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Hammad wins 2024 RSL Encore Award 

Thursday, 20 June 2024
In the UK, Isabella Hammad has won the 2024 RSL Encore Award for her second novel, Enter Ghost (Vintage), reports the Bookseller. The value of the prize (which celebrates second...

S&S acquires Kitching romance novel 

A photo of Jess Kitching. Thursday, 20 June 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to The Life Experiment, a romance novel from Melbourne-based author Jess Kitching, in a deal negotiated by Daniel Pilkington. Described by...

APA Rising Star 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 20 June 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlist for its 2024 Rising Star award. The shortlisted professionals, who each began their publishing careers in the past 10 years, are:...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold world Hebrew language rights to Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton) to Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir. Poetry Giramondo has sold Italian rights to Inside My Mother...

Upswell acquires Pigram nonfiction title 

Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to a debut nonfiction title by singer-songwriter Stephen Pigram, with the working title Feel Like Going Back Home. Upswell said that, in the book,...

Vale Lynne Spender

Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Feminist writer and legal advocate Lynne Spender has died, aged 77. Spinifex Press director Susan Hawthorne writes: I met Lynne Spender in 1987 through my role as an editor at...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 19 June 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.

Dirrayawadha (Anita Heiss, S&S) 

Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Dirrayawadha is a work of searing historical fiction set during the Wiradyuri wars in 1820s Bathurst and centring on a love story between a young Wiradyuri woman and an Irish...

Liars (James O’Loghlin, Echo) 

Tuesday, 18 June 2024
In James O’Loghlin’s murder mystery Liars, every character has secrets to hide. The novel is set in the fictitious Bullford Point, a coastal town on NSW’s Northern Beaches, untouched by...

Voyagers: Our journey into the Anthropocene (Lauren Fuge, Text) 

Tuesday, 18 June 2024
The Anthropocene—the geological period dominated by humanity’s activity on the planet—is increasingly seen by scientists and academics as an era of devastation wrought by overconsumption and insatiable industrialisation. In Voyagers,...

A&U acquires two Nix novels 

Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Garth Nix’s adult science fiction novel Massif, in a two-book deal via Fiona Inglis at Curtis Brown Australia. US rights to...

Ross wins final Vogel

Tuesday, 18 June 2024
First Year by Kristina Ross has won this year’s $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. First Year follows Maeve, a...

Ortiz wins 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award

Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Kaya Ortiz has won the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award for their unpublished manuscript, Past and Parallel Lives. Ortiz receives a publishing contract and manuscript development with UWA Publishing, and $10,000...

Ganeshananthan, Klein win Women’s Prizes

Monday, 17 June 2024
In the UK, Brotherless Night by US author V V Ganeshananthan (Viking) has won the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and Doppelganger: A trip into the mirror world by Canadian...

Zheng wins 2024 Island Nonfiction Prize

Monday, 17 June 2024
Island has announced that Cherry Zheng is the winner of the 2024 Island Nonfiction Prize for the piece ‘Fucking with Chineseness’. Zheng is a writer of Cantonese heritage, who was...

Saleh wins Anne Elder Award 2023

Monday, 17 June 2024
Australian Poetry has announced Sara M Saleh as the winner of the Anne Elder Award 2023 for a first book of poetry for The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat (UQP, 2023)....

Stills wins 2024 Text Prize

Photograph of Caroline Stills Monday, 17 June 2024
Melbourne writer Caroline Stills has won the 2024 Text Prize for her debut middle-grade novel A Gift from the Birds. Chosen from a shortlist of five announced earlier this month,...

‘Hungry Ghosts’ wins 2024 Walter Scott Prize

Friday, 14 June 2024
Kevin Jared Hosein has won the £25,000 (A$47,648) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for the novel Hungry Ghosts (Bloomsbury), reports the Bookseller. Set in Trinidad during the 1940s, Hungry...

Ultimo acquires Tunnicliffe novel 

Thursday, 13 June 2024
Ultimo Press has acquired rights to Hannah Tunnicliffe’s domestic noir The Pool. The publisher said The Pool ‘explores the choices and challenges that come after a devastating event through a cast of...

Island Nonfiction Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 13 June 2024
Island has announced the shortlist for its annual nonfiction prize. Shortlisted essays for the prize include: ‘A Story-Shaped Life’ (Gan Ainm) ‘Writing Task 1’ (Suri Matondkar) ‘seeing Ningaloo’ (Jenny Sinclair)...

 

 

 

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