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ASA appoints Hayward as CEO 

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) board has appointed Lucy Hayward to the role of CEO. Hayward moves up from the position of marketing and communications manager, succeeding Olivia Lanchester,...

Wood shortlisted for 2024 Booker Prize

Cover of Stoneyard Devotional Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Australian author Charlotte Wood has been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Stone Yard Devotional (A&U). The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$97,828) prize are: Creation Lake (Rachel...

Affirm Press to distribute Firefly Press 

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Affirm Press has made a distribution agreement with independent UK publishing house Firefly Press, beginning in 2025. Firefly Press is an independent children's and YA publisher based in Wales, publishing...

Melbourne Books acquires Tania debut cookbook 

Monday, 16 September 2024
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Christy Tania’s first cookbook, Imagine: Creating Desserts with Christy Tania. The publisher said that the cookbook features over 50 base recipes for ‘adventurous and...

Riveted Press acquires Teow illustrated book series 

Monday, 16 September 2024
Riveted Press has acquired worldwide rights to five picture books in the series The Book of Kin by author/illustrator Tamlyn Teow, beginning with the book SoXiety. In this ‘almost-wordless’ picture...

New prize for humour writing added to VPLAs

Monday, 16 September 2024
A new award category, the John Clarke Prize for Humour Writing, has been added to the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs), named in honour of satirist, writer and actor John...

Fogarty Literary Award funding increased

Monday, 16 September 2024
The Fogarty Literary Award for young Western Australian writers has received an increase in funding. In an announcement, Fremantle Press said the Fogarty Foundation increased funding for the award by...

Hepworth, Griffiths chosen as inaugural LYBD ambassadors

Monday, 16 September 2024
BookPeople has announced that authors Sally Hepworth and Andy Griffiths are the inaugural adult and children’s author ambassadors for this year’s Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) campaign. As ambassadors, Hepworth...

Danger Awards 2024 winners announced

Monday, 16 September 2024
The 2024 winners of the Danger Awards have been announced. Winners in each category are: Fiction The Tea Ladies (Amanda Hampson, Penguin) Debut fiction   Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder (Kerryn Mayne,...

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 12 September 2024
Creative Australia has announced the winners of the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.  The winners in each category, chosen by an expert independent panel of judges from shortlists announced in...

Atlantic acquires new Dettmann novel 

Black and white photograph of Jessica Dettmann Thursday, 12 September 2024
Atlantic Books Australia, a division of Allen & Unwin (A&U), has acquired ANZ rights to a new novel by Jessica Dettmann, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown....

Shawline rebrands 

Thursday, 12 September 2024
Shawline Publishing has rebranded as New Found Books. A statement on the publisher’s website said the website had been ‘rebranded and redirected for the protection of our authors and quality...

Smith Street acquires Davies cookbook 

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Smith Street Books has acquired world rights to a new Japanese cookbook by Emiko Davies, via Lou Johnson at Key People Literary Management. Davies is an Australian-Japanese food writer, photographer, author...

Christie to join Curtis Brown 

Photograph of Alexandra Christie sitting on a sofa Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Curtis Brown Australia has announced Alexandra Christie will join the business as an agent. Currently rights director at Giramondo Publishing and the editor of HEAT literary magazine, Christie is also...

Ultimo acquires Reid’s third novel 

Black and white photograph of Diana Reid Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Diana Reid’s third novel, Signs of Damage. In Signs of Damage, 13-year-old Cass goes missing while the Kelly family is holidaying in the...

Laura Harris launches publishing services business

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Former publishing director, young readers, at Penguin Random House (PRH) Laura Harris has launched a children’s publishing services business. Laura Harris Publishing offers editorial and advisory services for children’s book...

Varuna announces 2025 residential fellowships

Monday, 9 September 2024
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of its residential fellowships for 2025, including eight flagship fellowship recipients. The writers and their projects are: Eleanor Dark flagship fellowship...

Richell Prize 2024 longlist announced

Logo for the Richell Prize, featuring a swooping bird Monday, 9 September 2024
Hachette, in partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), has announced the longlist for the 2024 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. The 21 longlisted writers, chosen from over 1000 entrants,...

Queensland Literary Awards 2024 winners announced

Friday, 6 September 2024
The winners of the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced, with the total value of the awards now standing at $276,000, up from $238,500 in 2023. Melissa Lucashenko has won...

Wolfers promoted to new Murdoch role 

Photograph of Justin Wolfers in front of a brick wall Thursday, 5 September 2024
Murdoch Books has announced Justin Wolfers has been promoted to the newly created role of commissioning editor. Wolfers, who has worked at Murdoch Books for over 10 years, most recently...

ARA Historical Novel Prize longlists announced

Thursday, 5 September 2024
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the longlists for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize. The longlisted titles are: Adult category The Unearthed (Lenny Bartulin, A&U) Women &...

UQP sells Bigna’s debut to S&S BFYR 

Thursday, 5 September 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American rights to Sandy Bigna’s debut middle-grade verse novel, Little Bones, to Krista Vitola, executive editor at Simon & Schuster Books for...

Full program announced for Ubud 2024

Wednesday, 4 September 2024
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced the full line-up for its 21st festival program, themed ‘Satyam Vada Dharmam Chara’ (‘Speak the Truth, Practice Kindness’), which will run on...

New offices for S&S

Wednesday, 4 September 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia has moved to new offices. From 3 September, the Sydney office has moved to Level 4, 32 York Street, in the Sydney CBD. The Melbourne CBD...

MacDonald wins 2024 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize

Photograph of Grant MacDonald Wednesday, 4 September 2024
Herb MacDonald is the winner of the 2024 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize, the Margaret Mahy Estate, Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand, and Little Moa have announced. The judging panel praised MacDonald’s...

Medal for Excellence in Translation shortlist announced

Wednesday, 4 September 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Medal for Excellence in Translation, administered by the Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH), has been announced. The shortlisted translators and their works are: Stephanie...

 

 

 

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