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Aurealis Awards shortlists announced

Monday, 18 March 2024
The shortlists for the 2023 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. Among longer-form works shortlisted for this year’s awards are: Best...

Local publishers nominated for Bologna Prize

Thursday, 14 March 2024
Australian publishers Affirm Press, Fremantle Press and Hardie Grant Children's Publishing and Aotearoa New Zealand publishers Scholastic New Zealand and Huia Publishers have been shortlisted for this year’s Bologna Prize...

Affirm Press signs Sweatshop mentees Nour and Barnette

Thursday, 14 March 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to books by Egyptian-Australian writer and journalist Daniel Nour and African-American Australian writer Tyree Barnette. Nour and Barnette were recipients of the 2021 Affirm...

Fullagar wins 2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship

An image of Kate Fullagar Thursday, 14 March 2024
Social and cultural historian Kate Fullagar is the winner of the 2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, worth $20,000. Fullagar was awarded the fellowship for her proposed biography, ‘The Secret Life...

S&S acquires three titles by Heiss 

Author photograph of Anita Heiss Thursday, 14 March 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to three new books by Anita Heiss, via Tara Wynne of Curtis Brown Australia. The first book, which has the working...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 13 March 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.  ...

Safe Haven (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 12 March 2024
Miles Franklin–winning author Shankari Chandran turns her focus to Australia’s inhumane practice of mandatory detention in her fourth novel, Safe Haven. As in Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, a focal...

Cora Seen and Heard (Zanni Louise, Walker) 

Tuesday, 12 March 2024
When Cora’s family moves to Tasmania to renovate a decrepit theatre, Cora, 12, is thrilled at the opportunity to reinvent herself as Cora 2.0: more confident, admired, and interesting. But...

What Stars Are For (Margeaux Davis, Affirm) 

Tuesday, 12 March 2024
What Stars Are For is the first picture book by sewing pattern and soft toy designer Margeaux Davis. The emerging children’s book illustrator’s love for the natural world is informed...

Circadia (Judith Bishop, UQP) 

Tuesday, 12 March 2024
Judith Bishop’s Circadia is a collection of neatly formed, intelligent poems in which you can discover something new with each read. Bishop is in conversation with a chorus of voices and introduces...

To Sing of War (Catherine McKinnon, HarperCollins) 

Cover of To Sing of War Tuesday, 12 March 2024
From Miles Franklin–shortlisted author Catherine McKinnon (Storyland), To Sing of War confronts the interconnectedness that binds humanity. Against the backdrop of WWII, we find ourselves immersed in the jungles of...

Sort Of Books acquires UK rights to De Kretser novel 

Tuesday, 12 March 2024
UK independent publisher Sort Of Books has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to Michelle de Kretser’s forthcoming novel Theory & Practice, via Sarah Lutyens at Lutyens & Rubenstein....

Needham wins 2024 MUD Literary Prize

Tuesday, 12 March 2024
Kylie Needham has been announced as the winner of the 2024 MUD Literary Prize, at an event at the Adelaide Festival, for her novel Girl in a Pink Dress (Hamish...

International Booker Prize 2024 longlist

Tuesday, 12 March 2024
The longlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$96,900), has been announced. The titles in the running for this year’s prize are: Crooked Plow (Itamar Vieira Junior, trans...

Zhan receives 2024 Kat Muscat Fellowship

An author photograph of Xiaole Zhan Tuesday, 12 March 2024
Express Media and the Kat Muscat Fellowship Committee have announced that Xiaole Zhan is the recipient of the 2024 Kat Muscat Fellowship. Selected from a shortlist of six announced last...

Penguin Literary Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Penguin Literary Prize logo Thursday, 7 March 2024
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Penguin Literary Prize. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘What Is Left for Us’ by Sophie Stern (Sydney, NSW)—When Rebecca...

Affirm acquires Hardy’s ‘Unbury the Dead’ 

Thursday, 7 March 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world English rights to Unbury the Dead, a debut adult crime novel from Fiona Hardy, via Jacinta di Mase and Danielle Binks at Jacinta di Mase...

Australian Book Design Awards 2024 longlists announced

Orange graphic with the words ABDA 24 Longlist, 72nd Australian Book Design Awards, ABDA Wednesday, 6 March 2024
The longlists for the 2024 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The longlisted titles in the first three categories, and the...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 6 March 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold UK/Commonwealth (ex India, Canada, ANZ) rights to The Shortest History of Music (Andrew Ford) to Old Street; and Ethiopian (Amharic trans) rights to Their...

Ockham 2024 shortlists announced

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards logo Wednesday, 6 March 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. Chosen from longlists announced earlier this year, the shortlisted titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn...

 

 

 

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