‘Ghost Bird’ receives funding for feature film development
Thursday, 23 February 2023
Lisa Fuller’s young adult novel Ghost Bird (UQP) has received funding from Screen Australia to develop the book into a feature film. The funding is part of Screen Australia’s First...
Affirm acquires VPLA 2023 unpublished manuscript winner
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to One Divine Night by Mick Cummins, the winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (VPLA) for an unpublished manuscript, in a deal...
Betts, Di Lorenzo drive 48% local publishing growth at S&S
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has recorded a ‘record year of sales, profit, and market share’, according to managing director Dan Ruffino, who told Books+Publishing that 2022 was the ‘third...
Linwood Messina sells ‘The Dreaming Path’ to HarperOne
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Gregory Messina of Linwood Messina Literary Agency has sold world English rights (ex ANZ) to Paul Callaghan’s The Dreaming Path: Indigenous thinking to change your life written with Uncle Paul...
Nielsen survey: 25 to 34 year olds buy ‘lion’s share of audiobooks’
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
A pilot report from Nielsen BookData’s ANZ Books & Consumers service has found most audiobooks purchases are by readers in the 25 to 34 age bracket. The report, which highlights...
Five Australian publishers shortlisted for 2023 Bologna Prize
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Australian publishers Affirm Press, EK Books, Magabala Books, Starfish Bay and Wilkins Farago have been shortlisted in this year’s Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the...
VIPs 2023 in-person program to run alongside SWF
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
The Australia Council has announced the Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program will return this year as an in-person program, for the first time since 2019. The 2023 VIPs program will...
McFarlane, Serong longlisted for 2023 Walter Scott Prize
Monday, 20 February 2023
Two Australian authors have been longlisted for the UK’s £25,000 (A$43,750) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Fiona McFarlane was longlisted for her second novel The Sun Walks Down (A&U),...
Racklyeft wins 2023 SCBWI Bologna Scholarship
Friday, 17 February 2023
Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft has been awarded a Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) International Bologna Scholarship to attend this year’s Bologna book fair. Racklyeft and...
Walker acquires Kate and Angourie Rice YA romance novel
Thursday, 16 February 2023
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to YA romance novel Stuck Up and Stupid, the first book by mother and daughter writing team Kate and Angourie Rice, via Benython...
Ultimo acquires Yankovich debut book on friendship in ‘heated auction’
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired UK/Commonwealth rights to Gyan Yankovich’s debut work of nonfiction Just Friends. Rights were acquired in a ‘heated auction’ in a deal agented by Rach Crawford at...
Transit Lounge acquires Cameron literary thriller
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to The Rewilding, the second novel by Donna M Cameron, via Fiona Johnson at Beyond Words Literary Agency. ‘The Rewilding captures the essence of...
King joins HarperCollins as nonfiction publisher
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
HarperCollins Australia has appointed Georgia Frances King to the role of publisher, commissioning nonfiction for the ABC Books and HarperCollins imprints. King replaces Jude McGee, who left HarperCollins in December...
PRH signs Johns in two-book deal
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to the novel The Other Bridget Jones by Rachael Johns in a two-book deal, agented by Helen Breitwieser of Cornerstone Literary....
Judith Wright Poetry Prize, Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize shortlists
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
The shortlists for the 2022 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize have been announced. The eight poems shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize are:...
Scribe acquires Smaill’s ‘Bird Life’
Monday, 13 February 2023
In the UK, Scribe has acquired world English rights to the novel Bird Life by New Zealand author Anna Smaill via Will Francis at Janklow and Nesbit, reports BookBrunch. Smaill...
Pantera sells ‘Courting Samira’ to HarperVia, acquires fourth Awad novel
Monday, 13 February 2023
Pantera Press has sold world English rights (excluding ANZ) to Amal Awad’s novel Courting Samira to Gretchen Schmid at HarperVia, an imprint of Harper Collins. Courting Samira is a romantic...
MUD Literary Prize increases to $10K, 2023 shortlist announced
Friday, 10 February 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 MUD Literary Prize has been announced. The five shortlisted works, chosen from 33 submissions, are: The Islands (Emily Brugman, A&U) All That’s Left Unsaid (Tracey...
Ultimo acquires ‘The Paris Cooking School’
Friday, 10 February 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired world English-language rights to a novel from Sophie Masson, writing as Sophie Beaumont, in a deal brokered by Margaret Connolly of Margaret Connolly & Associates. The...
UQP acquires new O’Keeffe novel
Friday, 10 February 2023
UQP has acquired world rights to The Sitter, a new novel by Angela O’Keeffe, from Shaw Literary. Described by the publisher as ‘startlingly accomplished and multilayered’, The Sitter is about...
Reid steps down at PRH
Thursday, 9 February 2023
Karen Reid has resigned from Penguin Random House (PRH) after 30 years at the company. 'Reid first joined the Transworld publicity department after a stint in bookselling and very quickly...
Varuna: $815K for new ‘accessible venue’; Arts NT fellowship recipients
Thursday, 9 February 2023
Varuna will add a new multi-purpose building to its grounds after receiving $815,827 funding for the project as part of the NSW government WestInvest Community Grants Project. Varuna said the...
Five Mile owner Regency Media appoints administrators
Thursday, 9 February 2023
Regency Media, the owner of Five Mile Press, has entered administration. Regency Media managing director Fiona Horman told Books+Publishing the company has entered voluntary administration and is 'continuing to operate...
Kenny joins Affirm Press; Stannard completes sales team
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Affirm Press has announced Paul Kenny has joined the company on a permanent basis. Kenny takes on the new role of product and data manager and will also fill the...
AWW 2023 program released; short story fest 2023 dates
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Adelaide Writers Week (AWW) has announced the full program for its 2023 festival, which includes a total of 160 literary guests and 130 sessions across six days from Saturday, 4...
Huntley to leave Booktopia
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Booktopia head of customer experience Alex Huntley is leaving his role after almost a decade with the business. 'I’ve chosen to say goodbye as part of Booktopia’s sad but necessary...
Higgins joins Hardie Grant as interim sales director
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Sophie Higgins has joined Hardie Grant as interim sales director, taking over from Julia Kumschick who departed at the end of January for a yearlong sabbatical and will return to...
The Paperback Bookshop under new ownership
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
The Paperback Bookshop, located in Melbourne’s CBD, has been sold by Rosy and Bill Morton after 23 years of ownership. Anna MacDonald took over management on 1 January 2023, after...
NewSouth acquires Tan debut essay collection
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
NewSouth has acquired world rights to Cher Tan’s debut essay collection Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging, which blends ‘cultural criticism, experimental writing, autotheory, (inter)net writing and literary memoir’, according to the...
Hardie Grant acquires Wong and Kong’s ‘Chopsticks or Fork?’
Monday, 6 February 2023
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world print and ebook rights to Chopsticks or Fork? by Jennifer Wong and Lin Jie Kong in a deal negotiated by Benython Oldfield of the...
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