Au, Burton, Archbold win 2022 Readings Prizes
Thursday, 27 October 2022
The winners of the three Readings Prizes for children’s, young adult and new Australian fiction have been announced. The winners are: New Australian Fiction Prize Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica...
UQP acquires book by leading Indigenous psychologist
Thursday, 27 October 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to a book by leading Indigenous psychologist Tracy Westerman outlining her life and work. Westerman is an internationally recognised psychologist specialising in culturally appropriate psychological...
Hachette acquires Jones’s ‘Cool Water’
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Hachette has acquired world rights to literary novel Cool Water by Myfanwy Jones, in a deal negotiated by Jacinta di Mase Management. Following the story of a family over three...
Hedley appointed HarperCollins NZ publishing director
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
HarperCollins New Zealand has announced the promotion of Alex Hedley to publishing director, reports the Publishers Association of New Zealand. Hedly joined the New Zealand team in 2016, publishing bestsellers...
McGaughey wins Nakata Brophy prize
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Jasmin McGaughey has won the Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for 'Sweet Anticipation'. McGaughey receives $5000 and a three-month writing residence at Trinity College at the University of...
‘People Who Lunch’ sells to Little, Brown Spark
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Talia Krohn at Little, Brown Spark has acquired world English language rights (ex ANZ) to People Who Lunch: Essays on work, leisure & loose living by Sally Olds (Upswell), via Black...
Educational publishers respond to Grattan report
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has criticised a recommendation by the Grattan Institute that governments should consider buying curriculum materials overseas ‘as an immediate priority’. In its report Ending the...
Picador acquires ‘Prima Facie’ novelisation
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Picador has acquired rights to the novelisation of Australian playwright Suzie Miller’s multi-award-winning play Prima Facie, plus an as yet untitled second novel, in ‘a heated auction’. Pan Macmillan publisher...
Australian Political Book of the Year Award 2022 shortlist announced
Monday, 24 October 2022
The shortlist for the inaugural Australian Political Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted books, chosen from a longlist announced in early October, are: Bob Hawke: Demons...
Tasmanian Literary Awards longlists announced
Monday, 24 October 2022
The longlists for the 2022 Tasmanian Literary Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category, worth $25,000 each, are: Young readers and children Aster’s Good, Right Things (Kate...
‘Vandemonians’ wins 2022 Victorian Premier’s History Award
Monday, 24 October 2022
Janet McCalman has won the Victorian Premier’s History Award, worth $5000, for her book Vandemonians: The repressed history of colonial Victoria (MUP). Chosen from a shortlist of 21 books, Vandemonians...
S&S acquires Paterson debut historical novel
Monday, 24 October 2022
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired the debut novel Where Light Meets Water by Susan Paterson. Former S&S publishing director Fiona Henderson acquired ANZ rights to the novel from...
VPLAs add children’s award
Monday, 24 October 2022
The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs) will add a new children’s book award worth $25,000. The Award for Children’s Literature will be presented to the creators of the best children’s...
Keneally, Nannestad win $100K Historical Novel Prize
Friday, 21 October 2022
Tom Keneally has won the $50,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize in the adult category for Corporal Hitler's Pistol (Penguin), while Katrina Nannestad has won the $30,000 children and young adult...
Schmidt wins 2022 Hungerford Award
Friday, 21 October 2022
Molly Schmidt has won the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award for her manuscript Salt River Road. She receives $15,000 in prize money and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press....
MWF moves to May
Friday, 21 October 2022
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced that next year it is moving from September to the first weekend in May. In a statement, MWF said the organisation made the decision...
Wallman awarded Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Writing Fellowship
Thursday, 20 October 2022
Centre for Stories has announced Sam Wallman as the recipient of the 2022 Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Fellowship. Wallman receives $12,000, a workspace at the Centre for Stories in Perth, and access...
Walkley Book Award longlist announced
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
The longlist for this year’s Walkley Book Award has been announced. The nine longlisted titles are: Currowan (Bronwyn Adcock, Black Inc.) QAnon and On (Van Badham, Hardie Grant) Making Australian...
Ping’s ‘The Poison of Polygamy’ adapted for stage
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Wong Shee Ping’s novel The Poison of Polygamy (translated by Ely Finch, Sydney University Press) has been adapted for stage in a joint production with La Boite Theatre and Sydney...
Bookshops in Shepparton, Echuca, Kyneton closed due to floods
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Collins Booksellers in Shepparton and Echuca, Victoria, have announced these stores will be closed until further notice due to flooding in the region. ‘We had a bit of water that...
Neilma Sidney Travel Fund recipients announced
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Writers Victoria has announced the eighth round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. The successful recipients, who share in a total of $56,925, are: Eunice Andrada, for...
Ultimo acquires Day memoir ‘Reckless’
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights for Reckless by Marele Day, via Jenny Darling of Jenny Darling & Associates. Described by the publisher as a 'brilliantly crafted' ‘literary detective memoir’,...
Tanner wins 2022 Albert Ullin award
Monday, 17 October 2022
Illustrator and author Jane Tanner is the recipient of the 2022 Albert Ullin Award. The $10,000 biennial award was created with a bequest from the late Albert Ullin, a co-founder...
Queer YA novel wins 2022 Ampersand Prize
Monday, 17 October 2022
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has announced Adelaide teacher and writer Elisa Chenoweth has won the 2022 Ampersand Prize for her young adult novel Maria Petranelli is Prepared for Anything...
FNPOC Count report released
Monday, 17 October 2022
The First Nations and People of Colour (FNPOC) Count, led by Victoria University senior lecturer Natalie Kon-yu, has released a report of its findings. The count took in a sample...
Ultimo Press acquires Griffiths debut ‘Tissue’
Friday, 14 October 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to Tissue, the debut book by Melbourne writer Madison Griffiths. In Tissue, Griffiths ‘turns her keen eye to the topic of abortion in a...
Greenwood wins Varuna-NEWC Fellowship
Friday, 14 October 2022
The New England Writers’ Centre (NEWC) in partnership with Varuna, the National Writers’ House, has announced Anne Greenwood as the winner of the 2022 Varuna-NEWC Fellowship. Greenwood receives a week’s...
Fair Work approves Readings EBA
Friday, 14 October 2022
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has approved the enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) negotiated between Readings and the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) on behalf of staff at the...
Faber Writing Academy appoints editor-in-residence
Friday, 14 October 2022
Faber Writing Academy has announced the appointment of Ellen O’Brien as editor-in-residence. A Garigal/Walkeloa writer, O'Brien is a junior editor at the Sydney Review of Books and the 2022 program...
Bondi Beach Productions acquires ‘The Criminal Class’ screen rights
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Film and television rights to Paul MacNamara’s debut book The Criminal Class: Memoir of a prison teacher (Big Sky) have been acquired by Bondi Beach Productions, based in Sydney, Los...
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