SLQ 2021 Young Writers Award winner announced
Tuesday, 17 August 2021
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced that Ellen Vickerman is the winner of the 2021 Young Writers Award. Vickerman wins a $2000 cash prize for her story 'Sun...
NZ Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize shortlist announced
Monday, 16 August 2021
Hachette Aotearoa NZ and the Margaret Mahy estate have announced the shortlist for the Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize. The shortlisted illustrators are: Elizabeth Knowles Tara Southgate Sarah Trolle Jessica Twohill...
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Monday, 16 August 2021
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‘The Bible in Buffalo Country’ wins 2021 NT History Book Award
Friday, 13 August 2021
The winner of the 2021 Chief Minister's Northern Territory History Book Award has been announced. The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925-1931 (Sally May, Laura Rademaker, Donna Nadjamerrek &...
Larrikin House acquires Freeman picture book
Thursday, 12 August 2021
Larrikin House has acquired worldwide rights to children’s picture book The Heartbeat of the Land by Cathy Freeman. The publisher says the book is ‘a poignant call for environmental action...
NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2021 winners announced
Thursday, 12 August 2021
The winners of the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Margaret Mahy Book of the Year...
Giramondo partners with RMIT to launch Speculate Prize
Thursday, 12 August 2021
RMIT University has announced it will partner with Giramondo Publishing to launch the Speculate Prize, a new trans-Tasman award for an unpublished speculative fiction manuscript. The biennial prize aims to...
S&S stands by Zonfrillo, Dyer to step down from AWW
Wednesday, 11 August 2021
Simon & Schuster is standing by celebrity chef Jock Zonfrillo’s memoir Last Shot following a profile of Zonfrillo published in Good Weekend. Jo Dyer will step down as director of Adelaide...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 11 August 2021
Sales Fiction Big Sky Publishing has sold Hungarian rights to The Music Maker of Auschwitz IV (Jaci Byrne) to 21. Század Kiadó and Hitler's Brothel (Steve Matthews) to IPC; Italian...
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 11 August 2021
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2021 NSW Premier’s History Awards, worth $15,000 each. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Australian history prize...
Stanner Award 2021 finalists announced
Wednesday, 11 August 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Stanner Award has been announced. Presented every two years by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), the award is for...
Chaudhary wins 2021 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Wednesday, 11 August 2021
Camilla Chaudhary has won the 2021 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘The Enemy Asyndeton’. Chosen from a shortlist of three announced in July,...
My Brother Ben (Peter Carnavas, UQP)
Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Acclaimed Australian children’s writer Peter Carnavas has followed up his wonderful first novel The Elephant with another book equally full of heart. An ode to sibling relationships, growing up and the natural world, My...
Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears (Bernadette Brennan, A&U)
Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Gillian Mears’s comparatively short life is truly a gift for the brave biographer. A fiction writer of immense talent, Mears received a bounty of accolades, grants and awards, but was...
Permafrost (S J Norman, UQP)
Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Permafrost is a decadent, artistic delight, full of sensory pleasure for the reader. S J Norman, a visual and performance artist who won the inaugural Kill Your Darlings Manuscript Award with this collection, makes a...
Bodies of Light (Jennifer Down, Text)
Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Bodies of Light is Jennifer Down’s third book and her best yet. It begins with fierce, ageing Maggie (now living in the US under a new identity) being prompted to revisit...
S&S acquires Cachia memoir ‘Then There Was Her’
Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Simon & Schuster has acquired world rights to Then There Was Her by influencer and entrepreneur Sophia Cachia, in a deal brokered by Bruce Kaider at ONE Sports & Entertainment....
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Monday, 9 August 2021
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PRH acquires Scott debut ‘Compulsion’
Friday, 6 August 2021
Penguin Random House Australia has acquired ANZ rights to debut novel Compulsion by Kate Scott, in a deal agented by Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. Compulsion centres on Lucy, a...
Shortlist for 2021 National Biography Award announced
Friday, 6 August 2021
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 National Biography Award. The shortlisted works are: The Lotus Eaters (Emily Clements, Hardie Grant) One...
Colin Roderick Award 2021 shortlist announced
Thursday, 5 August 2021
The shortlist for the $20,000 Colin Roderick Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James Cook University, has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: Consolation (Garry...
Queensland Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Thursday, 5 August 2021
The shortlists for the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance ($25,000) Car Crash...
MWF program, latest award winners
Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Melbourne Writers Festival has revealed this year’s program, which runs from 3–12 September. Meanwhile, Writing NSW and the NT Writers Centre, as well as the NSW Central Coast’s Words on...
‘Still Alive’ sells to Fantagraphics
Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Melbourne graphic novel publisher Twelve Panels Press has sold world English rights (ex ANZ) to Safdar Ahmed’s Still Alive to Gary Groth at Fantagraphics, to be published under the Fantagraphics...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Sales Fiction Brandl & Schlesinger has sold US and Canadian rights to Mother Tongue (Joyce Kornblatt) to Publerati Maine. Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children's has sold UK and Korean rights to...
Pantera acquires McWilliams debut middle-grade novel
Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to The Reindeer and the Submarine, the debut middle-grade novel by Beverly McWilliams. Inspired by the true story of a reindeer who lived aboard...
How to Make Friends: A Bear’s Guide (Cat Rabbit, Berbay)
Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Bear loves writing, drawing and collecting stickers. But with only the company of her toys, Bear is a bit lonely and would like to make some friends. She sets off...
Cat Rabbit on ‘How to Make Friends: A Bear’s Guide’
Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Cat Rabbit is a textile artist and designer based in Melbourne. In her latest picture book, How to Make Friends: A Bear's Guide (Berbay, October), Rabbit explores the struggles of...
Dark Rise (C S Pacat, A&U)
Tuesday, 3 August 2021
Will is on the run from the men who killed his mother. When a terrifying artefact is unleashed on the Thames docks, Will finds himself thrust into a hidden world...
Scary Monsters (Michelle de Kretser, A&U)
Tuesday, 3 August 2021
Montpellier, France, 1981. Twenty-two-year-old Lili is teaching English at a local high school and navigating a new experience of displacement in her adopted European home—after emigrating to Australia with her...
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