Stella Prize and NSW Prem’s winners, industry moves
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Evie Wyld has won this year’s Stella Prize, worth $50,000, for her novel The Bass Rock (Vintage). Meanwhile, Ellen van Neerven has scooped the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards with their...
Cameron Nunn on ‘Echo in the Memory’
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
The historical YA novel Echo in the Memory (Walker, June) took author Cameron Nunn 10 years and a PhD in the history of child convicts to write. The book features...
The Other Half of You (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette)
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s latest novel continues the story of Bani Adam, a young Lebanese Muslim man growing up in Sydney. Bani, the protagonist of Ahmad’s 2018 novel The Lebs, now...
UWAP announces 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives a cash prize of $10,000, as well as manuscript development...
Everything Harder Than Everyone Else (Jenny Valentish, Black Inc.)
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Don't be fooled by the Motörhead-inspired title: journalist Jenny Valentish’s latest work of nonfiction isn't about music but is instead an accessible deep dive into extreme bodily endurance. A spiritual...
Coco, the Fish with Hands: Endangered Animal Tales 1 (Aleesah Darlison, illus by Mel Matthews, Puffin)
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Coco, the Fish with Hands is a simple book that reads almost like a souvenir from a conservation habitat visit. Its story is practical and streamlined, introducing an individual handfish,...
Echo in the Memory (Cameron Nunn, Walker Books)
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Cameron Nunn presents an ambitious work of historical fiction in his latest novel Echo in the Memory. Seamlessly telling the stories of two adolescents existing almost 200 years apart, the...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 winners announced
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Ellen van Neerven has scooped the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards with their poetry collection Throat (UQP). Van Neerven’s collection was awarded the overall $10,000 book of the year award,...
Liminal, Pantera establish $10,000 nonfiction prize
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Liminal magazine and Pantera Press have announced a new nonfiction writing prize for First Nations writers and writers of colour. The winner of the Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize receives...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Monday, 26 April 2021
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S&S acquires El Masry body inclusive wellbeing guide
Thursday, 22 April 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to Be You Be Free by Shreen El Masry. El Masry is a non-diet, body inclusive and Health At Every Size...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Sales Children's Berbay Publishing has sold complex Chinese rights to Sneaky Shadows (S C Manchild, illus by Sam Caldwell) to Sharp Point (Taiwan) and Korean rights to Can You Find...
ABA conference program, Readings Children’s Book Prize winner
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
The program for this year’s Australian Booksellers Association conference, to be held in person and online from 20–22 June at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, has been announced. In awards...
Hachette acquires Temple middle-grade series
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a middle-grade series by Kate Temple. The first book in the series of the same name, The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat...
Walking in Gagudju Country: Exploring the monsoon forest (Diane Lucas and Ben Tyler, illus by Emma Long, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Combining their expertise in and passion for botanical work, wild landscapes and the culture of the Top End bush, authors Diane Lucas and Ben Tyler join with illustrator Emma Long...
The School (Brendan James Murray, Picador)
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Brendan James Murray is a full-time high school English teacher and an award-winning writer. His new nonfiction work The School chronicles a year in his classroom, in a public school...
We Were Not Men (Campbell Mattinson, Fourth Estate)
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Campbell Mattinson’s We Were Not Men charts the story of twin brothers Jon and Eden in an episodic exploration of male kinship. Told from Jon’s perspective, the book begins with the...
The Covered Wife (Lisa Emanuel, Pantera Press)
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
When young lawyer Sarah meets the smart, handsome Daniel, the attraction is instant. Influenced by the charismatic Rabbi Menachem Lev and his wife Chani, who take the new couple under...
Creative NZ Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary recipient announced
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Emma Hislop has been named the recipient of of Creative New Zealand's 2021 Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary, valued at NZ$11,000 (A$10,200). Hislop is a Taranaki-based writer whose work has...
S&S acquires Mahoney’s ‘Currently Between Husbands’
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to a book by writer and podcaster Cathrine Mahoney, host of So, I Quit My Day Job and co-host of Not...
Macky, Ballantyne to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; ABIA business awards shortlists announced
Monday, 19 April 2021
Bookseller Mandy Macky and children's publisher Maryann Ballantyne will be inducted into the ABIA Hall of Fame at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) on Wednesday, 28 April. Macky will...
PRH acquires Crabb and Sales ‘Chat 10 Looks 3’ book
Monday, 19 April 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to Well Hello by Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales. In the book, journalists Crabb and Sales, who started their popular podcast...
Zable honoured for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
Monday, 19 April 2021
Arnold Zable has won the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, which ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over the age of 60 who have made an outstanding...
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Monday, 19 April 2021
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ABC Books acquires Om memoir
Friday, 16 April 2021
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to ABC 7.30 reporter Jason Om’s debut memoir All Mixed Up, via Benython Oldfield of Zeitgeist Agency, to be published under the ABC Books...
Australians, New Zealander shortlisted for 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Thursday, 15 April 2021
Four Australians and one New Zealander are among the finalists for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The Australian and New Zealand authors shortlisted are: A N King for ‘The...
Jeffrey wins 2020 Anne Elder Award for ‘Dead Bolt’
Thursday, 15 April 2021
Australian Poetry has named Ella Jeffrey as the winner of the 2020 Anne Elder Award for her debut poetry collection Dead Bolt (Puncher & Wattmann). 'Ella Jeffery’s Dead Bolt is an...
‘As Fast as I Can’ wins Readings Children’s Book Prize 2021
Thursday, 15 April 2021
Penny Tangey's middle-grade novel As Fast as I Can (UQP) has won the 2021 Readings Children's Book Prize. Readings bookseller and prize judge Clare Millar writes that the judging panel were...
Who Gets to be Smart (Bri Lee, A&U)
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Who Gets to be Smart opens with a walking tour of Oxford. Author Bri Lee is at the university to visit her friend, a freshly minted Rhodes Scholar. As the...
Pan Mac sells ‘Heartsick’ to US, UK
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Pan Macmillan Australia has sold US and UK rights to debut nonfiction title Heartsick (Jessie Stephens) after ‘a highly contested auction’. US rights were sold to Henry Holt in a...
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