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Richell Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 17 October 2024
Hachette Australia and the Richell family, in partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) and Simpsons Solicitors, has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. The...

Transit Lounge acquires Raszewski’s second novel

Thursday, 17 October 2024
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to For One Visitor at a Time, the second novel by Melbourne-based author Monica Raszewski. For One Visitor at a Time tells the story of...

A&U acquires Chung memoir

Thursday, 17 October 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to the memoir Chinese Parents Don’t Say I Love You by Candice Chung via Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary. In describing the memoir, the publisher...

Black Inc. acquires Grenville’s nonfiction project ‘Unsettled’

Thursday, 17 October 2024
Black Inc. has acquired ANZ rights to Kate Grenville’s nonfiction project Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place. Said Grenville: ‘I’ve been circling this book for twenty years. Researching and...

James awarded 2024 ASA Medal

Wednesday, 16 October 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Ann James is the recipient of the 2024 ASA Medal. Established in 2003, the ASA Medal is awarded annually to an Australian...

Han Kang wins Nobel Prize; McGregor, Sakr, Apolonio awarded Copyright Agency fellowships; bookshops celebrate LYBD 2024

Wednesday, 16 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’. Also...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Sales Fiction Jenny Darling & Associates has sold rights to Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional (A&U) to Sceptre (UK), Riverhead (US), Seuil (France), Kein & Aber (Germany), Fazi Editore (Italy), Kultur (Turkey), One...

Pan Macmillan acquires Kerr’s adult fiction debut

Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Pan Macmillan Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Kay Kerr’s untitled adult fiction debut, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. In the novel, ‘a burnt-out and unravelling young...

UQP acquires Field’s ‘The Eagle and the Crow’

Wednesday, 16 October 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to J M Field’s book The Eagle and the Crow, which ‘records and provides important insights into Indigenous ways of knowing...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Wednesday, 16 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.

McGregor, Sakr, Apolonio awarded Copyright Agency fellowships

Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has announced the three recipients of its 2024 writing fellowships, sharing a prize pool of $170,000, which aim to ‘usher in new Australian writing from both...

2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry winners announced

Tuesday, 15 October 2024
At the opening of Durham Book Festival in the UK, four women were announced as winners of the 2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry, with Victoria Chang’s poetry collection with my...

Marahuyo awarded 2024 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship

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...

Karajia and Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2024 winners announced

Monday, 14 October 2024
The Wilderness Society has announced the winners of the 2024 Environment Award for Children’s Literature and the Karajia Award for First Nations children’s storytelling. Winners in each category are: Environment...

A&U acquires ‘Runt’ sequel

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

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...

Flanagan shortlisted for 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

Monday, 14 October 2024
In the UK, Question 7 by Australian author Richard Flanagan (Knopf) has been shortlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, worth £50,000 (A$96,907). The six titles shortlisted for...

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...

Van Neerven receives Creative Australia Fellowship; Shawline enters liquidation; Booksellers Aotearoa NZ launches buying group

Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Author Ellen van Neerven is the recipient of the 2024 Creative Australia Fellowship for literature, worth $80,000; Shawline Publishing has entered liquidation, with liquidator Brooke Bird stating that ‘the master...