Presser wins 2018 Voss Literary Prize for ‘The Book of Dirt’
Author Bram Presser has won the 2018 Voss Literary Prize for The Book of Dirt (Text). The Voss Literary Prize is awarded to the best novel published in Australia in the...
‘The Women in Black’ sells in multiple territories after translation rights made available after 12 years
Text Publishing has sold rights in multiple territories to Madeleine St John’s The Women in Black, alongside several other books by St John, after translation rights were made available for...
Introducing Madeleine St John’s ‘The Women in Black’
Madeleine St John’s The Women in Black was in hot demand at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year after Text Publishing recently acquired translation rights. The coming-of-age story set in...
Text acquires Savage’s debut essay collection
Text Publishing has acquired world rights (ex UK) to Ellena Savage’s debut essay collection, Blueberries, via Daisy Parente at Lutyens & Rubinstein. Blueberries is a collection of essays exploring themes...
Christian wins 2016 Text Prize
Playwright and former teacher Claire Christian has won the 2016 Text Prize for YA and Children’s Writing for her manuscript Beautiful Mess. The winning manuscript, which was shortlisted under the...
Text acquires new novel from Simsion, Buist
Text has acquired world rights to a new novel co-written by husband and wife authors Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist. The novel Left Right, which does not yet have a...
Starford leaves Text Publishing; Cowell appointed senior editor
Rebecca Starford has resigned from her role as editor at Text Publishing to write full-time. Starford, whose memoir Bad Behaviour (A&U) was published in 2015, will also continue as editor...
Surreal deal: Leanne Hall on ‘Iris and the Tiger’
Leanne Hall’s new novel for younger readers Iris and the Tiger is infused with ‘a kind of magical realism that is unusual in children’s and YA fantasy’, writes reviewer Jarrah Moore....
Talk of the town: Christopher Currie on ‘Clancy of the Undertow’
Christopher Currie’s first YA novel, Clancy of the Undertow, follows 16-year-old misfit Clancy as she juggles a dysfunctional family, a hostile town and a crush on ‘the local hot girl’....
Light and shadow: Vikki Wakefield on ‘Inbetween Days’
Vikki Wakefield’s latest YA novel Inbetween Days (Text, October) is about a high-school dropout who finds herself stagnating in a small town. Reviewer Bec Kavanagh spoke to the author. Read...
Starr wins 2015 Text Prize
Author and teacher Kimberley Starr has won the 2015 Text Prize for YA and Children’s Writing for her manuscript The Book of Whispers.The winning manuscript, a historical fantasy novel set...
Down wins inaugural Henry Handel Richardson Writing Competition
Melbourne writer Jennifer Down has won the inaugural Henry Handel Richardson Writing Competition for her short story ‘Pressure Okay’. The competition, judged by Helen Garner and sponsored by Text Publishing,...
Text, Hardie Grant nominated for 2014 FutureBook Innovation Awards
Text Publishing and Hardie Grant Publishing have been shortlisted for the Bookseller’s Futurebook Innovation Awards for 2014.Text’s website is in the running for best publisher website and Hardie Grant Publishing’s...
Staff changes at Text
Text has announced a number of staff changes.Rights manager Anne Beilby is now on maternity leave. Alice Cottrell, previously administration coordinator, has been promoted to rights and administration, and will attend...
Memoir ‘How to be Happy’ wins 2014 Text Prize
This year’s $10,000 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been awarded to a memoir for the first time since the prize was launched six years ago. Text...
Text Publishing celebrates 20 years
Text Publishing is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.The Melbourne-based publisher will mark the occasion at its Melbourne Writers Festival party, which publisher Michael Heyward told Books+Publishing has ‘become a...
Read ahead: Preview of 2014 titles
Kate Blackwood rounds up publishers’ top picks for 2014. Fiction Maxine Beneba Clarke’s debut short-story collection is Hodder and Headline sales and marketing director Justin Ractliffe’s top pick for 2014....
Keen for 2014: A preview of forthcoming junior titles
Publishers tell Brad Jefferies about their favourite forthcoming children’s and YA books. Allen & Unwin Redgum’s popular Vietnam War song I Was Only Nineteen (John Schumann, illus by Craig Smith)...
Your store: Sticky situation
‘Great Book Great Price’, ‘Read It, Love It or Your Money Back!’, ‘The Australian Women’s Weekly Great Read’. Publishers’ promotional stickers can provide a catchy sales pitch, promote an unknown...
Bad Karma: Mark Lamprell on ‘The Full Ridiculous’
‘The Full Ridiculous (Text, October) reminds us that sometimes, to really appreciate the beautiful highs of life, you need to hit rock bottom first,’ writes reviewer Louise Fay. She spoke...