Hardie Grant Egmont sells ‘Welcome to Your Period’ to four territories
Hardie Grant Egmont has sold rights in four territories to Welcome to Your Period (Yumi Stynes and Melissa Kang). North American rights were sold to Walker Books/Candlewick Press in a...
Hardie Grant Egmont sells two Sophie Beer titles to the US
Hardie Grant Egmont has sold North American rights to two books by illustrator Sophie Beer to Penguin imprint Dial Books for Young Readers. Beer’s book Love Makes a Family sold...
Screen Australia announces funding for ‘Zac Power the Movie’
Screen Australia has announced story development funding for Zac Power the Movie, an animated feature film based on the children’s book series of the same name published by Hardie Grant...
Hardie Grant Egmont to publish ‘period guide’ by Yumi Stynes, Melissa Kang
Hardie Grant Egmont has acquired world rights to a guide for pre-teens about getting their period, written by journalist Yumi Stynes and Melissa Kang, the longest-serving expert behind the ‘Dolly...
Chapman wins HGE Ampersand Prize for YA novel ‘What it Takes’
Sydney-based journalist Frances Chapman has won Hardie Grant Egmont’s (HGE) Ampersand Prize for an unpublished manuscript for her ‘vibrant’ YA novel, What it Takes. Chosen from nearly 200 submissions, What...
‘Real Pigeons’ series sold to US in three-book deal
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has sold North American rights to three books in the ‘Real Pigeons’ series (Andrew McDonald, illus by Ben Wood) to Random House Children’s Books, following a...
Vivas to join Hardie Grant Egmont as publisher
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has appointed Ana Vivas to the newly created role of publisher. In her new role at HGE she will 'champion the picture books and children's fiction...
‘Ottilie Colter’ sells for ‘record’ sum in three-book German deal
Hardie Grant Egmont has sold German-language rights to Rhiannon Williams’ Ottilie Colter and the Narroway Hunt, plus two further books by Williams, to Random House Germany imprint cbj Verlag, after a...
Staff changes at Hardie Grant Egmont, Lewis appointed MD
Hardie Grant Egmont has announced several staff changes to its management team. Troy Lewis will move from his current role as director at Hardie Grant (where he was responsible for...
‘Amelia Westlake’ wins 2018 Readings YA book prize
Erin Gough has won the 2018 Readings Young Adult Book Prize for her novel Amelia Westlake (Hardie Grant Egmont). Gough’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of six for the...
HGE, ASRC to release three bilingual editions of ‘My Two Blankets’
Publisher Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) have partnered to publish three bilingual editions of the picture book My Two Blankets (Irena Kobald, illus by...
‘Amelia Westlake’ sells into US
Erin Gough’s new queer feminist YA novel, Amelia Westlake (Hardie Grant Egmont), has sold into the US to Little, Brown imprint Poppy. Gough’s second novel, following her Ampersand Prize-winning debut...
Black wins 2015 Ampersand Prize
Melbourne writer Calanthe Black has won Hardie Grant Egmont’s (HGE) 2015 Ampersand Prize for unpublished writers for her untitled YA sci-fi novel. Black’s entry was chosen from more than 250...