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Scribner acquires Latimore nonfiction title 

Monday, 24 June 2024
Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ and UK rights to Kumanjayi: Death and indifference by First Nations journalist Jack Latimore, in a deal via Melanie Ostell at...

BookPeople conference ‘biggest for many years’ 

Thursday, 20 June 2024
The 2024 BookPeople conference, held in Melbourne from 15 to 17 June, was its ‘biggest conference for many years’, according to the organisation. The event attracted 175 bookseller delegates, including...

Hammad wins 2024 RSL Encore Award 

Thursday, 20 June 2024
In the UK, Isabella Hammad has won the 2024 RSL Encore Award for her second novel, Enter Ghost (Vintage), reports the Bookseller. The value of the prize (which celebrates second...

S&S acquires Kitching romance novel 

A photo of Jess Kitching. Thursday, 20 June 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to The Life Experiment, a romance novel from Melbourne-based author Jess Kitching, in a deal negotiated by Daniel Pilkington. Described by...

APA Rising Star 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 20 June 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlist for its 2024 Rising Star award. The shortlisted professionals, who each began their publishing careers in the past 10 years, are:...

Playfair to depart A&U 

Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced that production director Lou Playfair is departing the company early next month. Playfair has worked for A&U for 30 years, having originally joined in...

Byron Writers Festival full program announced

Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Byron Writers Festival has announced its full program for the 2024 festival, which will take place from 9 to 11 August on Bundjalung Country in Bangalow, in northern New South...

Upswell acquires Pigram nonfiction title 

Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to a debut nonfiction title by singer-songwriter Stephen Pigram, with the working title Feel Like Going Back Home. Upswell said that, in the book,...

Craig joins A&U as publisher 

Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Alex Craig has been appointed to the role of publisher at Allen & Unwin, after leaving Ultimo in February. A&U said that Craig ‘started her career in magazines, writing mainly...

Anita Heiss on ‘Dirrayawadha’ 

Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Anita Heiss is one of Australia’s most prolific and celebrated authors, known for her works across genres including nonfiction, historical fiction, commercial fiction and children's books. Books+Publishing reviewer Melissa Mantle...

Anita Heiss recommends 

Tuesday, 18 June 2024
I just re-read Vivienne Cleven’s Bitin’ Back, published as part of the UQP First Nations Classics series. Hands down, this is one of the funniest books I have ever read,...

A&U acquires two Nix novels 

Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Garth Nix’s adult science fiction novel Massif, in a two-book deal via Fiona Inglis at Curtis Brown Australia. US rights to...

Ross wins final Vogel

Tuesday, 18 June 2024
First Year by Kristina Ross has won this year’s $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. First Year follows Maeve, a...

Ortiz wins 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award

Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Kaya Ortiz has won the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award for their unpublished manuscript, Past and Parallel Lives. Ortiz receives a publishing contract and manuscript development with UWA Publishing, and $10,000...

S&S to distribute MUP 

Monday, 17 June 2024
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) will partner with Simon & Schuster (S&S) for its sales and distribution in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand from February next year. MUP titles are currently...

Booktopia in voluntary trading suspension 

Booktopia logo Monday, 17 June 2024
Trading of Booktopia shares on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is suspended, pending an announcement from the company. Booktopia requested a trading halt on Friday, 13 June, anticipating it would...

Ganeshananthan, Klein win Women’s Prizes

Monday, 17 June 2024
In the UK, Brotherless Night by US author V V Ganeshananthan (Viking) has won the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and Doppelganger: A trip into the mirror world by Canadian...

Zheng wins 2024 Island Nonfiction Prize

Monday, 17 June 2024
Island has announced that Cherry Zheng is the winner of the 2024 Island Nonfiction Prize for the piece ‘Fucking with Chineseness’. Zheng is a writer of Cantonese heritage, who was...

Saleh wins Anne Elder Award 2023

Monday, 17 June 2024
Australian Poetry has announced Sara M Saleh as the winner of the Anne Elder Award 2023 for a first book of poetry for The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat (UQP, 2023)....

Stills wins 2024 Text Prize

Photograph of Caroline Stills Monday, 17 June 2024
Melbourne writer Caroline Stills has won the 2024 Text Prize for her debut middle-grade novel A Gift from the Birds. Chosen from a shortlist of five announced earlier this month,...

‘Hungry Ghosts’ wins 2024 Walter Scott Prize

Friday, 14 June 2024
Kevin Jared Hosein has won the £25,000 (A$47,648) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for the novel Hungry Ghosts (Bloomsbury), reports the Bookseller. Set in Trinidad during the 1940s, Hungry...

Ultimo acquires Tunnicliffe novel 

Thursday, 13 June 2024
Ultimo Press has acquired rights to Hannah Tunnicliffe’s domestic noir The Pool. The publisher said The Pool ‘explores the choices and challenges that come after a devastating event through a cast of...

 

 

 

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