Enache shortlisted for Novel Prize
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions have announced the shortlist for the Novel Prize, a biennial international award for a book-length work of literary fiction. The shortlisted writers, selected from...
Indie Book Awards 2023 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Leading Edge Books has announced the shortlists for the 2023 Indie Book Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Horse (Geraldine Brooks, Hachette) Seeing...
BWF announces 2023 curators, Country of Focus
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
The Brisbane Writers Festival has announced the curators of its 2023 festival program. First Nations artist Daniel Browning, a descendent of the Bundjalung and Kullilli peoples of far northern New...
Affirm Press Mentorship Award 2023 winners announced
Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Affirm Press and Varuna, the National Writers’ House have announced the winners of the 2023 Affirm Press Mentorship Award. The winners are: Anne Andrew for ‘Blood Quilt’ Zoe Downing for...
Nielsen: Australian book sales up 7.2% in 2022
Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Sales of books in Australia grew 7.2% in 2022, according to data from Nielsen BookScan, with total sales by value closing in at $1.4 billion for the year, compared to...
Ultimo Press acquires Campbell debut in two-book deal
Monday, 16 January 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to Lowbridge, a debut crime novel by Canberra author Lucy Campbell, as part of a two-book deal, via Martin Shaw of Shaw Literary in...
Fremantle Press announces restructure, Szabo to retire
Monday, 16 January 2023
Fremantle Press has announced a restructure of its sales and marketing team and the retirement of ‘long-standing, and much valued’ staff member Cathy Szabo, who will step down as customer...
Foster’s ‘The Hush’ optioned for TV
Friday, 13 January 2023
Producer Clark Peterson and his company Story and Film, Inc. have optioned Sara Foster’s 2021 thriller The Hush (HarperCollins) for development as a television series, ‘in a competitive situation’, according...
Hazel Rowley fellowship 2023 shortlist announced
Friday, 13 January 2023
Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, worth $20,000. The nine shortlisted writers and their projects are: Diane Bell (ACT), for ‘The Queen and...
The Next Chapter, Open Book receive Australia Council funding
Friday, 13 January 2023
The Australia Council has announced its latest round of funding, with $9.5 million going to 225 creative projects and activities. Among the recipients was the Wheeler Centre (TWC), which received...
Hachette acquires Adams debut fantasy ‘Tonight, I Burn’
Thursday, 12 January 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired ‘dark and decadent’ debut fantasy Tonight, I Burn by Aotearoa New Zealand-based author Katharine J Adams. Australian rights were acquired by Hachette Australia head of children’s...
Christmas Press acquires second Kelleher middle-grade novel
Thursday, 12 January 2023
Christmas press has acquired world rights to The Cave, an upper middle-grade novel by Victor Kelleher, via Margaret Connolly of Margaret Connolly and Associates. Described by Christmas Press publishing director...
Release of issues paper kicks off copyright review
Wednesday, 11 January 2023
The Attorney-General’s Department has released an issues paper on copyright enforcement as part of a review into whether Australia’s current copyright enforcement regime is fit-for-purpose. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the...
Affirm acquires Lord debut YA spec-fic
Wednesday, 11 January 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Anomaly, the debut young adult novel by Sydney-based writer Emma Lord. Described by the publisher as Tomorrow When the War Began meets The...
Law to adapt Pung’s ‘One Hundred Days’ for screen
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Black Inc. has sold screen rights to Alice Pung's novel One Hundred Days to author and screenwriter Michelle Law, in a deal made by Black Inc. international director Sophy Williams. Pung’s...
Mascara, Varuna residency winners announced
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
The winners of the inaugural Mascara Varuna Writers’ and Editors’ Residency have been announced. The successful writers and their manuscripts are: Timmah Ball, for experimental nonfiction collection 'Blue Print for Another World'...
Clarke joins HGCP with two-book deal
Monday, 9 January 2023
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has acquired two books by Maxine Beneba Clarke. Releasing in June 2023, the first title, It’s the Sound of the Thing: 100 new poems for...
VPLAs 2023 shortlists announced
Monday, 9 January 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were announced in December. The shortlisted and highly commended works in each category are: Fiction ($25,000) An Exciting and Vivid Inner...
Tasmanian Literary Awards 2022 winners announced
Monday, 9 January 2023
The recipients of the 2022 Tasmanian Literary Awards were announced in December. The winners in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in November, are: Young readers and children ($25,000) Ella...
Splatt awarded Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship
Monday, 9 January 2023
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced Allen & Unwin editor Sophie Splatt as the recipient of the 2022–23 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship (BDEF). An editor of books for children...
PMLAs 2022 winners announced
Tuesday, 13 December 2022
The recipients of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards (PMLAs) have been announced. The winners in each category receive $80,000 and the shortlisted writers each receive $5000. All prizes are...
Magabala 2022 fellowship and scholarships recipients, inaugural AIC grant winners
Friday, 9 December 2022
Magabala Books has recently partnered with Australian Indigenous Coffee (AIC) to launch the AIC Creative Grant which supports First Nations creators at any stage of their journey. The winners of...
Burland assumes APA presidency from Kellow
Thursday, 8 December 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has appointed Penguin Random House ANZ CEO Julie Burland as its new president. Burland will replace Ultimo Press managing director James Kellow, who recently announced...
Indie Book Awards 2023 longlists announced
Thursday, 8 December 2022
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2023 Indie Book Awards. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica...
Hay wins 2022 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship
Thursday, 8 December 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Ashley Hay as the winner of the $20,000 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship for her manuscript ‘The Running Dream’. Selected from a shortlist of...
New category added to WA Prem’s awards
Wednesday, 7 December 2022
The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards has added a new category for the 2023 awards. The Premier's Prize for Book of the Year Award, worth $15,000, will be sponsored by...
Ultimo acquires Knight memoir
Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to the memoir Strange Little Girl by Melbourne-based writer, performer and zine maker Jess Knight. Described by the publisher as a ‘heart-warming, unapologetic and...
A&U, Voices from the Intersection mentorship recipients announced
Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) and Voices from the Intersection have announced the recipients of their partnership mentorship program for emerging children’s and YA own voices writers and illustrators. The successful...
Booktopia sells stake in Welbeck ANZ
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Online bookseller Booktopia has sold its share in Welbeck Publishing Australia New Zealand (Welbeck ANZ) for $1.5 million. Booktopia, which invested $3 million for a 25% stake in Welbeck ANZ...
Copyright Agency funding: Au, Tsao receive $25k Create grants, new fellowship for young writers
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Twenty-one arts organisations have received a total of $274,517 in the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. The major capital city writers’ festivals and Byron Writers’...
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