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Pantera acquires Liminal anthology ‘Collisions’

Tuesday, 21 July 2020
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to Liminal magazine anthology Collisions: Fictions of the Future (ed by Leah Jing McIntosh, Adalya Nash Hussein, Cher Tan & Hassan Abul). The anthology...

Griffith Review Novella Project 2020 winners announced

Tuesday, 21 July 2020
The winners of the Griffith Review’s Novella Project competition have been announced. The winning writers are: Rhianna Boyle Claire G Coleman Mikele Prestia Kate Veitch. The four winners share the $25,000...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 20 July 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. Features include: Fall children's books...

Winch wins 2020 Miles Franklin for ‘The Yield’

Thursday, 16 July 2020
Tara June Winch has won the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her second novel, The Yield (Hamish Hamilton). Winch, a Wiradjuri woman, is the fourth First Nations writer to...

KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award 2020 shortlist announced

the logo for kill your darlings Thursday, 16 July 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Kill Your Darlings (KYD) Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The shortlisted writers and their works are: ‘Abomination’ by Ashley Goldberg (fiction) ‘The Dead Falls’ by...

S&S acquires two new Blanchard novels 

Thursday, 16 July 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to two new books by historical fiction author Tania Blanchard. The first book in the new contract, like Blanchard's previous novels,...

The Fire Star (A L Tait, Penguin) 

Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Maven is a servant girl doomed to a life of servitude and forced to hide how sharp-minded she really is. Reeve is a squire with dreams of becoming a knight...

Dreams They Forgot (Emma Ashmere, Wakefield) 

Wednesday, 15 July 2020
The tagline on the title page of Emma Ashmere’s Dreams They Forgot is ‘stories of illusion, deception and quiet rebellion’. This is an apt description of the 25 stories that...

Bunnygirl (Holly Jayne, Berbay) 

Wednesday, 15 July 2020
In this adorable junior graphic novel, the main character Bea loves superhero comics, cute things, bunnies and eating cereal. She really wants to become a superhero so that she can...

None Shall Sleep (Ellie Marney, A&U) 

Wednesday, 15 July 2020
From mastermind Australian YA writer Ellie Marney comes a gripping new psychological thriller. Although the novel is not set in Australia—Marney opts for the larger criminal playing field of the...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Acquisitions Fiction Penguin Random House Australia has acquired Echolalia (Briohny Doyle) in a two-book deal via Rach Crawford of Mackenzie Wolf (see news). Nonfiction Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights...

Vale Elizabeth Harrower

Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Novelist Elizabeth Harrower has died, aged 92. Harrower was the author of five novels, beginning with Down in the City, first published in 1957. Down in the City and Harrower's...

Scribe acquires Doig’s ‘We Are All Preppers Now’ 

Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Scribe has acquired world English-language rights to Tom Doig’s third full-length book, We Are All Preppers Now, a narrative nonfiction work that examines the practices of survivalism and doomsday prepping...

McKinty, McTiernan win 2020 Thriller Awards

Tuesday, 14 July 2020
Adrian McKinty and Dervla McTiernan have won in their respective categories at the International Thriller Writers’ Thriller Awards 2020. McKinty's The Chain (Hachette) was named best hardcover novel, while McTiernan's...

Yager awarded 2020 Reading Australia Fellowship

Tuesday, 14 July 2020
The Copyright Agency has announced Karen Yager, deputy head at Knox Grammar School in New South Wales, is the 2020 recipient of the Reading Australia Fellowship for Teachers of English...

PRH acquires Doyle’s ‘Echolalia’ 

Monday, 13 July 2020
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired Echolalia by Briohny Doyle in a two-book deal via Rach Crawford of Mackenzie Wolf. According to Doyle, the novel is ‘about grief, responsibility,...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 13 July 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.

ASA announces recipients of Takeaway Creatives grants

Friday, 10 July 2020
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 14 recipients of its $1000 Takeaway Creatives grants, funded by the Australia Council's Covid-19 Resilience Fund. The successful authors and illustrators...

The Lost Library (Jess McGeachin, Puffin) 

Wednesday, 8 July 2020
This is unashamedly a story for every child (and adult) who loves books and reading—and it reaches out to encourage every reader to fit that description. Little Oliver and his...

Ordinary Matter (Laura Elvery, UQP) 

Wednesday, 8 July 2020
Award-winning Brisbane author Laura Elvery (Trick of the Light) now brings us Ordinary Matter, a short story collection inspired by the 20 times women have won the Nobel Prize for...

 

 

 

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