Wynn-Williams blocked from promoting ‘Careless People’
Monday, 17 March 2025
In the US, an emergency arbitrator has ‘temporarily prohibited Meta’s former director of global public policy and author of the memoir Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams, from promoting or further distributing...
Tasmania Reads 2025 events announced
Monday, 17 March 2025
Tasmania Reads will be held in libraries and partner organisations across the state 23–29 March 2025, and will include the launch of a new Writers’ Room at the State Library...
Murdoch Books acquires Fashion Critical title
Monday, 17 March 2025
Murdoch Books has acquired world rights to a ‘satirical red-carpet fashion bible’ from anonymous social media influencer and comedian Fashion Critical (FC). ‘Fashion Critical is the brainchild of an anonymous...
A&U acquires Gold’s ‘My Name Is Elli’
Monday, 17 March 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) Aotearoa New Zealand has acquired world rights to the historical novel My Name Is Elli from author Doug Gold. Set in wartime Holland, My Name Is...
Auckland Writers Festival announces 2025 program
Monday, 17 March 2025
Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki has announced its 2025 program, to be held in Tāmaki Makaurau 13–18 May. Close to 50 international participants and more than 170 Aotearoa New...
BookPeople launches 100 best books reading guide
Monday, 17 March 2025
BookPeople has released '100 Best Australian Books of the 21st Century', a reading guide featuring titles selected by member booksellers. The guide, which covers adult fiction and nonfiction categories, is...
Fox’s ‘Fire with Fire’ to be adapted for screen
Monday, 17 March 2025
Candice Fox's 2024 thriller Fire with Fire (Penguin) is being adapted for television by US television studio NBC, reports Deadline. Television writer and producer Wendy Mericle (Arrow, Desperate Housewives) is...
Penguin Literary Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Thursday, 13 March 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Penguin Literary Prize. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘The Fear of Empty Spaces’ by Rachel Bowman (Brisbane, Qld) –...
Harvey, Winterson, Rankin, Keyes among 2025 SWF headliners
Thursday, 13 March 2025
The program for this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which runs 19–27 May under the theme In This Together, has been announced. The program includes more than 40 international guests...
HarperCollins acquires Armitage debut ‘The Heir Apparent’
Thursday, 13 March 2025
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to The Heir Apparent by Rebecca Armitage. HarperCollins head of fiction Catherine Milne acquired the book from Gaby Naher of the Naher Agency with...
PRH acquires new series by Johns and Mercer
Thursday, 13 March 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to The Number One Insta Detectives Agency and The Love Bomber by co-writers Rachael Johns and Mercedes Mercier. Rights were acquired...
Hussein named 2025 Kat Muscat Fellow
Thursday, 13 March 2025
Express Media and the Kat Muscat Custodial Committee have announced Adalya Nash Hussein as the 10th and final Kat Muscat Fellow. Selected from a shortlist of three, Hussein is a...
Gender pay gaps revealed for book sector
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
The Australian Government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has published data on gender pay gaps for the second year in a row through its Data Explorer, indicating that many large publishing...
Oldfield leaves SWF
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
Benython Oldfield has left the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF). Oldfield was the SWF media manager for 11 years, and is the co-director of Zeitgeist Agency with Sharon Galant. 'It’s time...
Scholastic acquires two Greive series for young readers
Thursday, 6 March 2025
Scholastic Australia has secured world rights to two new series for young readers by Bradley Trevor Greive, in deals brokered by Belinda Bolliger at Key People Literary Management. In Death...
Morton wins 2025 UQP Quentin Bryce Award
Thursday, 6 March 2025
UQP has announced Rachel Morton as the winner of the 2025 UQP Quentin Bryce Award, worth $5000, for her novel The Sun Was Electric Light. The award, which recognises The...
HarperCollins acquires Nunn novel
Thursday, 6 March 2025
HarperCollins Publishers Australia has acquired world rights to Pilbara by Judy Nunn, in a deal brokered by publishing director Brigitta Doyle and fiction and nonfiction publisher Roberta Ivers, with Karen...
Australian Book Design Awards 2025 longlists announced
Thursday, 6 March 2025
The longlists for the 2025 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The longlisted titles in the first three categories, and the emerging...
Staff wins 2025 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
Feminist historian Michelle Staff has been announced as winner of the 2025 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, worth $20,000, at a ceremony at Adelaide Writers’ Week. Staff was awarded the fellowship...
HQ acquires Rushby adult fiction in two-book deal
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
HQ, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Australia, has acquired ANZ rights to Allison Rushby’s Slashed Beauties, in a ‘significant’ two-book deal, via Verve Books UK. North American rights were sold...
Di Bello joins A&U
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has appointed Cassandra Di Bello to the role of publisher. Previously with Penguin Random House (PRH) UK, where she ran the women’s fiction and saga list...
A&U acquires Toohey nonfiction
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Better Things Are Possible: How Rebellious Hope Will Change the World by Jack Toohey. ‘From the housing crisis to the climate...
Robertson named recipient of 2025 PRHNZ Māori and Pacific Publishing Scholarship
Monday, 3 March 2025
Penguin Random House New Zealand (PRHNZ) has announced Liam Roberts (Kāi Tahu) as the recipient of its 2025 Māori and Pacific Publishing Scholarship. The scholarship offers funding for one Māori...
Australian Jewish Writer Awards expanded for 2025
Monday, 3 March 2025
The Shalom Collective has expanded its Australian Jewish Writer Awards (formerly Australian Jewish Book Awards). Four prizes – including the two new awards – will be presented in August for...
Pantera acquires Rusciano memoir
Monday, 3 March 2025
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to the memoir Blood, Sweat and Glitter by Em Rusciano, in a two-book deal via TGI Sport. Rusciano is a writer, singer, comedian and podcaster....
Woods wins 2025 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize
Monday, 3 March 2025
Georgina Woods has been announced the winner of the 2025 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, for her poem ‘Augury: Sea surface temperature charts'. Two other poets were named runners-up: Julie Janson...
Manly, Sorrento 2025 festival programs announced
Monday, 3 March 2025
Two beachside writers festivals, running in March and April 2025, have announced their guests and programs. Manly Writers’ Festival In its second year, the Manly Writers’ Festival runs 28–30 March...
Canberra Writers Festival appoints Putnis as artistic director
Thursday, 27 February 2025
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) has announced the appointment of Andra Putnis to the role of artistic director, replacing Beejay Silcox, who announced earlier this month that she would step down at...
Abbott wins 2025 IPEd Student Prize
Thursday, 27 February 2025
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Portia Abbott, a student in the Master of Writing and Publishing program at RMIT University, is the winner of the 2025 IPEd...
A&U NZ changes name, appoints publisher
Thursday, 27 February 2025
Allen & Unwin New Zealand has changed its name to Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand and announced the appointment of a new publisher. Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand...
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