Two Shelly Unwin board books sold to US
Thursday, 14 March 2019
Alex Adsett at Alex Adsett Literary Agency has sold North American rights to Shelly Unwin’s board books You’re One! and You’re Two! (A&U, illus by Katherine Battersby) to Penguin Random...
HQ Fiction acquires Armstrong novel ‘The Collaborator’
Thursday, 14 March 2019
HarperCollins Australia imprint HQ Fiction has acquired world rights to the first book in eight years by author Diane Armstrong. Titled The Collaborator and based on a true story set in...
Queenscliffe Literary Festival breaks ticket sales record
Thursday, 14 March 2019
The Queenscliffe Literary Festival (QLF) has broken its record for ticket sales. Running from 11-26 May in the Victorian beachside towns of Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale, the festival will feature...
City of Melbourne trials ‘quick response’ arts grants
Thursday, 14 March 2019
The City of Melbourne is trialling a new program of ‘quick response’ arts grants, which aim to give artists more flexible access to funding. Under the trial scheme, creative practitioners...
Redgum to launch ‘full-service’ schools program
Thursday, 14 March 2019
Redgum Book Club is launching a ‘full-service’ literary service for schools, parents and students, which will be available nationwide. Redgum, which recently acquired school book fair provider Central Book Suppliers,...
Cornelius wins $234k Windham-Campbell Prize
Thursday, 14 March 2019
Playwright Patricia Cornelius is one of eight winners of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Prize, which recognises English-language writers who ‘have left their mark on the world of literature or theatre’ and...
Hachette launches modern classics list
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Hachette has announced its first cross-publisher modern classics list to be published in its international territories, including Australia, New Zealand, India and Ireland. Hachette Essentials comprises a curated selection of...
Parrish nominated in Lambda Literary Awards
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Australian Canada-based comics artist Tommi Parrish has been announced as a finalist in the 31st annual Lambda Literary Awards—known as the ‘Lammys’—for their book The Lie and How We Told...
Four ANZ publishers nominated for Bologna Prize
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Four Australian and New Zealand publishers have been nominated for the Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the Oceania category. The shortlisted publishers are Scribble Kids’...
Echo acquires Iain Ryan’s third novel
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to Iain Ryan’s third novel, Sisters Under the Skin, via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown. Narrated in first and second person, Sisters Under the...
Boochani’s ‘No Friend but the Mountains’ sells into nine territories
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Behrouz Boochani's Victorian Prize for Literature-winning memoir No Friend but the Mountains (Picador) has been sold in nine territories, including the US and the UK, where it sold to Picador...
A&U acquires Hardcastle novel for six-figure sum
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Below Deck, the third book by 25-year-old author Sophie Hardcastle. Zeitgeist Agency director Benython Oldfield sold the book at auction for...
Stavanger shortlisted for €10k Moth Poetry Prize
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Australian poet David Stavanger has been shortlisted for the €10,000 (A$15,930) Moth Poetry Prize for his poem ‘Octonaut’. The prize is run by the publishers of international art and literature...
Stella Prize 2019 shortlist announced
Friday, 8 March 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Little Gods (Jenny Ackland, A&U) The Bridge (Enza Gandolfo, Scribe) Pink Mountain on Locust Island (Jamie...
Wollongong collective launches bookshop, workshop space
Friday, 8 March 2019
A new community collective called Society City is establishing a secondhand bookshop in Wollongong. The member-run collective will operate the bookshop, and will also offer up the space for people...
ASA advises authors to send takedown notices to piracy site
Friday, 8 March 2019
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) is advising authors to contact piracy website Ebook Bike and request the removal of their titles. The ASA is 'deeply concerned' by the site's...
YA debut sells to US, Netherlands
Friday, 8 March 2019
Catherine Drayton of Inkwell Management has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to Helena Fox's forthcoming YA novel How it Feels to Float (Pan Australia, May) to Penguin US imprint...
Affirm acquires VPLA-shortlisted short-story collection
Friday, 8 March 2019
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the debut short-story collection by Victorian author Wayne Marshall, which was a runner-up in the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in the unpublished manuscript category. The...
ABIA 2019 longlists announced
Thursday, 7 March 2019
The longlists for the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Nine Perfect Strangers (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan)...
Storylines announces notable NZ children’s books for 2019
Thursday, 7 March 2019
The Storylines Children’s Trust has announced its 2019 Notable Books list for children’s and young adult books published in the previous year. Notable books in each category are: Picture books...
Publishers Publicity Circle launches Melbourne chapter
Thursday, 7 March 2019
After launching in Australia late last year, the Publishers Publicity Circle (PPC), a networking group for book publicists, is opening a Melbourne chapter. Based on the UK model, which has...
PRH to collectively bargain with editorial, publicity staff
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has agreed to engage in collective bargaining with staff in its editorial and publicity departments. Staff have endorsed the bargaining position and the Media and...
Readings celebrates 50th anniversary
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Melbourne bookshop Readings is celebrating 50 years since establishing its first store. The original Readings bookshop was founded in Carlton in 1969 by Ross Reading, his wife Dot Reading, and...
Toney wins inaugural Carter Brown Mystery Writing Award
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Wilson Toney’s novel Alibi for a Dead Man has won the inaugural Carter Brown Mystery Writing Award for an unpublished manuscript. Judges praised the novel for its plotting, sharp dialogue...
Read A Lot Books celebrates 30 years
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Read A Lot Books, in the WA city of Geraldton, is celebrating its 30th anniversary with giveaways and competitions during the month of March. In its 30 years of operation,...
‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ wins Audie award
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
The audiobook edition of Heather Morris' novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz (narrated by Richard Armitage, Bolinda, released in the US by HarperAudio) has won the 2019 Audie Award for fiction....
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
The shortlists for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The New Ships (Kate Duignan, Victoria University Press) The Cage...
HarperCollins acquires book on Lawyer X
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Herald Sun reporters Anthony Dowsley and Patrick Carlyon’s book on Lawyer X, who can now be revealed as Nicola Gobbo. On 1 March Gobbo's...
A&U acquires Morris-Marr book on Pell
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to a book by investigative journalist and broadcaster Lucie Morris-Marr, who broke the story in the Herald Sun that Cardinal George Pell...
SLV ‘retires’ Centre for Youth Literature
Tuesday, 5 March 2019
State Library Victoria (SLV) has announced that it will be 'retiring the Centre for Youth Literature sub-brand' and will bring its teen programming under general SLV programming. SLV says that...
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