Senior development manager, Melbourne
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
Melbourne Writers Festival Melbourne Writers Festival seeks a Senior Development Manager to drive the next phase of MWF’s growth. They lead the development and delivery of MWF’s Fundraising Strategy. They...
Head of marketing and partnerships, Victoria
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
Melbourne Writers Festival Melbourne Writers Festival seeks a Head of Marketing and Partnerships to plan and deliver the marketing and communications function year-round, including the annual Festival campaign. Over the...
Administration and events coordinator, Canberra
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
MARION.Ink We are seeking a part-time Administration and Events Coordinator to be the first point of contact for members and the community. The role combines administration, event coordination, and editorial...
Senior editor, Sydney
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
Walker Books Australia Description At Walker Books Australia, we are dedicated to bringing stories to life for young readers. As a leading publisher of children’s books, we specialise in publishing...
Discover new stories to inspire, uplift and entertain! Here are five Wilkinson Publishing releases in one magical collection.
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Queensland Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance ($30,000) Australian Gospel:...
Meanjin archive to be ‘made available for free’
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Literary journal Meanjin will make its complete archive available online for free from February 2026, according to a post made to the journal's social media pages. This follows news late...
Books for Cooks named ‘2025 Legend’
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
The Melbourne Food & Wine Festival (MFWF) has inducted Books for Cooks bookshop owners Tim White and Amanda Schulze to its Legends Hall of Fame in the Communicators, Educators category....
Davitt Awards 2025 winners announced
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Sisters in Crime has announced the winners of the 2025 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The winning titles in each category, chosen from shortlists announced...
Queenstown Writers Festival announces 2025 program
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
The Queenstown Writers Festival (QWF) has announced its 2025 program, running 30 October to 3 November 2025 in Queenstown, Aotearoa New Zealand. Local guests headlining this year’s festival include Nalini...
A&U acquires Cullen memoir
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to The Desert Swimmer, a memoir by Brendan Cullen. The Desert Swimmer follows Cullen as he begins swimming ‘as part of his recovery from...
Garner longlisted for 2025 Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize
Monday, 8 September 2025
In the UK, How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Australian author Helen Garner (Text) has been longlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, worth £50,000 (A$103,010)....
NSW History Awards 2025 winners announced
Monday, 8 September 2025
The winners of the 2025 NSW History Awards, worth a total of $85,000, were announced on 5 September 2025 at the State Library of NSW (SLNSW) as part of NSW...
Nakata Brophy Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Monday, 8 September 2025
Overland journal has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize for the best short story by a young Indigenous writer. The shortlisted writers, selected by judges Mykaela Saunders and...
The Booksellers Association of Aotearoa New Zealand announces Bookshop Day
Monday, 8 September 2025
The Booksellers Association of Aotearoa New Zealand has announced that national Bookshop Day will run on Saturday 11 October 2025, to encourage readers to celebrate their local bookstores. This year’s...
Junior Book Club – this month’s reads
Friday, 5 September 2025
Searching for your next great read to share with kids? Our Junior Book Club highlights 10 new titles each month that are perfect for classrooms, libraries and family reading time....
Meanjin literary journal to close on ‘financial grounds’
Thursday, 4 September 2025
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has withdrawn funding to quarterly literary journal Meanjin, forcing the journal to close. In a statement, Melbourne University professor and MUP chair, Warren Bebbington, said, ‘This...
Hachette announces 2025 Book Haul
Thursday, 4 September 2025
Hachette has announced Harry Hartog Carindale as the location for its 2025 Hachette Book Haul. This is the third iteration of the competition, which will take place on Love Your...
NYWF announces 2025 program
Thursday, 4 September 2025
The National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF) has announced its 2025 program, running 2–5 October on the land of the Awabakal and Worimi peoples in Newcastle, NSW. To open the festival...
Tasmanian Writers and Illustrators Mentorship Program 2025 recipients announced
Thursday, 4 September 2025
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 2025 Tasmanian Writers and Illustrators Mentorship Program recipients. The writer recipients are: Fiction Bev Goldfarb for ‘Legacy’ Ellie Campbell for ‘Billie...
Canberra Writers Festival 2025 program announced
Thursday, 4 September 2025
The program for this year’s Canberra Writers Festival (CWF), running 22–26 October 2025, has been announced. International guests include Griffin Dunne, Eric Puchner, Cheng Lei, Sophie Gilbert and Omar El...
Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: A library for the people
Thursday, 4 September 2025
With libraries, their work, and free access to information under increasing threat around the world, B+P and the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office reached out to libraries in other designated cities of...
Roper on 2025 Cundill History Prize shortlist
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Australian historian and author Lyndal Roper has been named on the 2025 Cundill History Prize shortlist. The prize, worth US$75,000 (A$115,137), aims to highlight ‘books that uncover neglected histories and...
ARA Historical Novel Prize 2025 longlists announced
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the longlists for the 2025 ARA Historical Novel Prize. Longlisted titles are: Adult category All the Bees in the Hollows (Lauren Keegan,...
Time to Write announces Paragraph Fellowship shortlist
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Time to Write has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Paragraph Fellowship, worth $25,000. The six shortlisted writers and the working titles of their entries are: Alan Fyfe for ‘The...
Hill’s ‘The Desert Knows Her Name’ to be adapted for film
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Playwright, filmmaker and Wotjobaluk and Ngarrindjeri woman Tracey Rigney has acquired film rights to The Desert Knows Her Name (Affirm, 2024) by Lia Hills. Rigney acquired the rights through her...
Big Issue 2025 fiction edition released
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
The Big Issue has announced the authors chosen for its 21st annual fiction edition. The 2025 edition includes short stories from 11 writers. Stories were selected from more than 863 submissions,...
Publicist, New South Wales
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster Australia is seeking a full-time Publicist to join the team in either our Sydney or Melbourne office. Working in a wider publicity team, this...
Bookings are closing soon for Think Australian Frankfurt
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Bookings are closing soon for Think Australian Frankfurt. Promote your titles to over 55K international readers via our subscriber list and distribution partnerships with Publishers Weekly in the US and...
Senior development manager, Melbourne
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Melbourne Writers Festival Melbourne Writers Festival seeks a Senior Development Manager to drive the next phase of MWF’s growth. They lead the development and delivery of MWF’s Fundraising Strategy. They...
