Opening Scene initiative introduces writers to screen producers
Tuesday, 16 October 2018
The Wheeler Centre and the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) have launched a three-year program to introduce writers to screen producers. The Opening Scene program will connect The Next Chapter...
Hachette to launch ‘Fortnite’ publishing program
Tuesday, 16 October 2018
Hachette Australia, in association with Hachette divisions in the UK, USA, France and Spain, has announced a publishing program based on the popular game Fortnite. In a deal brokered by International...
OzCo appoints Adrian Collette as CEO
Tuesday, 16 October 2018
The Australia Council for the Arts has appointed Adrian Collette as its incoming chief executive officer. Collette worked in publishing for a decade, including as managing director at Reed Books,...
ANZ authors nominated for 2019 Astrid Lindgren Award
Monday, 15 October 2018
Ten authors and illustrators from Australia and New Zealand and one Australian organisation have been nominated for the 2019 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The Australian nominees are: Randa Abdel-Fattah Ursula...
‘KYD’ to publish annual print collection of short fiction
Monday, 15 October 2018
Kill Your Darlings magazine (KYD) will publish an annual print collection of short fiction, with the inaugural collection to be released in October 2019. New Australian Fiction will include 15...
Allen, Blackadder awarded 2018 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship
Monday, 15 October 2018
Screenwriter Jane Allen and author Jesse Blackadder have been jointly awarded the 2018 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship. Allen and Blackadder will travel to Antarctica in late October, staying at the...
‘The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart’ to be adapted for TV
Friday, 12 October 2018
Australian producer Bruna Papandrea’s company Made Up Stories has acquired screen rights to Holly Ringland’s debut novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Fourth Estate), and will develop the project...
Aussie children’s book creators chosen to pitch at global kids entertainment event
Friday, 12 October 2018
Australian children’s book creators Yves Stening and Nigel Buchanan are one of five intellectual property owners selected to pitch at the world's biggest children's entertainment industry event, MIPJunior. Held on...
ASA to wind up print magazine after 50 years
Friday, 12 October 2018
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced it will no longer produce its biannual print magazine, Australian Author, and will transition to digital publishing. ‘The financial argument is now...
HarperCollins signs Blackwood in two-book deal
Thursday, 11 October 2018
HarperCollins has signed a two-book deal with children's book illustrator Freya Blackwood. The first book in the deal is a yet-to-be-titled picture book about a girl and her pig, due...
Spencer wins 2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award for ‘The Age of Fibs’
Thursday, 11 October 2018
Sydney-based writer Beth Spencer has won the 2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award for her short-story collection The Age of Fibs. Author and prize judge Carmel Bird described The Age...
Winton’s ‘The Riders’ to be adapted for film
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Tim Winton’s The Riders (Penguin) will be adapted into a feature film produced by director Ridley Scott’s production company Scott Free, reports Deadline Hollywood. A director for the film is...
NZ picture book on Trump sold to UK
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
New Zealand publisher Millwood Press has sold UK, Irish and Australian rights to picture book Dear Donald Trump (Sophie Siers, illus by Anne Villeneuve) to Bonnier Books UK imprint Templar...
Giese wins 2018 Victorian Premier’s History Award for ‘The Maddest Place on Earth’
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Clinical psychologist Jill Giese has won the 2018 Victorian Premier’s History Award, worth $5000, for her book The Maddest Place on Earth (Australian Scholarly Publishing), announced as part of the...
‘Alice-Miranda’ animated telemovie in production
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
SLR Productions has commenced production on an animated telemovie based on Jacqueline Harvey's Alice-Miranda (Random House Children's) series of children's books, reports Mediaweek. Originally announced as a TV series comprising...
Sweatshop to partner with DARTS on first nationwide anthology
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Western Sydney-based literacy collective Sweatshop will partner with Diversity Arts Australia (DARTS) to deliver a series of literary initiatives, including its first nationwide project. Sweatshop and DARTS will produce an...
Digital Writers’ Festival announces 2018 program
Tuesday, 9 October 2018
The program for the 2018 Digital Writers' Festival (DWF), which runs from 30 October to 3 November, has been announced. More than 140 guests will participate in the digital festival,...
Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers 2018 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 9 October 2018
Scribe and Express Media have announced the shortlist for this year’s Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers. The shortlisted works are: ‘Her Body as in an Empty Space’ (Madison Griffiths)...
NZ Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement 2018 announced
Tuesday, 9 October 2018
Creative New Zealand has announced the winners of the 2018 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, worth NZ$60,000 (A$54,760) each. Māori dramatist and fiction writer Renée has been honoured in...
Richell Prize 2018 shortlist announced
Monday, 8 October 2018
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival have announced the shortlist for the 2018 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The shortlisted writers and their works are: 'She is Bright Light...
Hardie Grant acquires book based on podcast ‘The Full Catastrophe’
Monday, 8 October 2018
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to The Full Catastrophe, based on the podcast of the same name, via Jeanne Ryckmans at Cameron Cresswell Agency. Edited by podcast hosts...
Debut novel ‘Half Moon Lake’ sold to US
Monday, 8 October 2018
US and Canadian rights to Kirsten Alexander’s debut novel Half Moon Lake (Bantam, January 2019) have been acquired by Grand Central, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. Natasha Solomun of...
Transit Lounge acquires new fiction by Savage, Bird
Friday, 5 October 2018
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to new novels by Angela Savage and Carmel Bird. Savage’s fourth novel, Mother of Pearl, is set in Thailand and Australia, and centres on...
Margaret River to collaborate with Singapore’s Ethos Books on anthology
Friday, 5 October 2018
writingWA has announced a collaboration between Margaret River Press and Singapore publisher Ethos Books to publish an anthology of previously unpublished short fiction Due to be released in the third...
Pape’s ‘The Barefoot Investor for Families’ breaks record for first-week sales in Australian nonfiction
Thursday, 4 October 2018
Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor for Families (HarperCollins) has become the fastest-selling Australian nonfiction title, after selling 74,600 copies with a value of $1.7 million since its release on 24...
Mātātuhi Foundation to offer writing, reading, literacy grants
Thursday, 4 October 2018
The Auckland Writers Festival (AWF) has launched a new foundation that will support New Zealand writers and fund activities that contribute to New Zealand's literary landscape. The Mātātuhi Foundation aims...
AO presented to literary festival founder Garnaut
Thursday, 4 October 2018
In Beijing, literary festival founder and CEO of M Restaurant Group Michelle Garnaut has been presented with a medal of the Order of Australia (AO) by the Australian ambassador to...
UQP acquires Riwoe’s historical novel ‘On Gold Mountain’
Thursday, 4 October 2018
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to historical novel On Gold Mountain by Brisbane-based writer Mirandi Riwoe. Set on the goldfields of north Queensland during the...
Pages and Pages opens dedicated event space
Wednesday, 3 October 2018
Pages and Pages Booksellers, situated on Sydney's North Shore in the suburb of Mosman, has announced it is opening a new dedicated event space. Following the consolidation of Pages and...
PRH acquires Ronnie Scott’s ‘The Adversary’ in two-book deal
Wednesday, 3 October 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to Ronnie Scott’s debut novel The Adversary in a two-book deal. PRH acquired rights at auction to The Adversary and a second...
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