Danger Awards 2024 winners announced
Monday, 16 September 2024
The 2024 winners of the Danger Awards have been announced. Winners in each category are: Fiction The Tea Ladies (Amanda Hampson, Penguin) Debut fiction Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder (Kerryn Mayne,...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
Thursday, 12 September 2024
Creative Australia has announced the winners of the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. The winners in each category, chosen by an expert independent panel of judges from shortlists announced in...
British Academy Book Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Thursday, 12 September 2024
The British Academy has announced the shortlist for the 2024 British Academy Book Prize, worth £25,000 (A$49,156). The shortlisted titles are: Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and...
Atlantic acquires new Dettmann novel
Thursday, 12 September 2024
Atlantic Books Australia, a division of Allen & Unwin (A&U), has acquired ANZ rights to a new novel by Jessica Dettmann, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown....
Shawline rebrands
Thursday, 12 September 2024
Shawline Publishing has rebranded as New Found Books. A statement on the publisher’s website said the website had been ‘rebranded and redirected for the protection of our authors and quality...
Grainer, Mouhajer awarded Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Affirm Press and Sweatshop have announced Phoebe Grainer and Adrian Mouhajer as the recipients of the 2024–25 round of the Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers. Grainer is a Kuku...
Smith Street acquires Davies cookbook
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Smith Street Books has acquired world rights to a new Japanese cookbook by Emiko Davies, via Lou Johnson at Key People Literary Management. Davies is an Australian-Japanese food writer, photographer, author...
Christie to join Curtis Brown
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Curtis Brown Australia has announced Alexandra Christie will join the business as an agent. Currently rights director at Giramondo Publishing and the editor of HEAT literary magazine, Christie is also...
Audible tests AI voice replica service for narrators
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reports that Audible is ‘inviting a small group of narrators to participate in a beta test that will enable them to create and monetise...
Michelle de Kretser recommends
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Fiona McFarlane’s Highway 13 is a stupendous collection of stories that imagines the fallout from the crimes committed by a serial killer. It’s a dazzling refraction of the backpacker murders...
Michelle de Kretser on ‘Theory & Practice’
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Two-time Miles Franklin winner Michelle de Kretser’s latest novel, Theory & Practice (November 2024, Text), is a combination of fiction, memoir and essay set in St Kilda, Melbourne, in 1986....
Ultimo acquires Reid’s third novel
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Diana Reid’s third novel, Signs of Damage. In Signs of Damage, 13-year-old Cass goes missing while the Kelly family is holidaying in the...
Laura Harris launches publishing services business
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Former publishing director, young readers, at Penguin Random House (PRH) Laura Harris has launched a children’s publishing services business. Laura Harris Publishing offers editorial and advisory services for children’s book...
Flanagan longlisted for 2024 Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
In the UK, Question 7 by Australian author Richard Flanagan (Knopf) has been longlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, worth £50,000 (A$98,120). The 12 titles longlisted for...
Varuna announces 2025 residential fellowships
Monday, 9 September 2024
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of its residential fellowships for 2025, including eight flagship fellowship recipients. The writers and their projects are: Eleanor Dark flagship fellowship...
Cundill History Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Monday, 9 September 2024
Finalists for the 2024 Cundill History Prize, which ‘rewards the best history writing in English’, have been announced. The 2024 finalists are: Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial...
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2024 winners announced
Monday, 9 September 2024
The winners of the 2024 NSW Premier’s History Awards, worth a total of $85,000, were announced on 6 September at the State Library of NSW (SLNSW) as part of NSW...
Richell Prize 2024 longlist announced
Monday, 9 September 2024
Hachette, in partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), has announced the longlist for the 2024 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. The 21 longlisted writers, chosen from over 1000 entrants,...
Queensland Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
Friday, 6 September 2024
The winners of the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced, with the total value of the awards now standing at $276,000, up from $238,500 in 2023. Melissa Lucashenko has won...
Appeals court upholds finding that Internet Archive infringed publisher copyright
Thursday, 5 September 2024
In the US, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously affirmed a March 2023 lower court decision by judge John G Koetl that found the...
Wolfers promoted to new Murdoch role
Thursday, 5 September 2024
Murdoch Books has announced Justin Wolfers has been promoted to the newly created role of commissioning editor. Wolfers, who has worked at Murdoch Books for over 10 years, most recently...
ARA Historical Novel Prize longlists announced
Thursday, 5 September 2024
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the longlists for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize. The longlisted titles are: Adult category The Unearthed (Lenny Bartulin, A&U) Women &...
UQP sells Bigna’s debut to S&S BFYR
Thursday, 5 September 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American rights to Sandy Bigna’s debut middle-grade verse novel, Little Bones, to Krista Vitola, executive editor at Simon & Schuster Books for...
Melbourne Prize for Literature 2024 finalists announced
Wednesday, 4 September 2024
The Melbourne Prize for Literature has named the four authors in the running for the $60,000 award in 2024. The shortlisted authors are: Patricia Cornelius Garry Disher π O Alexis...
Full program announced for Ubud 2024
Wednesday, 4 September 2024
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced the full line-up for its 21st festival program, themed ‘Satyam Vada Dharmam Chara’ (‘Speak the Truth, Practice Kindness’), which will run on...
New offices for S&S
Wednesday, 4 September 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia has moved to new offices. From 3 September, the Sydney office has moved to Level 4, 32 York Street, in the Sydney CBD. The Melbourne CBD...
MacDonald wins 2024 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize
Wednesday, 4 September 2024
Herb MacDonald is the winner of the 2024 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize, the Margaret Mahy Estate, Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand, and Little Moa have announced. The judging panel praised MacDonald’s...
Medal for Excellence in Translation shortlist announced
Wednesday, 4 September 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Medal for Excellence in Translation, administered by the Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH), has been announced. The shortlisted translators and their works are: Stephanie...
A&U acquires Clutton novel in two-book deal
Wednesday, 4 September 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to the ‘uplit’ novel The Remarkable Truths of Alfie Bains by Sarah Clutton, via Melanie Ostell from the Melanie Ostell Literary Agency,...
Wiley expects to make US$44 million from AI partnership, authors unable to opt out
Wednesday, 4 September 2024
In the US, academic publisher Wiley has revealed it expects to make US$44 million (A$66m) from artificial intelligence (AI) partnerships that allow large language models (LLMs) to be trained on...
