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Viskic, Clark shortlisted for UK Dagger awards

Friday, 27 July 2018
Australian authors Emma Viskic and Sherryl Clark have been shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2018 Dagger awards. Viskic’s Resurrection Bay (Echo) has been shortlisted in two categories:...

Text acquires debuts from Bishop, McPhee-Browne 

Friday, 27 July 2018
Text Publishing has acquired two fiction debuts from Melbourne-based writers. Text acquired world rights to Alice Bishop’s debut short-story collection, A Constant Hum, which explores the Black Saturday bushfires and...

PANZ Book Design Awards 2018 winners announced

Friday, 27 July 2018
The winners of the 2018 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. New China Eyewitness: Roger Duff, Rewi Alley and the Art of Museum Diplomacy...

Greer’s ‘On Rape’ sold to Bloomsbury UK

Thursday, 26 July 2018
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has sold UK and Irish rights to Germaine Greer’s On Rape to Bloomsbury UK. Bloomsbury won the rights at auction after 12 UK publishers reviewed the submission....

Dymocks Subiaco wins top award at Dymocks conference

Wednesday, 25 July 2018
Dymocks Subiaco in Perth has won the Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at the 2018 Dymocks national conference, which was held on the Gold Coast from 22-24 July. Dymocks managing...

Fantasy imprint Talem Press seeks submissions

Tuesday, 24 July 2018
Online writers’ platform and small publisher Writer’s Edit is seeking manuscript submissions for fantasy fiction imprint Talem Press. The imprint focuses on fantasy fiction, featuring unlikely heroines, mysterious magic and...

Book-industry figures sign open letter in support of ABC

Tuesday, 24 July 2018
Australian Book Review (ABR) has published an open letter against privatisation, political interference and funding cuts to the ABC, which has been signed by 100 people including various book-industry figures....

A&U to publish Thai cave rescue book in October

Tuesday, 24 July 2018
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to The Great Cave Rescue: The Extraordinary Story of the Thai Boy Soccer Team Trapped in a Cave for 18 Days by journalist...

Isaac, Kelly win 2018 RITA Awards

Monday, 23 July 2018
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2018 RITA Awards, which recognise excellence in romance novels and novellas. Among the winners were two New Zealand...

‘Scrublands’ optioned for TV

Monday, 23 July 2018
Chris Hammer’s crime-fiction debut Scrublands (Allen & Unwin) has been optioned for television by producers Ian Collie of Easy Tiger and Martha Coleman of RevLover, via Grace Heifetz at Curtis...

Colin Roderick Award 2018 shortlist announced

Friday, 20 July 2018
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Soon (Lois Murphy, Transit...

NYWF announces artists for 2018 festival

Friday, 20 July 2018
The National Young Writers Festival (NYWF) has announced the artists appearing on its 2018 program, which runs from 27-30 September in Newcastle. Guests announced on this year’s program include Alison...

Tuffield joins UQP 

Thursday, 19 July 2018
UQP has announced the appointment of Aviva Tuffield to the publishing team. Tuffield joins UQP this week but will remain based in Melbourne. She will acquire fiction and nonfiction for the Brisbane-based publisher, and will...

Caro, Coslovich, Falconer win in Walkley Mid-Year Awards

Thursday, 19 July 2018
The winners of the Walkley Mid-Year Awards have been announced. Jane Caro won the Walkley Foundation’s Women’s Leadership in Media Award for the nonfiction book she edited Unbreakable: Women Share...

HarperCollins signs Treasure for two-book deal

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to White Horses by commercial fiction author Rachael Treasure in a two-book deal, via Margaret Connolly at Margaret Connolly and Associates. White Horses tells the...

NLA Publishing acquires ‘shadow play’ picture book

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
NLA Publishing has acquired world rights to picture book Hiding Moon, written by Emma Allen and illustrated by Sher Rill Ng. Publisher Susan Hall acquired rights directly from Allen, while...

Melbourne Writers Festival 2018 program launched

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
The program for the 2018 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which runs from 24 August to 2 September, has been announced. This year's festival will open with a gala celebration featuring...

Educational Publishing Awards 2018 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Educational Publishing Awards Australia. The shortlists in each category are: Primary Student Resource: Arts/Science/Humanities/Social Sciences/Technologies/Health and Physical Education/Languages...

Namoi retires from A&U 

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
Angela Namoi will retire from her position as rights and international sales director (children’s) at Allen & Unwin (A&U) on 3 August. During her career, Namoi sold the 'Tashi' series...

WORD Christchurch 2018 program announced

Wednesday, 18 July 2018
The program for the 2018 WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival, which runs from 29 August to 2 September, has been announced. Among the international guests attending this year’s festival...

 

 

 

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