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Dorothy Hewett Award 2024 shortlist announced

Friday, 17 May 2024
UWA Publishing has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted manuscripts, chosen from over 200 entries, are: ‘The Protector of Fledglings’ by...

Miles Franklin 2024 longlist announced

Thursday, 16 May 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The longlisted titles, selected from 104 books, are: Only Sound Remains (Hossein Asgari, Puncher & Wattmann) Wall (Jen...

Ockham NZ Book Awards 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 16 May 2024
The winners of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The fiction prize went to Emily Perkins for Lioness (Bloomsbury). Convenor of fiction judges Juliet Blyth said: ‘At...

Hastings wins 2024 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize

Thursday, 16 May 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins imprint HQ have announced that Kathleen Hastings is the winner of the 2024 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. Selected from...

Wright wins 2024 James Tait Black fiction prize

Cover of Praiseworthy Thursday, 16 May 2024
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) has won the fiction award in the 2024 James Tait Black Prizes. Wright’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of four fiction works for the...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Sales Fiction Pantera has sold world German rights to Everyone and Everything (Nadine J Cohen) to Luebbe, through the Michael Meller agency; and world large print rights to The Gallows...

Vale Mark Johnson

Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Bookseller Mark Johnson, longtime proprietor of Forest Bookshop, Forestville, NSW, died on Anzac Day, aged 86 years. Johnson was the partner of Max Oliver of Lindfield Bookshop, who died three...

Money wins 2024 UQP Quentin Bryce Award 

Wednesday, 15 May 2024
UQP has announced that Jazz Money has won the 2024 Quentin Bryce Award for her poetry collection mark the dawn. mark the dawn is described by the publisher as asking...

Wakefield acquires Pollock novel ‘Starry Eyed’ 

Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Wakefield Press has acquired ANZ rights to a second novel from Katharine Pollock, provisionally titled Starry Eyed, via Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. In Starry Eyed, when Addilyn Acker is...

black&write! 2024 fellowship recipients announced 

Wednesday, 15 May 2024
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced that the recipients of the 2024 black&write! fellowships are poets Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi and Lulu Houdini. Gesa-Fatafehi is a Torres Strait Islander and...

Palmer wins 2024 Ernest Scott Prize

Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and history on a Central Australian pastoral station (Shannyn Palmer, MUP) has won the 2024 Ernest Scott Prize for History. Award judges Grace Karskens and Frank...

ALS Gold Medal 2024 longlist announced

Image of the ALS Gold Medal Wednesday, 15 May 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. Longlisted works include: Frank (Jordie Albiston, NLA Publishing) The Prize (Kim E Anderson, Pantera) Like to...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 15 May 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.

Lost & Found (Tim Sharp, Pantera) 

Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Lost & Found is the latest book by author, speaker and leader of Australia’s positive psychology movement, Dr Tim Sharp (aka ‘Dr Happy’). A self-help guide with a difference, it...

Personal Logistics (Chris Palazzolo, Fremantle) 

Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Chris Palazzolo is a poet based in the East Kimberley region whose works have previously won the Viva La Novella prize and the ABC Fiction Award. His latest collection, Personal...

The Mires (Tina Makereti, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Tina Makereti’s latest novel, The Mires, is a masterclass in social realism with just a touch of magic. Opening from the perspective of the swampland of the Kāpiti Coast in Aotearoa...

Vale Geoff Selig

Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Executive director of IVE Geoff Selig has died. Print21 writes: The print community is reeling, as it mourns the passing of industry titan Geoff Selig, executive chair of IVE, who...

 

 

 

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