Copyright Agency funding: Au, Tsao receive $25k Create grants, new fellowship for young writers
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Twenty-one arts organisations have received a total of $274,517 in the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. The major capital city writers’ festivals and Byron Writers’...
Hachette Aotearoa launches Moa Press
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Hachette Aotearoa has established a new imprint, Moa Press, which ‘aims to champion a diverse range of voices, representing a multitude of cultures and perspectives from within Aotearoa New Zealand’....
UWAP acquires Akhurst YA novel
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired ANZ rights to Graham Akhurst’s young adult novel Borderland, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. Set in Brisbane and the fictional rural town of...
Ross wins first prize in 2022 Scarlet Stiletto Awards
Monday, 5 December 2022
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2022 Scarlet Stiletto Awards. ‘Tuesday Jocks’ by Fin J Ross won first prize ($2000); last year’s winner Hayley Young won...
Text acquires new Lohrey novel
Monday, 5 December 2022
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to Amanda Lohrey's new novel The Conversion, via Lyn Tranter of Australian Literary Management. The Conversion follows Zoe, who leaves Sydney for a small...
A&U acquires Bolton debut ‘Life Itself’
Monday, 5 December 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Trish Bolton’s debut novel Life Itself. Rights were acquired by A&U publisher Jane Palfreyman and executive editor Genevieve Buzo. Life Itself...
HarperCollins acquires Whitlam biography by Bramston
Friday, 2 December 2022
HarperCollins Australia has acquired Troy Bramston’s biography of former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam. The currently untitled work will be a ‘thorough, highly readable’ biography drawing on newly discovered archival...
Pantera acquires James book on human sexuality
Friday, 2 December 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to Kinky History: The stories behind our intimate lives, past and present by Esmé Louise James. Drawing on James’s popular online lecture series Kinky...
George appointed Booktopia chair
Friday, 2 December 2022
Online bookseller Booktopia has appointed Retail Food Group (RFG) executive chairman Peter George as its new chair. George replaces Chris Beare in the role, who resigned yesterday, 1 December after...
NZ PM’s Awards for Literary Achievement winners announced
Friday, 2 December 2022
Creative New Zealand has announced the recipients of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, worth NZ$60,000 (A$56,000) each. In recognition of their contribution to New Zealand literature, Stephanie...
UQP announces new First Nations Classics series
Thursday, 1 December 2022
UQP has announced the launch of a First Nations Classics series, with the first instalment to be released in June 2023. The publisher said the inspiration behind the new series...
Gilliatt joins Left Bank Literary
Thursday, 1 December 2022
Former Allen & Unwin (A&U) publishing director Tom Gilliatt has joined Left Bank Literary (LBL) as an agent. Gilliatt joined A&U in 2014 and finished in late September this year....
Sorrento Writers Festival announce new writing prize
Thursday, 1 December 2022
The Sorrento Writers Festival, a new four-day event created by former bookseller Corrie Perkin and scheduled for April 2023 on Victoria’s Morning Peninsula, has established a $5000 new writing prize....
Nash re-elected to Booktopia board; CFC funding ‘hampered by EGM and board activity’
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Booktopia founder and former CEO Tony Nash was re-elected to the company’s board at yesterday’s annual general meeting (AGM). Nash, who was given notice to step away from executive management...
National Survey of Australian Book Authors 2022 findings released
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Macquarie researchers Jan Zwar, Paul Crosby and David Throsby have released the findings of the team’s National Survey of Australian Book Authors. The research, which follows on from a similar...
Transit Lounge acquires new Matthews novel on online dating
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Never Look Desperate by Rachel Matthews, in a direct author to publisher deal. Matthews's third novel is described by Transit Lounge publisher Barry...
‘Lessons in Chemistry’ wins Dymocks 2022 Book of the Year
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
London-based American writer Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry (Doubleday) has been named Dymocks Book of the Year for 2022. Set in the early 1960s, Garmus's debut novel follows chemist Elizabeth Zott,...
Fegan wins 2022 Catalyse Nonfiction Prize
Monday, 28 November 2022
Express Media and Deakin University have announced Sar Fegan as the winner of the Catalyse Nonfiction Prize, formerly the Deakin University Nonfiction Prize. Fegan won for their piece 'A Fiery...
Piper wins 2022 SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition
Monday, 28 November 2022
Tessa Piper, a 37-year-old public servant from Melbourne, has won this year's SBS Emerging Writers' Competition, worth $5000. Piper's winning story 'The Usual' was selected by judges Alice Pung and...
NSW Prem’s History Awards adds $10,000 prize
Monday, 28 November 2022
The NSW Government has announced the establishment of a new history prize category in the NSW Premier’s History Awards. The Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize, valued at $10,000, will...
Jackson wins 2022 SPN Book of the Year Award
Monday, 28 November 2022
Eleanor Jackson has won the 2022 Small Press Network (SPN) Book of the Year Award for her poetry collection Gravidity and Parity (Vagabond Press). The winner was chosen from a...
Affirm acquires Daley anthology about teachers
Friday, 25 November 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a forthcoming anthology about teachers, to be edited by Megan Daley. The anthology will showcase educators who nurture, inspire, champion and create change, in...
Pantera acquires Cohen debut ‘Everyone and Everything’
Thursday, 24 November 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights for the debut novel Everyone and Everything by Nadine J Cohen, who is represented by Stacey Testro International. A tale of ‘family, mental health...
Kefala wins 2022 Patrick White Award
Thursday, 24 November 2022
Sydney-based author Antigone Kefala is the winner of this year’s $15,000 Patrick White Literary Award. The award recognises Kefala’s achievements as a poet, and a writer of fiction and nonfiction....
Black Inc. sells ‘One Hundred Days’ to HarperVia
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to One Hundred Days by Alice Pung to HarperCollins imprint HarperVia. The deal was made by Black Inc. international director Sophy...
National Trust WA INSPIRE residency recipients announced
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
The successful applicants to the 2022 INSPIRE Writer in Residence initiative, offered by the National Trust of Western Australia in partnership with the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural...
Cramond, Burbidge named BookPeople reps of the year
Monday, 21 November 2022
BookPeople, the newly rebranded Australian Booksellers Association, has announced the recipients of its Rep of the Year awards for 2022. The reps of the year are: NSW Rep of the...
QBD 2022 Books of the Year announced
Monday, 21 November 2022
QBD has announced the chain’s 2022 Books of the Year. The winning titles are: Fiction Lying Beside You (Michael Robotham, Hachette) Nonfiction My Dream Time: A memoir of tennis and...
Erese wins final Deborah Cass Prize
Friday, 18 November 2022
Anneliz Marie Erese has won Writers Victoria’s 2022 Deborah Cass Prize for her story ‘International’. Erese’s story was chosen from a shortlist of 11. She receives $3000 to assist in further development...
‘Currowan’ wins Walkley Book Award
Friday, 18 November 2022
Bronwyn Adcock has won the 2022 Walkley Book Award for Currowan: The story of a fire and a community during Australia's worst summer, published by Black Inc. Chosen from a...
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