HarperCollins acquires Guthrie debut novel
Tuesday, 3 December 2024
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Sam Guthrie’s debut novel, The Compromised. HarperCollins Australia head of fiction Catherine Milne acquired the book from Tom Gilliatt at a4 Literary. UK rights...
Comic Arts Awards of Australia winners announced
Monday, 2 December 2024
The winners of the 2024 Comic Arts Awards of Australia have been announced. The recipients in each category are: Gold Ledger Deadsheet (Benji Bajorek, self published) Eventually Everything Connects (Sarah Firth, A&U)...
Funder wins Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
Monday, 2 December 2024
Anna Funder has won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in the nonfiction category for the French translation of Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life (Hamish Hamilton). The book was translated to French...
Transit Lounge acquires Colley’s second novel
Monday, 2 December 2024
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Brendan Colley’s second novel, The Season for Flying Saucers, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. ‘I love the way Brendan Colley captures the strange in...
Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship 2024 shortlist announced
Thursday, 28 November 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Meg Caddy for ‘Dross Magic’, which ‘reimagines...
Copyright Agency, ASA, APA welcome Parliamentary report AI recommendations
Thursday, 28 November 2024
The Federal Government’s Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) has released its final report. The Committee was established to ‘inquire into and report on the opportunities and impacts for Australia arising out...
UWA Publishing acquires Inak children’s series
Thursday, 28 November 2024
UWA Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to children’s series The Cockatoo Crew by Lora Inak, in a four-book deal, via Danielle Binks at Jacinta Dimase Management. Illustrated by Kruti Desai,...
Lucashenko wins 2024 Nib Literary Award
Thursday, 28 November 2024
Melissa Lucashenko has won the Waverley Council’s 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, for her novel Edenglassie (UQP). The judging panel, comprising publisher Julia Carlomagno, poet Jamie...
Bavyka awarded 2025 Peter Blazey Fellowship
Thursday, 28 November 2024
Writer, visual artist, museum worker and community organiser Ju Bavyka has won the 2025 Peter Blazey Fellowship. Bavyka will use the fellowship to work on their debut work ‘Just a...
McGuire wins 2024 Richell Prize
Thursday, 28 November 2024
Myles McGuire has won the 2024 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for his story Stroke. Prize judges, who selected the manuscript from a shortlist of seven, were ‘impressed by McGuire’s...
Report finds acute shortage of skilled workers in publishing roles
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
A new report into skills shortages in the creative industries has identified an acute shortage of skilled workers in editorial, production, and management roles in the publishing industry. Prepared by...
Affirm Press acquires Louise picture-book series
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to six books in the picture-book series Handbooks for Little Humans by Zanni Louise, in a deal between Simon & Schuster and Affirm children’s...
Summit Books acquires Nelson short fiction collection
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Simon & Schuster imprint Summit Books has acquired ANZ rights to the debut short fiction collection Wait Here by Lucy Nelson, via Martin Shaw Literary. Each of the stories in...
BWF announces new venue, timing and bookseller
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) will next year take place at the Brisbane Powerhouse and has announced it will move to a later time of year. In a statement, BWF...
Wheelers to match Wheeler Centre donations
Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Lonely Planet co-founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler have pledged to match all donations to the Wheeler Centre (TWC) for the next three years, up to $1 million. TWC—a key component...
Hardie Grant acquires Baker-Finch biography
Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world print, ebook and audiobook rights to the authorised biography Ian Baker-Finch: To Hell and Back by Geoff Saunders. In the book, Saunders has charted the...
Bloomsbury audiobook catalogue added to Spotify
Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Bloomsbury had announced its catalogue of audiobook titles will be available through Spotify’s ‘Audiobooks in Premium’ limited-streaming offer. Spotify’s Premium subscribers in the UK, US, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and...
Taylor wins first prize in 2024 Scarlet Stiletto Awards
Monday, 25 November 2024
Sisters in Crime Australia announced the winners of the 2024 Scarlet Stiletto Awards at an event in South Melbourne on Saturday night. Newcastle author Nikki Lee Taylor won the $2000...
Writers receive Arts Tasmania funding
Monday, 25 November 2024
Three writers have received grants in the 2024 round of Arts Tasmania’s individuals and groups 2024-25 funding program. A total of $377,562 was awarded for 20 activities. Recipients with book-related...
Hepworth’s ‘The Family Next Door’ adaptation currently in production
Monday, 25 November 2024
A screen adaptation of Sally Hepworth’s novel The Family Next Door (Macmillan) will be produced as a television series for ABC TV. The six-part drama series follows a stranger as...
‘The Ministry of Time’ named Dymocks Book of the Year
Monday, 25 November 2024
Kaliane Bradley’s novel, The Ministry of Time (Sceptre), has been named the 2024 Dymocks Book of the Year. On accepting the award, Bradley said: ‘There isn’t a vote of confidence...
‘Praiseworthy’ longlisted for Climate Fiction Prize
Monday, 25 November 2024
Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy (Giramondo) has been longlisted for the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize. Chair of judges Madeleine Bunting said Praiseworthy ‘makes you giddy, plunging you into a distinctive form of...
Dymocks returns to Penrith
Thursday, 21 November 2024
Dymocks will return to Sydney’s western suburbs with a new franchise store in Westfield Penrith opening on Friday, 22 November. In a statement, Dymocks said new franchisee Farshid Kamal, a...
Australian bookshops sign up for Global Book Crawl initiative
Thursday, 21 November 2024
Local booksellers in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania are planning to take part in the Global Book Crawl, ‘a dynamic, community-centred event’ planned for the last week of...
New England Illustration Prize 2024 winners announced
Thursday, 21 November 2024
The New England Writers’ Centre has announced the winners of this year’s New England Illustration Prize for Children’s Picture Book Publishing. The winners of the 2024 award are: First prize...
‘Leading Wellbeing’ wins book of the year at the Australian Business Book Awards
Thursday, 21 November 2024
The winners of the 2024 Australian Business Book Awards have been announced. The winners are: Book of the year Leading Wellbeing (Fleur Heazlewood, Major Street) Communications and sales Self-Promotion Without...
Flanagan declines Baillie Gifford prize money
Thursday, 21 November 2024
Richard Flanagan, who was yesterday announced the winner of the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction for his book Question 7 (Knopf), has declined to accept the £50,000 (A$97,227) cash...
‘Flawed Hero’ wins 2024 Australian Political Book of the Year
Thursday, 21 November 2024
Chris Masters has won the 2024 Australian Political Book of the Year Award for the book Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes (A&U). Prize judges said Flawed Hero ‘addresses...
Amplify Bookstore opens physical store
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Amplify Bookstore, which opened in 2020 as an online-only bookseller specialising in in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, has opened a physical bookshop in Melbourne....
Andrew replaces Hardingham at Unity Books Wellington
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
In Aotearoa New Zealand, Susanna Andrew has been appointed manager of Unity Books Wellington, replacing Adrian Hardingham. In a statement, the bookshop’s co-owners Tilly Lloyd and Jo and Lawrie McColl,...
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