Tuesday, 28 July 2026
The administrators of the Leading Edge Group have scheduled the first creditors’ meeting; Simon & Schuster has unveiled its new “digital-focus” imprint; Griffith Review has announced its latest Emerging Voices winners;...

Monday, 27 July 2026
The winners of the industry publishing and bookselling awards in Aotearoa have been announced; as have the winners of the DANZ (Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children’s Book...

Thursday, 23 July 2026
The Australian Publishers Association BookUp conference kicked off yesterday with approximately 300 in-person attendees, and a further 60 expected at today’s Research Day. Announced at the conference: this year’s Rising...

Tuesday, 21 July 2026
Randa Abdel-Fattah has launched legal action against the organisers of the Bendigo Writers Festival; Books Kinokuniya will open its first flagship Melbourne store at Melbourne Central; researchers are examining how...

Monday, 20 July 2026
After more than a decade as black&write! at the State Library of Queensland, the First Nations editorial development program will be run by new delivery partner Hardie Grant; Alistair Scott...

Thursday, 16 July 2026
The Australian Publishers Association and Australian Society of Authors have welcomed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s comments on AI and copyright; the recipients of this year’s George Robertson Awards have been...

Tuesday, 14 July 2026
The latest literature recipients of Creative Australia funding have been announced; the inaugural winners of the Sweatshop/Hachette scholarship have been announced; Hachette has launched its Reflect RAP; the Australian Booksellers...

Monday, 13 July 2026
The Australian Booksellers Association has shared a new policy brief on its proposed bookselling tax offset; the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award shortlist has been announced; Pip Adam is...

Thursday, 9 July 2026
The Australian Publishers Association has announced the shortlist for its Rising Star award; the Copyright Agency has awarded Bri Hassett the Reading Australia Fellowship; the Association for the Study of...

Tuesday, 7 July 2026
Varuna has announced the 50 recipients for its 2027 residential fellowships, Alice Boer-Endacott is conducting a survey into local book banning, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has announced the first...

Monday, 6 July 2026
Laura McCluskey has won a UK Crime Writers’ Association Dagger award for The Wolf Tree (HarperCollins); the shortlist for the 2026 Dorothy Hewett Award has been announced; Su Dharmapala’s 2012...

Thursday, 2 July 2026
A new report on audiobook listening in Australia has been released; authors and other creators are calling on the federal government to hold firm on copyright amid AI companies’ lobbying...

Tuesday, 30 June 2026
Simon & Schuster Australia has announced the departures of Cate Blake and Kelly Doust amid a publishing team restructure; Create NSW and Writing Australia have launched a new literary fellowship...

Monday, 29 June 2026
Blak & Bright has announced the first speakers for its 2026 program; Adam Sharp is named the 2026 Hedberg Writer-in-Residence; the Orwell Prize winners have been announced; Upswell has acquired...

Thursday, 25 June 2026
Sarah Wilson has topped another seaside writers festival bestseller list; Melbourne is set to host a new kids literature festival; Aotearoa New Zealand has a Southern Hemisphere answer to the...

Tuesday, 23 June 2026
Sales in Aotearoa were up in 2025; as were profits at McGraw Hill for the most recent financial year; London will host a new Australian literature festival; QBD has opened...

Monday, 22 June 2026
Hachette has launched an educators’ hub; Writers Victoria’s 10,000-strong petition has been tabled; local Jenny Lu has won the inaugural Voices of Today translation prize; Yeah the Boys is being...

Thursday, 18 June 2026
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) is offering new bookseller event grants; the Australian Society of Authors has updated its author contract templates with AI clauses; the Wilderness Society has announced...

Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Several Booktopia staff have been made redundant; local authors are among this year’s James Beard winners; the longlist for the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award has been announced; WH...

Monday, 15 June 2026
Last night, the Australian Booksellers Association book and bookselling award winners were announced in Canberra; the longlists for the 2026 Davitt Awards are out; the winners of this year’s Women’s...

Thursday, 4 June 2026
Ann Mossop is stepping down at Sydney Writers’ Festival; Kirsty Wilson has resigned from University of Queensland Press; the shortlists for the 2026 ACT Literary Awards have been announced; Allen...

Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Thames & Hudson is partnering with Bookreps NZ for Aotearoa sales and distribution; S Shakthidharan’s memoir, Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath, has been sold to Le Bruit du Monde;...

Monday, 1 June 2026
Kaye Wright has left Leading Edge as part of a restructure; Justin Ractliffe has joined The Pilkington Agency; the DANZ Children’s Book Award 2026 shortlist, Dick and Joan Green Family...

Thursday, 28 May 2026
Hachette is launching a new Australian imprint; Bronwyn Bancroft has received a Red Ochre lifetime achievement award; the NT Writers Festival kicks off its 2026 program today; Radio National will...

Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Local authors have topped the adults and kids bestsellers lists at a record-breaking SWF; Aotearoa publisher Āporo Press reports a world all-language rights sale; Allen & Unwin has acquired a...

Thursday, 21 May 2026
As the deadline for submissions to inform the next National Cultural Policy fast approaches, we round up industry bodies’ key submission points; several Commonwealth Short Story Prize winners have been...

Tuesday, 19 May 2026
The NSW Literary Awards winners were announced last night; Dot Tonkin has left PRH; Judith Rossell is off to Agatha Christie’s holiday house; the programs for the Island Readers &...