Queensland Literary Awards 2023 shortlists
Wednesday, 2 August 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance We Come with...
Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize shortlist announced
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Black Wax’ by Winter Bel (France/UK) ‘The Mannequin’ by Rowan Heath (Victoria) ‘Our...
UQP acquires Figueroa Barroso debut
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
UQP has acquired world rights to debut novel Hailstones Fell without Rain by Natalia Figueroa Barroso. Hailstones Fell without Rain is a semi-autobiographical novel that focuses on the experiences of...
Inaugural DANZ award to celebrate diverse children’s fiction
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
The new biennial DANZ (Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children's Book Award has been established 'to recognise, award, and celebrate diverse children’s fiction'. In partnership with the Australian...
Rewell wins 2023 Furphy Literary Award
Monday, 31 July 2023
The winners of the 2023 Furphy Literary Award have been announced. Journalist and copywriter Jen Rewell won this year's $15,000 award for ‘Away to Me’, which judges described as an...
New FNAWN Varuna fellowship, FNAWN Summit speakers announced
Monday, 31 July 2023
A new First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) Varuna Fellowship Program will offer six emerging or established members of FNAWN an all-expenses paid, fully catered one-week residency at Varuna in...
Nib Literary Award 2023 longlist announced
Monday, 31 July 2023
The longlist for the 2023 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: An Intimate History of Evolution: The story of the...
Graphic novelists to appear at Adelaide Papercuts Comics Festival
Friday, 28 July 2023
Papercuts Comics Festival, a biennial celebration of comics and graphic novels, will return to Adelaide on 16-17 September. The Creators in Conversation discussion panels include: children’s illustrators Gavin Aung Than,...
Sex: Two billion years of procreation and recreation optioned for television
Friday, 28 July 2023
The nonfiction book Sex: Two billion years of procreation and recreation (David Baker, Black Inc.) has been optioned by documentary producers Smith&Nasht for adaptation as a science television series, in a...
Johnson, Ryckmans set up new lit agency
Thursday, 27 July 2023
Lou Johnson and Jeanne Ryckmans have set up a new literary agency, Key People Literary Management. Johnson was most recently the international publishing director for Miami-based Mango Publishing, after previous...
ASA makes submission to inquiry on safe and responsible AI
Thursday, 27 July 2023
Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has raised concerns of authors and illustrators on the risk posed by generative artificial intelligence (AI) in a submission to the government inquiry into safe...
Vincent appointed Wheeler Centre CEO
Thursday, 27 July 2023
The Wheeler Centre has appointed ABC journalist and producer Erin Vincent as its new CEO, replacing Caro Llewellyn, who announced earlier this year that she would step down from the...
UWAP acquires debut novel by Tsokos Purtill
Wednesday, 26 July 2023
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Emily Tsokos Purtill’s debut novel Matia. Tsokos Purtill is a Western Australian writer of Greek heritage, who lives in Perth/Boorloo on the...
Davitt Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 26 July 2023
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the shortlists for the 2023 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult novel Release...
Chandran wins 2023 Miles Franklin for ‘Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens’
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Shankari Chandran has won the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for her novel, Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Ultimo). Chosen from a shortlist of six announced in June,...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2023 finalists announced
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
The finalists for the 2023 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. Finalists were announced in 10 categories including: Best Illustrated Book Cape to Bluff (Simon...
Hachette acquires new series from Buist and Simsion
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ and US rights to Out of the Blue by Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion in a two-book deal between the authors and Hachette’s head of...
Kathro joins Affirm as marketing manager
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Affirm Press has appointed Julia Kathro to the role of marketing manager. Kathro replaces acting marketing manager Paul Kenny, who will continue in his role as product and data manager....
NZ book trade awards: Lamplight wins Bookshop of the Year, A&U wins Publisher of the Year
Monday, 24 July 2023
The winners of the Aotearoa Book Trade Industry Awards, held 24 July in Rotorua, have been announced. Auckland bookstore Lamplight Books won the Bookshop of the Year award. Judges described...
Shaw wins 2023 Michael Gifkins prize
Monday, 24 July 2023
Author and editor Tina Shaw has been awarded the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished manuscript by an Aotearoa New Zealand writer. Chosen from a shortlist of five, Shaw wins...
Classification Review Board upholds determination on ‘Gender Queer’
Friday, 21 July 2023
The Australian Classification Review Board has rejected an appeal to the classification of the graphic novel Gender Queer: A memoir (Maia Kobabe, Oni Press), upholding its determination that the book...
Harris leaves PRH
Friday, 21 July 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) publishing director young readers Laura Harris has chosen to leave the company. Her decision to leave came following a review of the publisher’s local children’s...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2023 longlist announced
Thursday, 20 July 2023
The longlist for the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, which has increased in value to $30,000 and is administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James...
Hodge awarded 2023 Marion fellowship
Thursday, 20 July 2023
Lardil and Yangkaal writer Maya Hodge has been awarded the inaugural Marion fellowship for 2023, the ACT writing organisation has announced. Marion said Hodge’s ‘writing practice is not just a...
Additional funding for Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter program
Thursday, 20 July 2023
The Wheeler Centre has received $30,000 in funding for the Next Chapter writing development program from the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. The funding will specifically support Australian poets and poetry, allowing...
Over 300 attendees for 2023 BookPeople conference; 2024 conference to be held in Melbourne
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
More than 300 delegates, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors attended the BookPeople conference and trade exhibition held in Adelaide on 18–19 June 2023, including over 140 bookshop and library delegates. BookPeople...
Big W pulls ‘Welcome to Sex’ from physical stores
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Big W will stop selling the book Welcome to Sex: Your no-silly-questions guide to sexuality, pleasure and figuring it out (Melissa Kang & Yumi Stynes, HGCP) in physical stores, following...
Pantera acquires Matthiesson debut
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights to debut novel Together We Fall Apart by Sophie Matthiesson from Clare Forster at Curtis Brown. The publisher described the debut as 'a compelling...
Local authors affected by late cancellation of Asian American Literature Festival
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
A delegation of 10 Australian and New Zealand writers that were due to attend the Asian American Literature Festival in the United States in August have been informed the event...
Hore wins inaugural Marilyn Lake Prize
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Academic Jarrod Hore has won the inaugural $2000 Marilyn Lake Prize for Australian Transnational History for Visions of Nature: How landscape photography shaped settler colonialism (University of California Press). Judges...
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