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UQP acquires second novel from Siang Lu 

An author photograph of Siang Lu, who is looking directly at the camera, while standing in front of some trees. Wednesday, 30 August 2023
UQP has acquired world rights to Siang Lu’s second novel, Ghost Cities, via Brendan Fredericks of BFredericksPR. Ghost Cities is ‘inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China’. Described by...

Hawker Brownlow to cease operations 

Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Hawker Brownlow Education has announced that it will cease operations on 1 September 2023 after over 40 years in the educational publishing industry, according to a statement posted to its...

Boffins bookseller joins Fremantle Press 

Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Former Boffins Books sales and marketing assistant Adam Matthews has joined Fremantle Press as a publicist. ‘Adam has been on our radar for some time,’ said Fremantle CEO Alex Allan...

UQP sells North American rights to ‘Personal Score’ 

A cover image of Personal Score by Ellen van Neerven, featuring the book's title and author over a hexagonal patterned background Monday, 28 August 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American rights to Ellen van Neerven’s nonfiction book Personal Score: Sport. Culture. Identity to Eric Obenauf at Ohio publisher Two Dollar Radio....

Zhan wins 2023 KYD Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize

On the left of this combined image is a blue square containing the text ‘Kill Your Darlings Creative Non-Fiction Essay Prize’. On the right is an author photograph of Xiaole Zhan. Monday, 28 August 2023
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced Xiaole Zhan as the winner of the 2023 KYD Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize for their essay ‘Think an Empty Room, Moonly with Phone Glow’....

Transit Lounge acquires Hooper’s debut novel 

Friday, 25 August 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Matthew Hooper’s debut novel A Cold Season. ‘This pitch-perfect novel is rich in voice, character and landscape and unlike anything I have read...

Readings Young Adult Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Thursday, 24 August 2023
Readings has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Readings Young Adult Book Prize. This year’s six shortlisted books are: Dancing Barefoot (Alice Boyle, Text) Spice Road (Maiya Ibrahim, Hodderscape) Completely...

Australia Reads announces Volume symposium program

Thursday, 24 August 2023
Australia Reads has announced the program for Volume, a free day-long symposium dedicated to creating a stronger reading culture in Australia, to be held on 21 September. The symposium, first...

NewSouth acquires Clift autobiographical novel 

Thursday, 24 August 2023
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to Charmian Clift’s unfinished novel The End of the Morning, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. The autobiographical novel about a young woman coming of...

Readings Children’s Book Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 23 August 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Readings Children’s Book Prize has been announced. This year’s six shortlisted books are: The Bookseller’s Apprentice (Amelia Mellor, Affirm) The Eerie Excavation (An Alice England...

Hachette acquires Terakes short story collection 

A black-and-white author photo of Zoe Terakes. They have their hands on their head and are looking into the camera. Wednesday, 23 August 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to a debut short story collection from Australian actor Zoe Terakes, to be titled Eros: Queer myths for lovers. The collection, which will feature...

Free trade agreement to extend NZ copyright term 

Wednesday, 23 August 2023
A new free trade agreement (FTA) between the government of Aotearoa New Zealand and the European Union (EU), expected to come into force in 2024, will extend the term of...

Full program announced for Ubud 2023

Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced the full line-up for its 20th-anniversary festival program, which will run from 18–22 October 2023 in Ubud, Indonesia. Australian and New Zealand...

Allan among redundancies at PRHNZ

Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Penguin Random House New Zealand (PRHNZ) had laid off three senior staff, including fiction publisher Harriet Allan, reports Newsroom.co.nz. Allan had worked for PRHNZ and its earlier incarnations for over...

Stubbs wins 2023 CBCA Nan Chauncy Award

Monday, 21 August 2023
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced Jenny Stubbs as the 2023 recipient of the Nan Chauncy Award. Named after the Tasmanian children’s author, the biennial Nan Chauncy...

Big Issue fiction edition returns

Monday, 21 August 2023
The Big Issue has announced the authors chosen for its 19th annual fiction edition. The 2023 edition includes short stories from 12 writers including eight emerging talents, selected from more than 681 submissions...

CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced

Friday, 18 August 2023
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the winners of the 2023 Book of the Year Awards. The winning books in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in...

Educational Publishing Awards 2023 shortlists announced

Friday, 18 August 2023
The titles shortlisted for the 2023 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) have been announced. The shortlisted categories include: Primary: Student Resource—English (Literacy/Literature/Language) Australian Primary Oxford Integrated Dictionary & Thesaurus 4E...

Heath wins 2023 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize 

Friday, 18 August 2023
Victorian writer Rowan Heath has won the 2023 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for their piece ‘The Mannequin’. Receiving a prize of $6000, Heath was shortlisted...

HarperCollins signs Drysdale in two-book deal 

Thursday, 17 August 2023
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the novel Hollywood Night by Pip Drysdale in a two-book deal brokered by publisher Roberta Ivers with Mollie Glick at Creative Artists Agency....

Adaptations to share Screen Australia funding

Thursday, 17 August 2023
Two book adaptations are among 47 projects to share $1.2 million of story development funding from Screen Australia. Funding will go towards adaptations of Jessie Tu’s novel A Lonely Girl...

 

 

 

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