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Fourth Estate acquires Morton’s book on robodebt

Tuesday, 26 September 2023
HarperCollins Australia imprint Fourth Estate has acquired world rights to a new nonfiction book from Rick Morton: Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion government...

Koens wins 2023 Banjo Prize for Fiction

Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Stefanie Koens has won the HarperCollins Banjo Prize for Fiction for her unpublished manuscript ‘Islands of Secrets’. In ‘Island of Secrets’, ‘a woman searching for answers in her own life...

Transit Lounge acquires Jung novel

Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to My Name Is Gucci, a second novel from Sun Jung. Publisher Barry Scott describes My Name Is Gucci as ‘a charming novel about...

UWAP acquires Steed’s third book

Monday, 25 September 2023
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Laurie Steed’s third book, short story collection Greater City Shadows. Greater City Shadows previously won the 2021 Henry Handel Richardson flagship fellowship for...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Monday, 25 September 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.

Rockpool acquires Forsyth’s oracle deck

Friday, 22 September 2023
Rockpool Publishing has acquired world rights to Kate Forsyth’s Fairy Tale Wisdom Oracle. Forsyth’s first oracle deck will ‘spin together myth, folklore and history in new and surprising ways’. The deck...

Fraser receives inaugural Australian Short Story Festival mentorship

Friday, 22 September 2023
The Australian Short Story Festival (ASSF) has announced John A D Fraser as the winner of the 2023 ASSF Mentorship prize, for the story ‘Seven Smokes’. Fraser receives a three-month...

PANZ Book Design Awards 2023 winners announced

Friday, 22 September 2023
The Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) has announced the winners of its Book Design Awards 2023. The winners in each category are: Gerard Reid Award...

Booker Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Friday, 22 September 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Booker Prize has been announced. The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$95,756) prize are: Study for Obedience (Sarah Bernstein, Granta) If I Survive You (Jonathan Escoffery,...

SRB, WSU, City of Parramatta to award Laureateship in Literature

Thursday, 21 September 2023
The Sydney Review of Books (SRB) has announced a call for applications for the inaugural $50,000 Parramatta Laureateship in Literature, in partnership with the City of Parramatta and the Western...

HarperCollins acquires Serong novel

Thursday, 21 September 2023
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Jock Serong's novel Cherrywood, in an auction brokered by Melanie Ostell of Melanie Ostell Literary. The publisher called the novel ‘an imaginative delight', and...

NewSouth acquires Jacobson memoir

Thursday, 21 September 2023
NewSouth has acquired world rights to How to Knit a Human, a memoir from poet, writer and artist Anna Jacobson. Described by the publisher as a lyrical memoir about ‘Jacobson’s...

Vale Chris McKimmie

Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Award-winning writer, illustrator and artist Chris McKimmie has died, aged 77. For many years the convenor and originator of the illustration program at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, McKimmie...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Sales Fiction Jane Novak Literary Agency has sold world Spanish rights to Prima Facie (Suzie Miller, Piacador) to Seix Barral, an imprint of Group Planeta. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold...

Upswell acquires Dominic Gordon debut

Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to Excitable Boy: Essays on risk, a debut book of essays by Melbourne writer Dominic Gordon. The publisher said that the book 'tracks the...

Australian publishers at Frankfurt, Wright awarded for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, ARA Historical Novel Prize longlists

Wednesday, 20 September 2023
The APA has confirmed the publishers that will appear on the Australian Collective Stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair, while a number of rights agents have also told Books+Publishing that...