Writers SA announces Diversifying Australian Writing plan
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Writers SA will run a 15-month program to support marginalised and under-represented writers in South Australia, after receiving an $82,000 grant as part of the Australia Council’s most recent grants...
CHASS Australia Book Prize 2019 longlist announced
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the longlist for the 2019 Australia Book Prize. The prize, worth $3500, is part of the CHASS Australia...
Cornegé moves to UQP
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
UQP has appointed Louise Cornegé as marketing and publicity manager. Cornegé takes over from former marketing, sales and publicity manager Kylie Rathborne, who stepped down from the position in July....
Hoffmann’s ‘inclusive, uplifting’ picture books sold to US
Monday, 23 September 2019
Hardie Grant Egmont has sold US rights to Susann Hoffmann’s Girls are Pretty ... (smart, clever, fast) and Boys Will Be ... (kind, calm, creative) to Penguin Philomel. Girls are...
S&S acquires Mildenhall’s ‘The Mother Fault’ in two-book deal
Monday, 23 September 2019
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired ANZ rights at auction to Kate Mildenhall’s ‘genre-busting’ sophomore novel The Mother Fault in a two-book deal, via Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown. S&S...
A&U acquires ‘Larrimah’ for six-figure sum
Friday, 20 September 2019
Allen & Unwin has acquired rights to Larrimah: An outback town, a missing man and 11 people, who mostly hate each other by journalists Kylie Stevenson and Caroline Graham. ANZ...
May Gibbs trust announces 2020 fellows
Friday, 20 September 2019
The May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust has announced six fellows for 2020. The recipients of the fellowship are: Mark Carthew Deb Fitzpatrick Sadami Konchi Meg McKinlay Chrissie Perry Michelle Vasiliu....
NewSouth to publish Bryant’s debut ‘Hysteria’
Friday, 20 September 2019
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to Hysteria, the debut nonfiction book by Adelaide writer Katerina Bryant, via Sarah McKenzie Literary Management. Hysteria is a hybrid memoir that explores chronic mental...
Industry-first EBA voted in at PRH; FWC dispute settled
Thursday, 19 September 2019
The first union-negotiated enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) in Australian publishing history has been voted in at Penguin Random House Australia (PRH). PRH delegates in the editorial and publicity departments have...
Stella Count 2018: ‘Sustained and significant advances in the representation of women authors’
Thursday, 19 September 2019
The 2018 Stella Count has found that 49% of all book reviews in Australia were of books by women authors—up from 46% in 2017, and the previous high of 48%...
Longlists for Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes announced
Thursday, 19 September 2019
The longlists for the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The longlisted works and their authors are: Tasmania Book Prize for the best book with Tasmanian content in any...
Lucashenko, Wright announced for inaugural Bangkok literary festival
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Australian authors Melissa Lucashenko and Clare Wright will feature among 25 speakers at the inaugural Neilson Hays Bangkok Literature Festival, running from 16–17 November. Lucashenko will speak at the festival's...
Quebec City, Melbourne to host City of Literature exchange
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Victorian book industry professionals will have the chance to visit Quebec City in April next year as part of a new exchange program between the Melbourne and Quebec Cities of...
Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2019 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘Getting cliterate’ (Melissa Fyfe, Good Weekend) ‘When planetary catastrophe is your...
HarperCollins acquires rights to Hazlehurst’s memoir
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to actor Noni Hazlehurst’s memoir in a 'hotly contested' auction. The publisher said Hazlehurst, an award-winning stage and screen actor and advocate for children’s welfare,...
‘Dark Emu’ chosen as inaugural Parliamentary Book Club title
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu (Magabala) has been chosen as the first book to be read by politicians for the inaugural Parliamentary Book Club, to be held in early 2020. Dark...
‘You Must be Layla’ sells to Puffin UK
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to Yassmin Abdel-Magied's You Must Be Layla to Puffin UK, reports the Bookseller. Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese-Australian writer,...
Flann wins 2019 Banjo Prize for ‘unbearably tense’ survival thriller
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
HarperCollins has announced Elizabeth Flann as the winner of the 2019 Banjo Prize for an unpublished manuscript for her ‘unbearably tense’ Australian thriller ‘Beware of Dogs’. Flann’s work was chosen...
Zadie Smith, Curtis Sittenfeld to appear at inaugural Broadside feminist festival
Tuesday, 17 September 2019
The Wheeler Centre has announced a two-day feminist ideas festival, Broadside, to be held at the Melbourne Town Hall from 9–10 November. UK author Zadie Smith, US novelist Curtis Sittenfeld,...
Black Inc. sells Glover’s ‘The Last Man in Europe’ to UK
Tuesday, 17 September 2019
Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to Dennis Glover’s novel The Last Man in Europe to Edinburgh-based independent publisher Polygon. Glover’s novel, about the writing of...
Parrett’s ‘There Was Still Love’ sold to UK
Tuesday, 17 September 2019
Martin Shaw of Alex Adsett Publishing Services has sold UK and Commonwealth rights to Favel Parrett’s third novel, There Was Still Love (Hachette), to Francine Toon at Sceptre, Hodder &...
Ngaio Marsh Award 2019 winners announced
Monday, 16 September 2019
New Zealand writer Fiona Kidman has won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel for This Mortal Boy (RHNZ Vintage). The story recreates the life of young Belfast immigrant...
A&U, Wavesound to partner on audiobooks
Monday, 16 September 2019
The majority of new Allen & Unwin titles will be produced as audiobooks under a new partnership between the publisher and Wavesound. The co-publishing program will initially see A&U and...
Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2019 winners announced
Monday, 16 September 2019
The Wilderness Society has announced the winners of the 2019 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. The winners are: Picture fiction The All New Must Have Orange 430 (Michael Speechley, Viking)...
Walker acquires Neridah McMullin picture book
Monday, 16 September 2019
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to a new picture book by Neridah McMullin called The Drover. Based a true story, the book follows a young female drover as...
Boost to events, reader pledges for this year’s Australian Reading Hour
Friday, 13 September 2019
Australian Reading Hour (ARH) has registered 240 events—more than double the number held last year—to be held as part of this year’s campaign, taking place next Thursday 19 September. More...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced
Friday, 13 September 2019
The shortlists for the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction A Stolen Season (Rodney Hall, Picador) Beautiful Revolutionary (Laura Elizabeth...
BWF: YA, women authors top bestsellers
Friday, 13 September 2019
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) bookshop recorded a 5.9 percent growth in sales at the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) bookstore from the previous year, thanks to ‘the strong six-day...
Clarke, Dovey among Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship recipients
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Writers Maxine Beneba Clarke and Ceridwen Dovey are among nine artists to be awarded 2019 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships, each worth $160,000 over two years. Clarke is the author of...
Dechian wins 2019 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Victoria-based writer Sonja Dechian has won the Australian Book Review’s (ABR) 2019 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘The Point-Blank Murder’. The judges said of the winning story: 'At...
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