Events | Books+Publishing

BookUp 2025 conference, research day program announced

Thursday, 26 June 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the program for the 2025 BookUp conference and the inaugural BookUp research day. The APA's BookUp conference will take place on 7 August...

Stella Day Out announces Adelaide program

Thursday, 26 June 2025
Stella Day Out, a one-day literary festival that ‘celebrates and promotes the outstanding contributions of women and non-binary writers to Australian literature’, has announced a date and full program for...

Beijing International Book Fair: ‘record’ international participation

Wednesday, 25 June 2025
The Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), which ran 18–22 June, welcomed 'record international participation', said the organisers, with 1,700 exhibitors from 80 countries and regions, and over 220,000 titles on...

Sydney Writers’ Festival achieves ‘record-breaking year’

Tuesday, 24 June 2025
The 2025 Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF), which ran 19–27 May under the theme In This Together, recorded the ‘highest sales in the Festival’s 28-year history’. This year 101,038 attendees participated...

Community and Courage: B+P reflects on SWF

Tuesday, 24 June 2025
This year, publishing director of Books+Publishing, Kate Cuthbert, attended Sydney Writers' Festival in May. We asked her to share her thoughts on the festival which ran between 19 and 27...

BookPeople 2025 conference in numbers

Monday, 23 June 2025
The 2025 BookPeople conference, held in Brisbane 14–16 June, was matched with attendance numbers from last year's conference – ‘a very reassuring result for the team’, said the organisation. The...

Australian Children’s Laureate Week announced

Monday, 23 June 2025
The Australian School Library Association (ASLA) and the Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation (ACLF) have announced the inaugural Laureate Week, beginning on 28 July 2025, and ‘aimed at supporting students and...

Festival of Fiction 2025 program announced

Monday, 23 June 2025
The Peter Cowan Writers Centre has announced the program for the 2025 Festival of Fiction, to be held at Edith Cowan University’s Joondalup campus 18–19 October. The festival will showcase...

Stella Day Out announces Warrnambool program

Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Stella Day Out has announced its next iteration will be in Warrnambool, and released the date and full program. The free, one-day festival will take place on 28 June, from...

First events announced for Red Room Poetry Month 2025

Thursday, 12 June 2025
Red Room Poetry has announced the first events for the 2025 program for the annual Poetry Month, set to run 30 July – 3 September 2025. Originally launched in 2021,...

Byron Writers Festival announces 2025 program

Wednesday, 11 June 2025
The program for the Byron Writers Festival, running 8–10 August on Bundjalung Country, has been announced. With the theme Passion and Purpose, the 2025 program features over 160 writers from...

Q-Lit Festival 2025 program announced

Tuesday, 10 June 2025
The program for the 2025 Q-Lit Festival, running this year 20–28 June, has been announced. Under the theme 'What Fills Your Cup', the 2025 festival will begin with an opening...

On alchemy: B+P reflects on Melbourne Writers Festival 2025

Wednesday, 4 June 2025
This year, several members of the B+P team attended the Melbourne Writers Festival. We asked publishing director Kate Cuthbert and managing editor Ange Glindemann to share their experience. ‘Alchemy’ –...

Melbourne Rare Book Week program announced

Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Rare Books Melbourne has announced the 2025 program for the Melbourne Rare Book Week, running 24 July to 2 August across Melbourne. The program, which ‘celebrates the rich tradition and...

AWF 2025: attendance, book sales up

Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki (AWF) has reported the overall attendance for the 2025 program, which ran 13–18 May, slightly exceeded last year’s record number of 85,000, as well...

Bendigo Writers Festival 2025 program announced

Tuesday, 3 June 2025
The program for the 2025 Bendigo Writers Festival program, which runs 15–17 August on Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung Country, has been announced. The festival will open with an ABC Radio...

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 2025 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...