Osborne-Crowley longlisted on Gordon Burn Prize
Friday, 13 December 2024
In the UK, British–Australian author Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been longlisted for the £10,000 (A$20,011) Gordon Burn Prize. Osborne-Crowley was longlisted for her book The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trail of...
Literature orgs, writers among latest Creative Aus grant recipients
Thursday, 12 December 2024
Literature organisations and writers are among the recipients of the latest round of Creative Australia funding, worth $12 million. Among the successful recipients are: Arts Projects for Organisations Overland magazine...
Hardie Grant Books acquires ‘Silk Silver Opium’
Thursday, 12 December 2024
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world print, ebook and audio rights to Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History by writer and historian Michael Pembroke, in a...
UQP acquires Jacobs, Natt picture book for adults
Thursday, 12 December 2024
UQP has acquired world rights to a satirical picture book for adults, titled If Queers Weren’t Meant to Have Kids, by Narelda Jacobs and Karina Natt, to be illustrated by...
Juchau wins 2024 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship
Thursday, 12 December 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Mireille Juchau as recipient of the $35,000 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship. Assessors Amal Awad and Kate Ryan said that in Juchau’s autofictional detective...
Inaugural WestWords Prize shortlist announced
Thursday, 12 December 2024
WestWords has announced the shortlist for its inaugural WestWords Prize. The shortlisted writers (and their manuscripts) are: Amy Anshaw-Nye for ‘The Maydown Girls’ Philip Barker for ‘Burning Good Samaritans’ Vahida...
Hollier appointed chair of new SPN board
Thursday, 12 December 2024
A new board has been elected at the Small Press Network (SPN) annual general meeting, held on 9 December. Nathan Hollier, a former CEO of Melbourne University Publishing and more...
IPEd announces Rosie longlist
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced the longlist for the 2025 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as the Rosie. Longlisted editors—and their projects—include: Kristy Bushnell (UQP), for Love,...
UQP sells Sakr, Ahmed poetry to US and UK
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American and UK rights to The Nightmare Sequence, a collection of illustrated poetry by Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed, to Nightboat Books...
SLQ announces UQP as new black&write! publisher partner
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced a new agreement with the University of Queensland Press (UQP) to publish titles from its black&write! First Nations–led writing and editing program...
A&U acquires Starford novel
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Rebecca Starford’s novel The Visitor, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown Australia. In The Visitor, ‘a woman returns...
Varuna announces 2025 Affirm Press Fellowship recipients
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of the 2025 Affirm Press Fellowship. The fellowship recipients and their manuscripts are: Zoe Deleuil, for ‘Kita Karamel’ Kerry Munnery, for...
Fremantle Australia options Jennings works for new series
Monday, 9 December 2024
Fremantle Australia has optioned the rights to a range of works from local author Paul Jennings for development of a ‘deliciously frightful’ television series. In a writing career spanning about...
Johnson wins Australian Fiction Prize
Monday, 9 December 2024
Katherine Johnson has won the inaugural Australian Fiction Prize for her unpublished manuscript A Wild Heart, receiving $20,000 in prize money and a $15,000 advance. ‘A Wild Heart is the story of...
Rose to depart ABR
Monday, 9 December 2024
Peter Rose, editor and CEO of the Australian Book Review, is set to step down from the role in 2025, the publication has announced. Rose has served in the role...
Black Friday sales up 4% on last year
Thursday, 5 December 2024
Nielsen BookData reports that Black Friday–week sales in 2024 ‘saw volume sales in the Australian book market 40% higher than the average weekly sales in the four weeks prior’, with...
Storm acquires seven McIntosh novels
Thursday, 5 December 2024
Digital-first publishing house Storm has acquired world English language rights (ex ANZ) to seven novels by Fiona McIntosh, via Lisa Highton at Jenny Brown Associates. Acquired titles include The Orphans,...
S&S acquires Gould memoir
Thursday, 5 December 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to a memoir by paramedic Sally Gould, with the working title Frog: A Memoir of Life and Death on the Frontline,...
ABR offers new science writing fellowship
Thursday, 5 December 2024
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced a new fellowship ‘to advance the careers of science writers and to augment ABR’s coverage of science and the history of science’. The...
ASA to fund mentorship program after Copyright Agency funding ends
Thursday, 5 December 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced it will fund ‘a smaller iteration’ of its Award Mentorship Program until it is able to source alternative ongoing funding. In 2025,...
Ang appointed as Hachette x MDA Trainee
Tuesday, 3 December 2024
Wen Yee Ang has been appointed as the inaugural Hachette x Media Diversity Australia (MDA) Trainee. Launched in August, the traineeship was created ‘to promote diversity and inclusivity within the...
Phillips wins 2024 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
Tuesday, 3 December 2024
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced that Eva Phillips has won the 2024 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for the manuscript Borrow-or-rob. Phillips receives $2250 and a publishing contract with UQP,...
A&U acquires ‘History’s Strangest Deaths’
Tuesday, 3 December 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to History’s Strangest Deaths by Riley Knight, in a deal brokered by Florence Dodd at WME Agency, UK. ‘[History’s Strangest Deaths] highlights the...
Wright wins 2024 Voss Literary Prize
Tuesday, 3 December 2024
Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy (Giramondo) was announced as the winner of the 2024 Voss Literary Prize by the Australian University Heads of English (AUHE). The prize judges said: ‘Praiseworthy is a work...
HarperCollins acquires Guthrie debut novel
Tuesday, 3 December 2024
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Sam Guthrie’s debut novel, The Compromised. HarperCollins Australia head of fiction Catherine Milne acquired the book from Tom Gilliatt at a4 Literary. UK rights...
Comic Arts Awards of Australia winners announced
Monday, 2 December 2024
The winners of the 2024 Comic Arts Awards of Australia have been announced. The recipients in each category are: Gold Ledger Deadsheet (Benji Bajorek, self published) Eventually Everything Connects (Sarah Firth, A&U)...
Funder wins Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
Monday, 2 December 2024
Anna Funder has won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in the nonfiction category for the French translation of Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life (Hamish Hamilton). The book was translated to French...
Transit Lounge acquires Colley’s second novel
Monday, 2 December 2024
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Brendan Colley’s second novel, The Season for Flying Saucers, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. ‘I love the way Brendan Colley captures the strange in...
Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship 2024 shortlist announced
Thursday, 28 November 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Meg Caddy for ‘Dross Magic’, which ‘reimagines...
Copyright Agency, ASA, APA welcome Parliamentary report AI recommendations
Thursday, 28 November 2024
The Federal Government’s Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) has released its final report. The Committee was established to ‘inquire into and report on the opportunities and impacts for Australia arising out...
