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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Sales  Fiction Black Inc. has sold Russian rights to Factory 19 (Dennis Glover) to MTS Library. Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold French world rights to Your Anxiety Beast and You:...

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...

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...

Wang wins 2022 Spark Prize 

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Becca Wang has won the 2022 Spark Prize, presented by Hardie Grant Books and RMIT Writing and Publishing, for her nonfiction book proposal ‘Birth Right’. Chosen from a shortlist of...

Waiting for the Storks (Katrina Nannestad, ABC Books) 

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Waiting for the Storks is the latest historical fiction title from Katrina Nannestad, transporting the reader to the Second World War and the time of Himmler’s Lebensborn Program, in which...

Tell Me Again (Amy Thunig, UQP) 

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Amy Thunig is an academic and social commentator on shows such as ABC’s The Drum. She also grew up in poverty, the child of parents battling drug addictions who provided...

Writing NSW diverse mentorship program winners announced

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Writing NSW has announced the recipients of the 2022 diverse writers mentorship program for emerging writers from Indigenous or culturally diverse backgrounds. The winners are: Azka Hameed Mayu Kanamori Harold...

Richell Prize 2022 longlist announced

Logo for the Richell Prize, featuring a swooping bird Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival have announced the longlist for the 2022 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The 20 longlisted authors, chosen from over 700 entries, are: Alexander...

Banjo Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
HarperCollins Australia has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Banjo Prize for an unpublished work of commercial fiction. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'Pine River Falls' by Christine Gregory 'Next of...

NSW Premier’s History Awards 2022 winners announced

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the winners of the 2022 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The winners in each category receive $15,000. The winning titles, chosen from shortlists...

Gamieldien wins inaugural WestWords/Ultimo Prize

Monday, 5 September 2022
The winner of the inaugural WestWords/Ultimo Prize is The Scope of Permissibility by Zeynab Gamieldien. Chosen from ‘an incredibly high calibre of entries’ by judges Michael Campbell (WestWords executive director),...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 5 September 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.

Wattison wins $10k ACU Poetry Prize

Friday, 2 September 2022
Meredith Wattison has won the $10,000 Australian Catholic University (ACU) Prize for Poetry. Based in the Macarthur Region of NSW, Wattison won first prize for ‘The Loose Wild Grace Of...

Vale Rod Mead

Wednesday, 31 August 2022
Publishing industry figure Rod Mead has died, aged 85. Pamela Petty and Bryony Cosgrove write: Australian publishing has lost one of its much-loved bon vivants. Rod Mead (21 April 1937–31...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 31 August 2022
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Jieli Publishing House Co., Ltd. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold traditional Chinese rights...

Bold Types (Patricia Clarke, NLA Publishing) 

Tuesday, 30 August 2022
Patricia Clarke started her career in journalism in 1951, a time when the industry was very much a man's world but women were making inroads. In Bold Types, Clarke gives...

A Brief Affair (Alex Miller, A&U) 

Tuesday, 30 August 2022
A Brief Affair is contemporary fiction by multi–award winning author Alex Miller. The novel follows a moment in the life of Frances Egan, a woman who lives in regional Victoria...

A&U acquires new Morton novel

Monday, 29 August 2022
Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to Kate Morton’s new novel Homecoming. Described by the publisher as ‘an epic novel that spans generations’, Homecoming explores the power of motherhood,...

Davitt Awards 2022 winners announced

Monday, 29 August 2022
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2022 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women. The winning titles in each category are: Adult crime novel...

CBCA Shadowers’ Choice Awards 2022 winners

Monday, 29 August 2022
The winners of the inaugural 2022 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Sun Project: Shadowers’ Choice Awards, chosen by groups of young people, have been announced. The winning books in...

Ned Kelly Awards 2022 winners announced

Monday, 29 August 2022
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners of the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards. The winning titles in each category are: Best debut crime fiction Banjawarn (Josh Kemp,...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 29 August 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.

NT Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced

Thursday, 25 August 2022
The shortlists have been announced for the 2022 Northern Territory Literary Awards, which celebrate the unpublished work of established and emerging NT writers. Shortlists in seven categories were announced, including:...

Hachette acquires two new Binks novels 

Thursday, 25 August 2022
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ and UK rights to a new middle-grade novel from Danielle Binks in a two-book deal, via Jacinta di Mase Management. Publisher Kate Stevens acquired upper...

Hardie Grant announces 2022 Spark Prize shortlist

Thursday, 25 August 2022
Hardie Grant Books and RMIT Writing and Publishing have announced the shortlist for the 2022 Spark Prize for narrative nonfiction. The shortlisted entries are: Katerina Bryant for ‘Queen Pawn’ Sam...

 

 

 

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