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Readings announces New Australian Fiction Prize 2022 shortlist

Tuesday, 23 August 2022
The shortlist for the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au, Giramondo) Hovering (Rhett Davis, Hachette) Losing Face (George Haddad, UQP)...

Pantera acquires Sarago memoir on beauty

Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to the memoir Gigorou: Are you ready to redefine beauty? by Sasha Kutabah Sarago, represented by Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. A former model,...

PRH acquires Bhasin debut

Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights for I Look Forward to Hearing from You, the debut novel by Sydney-based writer Nick Bhasin, in a deal agented by...

CJZ options film and TV rights to Jaffé novel

Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Production company CJZ has optioned film and television rights for The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison (Meredith Jaffé, HarperCollins), in a deal negotiated by Tara Wynne of Curtis Brown Australia. The...

Barbara Jefferis Award 2022 shortlist announced

Monday, 22 August 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award, worth $50,000. The shortlisted titles are: Bodies of Light (Jennifer Down, Text) Ordinary Matter...

Sweatshop acquires Hage book, establishes $10,000 First Nations fellowship

Monday, 22 August 2022
Sweatshop Literacy Movement Inc. has acquired world rights to The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism by anthropologist, public intellectual and cultural critic Ghassan Hage. The book will include new editions...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Monday, 22 August 2022
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CBCA announces 2022 Book of the Year Awards

Friday, 19 August 2022
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the winners of the 2022 Book of the Year Awards. The winning books in each category are: Older readers Tiger Daughter (Rebecca...

Danger Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Friday, 19 August 2022
The BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival has announced the shortlist for this year’s Danger Prize. The all-fiction shortlist is: The Enemy Within (Tim Ayliffe, S&S) Unforgiven (Sarah Barrie, HQ) The...

Margaret and Colin Roderick Award 2022 shortlist announced

Thursday, 18 August 2022
The shortlist for the $20,000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James Cook University, has been announced. The shortlisted books...

New mentorship program for Tasmanian writers, illustrators

Thursday, 18 August 2022
Arts Tasmania and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) have announced a new mentorship program for writers and illustrators. The 2022 Tasmanian Writers and Illustrators Mentorship program is designed to...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian and Turkish rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams), following the book's selection...

Vale Dino Traverso

Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Dino Traverso, co-owner of Dymocks Melbourne on Collins Street, has died. He was 64. Dymocks writes: 'Following an early career in finance and banking, Dino, his brother Ivan and Ivan’s...

Brennan wins National Biography Award, NSW Premier’s History Awards shortlists, Readings union considers industrial action

Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Late last week Bernadette Brennan won the 2022 National Biography Award for Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears (A&U), while the State Library of NSW announced the shortlists for...