The longlist for the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc (Ali Alizadeh, Giramondo) Common People (Tony Birch, UQP) A... Read more
Brow Books has sold UK and Commonwealth rights to Sydney-based Indonesian author Intan Paramaditha’s short-fiction collection Apple and Knife to Harvill Secker, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK. Harvill Secker... Read more
Scholastic Australia has acquired a middle-grade fiction trilogy, ‘Girltopia’, written by former Hardie Grant Egmont publishing director Hilary Rogers. Book one in the trilogy, Girltopia, marks Rogers’ debut as an... Read more
Penguin Random House Australia’s Young Readers division has acquired 13-year-old slam poet Solli Raphael’s first book, a collection of slam poetry paired with inspirational writing techniques. Scheduled for publication on... Read more
Hong Kong-based poet Nicholas Wong has won the Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize for his poem ‘101 Taipei’. Wong’s poem was chosen for the $5000 prize from... Read more
In the UK, Eley Williams’ short-story collection Attrib. and Other Stories (Influx Press) has won the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, reports the Bookseller. The £5000 (A$9110) prize... Read more
The shortlist for this year’s Wellcome Book Prize, presented for books about health, medicine and illness, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Stay with Me (Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Canongate) The... Read more
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