UQP acquires McQuire’s ‘Black Witness: The power of Indigenous media’
Thursday, 3 September 2020
UQP has acquired world rights to Black Witness: The power of Indigenous media, an updated collection of Darumbal and South Sea Islander journalist Amy McQuire's work. McQuire has been reporting...
Hachette UK buys Laurence King Publishing
Thursday, 3 September 2020
Hachette UK has acquired arts and gift specialist Laurence King Publishing (LKP), reports the Bookseller. Under the deal, which was made for an undisclosed sum, managing director Laurence King will...
YA trilogy ‘Valentine’ optioned for screen
Thursday, 3 September 2020
Jodi McAlister's supernatural YA trilogy 'Valentine' (Penguin) has been optioned for screen by Like A Photon Creative via Alex Adsett of Alex Adsett Publishing Services. McAlister's trilogy features a team...
Outsider art: Sofie Laguna on ‘Infinite Splendours’
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Infinite Splendours (A&U, November), Sofie Laguna's fourth novel for adults, charts the life of eccentric, artistic outsider Lawrence Loman. Conveyed through poetic prose that 'creates a tangible sense of beauty,...
Nathan Hollier on the Malaysian book market
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Over the past two years, Melbourne University Publishing CEO Nathan Hollier attended book fairs in Indonesia, India and Malaysia and researched the book markets in each country as part of...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
The shortlists for the 2020 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best illustrated book Crafting Aotearoa (ed...
APA Books From Australia website to promote titles at Frankfurt
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) will promote members’ titles to international publishers on a new export-focused website. According to the APA, the Books from Australia website will be ‘coordinated free...
Indigenous Literacy Day goes live around Australia
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) ambassador Jessica Mauboy and long-time supporter Archie Roach invite all Australians to join the national, virtual Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) celebrations today, Wednesday 2 September. The 45-minute...
Inaugural Write North residency recipients announced
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Create NSW and Byron Writers Festival have announced the recipients of the inaugural Write North Writers’ Group Residency, worth almost $40,000. The successful mid-career and established NSW writers' group comprises...
New parliamentary inquiry into Covid-19 impact on arts
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts will report on Australia’s cultural and creative industries and the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the sector in...
PRH revenue down 1.4% in first half of 2020; Bertelsmann ‘interested’ in buying S&S
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Bertelsmann, the parent company of Penguin Random House (PRH), has reported that the publisher’s global revenue fell 1.4% in the first half of 2020 compared to the same period in...
HarperCollins acquires four Hawkins novels
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to two adult novels and world rights to two children’s novels by Kelli Hawkins via Melanie Ostell at Melanie Ostell Literary. Hawkins' debut Other...
Scribner acquires new Falconer nonfiction work
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Delia Falconer’s new nonfiction work Signs and Wonders from Jane Novak at the Jane Novak Literary Agency. Building on Falconer’s essays ‘Signs and Wonders’...
Nib Literary Award 2020 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Mark and Evette Moran Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: After the Count: The death of Davey Browne...
City of Fremantle Hungerford Award 2020 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award has been announced. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘The Silence of Water’, a work of historical fiction by Sharron Booth ‘Still...
Affirm acquires Layton memoir ‘No Apologies’
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights No Apologies, a memoir by former elite netballer and current All-Australian AFLW player Sharni Layton. In 2016 Layton was named International Netball Player of...
New ‘profit for purpose’ bookshop to open in Noosa Heads
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
Melbourne-based social enterprise Wise Foundation will open Village Bookshop in Noosa Heads in October, following the closure of Mary Ryan's Noosa, the only bookshop in the area. Chaired by Graeme...
SCBWI announces new awards for Australian illustrators
Monday, 31 August 2020
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has announced three new awards for Australian illustrators, with support from the Copyright Agency. The SCBWI Australian Picture Book Illustrator Awards...
‘Tiberius with a Telephone’ wins National Biography Award
Monday, 31 August 2020
Patrick Mullins has won the 2020 National Biography Award for Tiberius with a Telephone: The life and stories of William McMahon (Scribe). Mullins receives $25,000, while the other shortlisted authors...
UQP acquires second novel for children by Carnavas
Friday, 28 August 2020
UQP has acquired My Brother Ben, the second novel for children by Peter Carnavas. ‘Offering a rich narrative that centres on sibling relationships, the story follows brothers Luke and Ben...
First phase of online-only Beijing Book Fair begins
Friday, 28 August 2020
The first phase of this year’s Beijing International Book Fair—which is taking place entirely online due to the Covid-19 pandemic—has begun this week, with the launch of the fair’s Smart...
MWF Digital: a ‘balm’ for challenging times
Friday, 28 August 2020
The digital edition of the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which ran from 7–16 August during Melbourne's stage four lockdown, attracted around 34,200 attendees. MWF sold 27,500 tickets to 41 online,...
Mary Ryan’s Noosa to close
Thursday, 27 August 2020
Mary Ryan's Noosa will close in October 2020. Owners Ross and Susan Burgess purchased the business in June 2010, and are closing the store due to illness. A spokesperson for...
ASA: government ‘failed to adequately respond’ to calls for PLR/ELR digital expansion
Thursday, 27 August 2020
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) is calling on its membership to contact their local members as part of a campaign to have ebooks included in the PLR/ELR scheme, after...
Rijneveld wins International Booker Prize
Thursday, 27 August 2020
Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has won the £50,000 (A$91,310) International Booker Prize for their debut novel The Discomfort of Evening (trans by Michele Hutchinson, Faber), reports the Bookseller. Rijneveld's...
Ned Kelly Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The shortlisted works in each category are: Best crime fiction...
Adventure time: Shivaun Plozza on ‘The Boy, the Wolf and the Stars’
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Shivaun Plozza's middle-grade debut The Boy, the Wolf and the Stars (Puffin, 20 October) is a fantasy adventure about a boy who is tasked with returning the stars to the sky....
OzCo report: more Australians reading for pleasure
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
The number of Australians reading for pleasure has increased over the three years to 2019, according to the Australia Council’s fourth National Arts Participation Survey, while a Covid-19-specific survey commissioned...
Hardie Grant, RMIT announce new narrative nonfiction prize
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Hardie Grant Books and RMIT Writing and Publishing have established a new biennial developmental prize for narrative nonfiction. Open to published and unpublished Australian writers, the Spark Prize offers $2000...
RWA awards 2020 winners announced
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
The winners of the 2020 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the Ruby Awards, have been announced. The winners include: Contemporary romance The...
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