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Winter wins 2022 CLNZ Writers’ Award  Archive

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  Archive

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Brendan Ritchie has won the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for his novel Eta Draconis.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  Archive

Varuna, The National Writers House logo 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  Archive

bologna logo 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  Archive

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  Archive

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...

Queensland Literary Awards 2022 winners  Archive

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,...

EPAA 2022 winners announced  Archive

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...

Moore establishes locum booksellers business  Archive

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Stacey Moore, owner and founder of independent bookshop Bookgrove in Ocean Grove, Victoria, has started another business, BreakAway Books locum booksellers. As part of the new business, Moore is offering...

Big Issue fiction edition returns  Archive

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
The Big Issue has announced the authors chosen for its annual fiction edition. The 2022 edition includes works from 12 writers selected from 905 submissions. The selected works were anonymously...

Tiny Uncertain Miracles  Archive

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Miracles are notoriously unreliable. But sometimes, just when they're needed, they turn up—although not always in the form that we expect... Awkward, hapless Marick is still struggling with the loss...

Booker Prize 2022 shortlist announced  Archive

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Booker Prize has been announced. The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$85,510) prize are: Glory (NoViolet Bulawayo, Viking) The Trees (Percival Everett, Influx) Treacle...

Snow Leopard Lodge AirBNB Cottage Blue Mountains  Archive

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Spectacular views in the Blue Mountains. Lovely Himalaya style cottage in Leura. Beautiful furnishings, exotic rugs, fine art photographs. Luxury beds, well equipped kitchen, expresso coffee machine and pods. All...

Richell Prize 2022 longlist announced  Archive

Logo for the Richell Prize, featuring a swooping bird Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival have announced the longlist for the 2022 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The 20 longlisted authors, chosen from over 700 entries, are: Alexander...

Banjo Prize 2022 shortlist announced  Archive

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
HarperCollins Australia has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Banjo Prize for an unpublished work of commercial fiction. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'Pine River Falls' by Christine Gregory 'Next of...

 

 

 

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