Doing Politics: Writing on public life (Judith Brett, Text)
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
The state of the humanities in Australia today fills Judith Brett with despair. If she had a child considering a liberal arts degree now, and she had the money, she...
Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief (Katrina Nannestad, ABC Books)
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief is a historical novel for middle-grade readers set during WWII. Young Sasha lies in a hospital in Berlin, recovering after the end of the war. His...
MidnightSun announces book cover design competition
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
MidnightSun Publishing has announced a new book cover design competition for two of its forthcoming novels, Random Acts of Unkindness by Anna Mandoki and The Rider on the Bridge by...
McKay wins Arthur C Clarke Award
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay (Scribe) has won the UK's Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction. McKay’s debut novel was selected from a shortlist of...
Scribner acquires Pearson’s ‘Chasing Wrongs and Rights’
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Scribner Australia has acquired world rights to Chasing Wrongs and Rights, a work of nonfiction by Elaine Pearson, the Australia director at global organisation Human Rights Watch. The book was...
Nib Literary Award 2021 shortlist announced
Monday, 27 September 2021
The shortlist for the $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The shortlisted books are: Only Happiness Here: In search of Elizabeth...
Shah Idil awarded $10k Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Fellowship
Monday, 27 September 2021
Aisyah Shah Idil is the inaugural winner of the Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Fellowship for Writers. Awarded by Perth’s Centre for Stories, the fellowship is for mid-career writers ‘in recognition of their...
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Monday, 27 September 2021
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Stivens wins 2022 Ray Koppe Fellowship
Thursday, 23 September 2021
Sarah Stivens has won the Australian Society of Authors' (ASA) 2022 Ray Koppe Young Writers Fellowship for her poetry manuscript ‘Therapeutic Discomfort’. ‘Therapeutic Discomfort’ is a work of 10 poems...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Sales Fiction Transit Lounge has sold German rights to The Stoning (Peter Papathanasiou) to Polar Verlag, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing has sold French...
$100k Historical Novel Prize shortlists announced
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the shortlists for 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize. The novels shortlisted in the adult category are: Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, River of Dreams (Anita Heiss,...
Love Your Bookshop Day, Varuna Residential Fellowships
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
The Australian Booksellers Association has announced details about this year’s Love Your Bookshop Day celebrations on 9 October, which will take place online ‘so that everyone can engage from wherever...
PRH acquires Weldon debut novel ‘Sixty-Seven Days’
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to Sixty-Seven Days by Yvonne Weldon, in a deal brokered by Selwa Anthony of Selwa Anthony Author Management Agency. According to...
Caught in the Act (Shane Jenek aka Courtney Act, Pantera Press)
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Shane Jenek’s drag queen alter ego Courtney Act has been in the public eye for almost 20 years, beginning with her groundbreaking appearance on the first series of Australian Idol. As...
HGCP acquires ‘UnMonumental’ picture book
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has acquired world rights to UnMonumental, a hardback picture book by artists James Tylor and Matt Chun based on their Instagram project of the same...
Freya Blackwood on ‘The Boy and the Elephant’
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
Freya Blackwood is a Greenaway Medallist and seven-time CBCA winner whose picture books are beloved for her warm and perceptive drawings. Her latest book, The Boy and the Elephant (HarperCollins, November) is a tender, wordless picture book...
Devotion (Hannah Kent, Picador)
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
When Hanne meets Thea, her life suddenly makes sense. They live in Kay, a tight-knit community of devout Lutherans who have been shunned for their beliefs. Both girls, on the...
Stellarphant (James Foley, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
One of the best things about picture books is that anything is possible; there are no restrictions on imagination. Author–illustrator James Foley’s latest book plays with a totally outlandish concept:...
The Boy and the Elephant (Freya Blackwood, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
After almost 20 years of her books on our shelves, a new Freya Blackwood is always cause for delight. The Boy and the Elephant—Blackwood’s first wordless picture book—allows her quiet...
Hardie Grant acquires debut novel ‘The Eulogy’
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights (ex US) to The Eulogy, the debut novel by Jackie Bailey. Drawing on Bailey’s family’s stories of intergenerational trauma, the autofictional novel follows...
Pyke’s ‘Family Tree’ selected for National Simultaneous Storytime 2022
Monday, 20 September 2021
Josh Pyke’s forthcoming book Family Tree (Scholastic) has been selected for the Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) 2022, which will be held on Wednesday, 25...
Ultimo acquires Khalil, Davidow memoir
Monday, 20 September 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to Runaways by Shaimaa Khalil and Shelley Davidow. The deal was brokered by Sarah McKenzie at Sarah McKenzie Literary Management. Khalil and Davidow met...
Walker Books launches new imprint Walker Studio
Monday, 20 September 2021
Walker Books Australia is launching a new ‘beautifully produced, design-driven’ imprint, Walker Studio. While the Studio imprint has been previously launched by Walker Books in the UK and Candlewick in...
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Monday, 20 September 2021
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Liminal & Pantera Press nonfiction prize longlist announced
Thursday, 16 September 2021
The longlist for the inaugural $10,000 Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize has been announced. The longlisted writers are: André Dao Barry Corr Brandon K Liew Elizabeth Flux Frankey Chung...
Varuna announces 2022 residential fellowships
Thursday, 16 September 2021
Varuna the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of the Varuna Residential Fellowships for 2022. The writers and their projects are: The Eleanor Dark flagship fellowship Katherine Brabon, for...
Ngaio Marsh Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Thursday, 16 September 2021
The shortlists for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Awards for New Zealand crime, mystery or thriller writing have been announced. The titles shortlisted in each category are: Best novel The Murder...
Melbourne Prize for Literature finalists announced
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
The Melbourne Prize Trust has announced the finalists for the triennial Melbourne Prize for Literature. The finalists are: Melbourne Prize for Literature ($60,000) Jordie Albiston Maxine Beneba Clarke Pi O...
New distribution centre for Booktopia, QLA winners
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Booktopia has secured a new warehousing and distribution space in Sydney’s South West, with the facility to provide increased capacity in time for Christmas. The program for the inaugural Ubud...
Big Love (Megan Jacobson, illus by Beck Feiner, Walker Studio)
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
This sweet picture book debut draws an immediate comparison with children’s bookshelf classic Guess How Much I Love You. As the borders of Big Love’s world unspool, from house to entire universe, the lyrical...
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