Cronk debut sells to US
Thursday, 15 September 2022
Sally Bird at Calidris Literary Agency has sold world rights to Australian author Evelyn Cronk’s debut novel Without Question to US publisher Level Best Books, which specialises in contemporary and...
Deakin, Copyright Agency announce $20K children’s author residency
Thursday, 15 September 2022
Deakin University and the Copyright Agency have partnered to create a new residency for children's authors. The Deakin University/Copyright Agency Children’s Writer-in-Residence program offers a $20,000 stipend and a three-month...
ILD 2022: An ‘infectious’ day of celebrating literacy
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Last Wednesday, 7 September, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) celebrated its annual Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) with a live event at the Sydney Opera House and a national digital event....
$100K Historical Novel Prize 2022 longlists announced
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA), has announced the longlists for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize. The titles longlisted in the adult category are: Horse (Geraldine Brooks, Hachette) The...
Ngaio Marsh Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
The shortlists for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Awards for New Zealand crime, mystery or thriller writing have been announced. The titles shortlisted in each category are: Best first novel Isobar...
Sewankambo appointed HGCP head of marketing
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Yvonne Sewankambo has been appointed to the new role of head of marketing at Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP). Sewankambo, who was previously the children’s books campaign manager at HarperCollins...
50 years of NLA Publishing
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
This year marks the 50th anniversary of NLA Publishing. National Library of Australia (NLA) director-general Marie-Louise Ayres looks back on five decades of the NLA Publishing imprint. The National Library...
Recipe for life: Illustrated lifestyle post-lockdown
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
In our latest genre spotlight Books+Publishing delves into illustrated lifestyle to find out if the gains made in the category have continued on after lockdown. Many of us who experienced life...
Winter wins 2022 CLNZ Writers’ Award
Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Iona Winter has won the NZ$25,000 (A$22,300), Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ)/New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Writers’ Award for her creative nonfiction project ‘A counter of moons’. Winter’s work...
Ritchie wins 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award
Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Brendan Ritchie has won the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for his novel Eta Draconis. Ritchie, an academic and early-career novelist from the south coast of WA,...
Varuna announces 2023 residential fellowships
Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of its 2023 residential fellowships. The writers and their projects are: Eleanor Dark flagship fellowship Angela O’Keeffe, for her literary fiction...
Bologna rights centre to open to adult publishers
Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) will expand its current BCBF Agents' Centre to include rights professionals from across the industry, including adult general trade publishers. BCBF director Elena Pasoli said:...
Hickey wins 2022 Danger Prize
Monday, 12 September 2022
Margaret Hickey has won the 2022 Danger Prize for her debut novel Cutters End (Penguin). Set in the South Australian outback town of Cutters End, the winning novel follows Detective...
De Kretser shortlisted for Kirkus Prize
Monday, 12 September 2022
Michelle de Kretser is a finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, worth US$50,000 (A$73,100), for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U). De Kretser's book is one of six finalists in...
UQP acquires Prosser debut novel ‘Big Time’
Monday, 12 September 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Jordan Prosser’s debut novel Big Time. Described as Almost Famous meets Slaughterhouse-Five, Big Time is an anti-fascist ode to the...
Harper wins Glass Bell Award for ‘The Wolf Den’
Monday, 12 September 2022
In the UK, Elodie Harper has won the £2000 (A$3390) Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award for her novel The Wolf Den (Head of Zeus), reports the Bookseller. Harper’s novel is the first in a...
Books in the media this weekend, 10–11 September
Friday, 9 September 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Bon and Lesley (Shaun Prescott, Giramondo) New Australian Fiction 2022 (ed...
Parker-Chan wins Hugo Award for Best New Writer
Friday, 9 September 2022
Australian writer Shelley Parker-Chan has won the Best New Writer category at the Hugo Awards for science fiction. Parker-Chan's debut She Who Became the Sun was first published in the...
Allinson, Brennan win Age Book of the Year awards
Friday, 9 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Age Book of the Year Award have been announced. Miles Allinson won the fiction award for his second novel In Moonland (Scribe), while Bernadette Brennan won the...
Queensland Literary Awards 2022 winners
Friday, 9 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance ($25,000) Wounded Country (Quentin Beresford,...
Shortlist for £25k British Academy Book Prize announced
Thursday, 8 September 2022
In the UK, the shortlist for the £25,000 (A$42,650) British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The shortlisted books are: The Invention of...
EPAA 2022 winners announced
Thursday, 8 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) have been announced. The winners in each category are: Secondary publisher of the year Cambridge University Press Primary publisher of...
Mascara, Varuna announce diverse writers residency
Thursday, 8 September 2022
Mascara Literary Review has announced the inaugural Mascara Varuna Writers’ and Editors’ Residency, supported by the Copyright Agency and the Adès Family Foundation. The residency is open to First Nations...
Luff appointed SWF manager of children’s and YA
Thursday, 8 September 2022
Nathan Luff has been appointed manager of children’s and YA at Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), replacing Amelia Lush, who programed the 2019–22 children’s and YA programs. Luff will program the...
Moore establishes locum booksellers business
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Stacey Moore, owner and founder of independent bookshop Bookgrove in Ocean Grove, Victoria, has started another business, BreakAway Books locum booksellers. As part of the new business, Moore is offering...
Scribe acquires new McKay fiction collection
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Scribe Publications has acquired world rights to Gunflower, a new collection of short fiction by Laura Jean McKay. According to the publisher, Gunflower ‘charts the political, ecological, and bodily themes...
Drury appointed to new Affirm national sales team
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Affirm Press has appointed former Simon & Schuster national field sales manager Kay Drury as the first member of its new sales team. The new national sales team, which Affirm...
Big Issue fiction edition returns
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
The Big Issue has announced the authors chosen for its annual fiction edition. The 2022 edition includes works from 12 writers selected from 905 submissions. The selected works were anonymously...
Booker Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Booker Prize has been announced. The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$85,510) prize are: Glory (NoViolet Bulawayo, Viking) The Trees (Percival Everett, Influx) Treacle...
Amplify Bookstore’s spring picks
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Amplify Bookstore, an independent online bookseller specialising in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, shares the shop’s top picks for spring. Spring has arrived, and we...
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