The 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which ran from 20 to 26 May, had a total attendance of 91,680 across its 225 events. The attendance figure is an increase on... Read more |
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Penguin Random House (PRH) imprint Dial Books for Younger Readers has acquired North American rights to Judith Rossell’s forthcoming illustrated middle-grade novel The Midwatch, via Daniel Lazar at Writers House... Read more |
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Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ and UK rights to Kumanjayi: Death and indifference by First Nations journalist Jack Latimore, in a deal via Melanie Ostell at... Read more |
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University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Rachel Morton’s debut novel, The Sun Was Electric Light, which won the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished... Read more |
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In the UK, the winners of the Yoto Carnegie medals for writing and illustration for children and young people have been announced. Joseph Coelho, the UK’s current Children’s Laureate, won... Read more |
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How to Break a World Record and Survive Grade Five is the new novel from Carla Fitzgerald, author of the popular middle-grade title How to Be Prime Minister and Survive... Read more |
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