QWC Varuna fellowship 2024 recipients announced
Monday, 29 July 2024
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced the recipients of its two 2024 residential fellowships to be held at Varuna, the National Writers’ House. Recipients of the 2024 fellowships are...
Lennon wins 2024 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
Monday, 29 July 2024
In the UK, Ferdia Lennon has won the £5000 (A$9816) Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for Glorious Exploits (Fig Tree), reports the Bookseller. Chosen from a shortlist of six, the winning...
Affirm acquires three Brentos illustrated books
Monday, 29 July 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to three books by author-illustrator Brentos. Brentos' first children’s book, Australia: From dawn to dusk (Affirm), was shortlisted for the CBCA award for a...
Davitt Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Thursday, 25 July 2024
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult novels The...
‘Jakarda Wuka’ wins 2024 Chief Minister’s NT History Book Award
Thursday, 25 July 2024
The winner of the 2024 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory (NT) History Book Award has been announced. The winner, highly commended titles and finalists are: Winner Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories):...
SLV staff, board reportedly discussed cancelled Bootcamp writers’ political views; ‘Untapped’ titles move to Ligature; academic authors ‘shocked’ at Microsoft AI agreement
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
This week, the Age and the Guardian reported that State Library Victoria board members and senior staff discussed the political views of writers who were to host the library’s Teen Writing...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
Sales Children’s/YA Berbay has sold simplified Chinese rights to All About the Heart (Remi Kowalski, illus by Tonia Composto), All About the Brain (Gabriel Dabscheck, illus by Kim Siew) and All...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2024 finalists announced
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
The finalists in the 2024 New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu Publishers Association (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Best illustrated book The...
HarperCollins acquires Price’s memoir
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s memoir Matters of the Heart, written with Sue Smethurst. Price was elected a Country Liberal Party (CLP) senator for the Northern...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
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Immortal Dark (Tigest Girma, Lothian)
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Tigest Girma’s debut novel, Immortal Dark, is the book YA readers of dark academia and romantasy have been waiting for—something with the violence and passion of genre bestsellers such as...
Inheritance (Genevieve Gannon, Pantera)
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Inheritance is the latest novel by Genevieve Gannon, bestselling author of The Mothers. In the not-too-distant future, scientists use eugenics to protect the next generation against viruses and diseases. At the same...
The First Friend (Malcolm Knox, A&U)
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
When a novel begins with historical maps of the Soviet Union, a timeline of events, and character lists, there can be some trepidation about whether the commitment required will be...
Dragon Guest Handbook (Jeanette Stampone, illus Novia Heroanto, Wombat Books)
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Whimsical and creative, Dragon Guest Handbook takes a different approach than most picture books in its presentation as a guide for the reader on how to handle an unexpected dragon visitor....
Cockatoo (Kaye Baillie, illus Max Hamilton, Windy Hollow)
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Cockatoo is the new Australian wildlife picture book from Kaye Baillie and Max Hamilton, the team behind the CBCA-shortlisted title When the Waterhole Dries Up. In this story, Baillie has followed her...
Kitchen Sentimental (Annie Smithers, T&H)
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Why do we cook, and where do we learn to appreciate food? In her new memoir, Kitchen Sentimental, chef and author Annie Smithers (Recipe for a Kinder Life) tackles these...
Cherrywood (Jock Serong, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Jock Serong’s Cherrywood obscures time and place, braiding together the fates of his characters through extraordinary ventures and chance meetings. In his latest novel, Serong (The Burning Island, On the...
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
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Travelling to Tomorrow: The modern women who sparked Australia’s romance with America (Yves Rees, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Historian and memoirist Yves Rees’s Travelling to Tomorrow is a new history of Australia’s relationship with the US during the first half of the 20th century, told through the stories...
I’m Not Really Here (Gary Lonesborough, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 16 July 2024
I’m Not Really Here is a moving coming-of-age story with so much heart, written by multi-award-winning author Gary Lonesborough (We Didn’t Think It Through, The Boy from the Mish). Jonah...
Warra Warra Wai (Darren Rix & Craig Cormick, S&S)
Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Warra Warra Wai visits the sites that James Cook’s crew irrevocably changed by hand, flag, pen or presence. Gazing at the Endeavour from the land and vice versa, Darren Rix...
Escape from Cuttlefish Cove (Rachel Jackson, Riveted Press)
Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Debut author Rachel Jackson knocks it out of the park with Escape from Cuttlefish Cove, a choose-your-own-adventure story where the reader is the main character. Imagine waking up on an...
The Wedding Forecast (Nina Kenwood, Text)
Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Nina Kenwood’s new adult romantic comedy, The Wedding Forecast, is sexy, fun and hard to put down. Kenwood, who previously wrote for young adults (It Sounded Better in My Head,...
The Venice Hotel (Tess Woods, Penguin)
Tuesday, 16 July 2024
The Venice Hotel by Tess Woods (Love and Other Battles) is a captivating tale that unfolds over the ‘12 days of Christmas’ at Il Cuore, a boutique hotel in Venice....
Dragon Folding (Christopher Cheng, illus Lucia Masciullo, Puffin)
Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Dragon Folding is an evocative picture book that celebrates community, creativity and intergenerational friendships, written by Christopher Cheng (Bear and Rat, One Tree) and illustrated by Lucia Masciullo (The Imagineer, An A–Z...
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