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Juchau wins 2020 Walkley-Pascall Prize for arts criticism

Thursday, 18 June 2020
Novelist, essayist and critic Mireille Juchau has won the 2020 Pascall Prize for arts criticism for her essays ‘How Dreams Change Under Authoritarianism’ (The New Yorker), 'Twilight Knowing: Jenny Offill’s...

Hachette acquires Lau’s ‘Gunk Baby’ 

Thursday, 18 June 2020
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the novel Gunk Baby by Jamie Marina Lau. Hachette head of literary Robert Watkins said he is excited to be publishing the novel,...

Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 17 June 2020
The shortlist for the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 has been announced. The six longlisted novels are: The White Girl (Tony Birch, UQP) Islands (Peggy Frew, A&U) No One (John Hughes, UWA...

Vale Jesse Blackadder

Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Author Jesse Blackadder has died after a short illness, aged 56. In addition to writing books for children and adults, Blackadder was a judge for a number of awards, a...

Vale Deb Brash

Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Book designer Deborah Brash has died. Brash worked with publishers including ABC Books, Allen & Unwin, Art Gallery of NSW, Murdoch Books and Simon & Schuster, and was art director...

Sunflower (Ingrid Laguna, Text) 

Wednesday, 17 June 2020
When Jamila’s oldest friend is granted a visa to move from Iraq to Australia with her family, Jamila is over the moon. But Mina’s arrival is more complicated than Jamila...

New Magabala First Nations cadetship, latest awards and more

Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Magabala Books has announced a new cadetship for First Nations publishing professionals, which includes on-the-job training, professional development and sustainable employment, with mentorship from Magabala publisher Rachel Bin Salleh. Meanwhile,...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold UK Commonwealth (excluding ANZ) rights to The Beat of Life: A surgeon reveals the secrets of the heart (Reinhard Friedl, February 2021) to Hero,...

How to Win an Election (Chris Wallace, NewSouth) 

Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Journalist and historian Chris Wallace’s How to Win an Election can be read two ways. Firstly, as an autopsy of Labor’s shock 2019 defeat, and secondly as a witty Machiavellian...

Billie B Brown optioned for TV

Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Fremantle and development partner 720 Creative have acquired screen rights to the children’s book character Billie B Brown, from the junior fiction series written by Sally Rippin, illustrated by Aki...

Overett wins Penguin Literary Prize 2020

Tuesday, 16 June 2020
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced that the winner of the 2020 Penguin Literary Prize is The Rabbits by Sophie Overett. Victoria-based Overett wins $20,000 (which acts as an...

Roff wins 2020 Peter Carey Short Story Award

Monday, 15 June 2020
Andrew Roff has won the Peter Carey Short Story Award for his story ‘Bock Bock’. Announcing the winner via YouTube, judge Elizabeth Tan said the story, which follows an ‘investigator...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 15 June 2020
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. View the edition here.

The Labyrinth (Amanda Lohrey, Text) 

Thursday, 11 June 2020
Devastated when her son is convicted of negligent homicide, Erica Marsden cuts all ties to her former life and retreats to a lonely coastal hamlet near his prison. Moving into...

Man in Armour (Siobhan McKenna, Fourth Estate) 

Thursday, 11 June 2020
Man in Armour is a slice-of-life novel about Charles, a successful cog in the machine of the financial sector who has climbed his way up the corporate ladder to an...

The Erasure Initiative (Lili Wilkinson, A&U) 

Thursday, 11 June 2020
Lili Wilkinson is a versatile, intelligent writer, and takes the psychological thriller to new heights in The Erasure Initiative. Cecily wakes up on a self-driving bus with six other people....

Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction 2020 shortlist announced

Thursday, 11 June 2020
Lip magazine has announced the shortlist for the 2020 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction. The shortlisted stories are: 'Plant Life' by Tanya Vavilova 'Arrow' by Mia-Francesca McAuslan 'Baby Season' by...

Rights round-up 

Thursday, 11 June 2020
Acquisitions Fiction Sally Bird at Calidris Literary Agency has sold world rights to Elodie Cheesman’s debut novel to Pan Macmillan. Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management has sold world rights...

UQP acquires debut essay collection by Nyuon 

Tuesday, 9 June 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired a collection of essays on identity by South Sudanese–Australian lawyer, community advocate, writer and public speaker Nyadol Nyuon. Nyuon is a lawyer...

 

 

 

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