Aurealis Awards shortlists announced
Friday, 10 March 2023
The shortlists for the 2022 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. Among the shortlists are: Best Fantasy Novel The Not So...
Penguin Literary Prize 2023 shortlist announced
Thursday, 9 March 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize. The shortlisted titles are: 'The Elementals' by Liz Allan, the story of The Bastards, a...
Bell wins Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2023
Thursday, 9 March 2023
Writer and anthropologist Diane Bell has been awarded Writers Victoria’s $20,000 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her proposed biography of the relationship between Ngarrindjeri woman Louisa Karpany, née Kontinyeri (c1840–1921)...
VIPs announced for 2023
Thursday, 9 March 2023
The Australia Council has announced the 14 international publishers, editors, and literary agents participating in the 22nd year of the Visiting International Publishers (VIPs). The program will return this year...
HarperCollins acquires Blanchard novel in two-book deal
Thursday, 9 March 2023
HarperCollins Publishers Australia has acquired world rights to A Woman of Courage by Tania Blanchard in a two-book deal brokered by publisher Roberta Ivers. Set in the last decade of...
BookPeople releases sustainability report
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
BookPeople, formerly the Australian Booksellers Association, has released its industry sustainability report, Towards a Sustainable Bookselling Future. Written by publisher and author Angela Meyer, the report outlines key areas of concern...
Tsao wins US PEN Translation Prize
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Sydney-based writer and translator Tiffany Tsao won the US$3000 (A$4450) PEN Translation Prize for her translation of People from Bloomington (Budi Darma, Penguin Classics). The translation prize was one of...
S&S acquires Reid debut novel
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia has acquired world rights to a debut novel by Teela Reid, a Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman and co-founder of Instagram account @Blackfulla_Bookclub, via Jane Novak. Legally...
Echo to publish new Morris novel in two-book deal
Monday, 6 March 2023
Echo Publishing’s parent company has acquired world all-language rights to Heather Morris’s forthcoming novel Sisters under the Rising Sun. Margaret Stead, publisher at Zaffre and Manilla Press at Bonnier UK,...
‘Grimmish’ removed from Christina Stead shortlist
Monday, 6 March 2023
The novel Grimmish, self-published by author Michael Winkler in 2021 and published by Puncher & Wattmann in 2022, has been removed from the shortlist for the Christina Stead prize for...
‘All That’s Left Unsaid’ wins 2023 MUD Literary Prize
Monday, 6 March 2023
Tracey Lien’s novel All That’s Left Unsaid (HarperCollins) has won the sixth annual MUD Literary Prize. Presented each year for the best debut literary novel by an Australian writer, the...
Walker Books to distribute Knights Of
Friday, 3 March 2023
Walker Books will be the Australian distributor for London-based independent publishing house Knights Of from August this year. Founded in 2017, Knights Of set out to address the lack of...
Stella Prize 2023 longlist announced: ‘pathos, rage, and wild, joyful swagger’
Thursday, 2 March 2023
The longlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced. The longlisted books are: The Furies (Mandy Beaumont, Hachette) Every Version of You (Grace Chan,...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Thursday, 2 March 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Changes to the awards this year include the $30,000 Indigenous Writers’ Prize now being offered annually; the...
Canberra Writers Festival appoints Silcox as artistic director
Thursday, 2 March 2023
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) has appointed Canberra-based writer and critic Beejay Silcox as its incoming artistic director. Silcox is well-known as a moderator for interviews, book launches and writers’ festivals....
S&S Australia acquires Ho debut nonfiction
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to the debut nonfiction work by writer and influencer Alyssa Ho. Ho began writing publicly for her blog after finishing high...
Writers SA launches Writers in Schools program
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
South Australian writers will be embedded in outer suburban and regional South Australian public high schools, as part of Writers SA’s Writers in Schools program. As part of the program,...
‘A Kunwinjku Counting Book’ named USBBY honour book
Monday, 27 February 2023
A Kunwinjku Counting Book (Gabriel Maralngurra & Felicity Wright, Enchanted Lion Books) has been named a 2023 United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) international honour book. The...
S&S acquires Sales nonfiction
Friday, 24 February 2023
Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner Australia has acquired world rights to a new work of nonfiction by Leigh Sales. Storytellers: Questions, answers and the craft of journalism will contain 10...
HarperCollins acquires Woods debut in two-book deal
Thursday, 23 February 2023
HarperCollins Publishers Australia has acquired ANZ rights to debut novel After the Forest by Kell Woods, in a two-book pre-emptive deal brokered by publisher Roberta Ivers and Tor Books. After...
‘Ghost Bird’ receives funding for feature film development
Thursday, 23 February 2023
Lisa Fuller’s young adult novel Ghost Bird (UQP) has received funding from Screen Australia to develop the book into a feature film. The funding is part of Screen Australia’s First...
Nielsen survey: 25 to 34 year olds buy ‘lion’s share of audiobooks’
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
A pilot report from Nielsen BookData’s ANZ Books & Consumers service has found most audiobooks purchases are by readers in the 25 to 34 age bracket. The report, which highlights...
Five Australian publishers shortlisted for 2023 Bologna Prize
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Australian publishers Affirm Press, EK Books, Magabala Books, Starfish Bay and Wilkins Farago have been shortlisted in this year’s Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the...
McFarlane, Serong longlisted for 2023 Walter Scott Prize
Monday, 20 February 2023
Two Australian authors have been longlisted for the UK’s £25,000 (A$43,750) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Fiona McFarlane was longlisted for her second novel The Sun Walks Down (A&U),...
Racklyeft wins 2023 SCBWI Bologna Scholarship
Friday, 17 February 2023
Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft has been awarded a Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) International Bologna Scholarship to attend this year’s Bologna book fair. Racklyeft and...
Walker acquires Kate and Angourie Rice YA romance novel
Thursday, 16 February 2023
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to YA romance novel Stuck Up and Stupid, the first book by mother and daughter writing team Kate and Angourie Rice, via Benython...
PRH signs Johns in two-book deal
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to the novel The Other Bridget Jones by Rachael Johns in a two-book deal, agented by Helen Breitwieser of Cornerstone Literary....
Judith Wright Poetry Prize, Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize shortlists
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
The shortlists for the 2022 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize have been announced. The eight poems shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize are:...
Scribe acquires Smaill’s ‘Bird Life’
Monday, 13 February 2023
In the UK, Scribe has acquired world English rights to the novel Bird Life by New Zealand author Anna Smaill via Will Francis at Janklow and Nesbit, reports BookBrunch. Smaill...
Pantera sells ‘Courting Samira’ to HarperVia, acquires fourth Awad novel
Monday, 13 February 2023
Pantera Press has sold world English rights (excluding ANZ) to Amal Awad’s novel Courting Samira to Gretchen Schmid at HarperVia, an imprint of Harper Collins. Courting Samira is a romantic...
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