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Boys Don’t Cry?: How picture books shape what children learn about pain and gender

Friday, 12 December 2025
BookUp’s inaugural research day was held on 8 August this year. As part of this full day dedicated to book industry research, Sarah Wallwork shared some of hers and Dur-E-Nayab Mehar’s findings...

From Summer Reading for MPs to a new publishing house

Thursday, 11 December 2025
Readers and Writers Against the Genocide (RWAG) describes itself as “a community of readers and writers who believe in the power of literature to enable us to speak up and...

Crime, politics and history in Aussie bestsellers

Friday, 5 December 2025
Top 10 bestsellers Guinness World Records 2026 (Guinness World Records, Guiness) Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan) Exit Strategy (Lee Child & Andrew Child, Bantam) Brimstone (Callie Hart, Hodderscape) Big...

Vale Porter Anderson

Thursday, 4 December 2025
Book industry reporter Porter Anderson, editor-in-chief of Publishing Perspectives, has died. Anderson had led Publishing Perspectives since 2016, succeeding founding editor Ed Nawotka. As editor-in-chief, Anderson reported on international book...

Vale Graeme Turner

Monday, 1 December 2025
Cultural studies academic Graeme Turner, author of books including The Shrinking Nation (UQP, 2023), has died. His most recent publisher, Monash University Publishing, pays tribute: With great sadness we share that...

Amplify Bookstore 5 years in: “a little beyond ourselves”

Monday, 1 December 2025
Amplify Bookstore specialises in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) writers. Beginning as an online-only retailer, the bookstore made its first physical roots in 2024, with a...

Meanjin was closed – but new Australian literary journals are springing up around the country

Thursday, 27 November 2025
Amid the dismay over the closure of the long-established Meanjin, Alice Grundy surveys promising developments in this article for the Conversation. Grundy is a Visiting Fellow in the School of...

Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival: “Stories of connection, freedom and family”

Thursday, 27 November 2025
The 2025 Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival ran from 31 October to 2 November in Katoomba, with the theme “A Path to Wonder”. This year also marked the first iteration of...

Remembering Moya Costello

Thursday, 20 November 2025
As a tribute to author, critic and academic Moya Costello, who died recently, a memorial service will be held on 22 November 2025. Costello's former publisher, Spineless Wonders, writes: We...

Publishers reaching across borders at Sharjah

Monday, 17 November 2025
Now in its 4th decade, the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) is the world’s third largest book fair, attracting hundreds of thousands of people. Earlier this month Upswell publisher Terri-ann...