‘Henry Hamlet’s Heart’ sells to US, UQP acquires second Wilde YA novel
Monday, 25 October 2021
UQP has sold North American rights for Rhiannon Wilde's YA debut Henry Hamlet’s Heart to Charlesbridge, and has acquired world rights to Wilde's second novel Where You Left Us. Released...
Serong, Nannestad win $100k Historical Novel Prize
Monday, 25 October 2021
Victorian writer Jock Serong has won the $50,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize in the adult category for The Burning Island (Text), while Katrina Nannestad has won the $30,000 children and...
S&S signs Spicer book on AI bias
Monday, 25 October 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired a new book by journalist Tracey Spicer on ‘the ways that sexist and racist stereotypes are being embedded into emerging technologies, thus perpetuating...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Friday, 22 October 2021
The shortlists for the 2021 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction A Treacherous Country (K M Kruimink, A&U) In the Time...
Aotearoa NZ industry shocked by NZ$500k grant for book recommendation site
Thursday, 21 October 2021
The Aotearoa New Zealand literary industry is frustrated and ‘astonished’ by a NZ$500,000 (A$479,000) grant given to an organisation to improve access to books, reports Stuff.co.nz. The grant was made...
MUP acquires Quilty’s ‘Fall of Kabul’
Thursday, 21 October 2021
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has acquired world rights to Fall of Kabul: America’s last days in Afghanistan by award-winning photo-journalist Andrew Quilty. MUP acquired rights directly from the author. Quilty...
SPN 2021 program announced
Thursday, 21 October 2021
The program for the 2021 Small Press Network (SPN) annual Independent Publishing Conference has been announced. The 10th annual SPN conference will be held online from 25–27 November, with a...
Aus publishers attend Frankfurt virtually for second year
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
The 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair begins today, with publishers and authors attending the five-day event in-person or virtually through Frankfurt’s digital rights platform. At the annual opening press conference, Börsenverein...
NSW bookshops reopen, Dymocks unveils flagship store refurbishment
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
On 11 October in New South Wales, non-essential retail, including bookshops, opened for fully vaccinated customers for the first time since the state went into lockdown in June. New state...
Scribe acquires Marson nonfiction book
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Scribe has acquired a nonfiction book about sexual violence by ACT-based prosecutor Katrina Marson. World rights (ex North America) were acquired from Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary. The as...
Arts NT Varuna Fellowships announced
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
The recipients of the 2021 Arts NT Varuna Residency Fellowships have been announced. Presented in partnership with the Northern Territory government, the fellowship gives six writers from the Top End...
Aus international rights sales up by volume and value: new report
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
The Australia Council has released the results of its research into Australian international book rights sales. The original research for the report was based at Macquarie University and supported by...
Writing NSW announces recipients of new paid publishing internships
Monday, 18 October 2021
Writing NSW has announced the successful candidates for its new internship for emerging editors from culturally diverse backgrounds. The paid internship program is presented in partnership with publishers Giramondo, Hachette,...
Liminal & Pantera Press nonfiction prize shortlist announced
Monday, 18 October 2021
The shortlist for the inaugural Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize has been announced. The shortlisted writers, chosen from a longlist announced in September, are: André Dao Brandon K Liew...
Creative Victoria latest funding recipients
Monday, 18 October 2021
Creative Victoria has announced the latest recipients of funding from its Creators Fund and Creative Workers Fund. Twenty-seven Victorian creators have shared in $995,902 of funding through the 2021 Creators...
Pan Mac acquires crime debut in ‘vigorously contested’ auction
Monday, 18 October 2021
Pan Macmillan has acquired ANZ rights to Judgement Day, the debut crime novel by Melbourne author Mali Cornish. The rights were acquired via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary in a...
Laguna wins 2021 Colin Roderick Literary Award
Friday, 15 October 2021
Sofie Laguna has won the $20,000 Colin Roderick Literary Award and the H T Priestley Medal for her novel Infinite Splendours (A&U). Laguna’s coming-of-age story of a boy living in...
S&S acquires Weir novel
Friday, 15 October 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to a novel set in contemporary Byron Bay, by journalist James Weir. Rights to The Hemsworth Effect—a title referencing the influence...
Magabala announces publishing cadets, Clark appointed trainee editor
Thursday, 14 October 2021
Sharona Wilson and Melena Cole-Manolis have joined Magabala Books as part of the publisher's inaugural Indigenous Publishing Cadetship program. Wilson is a proud Gooniyandi and Gajerroong woman, who was born...
Hardie Grant acquires ‘Max Gawn Captain’s Diary’
Thursday, 14 October 2021
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights to Max Gawn Captain’s Diary by Melbourne Football Club captain Max Gawn, in a deal negotiated by Anthony McConville at Mac’s Sports Promotions. Gawn’s book...
Varuna launches pilot Western Sydney writers fellowship
Thursday, 14 October 2021
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has launched a new fellowship focussing on stories and writers from Western Sydney. Western Sydney Lamplight is a fortnight-long intensive pilot program for 12 writers...
PRH Melbourne office moves to Southbank
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced its Melbourne office is moving. The publisher will move from its current location at 707 Collins Street in Melbourne’s Docklands precinct to a new...
Scribble’s ‘I am the Subway’ wins World Illustration Award
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
I am the Subway by Kim Hyo-eun, translated by Deborah Smith and published in English by Scribble, has won the professional children’s publishing category in the 2021 World Illustration Awards....
Milnes appointed ILF COO
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced the appointment of Mike Milnes to the newly created position of chief operating officer (COO). Milnes will take on responsibilities previously held by...
Hachette acquires Collier debut memoir
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Hachette has acquired world rights to Inconceivable, a memoir by Alexandra Collier, in a deal brokered by Sharne McGee at Liberty Artist Management. Inconceivable chronicles Collier’s decision to join ‘the...
PRH acquires new Toltz novel
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired Here Goes Nothing, the new novel by Steve Toltz. Publisher Nikki Christer acquired ANZ rights from Elizabeth Sheinkman at Peters, Fraser & Dunlop,...
Rogers appointed Echo MD
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Bonnier Books UK has appointed Juliet Rogers as managing director of its Sydney-based imprint Echo Publishing. Rogers, who was most recently CEO of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA), has...
Ultimo acquires Mikosza memoir
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Homesickness, a literary memoir by Janine Mikosza, in a deal brokered by Melanie Ostell at Melanie Ostell Literary. Homesickness investigates the author's own...
Bragg Prize for Science Writing shortlist announced
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
The shortlist for this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: 'The COVID–climate collision’ by Jo Chandler (Griffith Review) ‘Everlasting free-fall’ by...
NSW retail to reopen after lockdown
Monday, 11 October 2021
After over 100 days of restrictions, New South Wales has reached its reopening target of 70% of the population being fully vaccinated with two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Bookshops...
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