Text celebrates Coetzee’s 80th birthday with special collection
Text Publishing will celebrate J M Coetzee’s 80th birthday with a special collection of writings in honour of the South Africa-born, Australian writer. Coetzee’s partner of more than 40 years,...
Text acquires new Grenville novel
Text has acquired world rights to a new novel by Kate Grenville called A Room Made of Leaves. Following Australian pastoralist and merchant Elizabeth Macarthur, the novel ‘picks apart ideas...
Story you can hold: Tyson Yunkaporta on ‘Sand Talk’
In Sand Talk (Text, September), researcher and arts critic Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. Reviewer Karen Wyld said the book ‘offers fuel for timely discussions...
Text acquires ANZ rights to Booker-longlisted ‘Ducks, Newburyport’
Text Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to Lucy Ellmann’s Booker-longlisted novel Ducks, Newburyport, published in the UK by Galley Beggar Press. The novel, comprised of only eight sentences, follows an...
Text Prize 2019 shortlist announced
The shortlist has been announced for the 2019 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing. The five shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘Tellurian Blue’ by Danielle Clode, a debut fantasy novel...
Serong longlisted for £15,000 Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize
Jock Serong has been longlisted for the £15,000 (A$28,230) Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize, for his novel Preservation (Text). Preservation is one of 12 titles longlisted for the prize, which celebrates...
Text sells book on Indigenous thinking to US for six-figure sum
Text Publishing has sold North American rights to Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World (Tyson Yunkaporta) to HarperCollins imprint HarperOne in a six-figure pre-empt. Agent David Forrer at...
‘The Trauma Cleaner’ shortlisted for Wellcome Book Prize
Sarah Krasnostein’s The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster (Text) is one of six books shortlisted for the UK’s Wellcome Book Prize. The annual prize,...
‘The Trauma Cleaner’ longlisted for Wellcome Book Prize
Sarah Krasnostein’s The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster (Text) has been longlisted for the UK’s Wellcome Book Prize. The annual prize, worth £30,000 (A$53,720),...
Presser wins 2018 Voss Literary Prize for ‘The Book of Dirt’
Author Bram Presser has won the 2018 Voss Literary Prize for The Book of Dirt (Text). The Voss Literary Prize is awarded to the best novel published in Australia in the...
‘The Women in Black’ sells in multiple territories after translation rights made available after 12 years
Text Publishing has sold rights in multiple territories to Madeleine St John’s The Women in Black, alongside several other books by St John, after translation rights were made available for...
Introducing Madeleine St John’s ‘The Women in Black’
Madeleine St John’s The Women in Black was in hot demand at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year after Text Publishing recently acquired translation rights. The coming-of-age story set in...
Hunt awarded inaugural Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship
Barkindji writer Allanah Hunt has been awarded the inaugural Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship. Her winning manuscript, 'Forever and Ever', tells the story of a young woman reckoning with her unplanned...
Angel wins 2018 Barbara Jefferis Award for ‘The Trapeze Act’
Poet Libby Angel has won the 2018 Barbara Jefferis Award for her debut novel The Trapeze Act (Text). The $50,000 award, which is administered by the Australian Society of Authors...
‘On the Java Ridge’ wins 2018 Colin Roderick Award
Jock Serong’s On the Java Ridge (Text) has won the 2018 Colin Roderick Award and the HT Priestley Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook...
‘Pulse Points’ wins 2018 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
Jennifer Down's short story collection Pulse Points (Text) has won the 2018 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Pulse Points was chosen from a shortlist of six by a judging panel comprising...
‘The Enigmatic Mr Deakin’ wins National Biography Award
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett (Text) as the winner of this year’s $25,000 National Biography Award. The judges said...
Text acquires debuts from Bishop, McPhee-Browne
Text Publishing has acquired two fiction debuts from Melbourne-based writers. Text acquired world rights to Alice Bishop’s debut short-story collection, A Constant Hum, which explores the Black Saturday bushfires and...
La Trobe University invests $200,000 in ‘The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka’ adaptation
La Trobe University has invested $200,000 in a TV series adaptation of Clare Wright's book The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, reports the Age. Money from the university's Strategic Innovation Fund...
Text sells US, UK rights to Collette debut; Hillman picked up by Faber
Text Publishing has sold North American rights to Katherine Collette’s forthcoming debut The Helpline to Tara Parsons, editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster’s (S&S) Touchstone division in the US, in a...