unpublished manuscript that engages with Jewish experience. The Award for...

UQP acquires Araluen poetry collection

Thursday, 11 July 2024
UQP has acquired world rights to a new poetry collection from Evelyn Araluen, author of the Stella Prize–winning Dropbear (also UQP). Araluen’s new collection, The Rot, ‘dramatises the bad faiths...

ACT Literary Awards 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 11 July 2024
The winners of the ACT Literary Awards, previously known as the ACT Notable Book Awards and presented by the Canberra writing organisation Marion, have been announced. The 2024 winners are:...

Hachette acquires Woodard YA debut

Thursday, 11 July 2024
Hachette has acquired world rights to Scott Woodard’s debut contemporary YA novel, Poster Boys, via Danielle Binks at Jacinta di Mase Management. Poster Boys is a coming of age story...

Educational Publishing Awards paused; Hachette appoints Naoum as publishing director; reports QBD, Dymocks, Kogan interested in Booktopia assets

Wednesday, 10 July 2024
The Australian Publishers Association has paused the Educational Publishing Awards Australia for 2024 to allow ‘time for a comprehensive review’, in order to ‘ensure future events are as valuable as...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Sales Nonfiction Allen & Unwin has sold North American rights for The Last Secret Agent (Pippa Latour, with Jude Dobson) to St Martin’s Press (Macmillan); UK British Commonwealth (ex Canada and...

Birch, Lucashenko inaugural Hage Award mentors

Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Sweatshop Literacy Movement has announced multi-award-winning authors Tony Birch and Melissa Lucashenko will mentor the recipients of the inaugural Hage Award for First Nations Writers. As previously reported by Books+Publishing,...