PRH acquires Weldon debut novel ‘Sixty-Seven Days’
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to Sixty-Seven Days by Yvonne Weldon, in a deal brokered by Selwa Anthony of Selwa Anthony Author Management Agency. According to...
HGCP acquires ‘UnMonumental’ picture book
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has acquired world rights to UnMonumental, a hardback picture book by artists James Tylor and Matt Chun based on their Instagram project of the same...
Willson appointed Murdoch Books publisher
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Murdoch Books has announced the appointment of Jane Willson as publisher. Willson, who will be based in Melbourne, joins Murdoch from Hardie Grant, where she was publishing director for six...
Melbourne Prize for Literature finalists announced
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
The Melbourne Prize Trust has announced the finalists for the triennial Melbourne Prize for Literature. The finalists are: Melbourne Prize for Literature ($60,000) Jordie Albiston Maxine Beneba Clarke Pi O...
Bray to leave Bloomsbury Australia
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Bloomsbury Australia managing director Liz Bray has decided to step down from the role later this year. In a statement, Bray said she is leaving ‘to create some time and...
Merriman YA novels optioned for screen
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Screen adaption rights to YA novels Catch Me When You Fall and Invisibly Breathing by New Zealand author Eileen Merriman have been optioned by Enjoy Entertainment, in a deal negotiated...
‘The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name’ sells to North America
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has sold North American rights to The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name by Sandhya Parappukkaran and Michelle Pereira to Abrams Books. The deal,...
Lonely Planet announces staff changes, looks to ‘inevitable rebound’
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
Lonely Planet has announced the appointment of Chris Zeiher to the newly created role of senior director, trade sales and marketing, in which he will lead the travel publisher's global...
Banjo Prize 2021 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
HarperCollins Australia has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Banjo Prize for an unpublished work of commercial fiction. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘My Father the Whale’ (Gina Perry) ‘The Wishbone...
Readings announces 2021 New Australian Fiction Prize shortlist
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Readings has announced the shortlist for its 2021 New Australian Fiction Prize. The shortlisted titles are: New Animal (Ella Baxter, A&U) She is Haunted (Paige Clark, A&U) Echolalia (Briohny Doyle,...
Hachette acquires Albany debut in two-book deal
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to two novels by Northern Rivers journalist and songwriter Megan Albany. The deal was brokered between Hachette Australia head of fiction Rebecca Saunders and...
Pantera acquires Scott book on mental health
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About by journalist, writer and presenter Elfy Scott. Scott's debut nonfiction book is, according to the publisher,...
Nielsen: Indies ‘key to supporting local authors’
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Nielsen BookScan data prepared for the Australian Booksellers Association shows that Australian authors account for over half of the top 50 fiction bestsellers sold through independent bookshops this year to...
Malwatta wins 2021 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Queensland Poetry has announced that Janaka Malwatta has won the 2021 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for his manuscript blackbirds don’t mate with starlings. Malwatta receives $2000 and a publishing contract...
S&S to expand local editorial team
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) is expanding its local editorial team, with two new full-time editorial positions intended to streamline the publisher’s production. S&S managing director Dan Ruffino told Books+Publishing...
Queensland literary projects funded
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
The University of Queensland will receive $20,000 ‘to provide time and space to emerging writer Ellen van Neerven for their creative development of new work enhanced by access to unique...
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 11 August 2021
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2021 NSW Premier’s History Awards, worth $15,000 each. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Australian history prize...
ILF announces virtual program for Indigenous Literacy Day 2021
Wednesday, 11 August 2021
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced an on demand program for Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD), which falls on Wednesday, 1 September this year. The virtual program will celebrate and...
Stanner Award 2021 finalists announced
Wednesday, 11 August 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Stanner Award has been announced. Presented every two years by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), the award is for...
Chaudhary wins 2021 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Wednesday, 11 August 2021
Camilla Chaudhary has won the 2021 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘The Enemy Asyndeton’. Chosen from a shortlist of three announced in July,...
‘Still Alive’ sells to Fantagraphics
Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Melbourne graphic novel publisher Twelve Panels Press has sold world English rights (ex ANZ) to Safdar Ahmed’s Still Alive to Gary Groth at Fantagraphics, to be published under the Fantagraphics...
Pantera acquires McWilliams debut middle-grade novel
Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to The Reindeer and the Submarine, the debut middle-grade novel by Beverly McWilliams. Inspired by the true story of a reindeer who lived aboard...
Christie appointed HEAT editor
Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Giramondo Publishing has announced the appointment of Alexandra Christie as the editor of the third series of HEAT literary journal. Christie joins the Giramondo team following four years as a...
MWF 2021 full program launched
Thursday, 29 July 2021
The program for the 2021 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which will run from 3–12 September, has been announced. In its 35th year, MWF will bring together celebrated figures in fiction,...
RAFFWU reports in principle agreement with BRTD
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
Better Read Than Dead (BRTD) management and members of the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) at the Newtown bookshop have reached an in principle agreement following union members’...
Ned Kelly Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Ned Kelly Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best crime fiction Consolation (Garry Disher, Text)...
QBD Books to open new WA store
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
QBD Books has announced it will be opening a new store in the Perth suburb of Midland. The new store is part of QBD's plan to continue its national expansion,...
New Collins store Our Bookshop to open in Hawksburn
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
Collins Booksellers has announced the establishment of Our Bookshop in Hawksburn, Melbourne. The new store will be located in the former premises of My Bookshop, which owner Corrie Perkin recently...
QBD Books named finalist in 2021 National Retail Awards
Wednesday, 21 July 2021
QBD Books is a finalist in the 2021 National Retail Awards for the title of Large Retailer of the Year. The Brisbane-based book retailer said in a statement that despite...
Simpson wins 2021 ALS Gold Medal for ‘Song of the Crocodile’
Wednesday, 21 July 2021
Nardi Simpson has won the 2021 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for Song of the Crocodile (Hachette). Song of the Crocodile is Simpson's debut novel, and was the winner...
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