Hollis wins 2022 Klaus Flugge Prize
Monday, 19 September 2022
In the UK, Joseph Namara Hollis has won the £5000 (A$8495) Klaus Flugge Prize for most promising newcomer to children’s picture book illustration for Pierre’s New Hair (Tate Publishing). The book...
Bublitz sweeps 2022 Ngaio Marsh Awards
Monday, 19 September 2022
New Zealand author Jacqueline Bublitz has won both the Best Novel and Best First Novel categories at the 2022 Ngaio Marsh Awards, for her debut Before You Knew My Name...
Environment Award for Children’s Literature, Karajia Award 2022 winners announced
Friday, 16 September 2022
The Wilderness Society has announced the winners of the 2022 Environment Award for Children’s Literature and the inaugural Karajia Award for First Nations children’s storytelling. The winners in each category...
NT Literary Awards 2022 winners announced
Friday, 16 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Northern Territory Literary Awards, which celebrate the unpublished work of established and emerging NT writers, have been announced. Winners in seven categories were announced, including:...
Riwoe, Beudel awarded Copyright Agency author fellowships
Thursday, 15 September 2022
The Copyright Agency has awarded $80,000 writing fellowships to Mirandi Riwoe and Saskia Beudel. Riwoe received the Author Fellowship to write her novel A Short History of Longans, a story...
Deakin, Copyright Agency announce $20K children’s author residency
Thursday, 15 September 2022
Deakin University and the Copyright Agency have partnered to create a new residency for children's authors. The Deakin University/Copyright Agency Children’s Writer-in-Residence program offers a $20,000 stipend and a three-month...
Vale Jerry Kalajian
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Jerry Kalajian, film and TV rights manager at Intellectual Property Group (IPG) in Los Angeles and co-agent at Curtis Brown, has died. Curtis Brown writes: 'It is with great sadness...
ILD 2022: An ‘infectious’ day of celebrating literacy
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Last Wednesday, 7 September, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) celebrated its annual Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) with a live event at the Sydney Opera House and a national digital event....
$100K Historical Novel Prize 2022 longlists announced
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA), has announced the longlists for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize. The titles longlisted in the adult category are: Horse (Geraldine Brooks, Hachette) The...
Ngaio Marsh Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
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 first novel Isobar...
Vale Jack Charles
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Aboriginal Elder, actor, musician and author Jack Charles has died following a stroke, aged 79. Penguin Random House writes: 'Uncle Jack Charles wore many hats throughout his remarkable life—actor, musician,...
Entries are now open for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards are held annually. They are the richest and longest running state-based literary awards in Australia and cover all genres of writing. Entries for the 2023...
Big billboards for an even bigger book: An unmissable Colleen Hoover campaign
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Simon & Schuster Australia is excited to share details of our unmissable and innovative marketing campaign for Colleen Hoover. Starting late September, the campaign will center on Hoover’s global phenomenon...
Sales representative Gale (NSW & ACT), Sydney
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Cengage Learning Pty Ltd Gale is a world leading provider of research resources including digital archives, databases, ebooks, print and microfilm. We deliver quality resources to school, university, and national,...
National accounts assistant, Sydney
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Publishers is looking for a professional to join the sales team in the role of national accounts assistant. This role is responsible for providing administrative support for...
Marketing and publicity executive, Sydney
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Australia has an incredible opportunity for a marketing and publicity executive to join our dedicated team. Bloomsbury is proud to be a creative, dynamic, independent publisher of...
Senior publisher (product manager) primary, Melbourne
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Cengage Learning Pty Ltd Nelson Cengage creates learning solutions that use technology, pedagogy and content to enrich student engagement in the school, higher education/vocational and professional educational sectors in Australia...
Winter wins 2022 CLNZ Writers’ Award
Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Iona Winter has won the NZ$25,000 (A$22,300), Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ)/New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Writers’ Award for her creative nonfiction project ‘A counter of moons’. Winter’s work...
Ritchie wins 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award
Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Brendan Ritchie has won the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for his novel Eta Draconis. Ritchie, an academic and early-career novelist from the south coast of WA,...
Varuna announces 2023 residential fellowships
Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of its 2023 residential fellowships. The writers and their projects are: Eleanor Dark flagship fellowship Angela O’Keeffe, for her literary fiction...
Bologna rights centre to open to adult publishers
Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) will expand its current BCBF Agents' Centre to include rights professionals from across the industry, including adult general trade publishers. BCBF director Elena Pasoli said:...
Hickey wins 2022 Danger Prize
Monday, 12 September 2022
Margaret Hickey has won the 2022 Danger Prize for her debut novel Cutters End (Penguin). Set in the South Australian outback town of Cutters End, the winning novel follows Detective...
De Kretser shortlisted for Kirkus Prize
Monday, 12 September 2022
Michelle de Kretser is a finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, worth US$50,000 (A$73,100), for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U). De Kretser's book is one of six finalists in...
Harper wins Glass Bell Award for ‘The Wolf Den’
Monday, 12 September 2022
In the UK, Elodie Harper has won the £2000 (A$3390) Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award for her novel The Wolf Den (Head of Zeus), reports the Bookseller. Harper’s novel is the first in a...
Parker-Chan wins Hugo Award for Best New Writer
Friday, 9 September 2022
Australian writer Shelley Parker-Chan has won the Best New Writer category at the Hugo Awards for science fiction. Parker-Chan's debut She Who Became the Sun was first published in the...
Allinson, Brennan win Age Book of the Year awards
Friday, 9 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Age Book of the Year Award have been announced. Miles Allinson won the fiction award for his second novel In Moonland (Scribe), while Bernadette Brennan won the...
Queensland Literary Awards 2022 winners
Friday, 9 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance ($25,000) Wounded Country (Quentin Beresford,...
Shortlist for £25k British Academy Book Prize announced
Thursday, 8 September 2022
In the UK, the shortlist for the £25,000 (A$42,650) British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The shortlisted books are: The Invention of...
EPAA 2022 winners announced
Thursday, 8 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) have been announced. The winners in each category are: Secondary publisher of the year Cambridge University Press Primary publisher of...
Mascara, Varuna announce diverse writers residency
Thursday, 8 September 2022
Mascara Literary Review has announced the inaugural Mascara Varuna Writers’ and Editors’ Residency, supported by the Copyright Agency and the Adès Family Foundation. The residency is open to First Nations...
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