ASA writers survey, first Perth Fest guests, Booker Prize winner
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
A new survey by the Australian Society of Authors shows more than half of full-time writers earn below $15,000 per year. The first guests for next year’s Perth Festival Literature...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Sales Fiction Hachette Australia has sold UK & Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to When the Apricots Bloom (Gina Wilkinson) and Ten-Ager (Madonna King) to Headline Publishing Group. Left Bank Literary...
Hueston awarded 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Text Publishing director and a senior editor Penny Hueston is the winner of the 2020 Australian Academy of the Humanities Medal for Excellence in Translation for Being Here: The life...
CBCA restructures board, confirms 2021 Book Week theme
Tuesday, 24 November 2020
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has appointed Wendy Rapee as its new chair, and restructured its board, reducing its size from 12 directors to eight. The restructure of...
Morris-Marr’s ‘Fallen’ wins 2020 Walkley Book Award
Monday, 23 November 2020
Investigative journalist, writer and broadcaster Lucie Morris-Marr has won the 2020 Walkley Book Award for Fallen: The inside story of the secret trial and conviction of Cardinal George Pell (A&U)....
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Monday, 23 November 2020
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Speech Pathology Book of the Year 2020 winners announced
Friday, 20 November 2020
The winners of the 2020 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year awards have been announced. Chosen from shortlists announced in July, the winning titles are: Birth to three years...
‘The Sydney Wars’ wins inaugural Les Carlyon Literary Prize
Friday, 20 November 2020
Stephen Gapps has won the inaugural Les Carlyon Literary Prize for his 2018 work The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony 1788–1817 (NewSouth). Chosen from more than 60 entries,...
Voss Literary Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Thursday, 19 November 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Voss Literary Prize has been announced. The shortlisted novels are: Crossings (Alex Landragin, Picador) The Rich Man’s House (Andrew McGahan, A&U) The Palace of Angels...
Treloar wins 2020 Barbara Jefferis Award
Thursday, 19 November 2020
Lucy Treloar has won the 2020 Barbara Jefferis Award for her novel Wolfe Island (Picador). The $50,000 award, which is administered by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA), is presented...
Book it in: 2021 children’s and YA preview
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Alongside a slate of new books by established children’s authors, next year looks to be a year of firsts, featuring books by debut authors, established authors trying their hands at...
Editing requires time and skill—regardless of market pressures
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
'Despite the high volume of books being produced, and the increasing pressures to produce them as quickly and cheaply as possible—and of course to sell as many as possible—editing itself...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold North American English-language rights to All Our Shimmering Skies (Trent Dalton) to Harper Fiction, UK rights to The Borough Press, German rights to HarperCollins Germany,...
The Silent Listener (Lyn Yeowart, Viking)
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Lyn Yeowart’s debut crime thriller The Silent Listener is the intense, horrific, utterly devastating and totally addictive tale of the Henderson family. Spanning four decades and encompassing a missing child...
Beneath the Trees (Cristy Burne, Fremantle Press)
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Cam and her little sister Sophie have travelled halfway across Australia to see some platypuses in the wild, and even their mum forcing them to wear bright yellow emergency ponchos...
Coming of Age in the War on Terror (Randa Abdel-Fattah, NewSouth)
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
‘I’ve always had this almost pre-conceived guilt attached to who I was.’ — Jena (18, Lebanese–Australian, South West Sydney) On September 11 2001, two planes smashed into the World Trade...
Iceberg (Claire Saxby, illus by Jess Racklyeft, A&U)
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
There is no absolutely question as to why Claire Saxby and Jess Racklyeft are both multi-award-winning creators, and this book is a perfect partnership, eliciting the very best from both...
Pan Mac cuts ties with Evans, PMLA shortlists announced
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Pan Macmillan is finalising its contractual relationship with Pete Evans, following a social media post by the cookbook author that included a symbol appropriated by Nazis and recognised as a...
Giggs shortlisted for ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Australian writer Rebecca Giggs has been shortlisted for the American Library Association's (ALA) 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for nonfiction for Fathoms: The world in the whale (Scribe). Giggs's consideration of whales...
S&S to publish Kerr children’s series and World Cup diary
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to a new children’s series by Sam Kerr, captain of the Australian national women’s soccer team the Matildas, in a six-book...
UQP Writing Mentorship inaugural recipient announced
Tuesday, 17 November 2020
UQP and the University of Queensland’s (UQ) School of Communications and Arts have announced that Martine Kropkowski is the inaugural recipient of the UQP Writing Mentorship. Kropkowski will receive editorial...
The Next Chapter 2020 recipients announced
Tuesday, 17 November 2020
The Wheeler Centre has announced the recipients of the 2020 Next Chapter grants for developing writers, worth $15,000 each. The 10 recipients are: Sharlene Allsopp (fiction, QLD) Bigoa Chuol (poetry,...
UQP acquires Norman debut story collection
Tuesday, 17 November 2020
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to debut short story collection Permafrost by visual artist, performer and writer S J Norman via Curtis Brown. Norman, under the...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Monday, 16 November 2020
The shortlists for the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Death of Jesus (J M Coetzee, Text) Exploded View...
HarperCollins acquires Baird book on grace
Monday, 16 November 2020
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Bright Shining by Julia Baird, from Amanda Urban at ICM Partners. Baird's nonfiction book on grace—what it is, what it looks like in our...
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Monday, 16 November 2020
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Dymocks Book of the Year 2020 shortlist announced
Friday, 13 November 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Dymocks Book of the Year has been announced. The six shortlisted books, as voted by Dymocks booksellers across the country, are: All Our Shimmering Skies...
‘Fathoms’ wins Nib Literary Award
Thursday, 12 November 2020
Rebecca Giggs’ Fathoms (Scribe) has won the Waverley Council’s $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award for 2020. Giggs’s work of narrative nonfiction blends natural history, science and philosophy...
Walkley Book Award 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
The Walkley Book Award shortlist for 2020 has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know (Sophie McNeill, ABC Books) Fallen (Lucie Morris-Marr, A&U) The Altar Boys (Suzanne Smith,...
Gay YA rom-com wins 2020 Ampersand Prize
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing (HGCP) has announced that Auckland teacher and writer Helen Valley has won the 2020 Ampersand Prize for her YA novel Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean...
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