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‘The Great Greenwashing’ sells to US 

Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Douglas Richmond at House of Anansi Press has acquired North American rights to The Great Greenwashing by John Pabon. The deal was made with Sophy Williams at Black Inc. on behalf of...

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Monday, 3 April 2023
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Stella Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Thursday, 30 March 2023
The shortlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced. The shortlisted books are: We Come With This Place (Debra Dank, Echo) big beautiful female...

Bolinda titles shortlisted in British Book Awards

Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Two titles by Bolinda have been shortlisted for Audiobook of the Year: Fiction at the 2023 British Book Awards. The Seven Moons of Almeida (Shehan Karunatilaka, narrated by Shivantha Wijesinha)...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Danish rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams) to Lindhardt & Ringhof, and Hungarian rights to The Bookseller’s Apprentice (Amelia Mellor) to Lira. Nonfiction...

Desert Jungle (Jeannie Baker, Walker) 

Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Nearly seven years since her last picture storybook, Jeannie Baker returns in top form with Desert Jungle, a breath of fresh air in children’s books, offering a humble and vital...

Reckless (Marele Day, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Accomplished crime writer Marele Day’s memoir Reckless opens in coastal NSW, where the author learns of the death of her French friend Jean. Day had met the charismatic Jean in...

CBCA Awards 2023 shortlists announced

CBCA shortlist Tuesday, 28 March 2023
The shortlists for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Older readers Ask No Questions (Eva Collins,...

Dublin Literary Award shortlist announced

Tuesday, 28 March 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000 (A$162,360), has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr, Scribner) Em (Kim Thuy, trans by Sheila...

De Kretser wins 2023 Folio Prize

Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Australian author Michelle de Kretser has won in the fiction category of the Rathbones Folio Prize, for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U). In the award's first year under a new prize...

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Monday, 27 March 2023
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Arnott shortlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize

Cover of Limberlost Friday, 24 March 2023
Tasmanian writer Robbie Arnott has been shortlisted for Swansea University's Dylan Thomas Prize, awarded for the best literary work published in English and written by an author aged 39 or...

ASAL announces pilot fellowship program recipients

Thursday, 23 March 2023
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the recipients of a pilot program of Copyright Agency-funded writers’ fellowships. Luisa Mitchell and Fiona Murphy are the winners...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Sales Fiction Giramondo has sold North American rights to the forthcoming novel Praiseworthy (Alexis Wright, April) and Wright's Miles Franklin winning novel Carpentaria to New York-based independent press New Directions, and...

Vale Ross Gibson

Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Filmmaker and author Ross Gibson has died. Gibson was the author of several books including The Summer Exercises (2009), 26 Views of the Starburst World (2012), Changescapes (2015) and Memoryscopes (2015), all...

The Albatross (Nina Wan, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 21 March 2023
It’s widely known that an albatross is a very rare bird. In golf, it’s a move that’s even rarer—one that’s considered lucky, executed with the utmost finesse. And golf is...

Echo Lake (Joan Sauers, A&U) 

Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Set in the brooding wilderness of the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Echo Lake is the compelling debut thriller by author and screenwriter Joan Sauers. Sitting on the cosier...

Eta Draconis (Brendan Ritchie, UWAP) 

Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Eta Draconis is Brendan Ritchie’s impressive third novel and the winner of the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award. This road trip story centres around two sisters, Elora and Vivienne, who are...

Jess Racklyeft on Bologna 

Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft was the winner of one of two Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) International Bologna Scholarships to attend this year’s Bologna Book Fair....