Women’s Prize for Nonfiction 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 28 March 2024Category: International news
The shortlist for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, worth £30,000 (A$58,000), has been announced. The six titles shortlisted for the award are: Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life... Read more
Rights round-up
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold Light at Lavelle (Paullina Simons) to Poland, Italy and Israel; Crimson Lake, Redemption Point and Gone by Midnight (Candice Fox) to Russia; Red Leaves (Paullina Simons)... Read more
Australians in London: ‘Plenty of deals’ at ‘electric’ LBF
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Local news
A strong contingent of Australian publishers attended the 2024 London Book Fair—which reported overall trade visitor attendance of around 300,000 across the three-day fair—with representatives from Affirm, Allen & Unwin... Read more
ABIAs book shortlists; MWF, BWF programs; Marr wins Indie Book of the Year
Date: 27 March 2024Category: This week’s news
The Australian Publishers’ Association this week announced the book shortlists for the 2024 ABIAs; both the Brisbane and Melbourne Writers Festivals announced their 2024 programs; Copyright Licensing New Zealand has... Read more
Wright shortlisted for 2024 Dublin Literary Award
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
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... Read more
A Small Collection of Happinesses (Zana Fraillon, illus Stephen Michael King, Lothian)
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Reviews
In the first pages of acclaimed author Zana Fraillon’s A Small Collection of Happinesses, Ada is ‘blown in…and dumped… right at the front gates of number 9 Hawkhurst Lane’. I... Read more
Jenna Lo Bianco recommends
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Features
I really enjoyed reading Karina May’s Never Ever Forever, because I just love her narrative voice and her subtle contemporary humour. She’s a clever writer and her fresh takes on... Read more
Love & Rome (Jenna Lo Bianco, Macmillan)
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Reviews
Stella Chiaro is an Australian-Italian artist trying to find her place in the eternal city. With a one-way ticket back to Australia and dwindling funds, Stella has six months left... Read more
Jenna Lo Bianco on ‘Love & Rome’
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Features Interview
Jenna Lo Bianco is a Melbourne-based author whose heart and soul reside in Rome, Italy. Known as 'The Italian Teacher', she is also an educator, PhD candidate and advocate for... Read more
Dylan Thomas Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Awards International news
In the UK, the Swansea University has announced the shortlist of the 2024 Dylan Thomas Prize. The shortlisted titles, chosen from a longlist announced in January, are: A Spell of... Read more
Marr’s ‘Killing for Country’ wins 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award
Date: 25 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
David Marr’s Killing for Country: A family story (Black Inc.) has been named Book of the Year in the Indie Book Awards. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Edenglassie (Melissa... Read more
Murray awarded 2024 Boundless mentorship
Date: 25 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Bardi writer Kalem Murray is the winner of the 2024 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship, presented by Text Publishing and Writing NSW with the support of the First Nations Australia Writers... Read more
Sterlin wins Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award
Date: 25 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Meanjin (Brisbane) poet Svetlana Sterlin has won the 2023 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award for her unpublished book-length collection ‘If Movement Were a Language’. Selected from a shortlist of... Read more
‘Greenwild’ wins 2024 Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year
Date: 25 March 2024Category: International news
In the UK, Greenwild: The world behind the door (Pari Thomson, illus by Elisa Paganelli, Macmillan) is the overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, reports the Bookseller. Now... Read more
Full 2024 MWF program announced
Date: 22 March 2024Category: Local news
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has launched the full program for its 2024 festival, to be held in venues across the Melbourne CBD and surrounds from 6 to 12 May. Outgoing MWF... Read more
Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award shortlist announced
Date: 21 March 2024Category: Awards Local news News
Who from Australia is at Bologna? Come and say hello at the Australian Stand party
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian editorial
Australian publishers nominated for Bologna Prize
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian feature Think Australian newsletter
Australian children’s and YA bestsellers for 2024 YTD
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian bestsellers
2023 Australian market overview
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian feature Think Australian newsletter
Junior and middle-grade titles on offer at Bologna
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian feature
Aus publishers’ latest acquisitions
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian feature
Award winners to look out for
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian awards
Meet the agent: Lisa Fuller at Alex Adsett Literary
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian profile
Asian-Australian booksellers championing diversity
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Features
Good Thing Productions acquires ‘Cherrywood’ screen rights
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Rights round-up
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
Crewe wins 2023 Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award
Date: 20 March 2024Category: International news
CBCA shortlists, Yarros tops ebook charts, local publishers on Bologna Prize shortlist
Date: 20 March 2024Category: This week’s news
Psykhe (Kate Forsyth, Vintage)
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Reviews
The Kindness Project (Deborah Abela, Puffin)
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Reviews
Cristy Burne on ‘Ultra Violet’
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Features Interview
CBCA 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Skate appointed Writers Victoria CEO
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Local news
Publishers ask court to uphold finding against Internet Archive
Date: 19 March 2024Category: International news
