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Woven (ed by Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Magabala)

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Woven, the second collaborative project between Red Room Poetry and Magabala Books, is a profound and unique collection of First Nations poetry that sees some of the world’s finest First...

Werner Film Productions options Legge memoir screen rights

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Werner Film Productions (WFP) has optioned the screen rights to Kate Legge’s memoir Infidelity & Other Affairs, in a deal negotiated by Thames & Hudson (T&H) Australia on behalf of...

Transit Lounge acquires Goldsmith novel

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Andrea Goldsmith’s novel The Buried Life, via the Jane Novak Literary Agency. Publisher Barry Scott said the book ‘subtly portrays the dangers of...

Text acquires Richardson’s ‘The Degenerates’

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Text Publishing has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to a debut novel by Melbourne writer Raeden Richardson, via Peggy Boulos Smith at Writers House. Following the interconnected lives...

Text acquires Carlyle’s ‘No One Will Know’

Monday, 11 December 2023
Text Publishing has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to the new novel No One Will Know by Rose Carlyle, via Jenny Meyer. No One Will Know is a...

Writers Victoria announces 2023 Writeability fellows

Monday, 11 December 2023
Writers Victoria has announced the 2023 Writeability fellowship recipients. This year’s recipients are: Grace Hall for ‘Off Track’, ‘a young adult novel exploring how physical pain changes a person’s world’...

Pan Macmillan acquires Hardcastle novel

Monday, 11 December 2023
Pan Macmillan has acquired ANZ rights to the novel A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle, via Zeitgeist Agency’s Benython Oldfield, who has also sold North American rights to the...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Monday, 11 December 2023
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.

UQP acquires McSkimming memoir

Friday, 8 December 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to Memory is a Nesting Magpie by Josie McSkimming, in a deal brokered by Gaby Naher of Left Bank Literary. Written...

Khalsa awarded inaugural P F Rowland Manuscript Development Grant

Thursday, 7 December 2023
The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) has announced Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa as the recipient of the inaugural $5000 P F Rowland Manuscript Development Grant. Offered in partnership with Upswell...

MidnightSun acquires Prewer science fiction novel

Thursday, 7 December 2023
MidnightSun has acquired world rights to a literary science fiction novel, titled R E Generation, by debut author Michael Prewer. Described by the publisher as ‘a fast-paced, futuristic tale of...

Indie Book Awards 2024 longlists announced

Thursday, 7 December 2023
The longlists for the 2024 Indie Book Awards, presented by Leading Edge Books, have been announced. The titles longlisted in each category are: Fiction Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton,...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Sales Fiction Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management has sold The Housemate (Sarah Bailey, A&U) to French publisher Mera Editions. Penguin Random House (PRH) ANZ has sold Spanish and Catalan...

Kelly joins Affirm, Kassab named Parramatta Laureate, Bitto wins Blake-Beckett scholarship

Wednesday, 6 December 2023
In this week's news, Affirm Press has appointed Tace Kelly to the role of publicity manager; author Yumna Kassab was named the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature; QBD announced plans...

HarperCollins acquires Grace illustrated ‘great sex’ handbook

Wednesday, 6 December 2023
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to an as-yet-untitled debut nonfiction book from Georgia Grace on ‘the A–Z of great sex’. In the hardcover handbook, sex and relationship practitioner Grace ‘will...

Bongiorno wins ACT Book of the Year

Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Frank Bongiorno has been awarded the 2023 ACT Book of the Year for Dreamers and Schemers: A political history of Australia (La Trobe University Press). Bongiorno's book, which covers social...

FNAWN Varuna Fellowship 2024 recipients announced

Monday, 4 December 2023
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the six 2024 recipients of the inaugural First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) Varuna Fellowship. Successful applicants include: Lystra Bisschop for ‘The Upwarping’,...