The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HQ, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, have announced Ayesha Inoon as the winner of the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished... Read more
The Australian Young Adult Literature Alliance, a grassroots organisation established in 2015 to promote Australian youth literature and more popularly known by the hashtag #LoveOzYA, has become a registered charity... Read more
Puncher & Wattmann has acquired world rights to Michael Winkler’s previously self-published book Grimmish in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. Described by Shaw as a ‘cult... Read more
Irish novelist Colm Tóibín has won the 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize, worth £30,000 (A$52,850), for his novel The Magician (Picador). Tóibín’s 10th novel traces the life of author, essayist, philanthropist and... Read more
