Byron Writers Festival receives $1 million pledge, 2023 NZ Book Awards for CYA, Ngaio Marsh Awards shortlist
Wednesday, 16 August 2023
Byron Writers Festival has received a $1 million pledge from the Vasudhara Fund, to ‘contribute to the ongoing viability of the Festival and support the continued presentation of women writers...
Pantera acquires Sharp nonfiction
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...
Zero Risk: Keeping others safe in a dangerous world (Tony Loughran, Echo)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Tony Loughran’s memoir, Zero Risk, certainly lives up to his motto—‘I’d rather spend one year as a tiger than a hundred years as a sheep’. From his rough-and-tumble—and then outright...
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...
Nikki Hind: Dressed for success (John Dickson, illus Chantel de Sousa, Berbay)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Nikki Hind: Dressed for Success is part of Vision Australia’s Big Vision series that profiles Australian people living with blindness or low vision. It’s a short biography of Nikki Hind,...
A–Z of Who I Could Be (Chloe Dalton, illus Kim Siew, A&U)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
A–Z of Who I Could Be showcases 26 Australian top-performing female and non-binary athletes across 26 different sports. Chloe Dalton presents us with the likes of Ash Barty, Nova Peris,...
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...
The Opposite of Success (Eleanor Elliott Thomas, Text)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Arianna Huffington’s quote, ‘Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success’, is the essence of Eleanor Elliott Thomas’s debut novel and likely the source of its title....
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...
Australian Short Story Festival announces new mentorship opportunity
Monday, 14 August 2023
The Australian Short Story Festival has announced a new opportunity for an emerging Australian writer to complete a three-month mentorship with award-winning Irish short story writer and playwright Paul McVeigh,...
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Monday, 14 August 2023
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NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults winners announced
Friday, 11 August 2023
The winners of the 2023 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced, with each category winner receiving NZ$7500 and the best first book award winner...
UQP to publish anthology by Autistic women and gender-diverse writers
Friday, 11 August 2023
UQP has acquired a new anthology of 25 personal essays from Autistic women and gender-diverse writers, to be co-edited by Autistic writers Jo Case and Clem Bastow and supported by...
Ngaio Marsh Awards 2023 shortlists announced
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...
Sharjah International Book Fair to present inaugural translation rights awards
Thursday, 10 August 2023
Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) has announced two new awards for publishing rights professionals selling translation rights, to be presented during the 2023 SIBF Publishers Conference, which runs from 29...
Priest wins 2023 National Biography Award for ‘My Tongue Is My Own’
Wednesday, 9 August 2023
Ann-Marie Priest has won the 2023 National Biography Award for My Tongue Is My Own: A life of Gwen Harwood (La Trobe University Press). Priest wins $25,000, while the other shortlisted authors...
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...
Davis joins Hardie Grant; Lloyd, Sandiford join UQP; KRR to acquire S&S
Wednesday, 9 August 2023
Hardie Grant has announced the appointment of Simon Davis to the role of food and lifestyle publisher for Hardie Grant Books; UQP has appointed Kate Lloyd as sales and distribution...
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...
Vale Elizabeth Webby
Wednesday, 9 August 2023
Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Webby, an academic, mentor, teacher and author, has died. Rochford Street Review writes: ‘Rochford Street Review was saddened to learn of the death of Emeritus Professor Elizabeth...
Prima Facie (Suzie Miller, Picador)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Prima Facie, Suzie Miller’s debut novel (adapted from her internationally award-winning 2019 play of the same name), is a relentless, arresting story of a criminal defence barrister whose passionate faith...
Listen (Duncan Smith & Nicole Godwin, illus Jandamarra Cadd, Wild Dog)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
From the team that brought us We Are Australians in 2022 comes another stunning picture book about First Nations people and their connection to the land. In simple but direct...
If You Tell Anyone, You’re Next (Jack Heath, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Bestselling author Jack Heath has written 40 books for children, teenagers and adults. He returns with a pulse-racing psychological thriller set in a suburban high school. Zoe’s best friend Jayden...
Salt River Road (Molly Schmidt, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Radio producer, journalist and now award-winning writer Molly Schmidt has poured her heart into her first book Salt River Road. ‘Write what you know’, they say, and having lost her...
The Modern (Anna Kate Blair, Scribner)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Art aficionados and literary enthusiasts will feel at home in The Modern, in which Anna Kate Blair navigates New York City’s modern art institutions. Sophia is a MoMA fellow in NYC, who grapples with her instinct to sentimentalise her...
Back to the Storks (Cressida Gaukroger, illus Andrew Joyner, Little Hare)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Back to the Storks plays on the old wives’ tale that babies are delivered to homes by storks. Otis is such a loud baby that when his parents are at...
Bennelong and Phillip: A history unravelled (Kate Fullagar, Scribner)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Bennelong and Phillip: A history unravelled is an important book for our current time. In 2023, Australians will vote in the Voice to Parliament referendum to decide whether to recognise Aboriginal...
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