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Wright shortlisted for 2024 James Tait Black Prize

Cover of Praiseworthy Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) has been shortlisted for the fiction award in the 2024 James Tait Black Prizes. The works shortlisted for the fiction and biography prizes, each worth...

Walker acquires Zaslavsky nonfiction ‘Splodge!’ 

Photograph of Alice Zaslavsky Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Walker Books has acquired world rights to Splodge!, a middle-grade nonfiction book from cookbook author and media personality Alice Zaslavsky. The publisher said that this book ‘will look at everyone’s...

Wright shortlisted for 2024 Dublin Literary Award

Photograph of Alexis Wright Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Alexis Wright has been shortlisted for the €100,000 (A$166,000) International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction written in or translated into...

Pantera acquires Earp debut novel 

Photograph of Joseph Earp sitting in a chair in front of a window Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Pantera has acquired ANZ rights to Painting Portraits of Everyone I’ve Ever Dated, a debut novel by Joseph Earp, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans at Key People Literary...

Booktique to open store in Albury

Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Booktique—an independent bookshop currently operating in Wangaratta, Victoria—is opening a second store in Albury, NSW. Michelle Delle Vergin, who owns both stores with husband Mark Bolsius, said that for the...

Good Thing Productions acquires ‘Cherrywood’ screen rights 

Cover of Cherrywood by Jock Serong Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Screen rights to the forthcoming novel Cherrywood by Jock Serong (Fourth Estate) have been optioned by Good Thing Productions, via Melanie Ostell Literary. Good Thing Productions’ recent screen projects include Nitram and Nude...

The Bookshop Bowral and Kiama to change hands 

Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Marie Fitzpatrick, of The Bookshop Bowral and Kiama, has announced that the bookshops have been purchased by Clare Meldrum, and that the current owners will depart next month. Fitzpatrick said...

Woehlert and Lake list Imprint Booksellers for sale 

Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Katherine Woehlert and Jason Lake, proprietors of Adelaide bookstore Imprints Booksellers, have placed the business on the market. In a statement shared on the bookstore’s Facebook page earlier this month,...

Australian Book Design Awards 2024 longlists announced

Orange graphic with the words ABDA 24 Longlist, 72nd Australian Book Design Awards, ABDA Wednesday, 6 March 2024
The longlists for the 2024 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The longlisted titles in the first three categories, and the...

Ockham 2024 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 6 March 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. Chosen from longlists announced earlier this year, the shortlisted titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn...

Breen appointed Affirm agency manager 

Photograph of Grace Breen Wednesday, 6 March 2024
Affirm Press has announced former marketing and publicity manager Grace Breen has returned from parental leave to take up the newly created role of agency manager. Breen will head Affirm’s...

Reti resigns from MWF board over program 

Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Retired clinician Leslie Reti has resigned from his position as Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) deputy chair. In a statement to the Age, Reti said his reasons for resigning from the...

S&S acquires Garside memoir ‘The Good Fight’ 

An image of boxer Harry Garside applying a hand wrap Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to The Good Fight, a memoir by boxer Harry Garside. Garside rose to prominence following his bronze medal win at the...

Pantera acquires Lenton debut ‘Spite Pie’ 

Author photograph of Patrick Lenton with a greyhound dog Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to the debut novel Spite Pie by journalist and writer Patrick Lenton in a two-book deal brokered by Lou Johnson at Key People Literary...

CBCA 2024 Notable Books announced

Tuesday, 27 February 2024
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its list of Notable Books for 2024. The list acts as the longlist for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards....

HarperCollins acquires Gardiner, Kumar cosy crime 

An image of authors Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar. Wednesday, 21 February 2024
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective, a forthcoming cosy crime novel from Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar, via Danielle Binks and Jacinta di Mase of...

Canberra Writers Festival moves to October 

Canberra Writers Festival logo Wednesday, 21 February 2024
The 2024 Canberra Writers Festival will run from 23–27 October. With the new dates occurring late in the year, organisers said that the 2024 festival is planned to ‘kick off...

Graham longlisted for Carnegie Medal for Illustration

Cover of Concrete Garden by Bob Graham Wednesday, 14 February 2024
In the UK, Australian author Bob Graham has been longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration (previously known as the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration), which was announced along with...

‘Meanjin’ announces two new residencies

Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Literary journal Meanjin has announced two new residencies, offered in partnership with non-profit arts and cultural organisation InPlace, to ‘support writers of shorter works with dedicated writing time, much-needed funds, and...

 

 

 

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