MWF ticket sales up 47%
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) recorded a 47% year-on-year increase in revenue for this year’s festival program, running 8–11 May. Representing the highest revenue since 2019, the festival reported over 21,000...
National Simultaneous Storytime reaches more than 2 million readers
Thursday, 22 May 2025
National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS), which ran internationally on 21 May, showed ‘that Australia is a reading nation — at every age,' said the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), which...
Big Day of Books Perth program announced
Thursday, 22 May 2025
ABC Radio, Fremantle Press, UWA Publishing, Magabala Books and Boffins Books have announced the program for the Big Day of Books Perth. 'When the Perth Writers Festival was postponed, Fremantle...
SLV hosts World of the Book exhibition
Monday, 19 May 2025
State Library Victoria (SLV) has announced the 20th anniversary World of the Book exhibition, to open from 31 May 2025. The exhibition will include three new artefacts, including a medieval...
BIBF to increase focus on academic publishing
Wednesday, 7 May 2025
The Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), running 18–22 June 2025, will increase its focus on academic publishing with a new conference in partnership with the International Association of Scientific, Technical...
Australian rights managers positive, ‘cautiously optimistic’ after Bologna
Wednesday, 23 April 2025
Australian rights managers have returned from the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in a buoyant yet cautiously optimistic mood, following packed schedules filled with strong international interest, positive industry conversations, and...
Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2025 program announced
Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival has announced this year's program, which will run from 9–11 May in the Aotearoa New Zealand town of Featherston, north of Wellington. The festival is ‘a celebration...
Books Alive expands to Palmerston North
Tuesday, 22 April 2025
This year, Books Alive will expand to Palmerston North, the fourth regional centre to participate in the Aotearoa New Zealand program. The one-day event currently runs in Christchurch, Wellington and...
NT Writers Festival announces 2025 program
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
The Northern Territory Writers Festival (NTWF) has announced its 2025 program, which will run 29 May–1 June on Arrernte Country, Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Events will take place outdoors at the Olive...
Literacy theme for Library and Information Week
Thursday, 10 April 2025
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced 'To Read or Not to Read: Literacy Matters' as the theme for this year's Library and Information Week, running 28 July–3...
Rose Scott Women Writers Festival releases 2025 program
Tuesday, 8 April 2025
The 2025 Rose Scott Women Writers Festival will run 27–28 June in Sydney. This year's festival will open with Suzanne Chick discussing her newly released memoir, Searching for Charmian (Summit,...
Words on the Waves announces dates, full program
Thursday, 3 April 2025
Words on the Waves has released its full program of events, to be held on NSW's central coast 28 May–1 June. The regional writers' festival, now in its fifth year,...
Clunes Booktown 2025 – books, bands, and breaking records
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
Under blue skies and a hot sun, Clunes transformed into Booktown during the weekend of 22–23 March, welcoming about 10,000 visitors and a record 135 booksellers. Books+Publishing publishing director Kate...
LBF: Australians report ‘buoyant’, ‘busy and buzzy’ fair
Monday, 31 March 2025
London Book Fair (LBF) has closed for 2025, with Australian attendees reporting positive relationships and promising conversations over the three days. The fair, which drew around 30,000 attendees and featured...
BookPeople conference program announced
Monday, 24 March 2025
BookPeople has announced the program for its 2025 conference, which will run 14–16 June in Brisbane. Aimed at booksellers, the conference program includes panels, practical sessions, and keynotes – with...
MWF releases full 2025 program
Friday, 21 March 2025
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has launched the full program for its 2025 festival, the first under new festival director Veronica Sullivan, to be held in venues across the Melbourne CBD and...
Brooks memoir tops chart at 2025 Adelaide Writers’ Week
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Attendance at Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) – which ran 1–6 March 2025 as part of the Adelaide Festival – broke records in its 40th year, according to the festival. Themed...
Woollahra Writers’ Festival, StoryFest announce 2025 programs
Monday, 17 March 2025
The Woollahra Writers’ Festival will run 29–30 March as part of the Woollahra Festival in Sydney. Program curator Nicole Abadee told Books+Publishing the last interviews with writers in the neighbourhood...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Programs announced: Inaugural Footscray West Writers Fest, 2025 Sunshine Coast Hinterland Writers Festival
Monday, 10 February 2025
The inaugural Footscray West Writers Fest will run in the inner Melbourne suburb from 28 to 30 March this year. Supported by Maribyrnong City Council and presented by non-profit cultural...
Clunes Booktown Festival 2025 program announced
Tuesday, 4 February 2025
Clunes Booktown Festival has announced its 2025 program. Festival director Suzi Cordell said this year’s program will explore the art of storytelling in all its diverse forms, with panels on...
Adelaide Writers’ Week full program announced
Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Adelaide Writers’ Week director Louise Adler today announced the full program for 2025 Adelaide Writers' Week (AWW), which will mark the 40th anniversary of the event. In a statement, Adler...
Indigenous Literacy Day 2024 to include launch of three bilingual titles
Monday, 2 September 2024
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has called for registrations ahead of its annual Indigenous Literacy Day, which is running this Wednesday, 4 September, and will feature a film, a livestreamed...
Readings chair to run new festival, Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival program launched
Monday, 2 September 2024
A new Carlton-based writers’ festival and the 2024 Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival will both take place this November. Readings chair Mark Rubbo is launching a new literary festival, to be...
NT Writers Festival postponed until October
Tuesday, 7 April 2020
The NT Writers Festival has been postponed due to Covid-19 and is now scheduled to take place from 1 to 4 October in Darwin. Festival director Fiona Dorrell said the...
EWF 2020 to take place ‘entirely online’
Thursday, 2 April 2020
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF), which runs from 16–23 June, usually in Melbourne, will take place online as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Festival organisers ‘made the proactive decision...
Record book sales at Adelaide Writers’ Week
Tuesday, 17 March 2020
Record book and catering sales at Adelaide Writers’ Week, which ran from 29 February to 5 March, indicate the highest recorded attendance numbers at the festival, according to director Jo...
