Inaugural Berry Writers Festival program announced
Thursday, 1 September 2022
The full program for the inaugural Berry Writers Festival, to be held 21–23 October in Shoalhaven, NSW, has been announced. The three-day program includes panel discussions, conversations, performances, author signings,...
APA convenes diversity & inclusion working group; releases UniMelb ‘baseline’ survey results
Wednesday, 31 August 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released the results of a ‘baseline’ survey of the Australian publishing industry undertaken by University of Melbourne researchers, and convened a Diversity & Inclusion...
Delaney’s ‘Reasons Not to Worry’ sells in multiple territories
Wednesday, 31 August 2022
Rights to Brigid Delaney’s nonfiction work Reasons Not to Worry (A&U, September) have been sold to North America, the UK and Commonwealth (ex ANZ and Canada), Greece and Serbia, in...
Byron Writers Festival returns after two years of upheaval
Wednesday, 31 August 2022
The 2022 Byron Writers Festival, which ran 26 to 28 August, was ‘a resounding success’, according to the organisers. The first in-person festival since 2019, following the cancellation of the...
‘Tiddas’ stage adaptation to play as part of Brisbane Festival 2022
Tuesday, 30 August 2022
Anita Heiss’s 2014 novel Tiddas (S&S) has been adapted for stage in a joint production with La Boite Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) and Brisbane Festival. Tiddas, which will...
Booktopia reports revenue up 7.5%; earnings down 54%; reaches agreement with ACCC
Monday, 29 August 2022
Online retailer Booktopia grew its revenue 7.5% in the 12 months to 30 June, while its underlying earnings fell 54% over the same period. In its full-year preliminary results, Booktopia...
A&U acquires new Morton novel
Monday, 29 August 2022
Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to Kate Morton’s new novel Homecoming. Described by the publisher as ‘an epic novel that spans generations’, Homecoming explores the power of motherhood,...
Davitt Awards 2022 winners announced
Monday, 29 August 2022
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2022 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women. The winning titles in each category are: Adult crime novel...
CBCA Shadowers’ Choice Awards 2022 winners
Monday, 29 August 2022
The winners of the inaugural 2022 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Sun Project: Shadowers’ Choice Awards, chosen by groups of young people, have been announced. The winning books in...
Ned Kelly Awards 2022 winners announced
Monday, 29 August 2022
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners of the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards. The winning titles in each category are: Best debut crime fiction Banjawarn (Josh Kemp,...
T S Bookshop closes temporarily, makes staff redundant
Friday, 26 August 2022
The board of the Melbourne Theosophical Society (MTS) has temporarily closed the T S Bookshop and Theosophical Society Library, with all seven staff made redundant on Friday, 12 August. As...
UQP acquires third Leane poetry collection ‘Gawimarra: Gathering’
Friday, 26 August 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Gawimarra: Gathering, the third poetry collection by Wiradjuri writer, critic and poet Jeanine Leane. The product of decades of poetic,...
NT Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Thursday, 25 August 2022
The shortlists have been announced for the 2022 Northern Territory Literary Awards, which celebrate the unpublished work of established and emerging NT writers. Shortlists in seven categories were announced, including:...
Hachette acquires two new Binks novels
Thursday, 25 August 2022
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ and UK rights to a new middle-grade novel from Danielle Binks in a two-book deal, via Jacinta di Mase Management. Publisher Kate Stevens acquired upper...
Hardie Grant announces 2022 Spark Prize shortlist
Thursday, 25 August 2022
Hardie Grant Books and RMIT Writing and Publishing have announced the shortlist for the 2022 Spark Prize for narrative nonfiction. The shortlisted entries are: Katerina Bryant for ‘Queen Pawn’ Sam...
Dymocks Neutral Bay win top award at in-person conference
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Gina and Colin Pettitt of Dymocks Neutral Bay were awarded the Dymocks Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence in 2022 during the bookselling chain’s annual conference, which ran from 7 to...
Transit Lounge acquires Bacon literary mystery novel
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Serengotti, a literary mystery novel by Eugen Bacon. According to Transit Lounge publisher Barry Scott, Serengotti takes the classic story of a woman...
CWF: ‘the little festival that could’ returns after two years of false starts
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
After being postponed and ultimately cancelled in 2021, the Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) returned in person this month, doubling its audience numbers in comparison to the 2020 CWF hybrid in-person...
Readings announces New Australian Fiction Prize 2022 shortlist
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
The shortlist for the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au, Giramondo) Hovering (Rhett Davis, Hachette) Losing Face (George Haddad, UQP)...
Pantera acquires Sarago memoir on beauty
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to the memoir Gigorou: Are you ready to redefine beauty? by Sasha Kutabah Sarago, represented by Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. A former model,...
PRH acquires Bhasin debut
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights for I Look Forward to Hearing from You, the debut novel by Sydney-based writer Nick Bhasin, in a deal agented by...
CJZ options film and TV rights to Jaffé novel
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Production company CJZ has optioned film and television rights for The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison (Meredith Jaffé, HarperCollins), in a deal negotiated by Tara Wynne of Curtis Brown Australia. The...
Barbara Jefferis Award 2022 shortlist announced
Monday, 22 August 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award, worth $50,000. The shortlisted titles are: Bodies of Light (Jennifer Down, Text) Ordinary Matter...
Sweatshop acquires Hage book, establishes $10,000 First Nations fellowship
Monday, 22 August 2022
Sweatshop Literacy Movement Inc. has acquired world rights to The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism by anthropologist, public intellectual and cultural critic Ghassan Hage. The book will include new editions...
CBCA announces 2022 Book of the Year Awards
Friday, 19 August 2022
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the winners of the 2022 Book of the Year Awards. The winning books in each category are: Older readers Tiger Daughter (Rebecca...
Danger Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Friday, 19 August 2022
The BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival has announced the shortlist for this year’s Danger Prize. The all-fiction shortlist is: The Enemy Within (Tim Ayliffe, S&S) Unforgiven (Sarah Barrie, HQ) The...
Nash calls for partial spill of Booktopia board
Friday, 19 August 2022
Booktopia founder Tony Nash has given notice to the company of his intention to call an extraordinary general meeting (EGM), with the purpose of ousting two other board members. Nash...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Award 2022 shortlist announced
Thursday, 18 August 2022
The shortlist for the $20,000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James Cook University, has been announced. The shortlisted books...
New mentorship program for Tasmanian writers, illustrators
Thursday, 18 August 2022
Arts Tasmania and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) have announced a new mentorship program for writers and illustrators. The 2022 Tasmanian Writers and Illustrators Mentorship program is designed to...
The Campus Bookstore closes down
Thursday, 18 August 2022
The Campus Bookstore, which operated an online store and retail stores at several tertiary institutions in Victoria, has closed both its online and physical stores after declaring insolvency. The not-for-profit...
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