Qld Literary Awards 2022 shortlists
4 August 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance ($25,000) Wounded Country...
Pantera announces Public Holiday Swap initiative
3 August 2022
Pantera Press has announced a new Public Holiday Swap initiative that gives permanent employees the option to work on a public holiday and take a different day of leave in...
Weir, Henderson launch Bold Type Agency
3 August 2022
Former Penguin Random House (PRH) senior rights manager Nerrilee Weir and former Simon & Schuster (S&S) publishing director Fiona Henderson have announced the creation of a new rights agency. Bold...
‘Grimmish’ sells to UK, North America
2 August 2022
Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary, on behalf of Puncher & Wattmann, has sold UK and US rights at auction to Michael Winkler’s debut novel Grimmish, in a co-publishing deal between...
Mossop appointed SWF artistic director
1 August 2022
Ann Mossop has been appointed artistic director of the Sydney Writers Festival (SWF) for a three-year term, replacing Michael Williams, who programmed the 2021 and 2022 Festivals. Mossop comes to...
Nib Literary Award 2022 longlist announced
1 August 2022
The longlist for the 2022 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $20,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Currowan (Bronwyn Adcock, Black Inc.) Telling Tennant’s Story (Dean...
Age Book of the Year 2022 shortlists announced
1 August 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Age Book of the Year Award, which this year includes a prize for nonfiction, have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Fiction...
Unity Books wins NZ Bookshop of the Year; Hedleys recognised with Lifetime Achievement Award
1 August 2022
Unity Books in Wellington was named winner of the Nielsen BookData Bookshop of the Year Award at the Aotearoa Book Trade Industry Awards on 30 July in Auckland. Unity Books,...
Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize shortlist announced
29 July 2022
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The shortlisted stories and their authors are: 'Dog Park' by Nina Cullen 'Natural Wonder' by...
UQP acquires Wagan Watson short story collection
29 July 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to poet Samuel Wagan Watson's first short story collection, New and Used Ghosts. The collection of ghost stories interrogates and celebrates myth, legend and secrets...
Transit Lounge acquires Shirm’s ‘The Crying Room’
28 July 2022
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Gretchen Shirm's second novel The Crying Room, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. ‘It is hard to think of a novel more deeply sensitive and...
MWF full program announced
27 July 2022
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced its full 2022 program, which runs 8–11 September, and features over 150 events. The festival makes its return to live programming after two years...
APA, ABA children’s publishing conference returns
27 July 2022
The program for the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Children's Publishing Conference, held in conjunction with the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA), has been announced. ‘Between the Covers, Behind the Counter’, which...
Harper tops libraries index second year running
26 July 2022
Public sector software provider Civica and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) have released this year’s Civica Libraries Index, which looked at borrowing data across regional and metropolitan libraries...
Davitt Awards 2022 shortlists announced
26 July 2022
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the shortlists for the 2022 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult crime novel...
UQP acquires inaugural Kathryn Heyman Mentorship Award–winning novel
26 July 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to the debut novel Roseghetto by Kirsty Jagger, inaugural recipient of the Kathryn Heyman Mentorship Award for a writer from a background of social and...
Reviews, residencies, new publications receive latest Copyright Agency funding
25 July 2022
Increased funding for book reviews, a new Mascara x Varuna editorial and writing residency, and several publications are among 20 initiatives receiving a total of $256,245 in the latest round...
Kennedy wins 2022 Furphy Literary Award
25 July 2022
The winners of the 2022 Furphy Literary Award have been announced. Cate Kennedy won first place in the open category for her short story ‘Art and Life’, receiving $15,000 and...
Henderson appointed Hachette senior nonfiction publisher
22 July 2022
Hachette Australia has appointed Scott Henderson, previously editor and content director of Men’s Health Australia, as senior nonfiction publisher. Group publishing director Fiona Hazard said Henderson 'clearly has the vision...
Ultimo launches UK fiction list
22 July 2022
Ultimo Press will launch six fiction titles into the UK market in late 2022. Carried by the Hardie Grant UK sales team, Ultimo’s fiction list will be launched in the...
Furphy Literary Award 2022 shortlist announced
21 July 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Furphy Literary Award has been announced. The winner of the short story competition receives $15,000, making the award one of the richest prizes for a...
Down wins 2022 Miles Franklin for ‘Bodies of Light’
20 July 2022
Jennifer Down has won the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for her second novel Bodies of Light (Text). At 31 years old, Down is one of the youngest authors...
A&U acquires Lim middle-grade novel
20 July 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ, Oceania and non-exclusive Asia rights to a new middle-grade novel by Rebecca Lim, Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky, via the Annabel Barker...
Affirm acquires two Robinson novels
20 July 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to two new novels by Alice Robinson. The first title, Blueshifts, is a literary/speculative fiction novel set both 100 years into the future and...
T S Bookshop urges board to rethink closure
20 July 2022
Customers and supporters of the T S Bookshop in Melbourne have launched a Change.org petition in response to the planned closure of the store by the board of the Theosophical...
Summers leaves Hardie Grant
20 July 2022
Hardie Grant Books publisher Arwen Summers has left the role after five years at the company. Summers said in a LinkedIn post she was 'in need of major change' after two...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2022 finalists announced
19 July 2022
The finalists for the 2022 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. Finalists were announced in 10 categories including: Best illustrated book Bill Hammond: Across...
HarperCollins acquires two crime novels by Lando
19 July 2022
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to two novels by Veronica Lando, via Benjamin Paz at Curtis Brown. The first book, The Drowning Girls, is a ‘darkly absorbing’ mystery set in...
Batt awarded Reading Australia fellowship
18 July 2022
The Copyright Agency has named Jantiena Batt, a deputy principal working within the ACT Education Directorate, as the 2022 Reading Australia Fellow for Teachers of English Literacy. Batt receives a...
Sidnam wins 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize
15 July 2022
Wellington-based poet and student Emma Sidnam has been awarded the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished manuscript by an Aotearoa New Zealand writer. Chosen from a shortlist of four,...
