Bolinda, A&U acquire new Heath crime series
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Allen & Unwin and Bolinda Audio have acquired print and audio book rights, respectively, to two titles in a new crime series by Jack Heath. At Bolinda, audio rights and...
Festivals: Stella, Australian Short Story Festival
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Dates and details for two forthcoming small festivals have been announced. Stella Day Out which took place in Sydney on 19 October, will run in Ballarat on 16 November and...
Readings Prize 2024 winners announced
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Readings has announced the winners of the 2024 Readings Prize in each category and the winner of the Gab Williams Prize. The winning titles are: New Australian Fiction Prize Thanks...
Pan Macmillan acquires Kerr’s adult fiction debut
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Pan Macmillan Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Kay Kerr’s untitled adult fiction debut, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. In the novel, ‘a burnt-out and unravelling young...
UQP acquires Field’s ‘The Eagle and the Crow’
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to J M Field’s book The Eagle and the Crow, which ‘records and provides important insights into Indigenous ways of knowing...
Paragraph Fellowship inaugural shortlist announced
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
The shortlist for the inaugural Paragraph Fellowship has been announced by the new Time to Write initiative. Shortlisted works are: ‘Decadence’ by Hossein Asgari ‘The Heron’ by Jessica Au ‘Reasons...
Promotions at S&S
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has announced the promotions of three staff members in the editorial team and one staff member in the finance team, effective this month. Anthea Bariamis...
Australian Political Book of the Year Award 2024 longlist
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Australian Political Book of the Year Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Odd Couple: The Australia-America Relationship (Allan Behm, Upswell) Quarterly Essay...
Kitching, Pickens shortlisted in Laurel Prize
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Aotearoa New Zealand poets Megan Kitching and Robyn Maree Pickens are among those shortlisted for the annual UK nature and environmental poetry award, the Laurel Prize. The shortlisted titles are:...
HarperCollins acquires Ablett memoir
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to ‘inspirational memoir’ One Day at a Time by Jordan Ablett. ‘On a quiet Melbourne afternoon in the eerie early days of the pandemic, young...
Affirm acquires Brownlee rom-com
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to Victoria Brownlee’s foodie rom-com novel, Eat Your Heart Out, via Linwood Messina Literary Agency. Eat Your Heart Out follows six competing food writers...
Lewis to leave Hardie Grant
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Hardie Grant group director, people and culture Troy Lewis is leaving Hardie Grant after seven years to explore other opportunities. Having joined as maternity cover for then Hardie Grant Books...
Booktopia to build podcast studio, loyalty program
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Booktopia is building a podcast studio to create ‘exclusive audio content’ for its customers, alongside a loyalty program, reports the Australian. New owner Shant Kradjian told the masthead that the...
Hardie Grant launches Figment imprint
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Hardie Grant is launching Figment—a new, dedicated graphic novel imprint, which will begin publishing in 2025. One of the first graphic novel imprints in Australian trade publishing, Figment will be led...
ARA Historical Novel Prize shortlists announced
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize. Shortlisted titles, selected from longlists announced last month, are: Adult The Unearthed (Lenny...
Paice wins ACU Poetry Prize
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Kiama-based poet and author Christine Paice has won the $10,000 Australian Catholic University (ACU) Prize for Poetry for a poem about the death of her mother. The winning poem, ‘Gabriel...
Hardie Grant acquires Pantera Press
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Hardie Grant has signed an agreement to acquire Pantera Press. Completion of the sale is set for 30 September, subject to customary closing conditions. Founded in 2008 by the Green...
HQ acquires James debut, ‘Second Skin’
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
HQ, a division of HarperCollins Australia, has acquired ANZ rights to Arianne James’ debut gothic novel, Second Skin, via Abigail Nathan at Alex Adsett Literary. A finalist in the 2024 ASA/HQ Fiction...
OzAsia Weekend of Words, Queenscliffe Literary Festival programs announced
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Programs have been announced for the OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words and the Queenscliffe Literary Festival. Weekend of Words The OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words will be held on 8–10...
Nib Literary Award 2024 finalists announced
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
The finalists for the 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, have been announced. Shortlisted titles for the award are: Reaching Through Time (Shauna Bostock, A&U) Book...
Echo acquires Maynard novels
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to two novels by debut author Anna Maynard, via Sally Bird at Calidris Literary Agency. The first novel, Dancing with Bees, is described by...
Hachette acquires Mansour-Nahra debut novel
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Jessica Mansour-Nahra’s debut novel, with a working title of The Farm, in a five-way auction, in a two-book deal via Marina de Pass...
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...
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,...
