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Monday, 15 June 2020
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Organising to protest systemic racism in the publishing industry
Thursday, 11 June 2020
‘Good organising looks like a document that 1100 people worked on together: messily, but semi-democratically. This was publishing people doing what publishing people do: we went through draft after draft...
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...
Mama Ocean (Jane Jolly, illus by Sally Heinrich, MidnightSun)
Thursday, 11 June 2020
From Jane Jolly and Sally Heinrich, creators of One Step at a Time and Papa Sky, comes Mama Ocean, a picture book about the sparkling ruler of the seas, with...
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....
Illustrating the truth: Charmaine Ledden-Lewis on ‘Found’
Thursday, 11 June 2020
Bundjalung artist Charmaine Ledden-Lewis was the recipient of the 2019 Kestin Indigenous Illustrator Award, which offered a mentorship and the opportunity to illustrate Bruce Pascoe's first picture book. The result...
Found (Bruce Pascoe, illus by Charmaine Ledden-Lewis, Magabala)
Thursday, 11 June 2020
The first foray into picture books for Bruce Pascoe (author of the wildly successful Dark Emu) is deceptively straightforward: a frightening separation (don’t worry, there’s a happy ending) between a...
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...
Queen’s Birthday Honours, latest funding, awards news and more
Thursday, 11 June 2020
A number of authors and publishing industry figures including Marcia Langton, Scott Pape and Karen Williams are among the recipients of this year’s 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours. Meanwhile, the ASA...
Perlman’s ‘Maybe the Horse Will Talk’ to be adapted for US TV
Wednesday, 10 June 2020
Paramount Television Studios in the US has optioned Australian author Elliot Perlman’s novel Maybe the Horse Will Talk (Vintage) for adaptation into a TV series, with Perlman to adapt and...
Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 10 June 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award has been announced. Chosen from 80 submissions, including short story collections and novellas up to 30,000 words, the nine shortlisted...
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...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
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Booksellers’ Choice 2020 Book of the Year Awards shortlists announced
Friday, 5 June 2020
The shortlists for the Australian Booksellers Association’s (ABA) 2020 Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles for the 2020 awards are: Adult fiction book...
S&S acquires Pickett life story ‘Belief’
Friday, 5 June 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired Belief, the life story of Richmond Tigers player Marlion Pickett from the Jane Novak Literary Agency via Pickett’s agent, Anthony Van Der Wielen...
REAL Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Thursday, 4 June 2020
The shortlists for the 2020 Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards—which act as shortlists for children’s choice book awards in New South Wales (KOALAs), Northern Territory (KROC Awards) and...
Dialogue Books publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove on Black Lives Matter
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
‘To those who just woke up to generations of brutal & systemic racism against Black people realising there’s an issue; to those that are virtue signalling you have a shit...
Australian publishers wait and see on Frankfurt, latest awards and more
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
The Frankfurt Book Fair is going ahead as scheduled from 14–18 October; however, whether Australian publishers attend the fair or not will depend if overseas travel restrictions are lifted in...
Loner (Georgina Young, Text)
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
Lona has dropped out of art school. She’s working the same job she’s had since high school, letting her only significant friendship drift along and basking in feeling detached from...
Into the Suburbs: A migrant’s story (Christopher Raja, UQP)
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
Christopher Raja’s Into the Suburbs is the author’s first foray into memoir, and documents his migration from Calcutta to Australia in the 80s. Drawn by the glamorous Australia of tourism...
Across the Risen Sea (Bren MacDibble, A&U)
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
Across the Risen Sea is the latest thoughtful yet action-packed adventure from Bren MacDibble, the award-winning author of How to Bee and The Dog Runner. The success of those two...
Kokomo (Victoria Hannan, Hachette)
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
Since Mina’s dad died, her mum Elaine has not left the house. So when Mina hears that Elaine has been spotted outdoors for the first time in 12 years, she...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
Acquisitions Fiction Harlequin has acquired world rights to Kathy George’s debut novel Sargasso via Sally Bird of Calidris Literary Agency. MidnightSun Publishing has acquired Irma Gold’s debut novel The Breaking...
S&S acquires two books by Kailas Wild
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired illustrated book The 99th Koala and an as yet untitled memoir by Kailas Wild, the climbing arborist who received widespread attention for his...
Readings YA Book Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Readings Young Adult Book Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Devil’s Ballast (Meg Caddy, Text) The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling (Wai...
Small Town (Phillip Gwynne, illus by Tony Flowers, Puffin)
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Milly, the narrator of this picture book, lives in a small country town called Gong Gong—‘So nice, they named it twice!’ The town is getting smaller by the day and...
Macleod wins 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Pacific region
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Australian writer Andrea E Macleod has won the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize in the Pacific category for her story ‘The Art of Waving’. Judge Nic Low, representing the Pacific...
Yves Rees wins 2020 Calibre Essay Prize
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Writer and historian Yves Rees has won the $5000 2020 Calibre Essay Prize for their essay ‘Reading the Mess Backwards’, in which they re-examine their youth in light of coming...
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