New writers festival for Central Coast Archive
Tuesday, 19 January 2021
The first guests have been announced for the inaugural Words on the Waves Writers Festival, a new literary event that will take place in Umina Beach on the Central Coast...
Wamala buys The Kids’ Bookshop Archive
Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Graham Gill has sold schools-servicing online bookseller The Kids’ Bookshop to former manager Erin Wamala. Established in late 2012, The Kids’ Bookshop supplies schools with books for libraries, classrooms, literacy...
Nielsen: Australian book sales up 7.8% in 2020 Archive
Monday, 18 January 2021
Sales of books in Australia grew 7.8% in 2020, according to data from Nielsen BookScan, with total sales by value coming in at $1.25 billion for the year, compared to...
Griffith Review launches new writing competition Archive
Monday, 18 January 2021
Griffith Review has announced a new award for new and emerging writers. The Long and Short of It competition is open to submissions of fiction and nonfiction from 3500 to...
Pippos debut chosen for inaugural NSW Reads program Archive
Friday, 15 January 2021
The New South Wales Public Library Association has chosen Lucky’s (Andrew Pippos, Picador) for its first state-wide reading program, NSW Reads. Described as a state-wide ‘book club’, NSW Reads will...
Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship 2021 shortlist announced Archive
Friday, 15 January 2021
Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, awarded annually to an Australian writer for a proposed biographical work. The shortlisted writers and their projects...
KYD partners with Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize Archive
Friday, 15 January 2021
Kill Your Darlings has signed on as a partner journal for the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize. The international experimental fiction award, launched by the Madrid-based bookshop Desperate Literature in...
ASA: Royalties declined for more than a third of authors in 2020 Archive
Thursday, 14 January 2021
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has found that more than half (52%) of respondents to its author survey received no advance for their work, while of those who did,...
Overland creates new prize in honour of Reed-Gilbert Archive
Thursday, 14 January 2021
Overland literary journal has created a new prize in honour of the late Wiradjuri elder, poet, writer, activist and artist Kerry Reed-Gilbert. The Kuracca Prize for Australian Literature is intended...
Watts appointed Thames & Hudson regional managing director: Asia-Pacific Archive
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Thames & Hudson Australia managing director Daniel Watts has been appointed to the newly created role of regional managing director: Asia-Pacific. According to a statement from the company, Thames &...
A&U acquires Xu memoir ‘You’re So Brave’ Archive
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Vicky Xu’s memoir You’re So Brave at auction, from Benython Oldfield of Zeitgeist Agency. A&U described the book as ‘a coming-of-age...
Hachette announces two-year partnership with Future Women Archive
Tuesday, 12 January 2021
Hachette Australia has announced a new ‘two-year publishing and entertainment partnership’ with Future Women, a ‘premium content-led community of professional women’ founded in 2018 and designed to help its membership...
Russell Prize for Humour Writing adds children’s category Archive
Tuesday, 12 January 2021
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced a new category in the 2021 Russell Prize for Humour Writing, aimed at a younger audience. The new $5000 Humour...
ABR announces Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2021 shortlist Archive
Tuesday, 12 January 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poems are: 'The Vernal Equinox Story' by Danielle Blau (USA) 'A Poetics of...
Magabala announces winner of inaugural fellowship Archive
Tuesday, 12 January 2021
Magabala Books has announced Tristan Michael Savage as the recipient of the inaugural Magabala Fellowship for a mid-career author. Savage, a Brisbane-based, Kalkadoon man who grew up in Townsville, is...
Limprecht awarded 2020 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship Archive
Monday, 11 January 2021
Eleanor Limprecht has been awarded the Australian Society of Authors' (ASA) 2020 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship, worth $20,000. The scholarship is offered annually to an Australian author to provide them with...
‘Forgotten Corners’ named SPN Book of the Year 2020 Archive
Monday, 11 January 2021
Tasmanian writer and activist Pete Hay has been awarded the inaugural Small Press Network (SPN) Book of the Year for his essay collection Forgotten Corners: Essays in search of an...
Scribe & Varuna Residency 2020 fellows announced Archive
Tuesday, 15 December 2020
The recipients of the 2020 Scribe & Varuna Residency have been announced. The writers and their projects are: Lauren Fuge for 'Voyagers' Jessica White for 'From the Miniature to the...
Ultimo acquires debut novel in eight-house auction Archive
Tuesday, 15 December 2020
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Diana Reid's debut novel Love & Virtue in 'a hotly contested eight-publisher auction'. The novel, which explores virtue signalling and moral ambiguity in...
Hardie Grant acquires Tutt’s ‘The First Scientists’ Archive
Friday, 11 December 2020
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights to The First Scientists, an illustrated middle-grade book by 2020 NSW Young Australian of the Year recipient Corey Tutt. Tutt is a Kamilaroi man...
Spineless Wonders launches audio production stream Archive
Friday, 11 December 2020
Spineless Wonders has launched its new audio production stream with the release of two audiobooks, My Name Is Revenge by Ashleigh Kalagian Blunt and Siarad by Caroline Reid. Siarad, named...
UQP acquires two new books from Riwoe Archive
Friday, 11 December 2020
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to two new works of fiction by Mirandi Riwoe: short story collection Somewhere Between and historical novel Sunbirds. Somewhere Between will include both...
PRH Australia acquires new Tumarkin essay collection, rights to backlist Archive
Friday, 11 December 2020
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired a new collection of essays from Maria Tumarkin, as well as the rights to her backlist titles Traumascapes and Axiomatic, via Clare Forster...
UWA Publishing to become ‘hybrid’ press, management to be ‘re-aligned’ Archive
Friday, 11 December 2020
The University of Western Australia (UWA) has announced the university’s publishing arm will become a ‘hybrid’ publisher, and ‘internal management of UWA publishing will be re-aligned to the Library’. Of...
Black Inc. acquires Gergis book on climate change Archive
Friday, 11 December 2020
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to climate scientist Joëlle Gergis’s Witnessing the Unthinkable: Notes from the front line of the climate crisis from Jane Novak Literary Agency in a...
Australia Council, Create NSW, WA arts funding latest rounds announced Archive
Thursday, 10 December 2020
Writing NSW will receive $100,000 from the Australia Council to ‘assist writers to navigate the ongoing disruption caused by Covid-19 that will enable $200,000 in payments to around 300 writers’....
Centre for Stories receives funding for new journal Archive
Thursday, 10 December 2020
Perth's Centre for Stories has received funding for a new online journal and two-year project to support and develop writers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The Centre received $42,465...
Ultimo acquires first novel from Bent Archive
Thursday, 10 December 2020
Ultimo Press has pre-empted ANZ rights to Hannah Bent’s debut novel When Things Are Alive They Hum via Gaby Naher at Left Bank Literary. Set in Hong Kong, London and China...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2020 winners announced Archive
Thursday, 10 December 2020
The winners of the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction The Yield (Tara June Winch, Hamish Hamilton) Nonfiction (joint winners) Songspirals:...
Wild, Riddle nominated for 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Awards Archive
Thursday, 10 December 2020
Margaret Wild and Tohby Riddle have been nominated by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Australia as the Australian candidates for the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Awards. Wild...
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