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Scholastic to end controversial diverse stories collection

Thursday, 26 October 2023
In the US, Scholastic will stop offering its diverse stories collection—Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice—following accusations its rollout aided censorship at book fairs, reports Publishers Weekly. In a letter...

Master, Liang, Lien win 2023 Readings Prizes

Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Readings has announced Maryam Master, Ann Liang, and Tracey Lien as the 2023 winners of the Readings Prizes at an event at Readings Emporium, Melbourne, on 25 October. The winning...

Ultimo acquires A Postcard from the Future 

Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Ben Hamer's A Postcard from the Future, a nonfiction book which envisions the next twenty years, via Jane Novak. The book will imagine...

Over 100,000 trade visitors attend Frankfurt

Wednesday, 25 October 2023
About 105,000 trade visitors from 130 countries attended this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF), which ran from 18–22 October, reports Publishers Weekly. FBF director Juergen Boos said the fair had...

ADS adds Border Express 

Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) has announced it has added Border Express as a secondary freight carrier 'to support operations through the 2023 peak book-selling season and into 2024'. ADS said...

Production begins on Runt film adaptation

Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Craig Silvey has announced that production of the feature film adaptation of his novel Runt (A&U) begins next week in Western Australia, ‘where the Wheatbelt shire of York will be...

UQP acquires Gíslason nonfiction book 

Kári Gíslason with Madonna Duffy, standing in front of some Australian bushland. Wednesday, 25 October 2023
UQP has acquired world rights to Running with Pirates, a nonfiction book from Kári Gíslason, via Grace Heifetz of Left Bank Literary. With dual narratives separated by thirty years, Running...

Sara M Saleh on ‘The Flirtation of Girls’ 

Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Sara M Saleh is an award-winning human rights lawyer and author. She follows her debut novel, Songs for the Dead and the Living (Affirm, 2023), with her first published poetry...

HarperCollins acquires Fedler novel 

Author photograph of Joanne Fedler Tuesday, 24 October 2023
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to The Whale’s Last Song, a novel from Joanne Fedler, via Lou Johnson of Key People Literary Management. In this novel, described by the publisher...

Carbis shortlisted for international poetry award

Tuesday, 24 October 2023
The poetry collection I Have Decided to Remain Vertical (Puncher & Wattmann) by Melbourne poet and creative writing teacher Gayelene Carbis has been shortlisted for the Welsh-based Poetry Book Awards. The shortlist...

Ultimo acquires Wolhuter novel 

Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired Louise Wolhuter’s novel Shadows of Winter Robins. The novel follows Winter Robins, a young child from the north of England who’s sent to live in Western...

SPN Book of the Year shortlist announced

Monday, 23 October 2023
The Small Press Network has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Book of the Year (BOTY) award. The shortlisted titles are: Against Disappearance: Essays on memory (ed by Leah Jing...

Skovron wins 2023 Patrick White Award

Monday, 23 October 2023
Victoria-based author Alex Skovron is the winner of this year’s $20,000 Patrick White Award. The award recognises Skovron’s achievements as a poet and fiction writer. Born in Poland, Skovron lived briefly...

Jones, Mellor win Historical Novel Prize

Friday, 20 October 2023
Gail Jones has won the $50,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize in the adult category for Salonika Burning (Text), while Amelia Mellor has won the $30,000 children and young adult (CYA) category...

Rural and regional writers’ festival programs announced

Thursday, 19 October 2023
Several rural and regional writers’ festivals have announced details about their upcoming events. Blue Mountains Writers' Festival The Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival, presented by Varuna, the National Writers’ House, will...

Garner awarded 2023 ASA Medal

Thursday, 19 October 2023
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Helen Garner is the recipient of the 2023 ASA Medal. Established in 2003, the ASA Medal is awarded biennially to an Australian...

Barnes wins Wesley Michel Wright Prize

Thursday, 19 October 2023
Stuart Barnes has won the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize for his poetry collection Like to the Lark (Upswell). The prize selection committee described Barnes’ work as filled with ‘extraordinary...

Global book revenue up in 2023

Thursday, 19 October 2023
A joint market report from Nielsen BookData and GfK Entertainment, analysing 16 countries, shows an increase in turnover for the majority of book markets in the first eight months of...

Martin awarded 2023 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship

Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Writing NSW has awarded its 2023 Varuna fellowship to Alison Martin for her novel manuscript, 'The Wild'. 'The Wild' is about the last woman hanged in New South Wales, who...

Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand launches BookHub 

Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand (BSANZ) has launched a consumer-facing centralised website called BookHub for book sales from bricks and mortar bookstores in that market. The new BookHub site follows a...

S&S acquires Callahan’s yoga book 

Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Simon & Schuster has acquired world rights to Growing with Grace by Simone Callahan. A Melbourne-based yoga teacher, Callahan shares her insights on how yoga has been instrumental in ‘embracing...

US$75K Cundill History Prize finalists announced

Wednesday, 18 October 2023
The finalists for the 2023 Cundill History Prize, which ‘rewards the best history writing in English’, have been announced. The finalists are: Red Memory: Living, remembering and forgetting China’s Cultural...

Michelle Upton on ‘Emergency Exit Only’ 

Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Originally hailing from Birmingham, England, Michelle Upton now calls the Redlands Coast in Queensland home. Her debut novel Terms of Inheritance (HarperCollins, 2022) was shortlisted for the 2021 Banjo Prize,...