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8/16/2017

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Crocoite (Margaret Woodward, A Published Event).

The shortlists will be announced at an event at the Theatre Royal in Hobart on 14 September, as part of the Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival. The shortlists announcement will also include the $5000 prize for the best new unpublished literary work by an emerging Tasmanian writer and the $5000 Tasmanian Young Writer’s Fellowship. The winners of all the prizes will be announced at an event at Government House in late 2017. The biennial Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes, previously known as the Tasmanian Literary Prizes, were rebranded in 2017. For more information about the awards, visit the website here .

Wilkinson’s ‘Boundless Sublime’ sells to US US publisher Capstone’s teen imprint Switch Press has picked up North American rights to The Boundless Sublime (A&U), Lili Wilkinson’s 2016 YA novel about a teenage girl seduced by a modern-day cult. Wilkinson’s agent Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management, who negotiated the deal, told Books+Publishing she feels the story ‘transcends territory’. ‘I devoured it within a day or two after the manuscript first landed in my inbox —I was absolutely incapable of putting it down,’ said Detweiler. ‘It’s a story about deeply human fears and dreams and heartbreaks that I think transcends territory. This is something that could happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time.’ Wilkinson said she is ‘thrilled’ with the deal and ‘to be working with Switch Press on bringing The Boundless Sublime to a North American audience’. ‘After all, all the best cults come from the US!’ The book will be released in the US in 2018. Wilkinson’s 2009 novel Pink (A&U) was previously published by HarperCollins Children’s in the US in 2011, and was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor book. Transworld acquires rights to Wilson’s ‘First, We Make the Beast Beautiful’ UK publisher Transworld has acquired Commonwealth rights (ex-ANZ) to Sarah Wilson’s First, We Make the Beast Beautiful (Macmillan) via Peggy Boulos Smith at Writers House, reports the Bookseller . Transworld editorial director Andrea Henry said Wilson’s book looks at the ‘triggers and treatments, the fashions and fads of anxiety in a practical, poetic, wise and funny book that is part memoir, part polemic’. ‘We’re delighted to be working with Sarah, who has completely won us over with her energy, creativity and lust for life,’ said Henry.

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