Transit Lounge acquires Hooper’s debut novel
Friday, 25 August 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Matthew Hooper’s debut novel A Cold Season. ‘This pitch-perfect novel is rich in voice, character and landscape and unlike anything I have read...
S&S acquires Di Lorenzo gut repair title in four-book deal
Friday, 25 August 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to four new titles by nutritionist Sarah Di Lorenzo. The first book in the new deal will be a four-week gut repair...
Readings Young Adult Prize 2023 shortlist announced
Thursday, 24 August 2023
Readings has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Readings Young Adult Book Prize. This year’s six shortlisted books are: Dancing Barefoot (Alice Boyle, Text) Spice Road (Maiya Ibrahim, Hodderscape) Completely...
Australia Reads announces Volume symposium program
Thursday, 24 August 2023
Australia Reads has announced the program for Volume, a free day-long symposium dedicated to creating a stronger reading culture in Australia, to be held on 21 September. The symposium, first...
NewSouth acquires Clift autobiographical novel
Thursday, 24 August 2023
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to Charmian Clift’s unfinished novel The End of the Morning, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. The autobiographical novel about a young woman coming of...
117% increase in sales for NZ CYA Book Awards titles
Thursday, 24 August 2023
Nielsen BookScan figures showed a 117% increase in sales of shortlisted books from the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in the week of the winner announcement,...
Writers for the Voice challenges misinformation about Voice referendum
Thursday, 24 August 2023
Newly established group Writers for the Voice seeks support from writers, publishers and literary agencies to share information and correct misinformation about Australia’s First Nations Voice to Parliament referendum. On...
Full program announced for Ubud 2023
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced the full line-up for its 20th-anniversary festival program, which will run from 18–22 October 2023 in Ubud, Indonesia. Australian and New Zealand...
Allan among redundancies at PRHNZ
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Penguin Random House New Zealand (PRHNZ) had laid off three senior staff, including fiction publisher Harriet Allan, reports Newsroom.co.nz. Allan had worked for PRHNZ and its earlier incarnations for over...
Stubbs wins 2023 CBCA Nan Chauncy Award
Monday, 21 August 2023
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced Jenny Stubbs as the 2023 recipient of the Nan Chauncy Award. Named after the Tasmanian children’s author, the biennial Nan Chauncy...
Big Issue fiction edition returns
Monday, 21 August 2023
The Big Issue has announced the authors chosen for its 19th annual fiction edition. The 2023 edition includes short stories from 12 writers including eight emerging talents, selected from more than 681 submissions...
KYD announces 2023 Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize shortlist
Monday, 21 August 2023
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 KYD Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize. Eight essays appear in this year’s shortlist: ‘Here We Go Round’ (Anna Burns) ‘The...
Fremantle Press, Alphabet Soup Books to collaborate on new middle-grade poetry collection
Monday, 21 August 2023
Fremantle Press and Alphabet Soup Books will co-publish a collection of poetry for middle readers, Right Way Down and other poems. Alphabet Soup Books is a new independent publisher in...
CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced
Friday, 18 August 2023
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the winners of the 2023 Book of the Year Awards. The winning books in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in...
Educational Publishing Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Friday, 18 August 2023
The titles shortlisted for the 2023 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) have been announced. The shortlisted categories include: Primary: Student Resource—English (Literacy/Literature/Language) Australian Primary Oxford Integrated Dictionary & Thesaurus 4E...
Heath wins 2023 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Friday, 18 August 2023
Victorian writer Rowan Heath has won the 2023 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for their piece ‘The Mannequin’. Receiving a prize of $6000, Heath was shortlisted...
HarperCollins signs Drysdale in two-book deal
Thursday, 17 August 2023
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the novel Hollywood Night by Pip Drysdale in a two-book deal brokered by publisher Roberta Ivers with Mollie Glick at Creative Artists Agency....
Adaptations to share Screen Australia funding
Thursday, 17 August 2023
Two book adaptations are among 47 projects to share $1.2 million of story development funding from Screen Australia. Funding will go towards adaptations of Jessie Tu’s novel A Lonely Girl...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2023 shortlist announced
Thursday, 17 August 2023
The shortlist for the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, which has increased in value to $30,000 and is administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James...
Langshaw named 2023 Rising Star
Thursday, 17 August 2023
Pantera commissioning editor Tom Langshaw has been named the Australian Publishers Association (APA) 2023 Rising Star. Langshaw was chosen by the selection panel from a shortlist of five that also...
HarperCollins acquires Gorman nonfiction
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to nonfiction work Flying Not Falling by Ginger Gorman, in a deal brokered by Jane Novak of Jane Novak Literary Agency. Flying Not Falling...
RWA announces 2023 Ruby winners
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2023 Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the Ruby Awards. The winners in each category are: Romantic...
Australian Short Story Festival announces new mentorship opportunity
Monday, 14 August 2023
The Australian Short Story Festival has announced a new opportunity for an emerging Australian writer to complete a three-month mentorship with award-winning Irish short story writer and playwright Paul McVeigh,...
NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults winners announced
Friday, 11 August 2023
The winners of the 2023 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced, with each category winner receiving NZ$7500 and the best first book award winner...
Byron Writers Festival receives $1 million pledge
Friday, 11 August 2023
Byron Writers Festival has received a pledge of $1 million, to be paid over the next 10 years, from the Vasudhara Fund to 'contribute to the ongoing viability of the...
UQP to publish anthology by Autistic women and gender-diverse writers
Friday, 11 August 2023
UQP has acquired a new anthology of 25 personal essays from Autistic women and gender-diverse writers, to be co-edited by Autistic writers Jo Case and Clem Bastow and supported by...
Ngaio Marsh Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Thursday, 10 August 2023
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 nonfiction finalists The...
Indigenous Literacy Day to feature three bilingual children’s books
Thursday, 10 August 2023
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) will showcase three bilingual children’s books in three different First Nations languages this Indigenous Literacy Day, which will take place on Wednesday 6 September, and...
Sharjah International Book Fair to present inaugural translation rights awards
Thursday, 10 August 2023
Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) has announced two new awards for publishing rights professionals selling translation rights, to be presented during the 2023 SIBF Publishers Conference, which runs from 29...
Davis joins Hardie Grant
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Hardie Grant has announced the appointment of Simon Davis to the role of food and lifestyle publisher for Hardie Grant Books, replacing Michael Harry. After starting out at Hardie Grant...
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