North American rights sold for Rogers’ ‘The Heart Is a Star’
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
‘The Bee Sting’ wins Nero Book Prize
Date: 18 March 2024Category: International news
Local publishers nominated for Bologna Prize
Date: 14 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Affirm Press signs Sweatshop mentees Nour and Barnette
Date: 14 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Carnegie Medal 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 14 March 2024Category: International news
Berry wins overall Writers’ Prize for ‘The Home Child’
Date: 14 March 2024Category: International news
Fullagar wins 2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship
Date: 14 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
The party’s over: Publicists, burnout and a ‘far more creative’ role
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Features
SWF 2024 program released, Needham wins MUD Literary Prize, International Booker Prize longlist announced
Date: 13 March 2024Category: This week’s news
How to Avoid a Happy Life (Julia Lawrinson, Fremantle)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Reviews
Shankari Chandran on ‘Safe Haven’
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Features Interview
Safe Haven (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Reviews
To Sing of War (Catherine McKinnon, HarperCollins)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Reviews
Sort Of Books acquires UK rights to De Kretser novel
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Needham wins 2024 MUD Literary Prize
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Awards Local news News
International Booker Prize 2024 longlist
Date: 12 March 2024Category:
Zhan receives 2024 Kat Muscat Fellowship
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Awards Local news News
Penguin Literary Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 7 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Aotearoa publishers receive audiobook funding
Date: 7 March 2024Category: Local news
Rights round-up
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
Ockham 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Awards
Grenville longlisted for 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Awards
Amazon ebook anticompetition lawsuit to proceed
Date: 6 March 2024Category: International news News
Stella longlist, gender pay gaps in publishing and bookselling, Booktopia revenue and profit down
Date: 6 March 2024Category: This week’s news
Country (Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson, illus Cheryl Davison, Wild Dog)
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Reviews
The Apprentice Witnesser (Bren MacDibble, A&U Children’s)
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Reviews
Ultimo acquires Khurana’s ‘The Passenger Seat’
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
Gender pay gaps revealed for large Australian booksellers
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Local news
Stella Prize 2024 longlist announced
Date: 4 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Spotify adds audiobook-only subscription offer
Date: 4 March 2024Category: International news
T&H announces sales and marketing staff changes
Date: 4 March 2024Category: Local news
Booktopia half-year revenue down 21%; profit down 34%
Date: 4 March 2024Category: Local news
Kat Muscat Fellowship 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 29 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards dates announced
Date: 29 February 2024Category: Local news News
Gender pay gaps revealed for larger Australian publishers
Date: 29 February 2024Category: Local news
Reti resigns from MWF board over program
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Local news
Rights round-up
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Rights round-up
Vale Marion Halligan
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Obituaries
Daisley on Walter Scott longlist; Forge promoted at A&U; Overland, Island prize winners
Date: 28 February 2024Category: This week’s news
The Work (Bri Lee, A&U)
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Reviews
Bri Lee on ‘The Work’
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Features Interview
Tree (Claire Saxby, illus Jess Racklyeft, A&U Children’s)
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Reviews
Sanctuary (Garry Disher, Text)
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Reviews
Deep Water (James Bradley, Hamish Hamilton)
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Reviews
Conversation launches books and ideas newsletter
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Local news
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing acquires Rossell middle-grade novel
Date: 26 February 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
HG Explore acquires Mayo’s Always Was, Always Will Be
Date: 26 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
PRH to turn Grantham facility into new hub for PRH US in Europe
Date: 26 February 2024Category: International news
Brooks wins 2023 Judith Wright Poetry Prize
Date: 26 February 2024Category: Awards Local news News
Zhang wins 2023 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize
Date: 26 February 2024Category: Awards Local news News
Affirm Press sells screen rights to Funny Ethnics
Date: 22 February 2024Category: Rights and acquisitions
The Heart Is a Star screen option sold to Aquarius Films
Date: 22 February 2024Category: Rights and acquisitions
Rowland joins Booksellers Aotearoa NZ
Date: 21 February 2024Category: Moves/personnel
Rights round-up
Date: 21 February 2024Category: Rights round-up
Can ChatGPT edit fiction? Four editors put it to the test
Date: 21 February 2024Category: Features
Perth Writers Weekend programming remains unchanged, despite open letter
Date: 21 February 2024Category:
Kroetsch appointed Writers SA CEO, Cultural Fund grants for literary orgs, Funder on inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction longlist
Date: 21 February 2024Category: This week’s news
Canberra Writers Festival moves to October
Date: 21 February 2024Category:
Deep Is the Fen (Lili Wilkinson, A&U Children’s)
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Reviews
Frog Squad: Dessert Disaster (Kate Temple & Jol Temple, illus Shiloh Gordon, HarperCollins)
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Reviews
UQP acquires Behrendt novel
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Kroetsch appointed Writers SA CEO
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Local news News
Glasgow Worldcon chair promises transparency following Hugo censorship
Date: 19 February 2024Category: International news
Rodrick wins inaugural Pearl Prize
Date: 19 February 2024Category: Awards Local news