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Kefala wins 2022 Patrick White Award

Thursday, 24 November 2022
Sydney-based author Antigone Kefala is the winner of this year’s $15,000 Patrick White Literary Award. The award recognises Kefala’s achievements as a poet, and a writer of fiction and nonfiction....

Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship 2022 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 23 November 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 2022 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship shortlist. The shortlisted applicants, chosen by authors Shankari Chandran and Jennifer Mills, are: Ashley Hay for ‘The...

Woollahra Digital Literary Award 2022 winners

Wednesday, 23 November 2022
The winners of the 2022 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Fiction ($2500) ‘The Golden Bracelet’ (Deniz Agraz, Meniscus Literary Journal) Nonfiction ($2500) ‘Not...

Rights round-up 

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Sales  Fiction Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to One Hundred Days (Alice Pung) to HarperVia, in a deal made by Black Inc. international director Sophy Williams...

Crows Nest (Nikki Mottram, UQP)

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Crows Nest is the absorbing debut crime thriller by Nikki Mottram. Following the breakdown of her marriage, social worker Dana Gibson takes a job interstate, fleeing north to Toowoomba. While...

A Man of Honour (Simon Smith, Echo) 

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
When debut novelist Simon Smith was a child he was told, ‘Someone in our family shot a prince.’ That man was Henry James O’Farrell, whose failed attempt in 1868 to...

The Good Death Through Time (Caitlin Mahar, MUP) 

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Historian Caitlin Mahar’s The Good Death Through Time joins previous works exploring euthanasia—see, for example, Assisted by Stefanie Green—but it is unique in its approach to the story. Mahar’s book is an account of...

Running with Ivan (Suzanne Leal, HarperCollins) 

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Having previously won the Nib People's Choice Prize for her historical adult novel The Deceptions, Suzanne Leal tackles a similar era in her first book for younger readers, a time...

Black Inc. sells ‘One Hundred Days’ to HarperVia 

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to One Hundred Days by Alice Pung to HarperCollins imprint HarperVia. The deal was made by Black Inc. international director Sophy...

National Trust WA INSPIRE residency recipients announced

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
The successful applicants to the 2022 INSPIRE Writer in Residence initiative, offered by the National Trust of Western Australia in partnership with the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural...

QBD 2022 Books of the Year announced

Monday, 21 November 2022
QBD has announced the chain’s 2022 Books of the Year. The winning titles are: Fiction Lying Beside You (Michael Robotham, Hachette) Nonfiction My Dream Time: A memoir of tennis and...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 21 November 2022
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. View the edition here.

Erese wins final Deborah Cass Prize

Friday, 18 November 2022
Anneliz Marie Erese has won Writers Victoria’s 2022 Deborah Cass Prize for her story ‘International’. Erese’s story was chosen from a shortlist of 11. She receives $3000 to assist in further development...

‘Currowan’ wins Walkley Book Award

Friday, 18 November 2022
Bronwyn Adcock has won the 2022 Walkley Book Award for Currowan: The story of a fire and a community during Australia's worst summer, published by Black Inc. Chosen from a...

National Book Awards 2022 winners announced

Friday, 18 November 2022
In the US, the winners of the 2022 National Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction The Rabbit Hutch (Tess Gunty, Oneworld) Nonfiction South...

‘Signs and Wonders’ wins 2022 Nib Literary Award

Thursday, 17 November 2022
Delia Falconer has won the Waverley Council’s 2022 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $20,000, for her book Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and...

Tasmanian Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 16 November 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Tasmanian Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Young readers and children ($25,000) Aster’s Good, Right Things (Kate Gordon, Yellow...

Smashing Serendipity (Louise K Hansen, Fremantle Press)

Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Proud Binjareb Nyoongar woman Louise K Hansen unfortunately passed away before her profound memoir, Smashing Serendipity: The story of one Moordtj Yorga, was published. But the strong stories from her...

The Death of John Lacey (Ben Hobson, A&U) 

Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Ben Hobson’s third novel tells the fragmented story of the life and demise of John Lacey, a ruthless, violent settler of a Victorian gold rush town. John and his brother...

Maggie (Catherine Johns, Hachette) 

Tuesday, 15 November 2022
In Catherine Johns’s debut novel, a 17-year-old Catholic school girl’s life is derailed when she becomes enamoured of her priest. It’s 1967 and Maggie is a straight-A student whose education...

This Time it’s Real (Ann Liang, Penguin) 

Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Ann Liang’s This Time it’s Real is a vibrant young adult romantic comedy with its heart in the right place. When 17-year-old Eliza Lin’s school essay about her fabricated love...

Rights round-up 

Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Sales  Nonfiction  Black Inc. has sold Russian translation rights at auction to The Laughter Effect: How to build joy, resilience and positivity in your life (Ros Ben-Moshe, April 2023) to...

 

 

 

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