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Educational Publishing Awards 2023 shortlists announced

Friday, 18 August 2023
The titles shortlisted for the 2023 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) have been announced. The shortlisted categories include: Primary: Student Resource—English (Literacy/Literature/Language) Australian Primary Oxford Integrated Dictionary & Thesaurus 4E...

Heath wins 2023 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize 

Friday, 18 August 2023
Victorian writer Rowan Heath has won the 2023 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for their piece ‘The Mannequin’. Receiving a prize of $6000, Heath was shortlisted...

HarperCollins signs Drysdale in two-book deal 

Thursday, 17 August 2023
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the novel Hollywood Night by Pip Drysdale in a two-book deal brokered by publisher Roberta Ivers with Mollie Glick at Creative Artists Agency....

Adaptations to share Screen Australia funding

Thursday, 17 August 2023
Two book adaptations are among 47 projects to share $1.2 million of story development funding from Screen Australia. Funding will go towards adaptations of Jessie Tu’s novel A Lonely Girl...

Langshaw named 2023 Rising Star

Thursday, 17 August 2023
Pantera commissioning editor Tom Langshaw has been named the Australian Publishers Association (APA) 2023 Rising Star. Langshaw was chosen by the selection panel from a shortlist of five that also...

Vale Alf Taylor

Wednesday, 16 August 2023
The author and poet Alf Taylor, whose works include Singer Songwriter, Winds, Long time now, the NSW Premier's award-shortlisted memoir God, the Devil and Me, and Cartwarra or what?, has died. Magabala Books...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 16 August 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Vietnamese rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Bookhunter. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold traditional Chinese rights to Faking It: Artificial intelligence...

Pantera acquires Sharp nonfiction 

an author photo of Dr Tim Sharp, who is standing against a wall with his arms crossed, smiling at the camera Wednesday, 16 August 2023
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to Lost and Found: How to wander your way to a better life, a new nonfiction book by Tim Sharp, via Simone Landes at...

Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP) 

Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Melissa Lucashenko’s Edenglassie is a literary epic that skilfully weaves between the present day, where Grannie Eddie is looked after by her feisty granddaughter Winona and Dr Johnny, and mid-1850s Brisbane, where...

Unholy Terrors (Lyndall Clipstone, Penguin) 

Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Unholy Terrors is an alluring, gothic tale of forbidden love and shifting allegiances in a land of magic and monsters. Everline Blackthorn is not like the other wardens who guard...

Kinky History (Esmé Louise James, Pantera) 

Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Kinky History is based on the wildly popular TikTok account we all needed. Author Esmé Louise James (@esme.louisee) is a TikTok phenomenon with over 2.3 million followers, and it’s pretty...

Green Dot (Madeleine Gray, A&U) 

Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Madeline Gray’s debut novel, Green Dot, which has enjoyed a lot of pre-publication buzz, is a surprising read. With some superficial markers of the recently popular ‘sad girl’ novel—particularly in...

HarperCollins acquires Gorman nonfiction 

Tuesday, 15 August 2023
HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to nonfiction work Flying Not Falling by Ginger Gorman, in a deal brokered by Jane Novak of Jane Novak Literary Agency. Flying Not Falling...

RWA announces 2023 Ruby winners

Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2023 Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the Ruby Awards. The winners in each category are: Romantic...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 14 August 2023
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.

Ngaio Marsh Awards 2023 shortlists announced

Ngaio Marsh logo Thursday, 10 August 2023
The shortlists for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Awards for New Zealand crime, mystery or thriller writing have been announced. The titles shortlisted in each category are: Best nonfiction finalists The...

Inaugural Pearl Prize to be presented during Midsumma

Wednesday, 9 August 2023
Queer arts and cultural organisation Midsumma has announced the inaugural Pearl Prize: Writers Award, presented with independent publisher Osbourne and Fawkner Publishing, which will be awarded at the 2024 Midsumma...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 9 August 2023
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold Persian language rights to Children of Tomorrow (J R Burgmann, Upswell) to Ana Pol. Audio/screen A four-part SBS documentary series based on The Idea...

 

 

 

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