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The Art in My Palm

Wednesday, 13 August 2025
This heart-wrenching, genre-bending debut blends fiction, memoir, dual narrators and historical events in a coming-of-age story of Demosthenes, a Cypriot teen who emigrates to Australia in 1974 after war ravages...

Spring into Sport! Wilkinson Publishing new releases to inspire before a big summer of sport!

Tuesday, 12 August 2025

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Creative Australia has announced the titles shortlisted for the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Always Will Be: Stories of Goori Sovereignty from the...

Hachette acquires Grieve’s ‘Duty to Warn’

Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Hachette Australia has acquired world English rights for Duty to Warn, a memoir by Charlotte Grieve, who was a named defendant in the Al Muderis v Nine Network defamation trial,...

Love Your Bookshop Day 2025 theme announced

Tuesday, 12 August 2025
BookPeople has announced 'Discover the magic. Discover you' as the theme for Love Your Bookshop Day 2025 (LYBD), which will take place on 11 October 2025. LYBD ‘aims to reignite...

Indigenous Literacy Foundation releases 2024 impact report

Tuesday, 12 August 2025
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has released its 2024 impact report, detailing its activities and outcomes over the past 12 months. Among key achievements, the organisation reported delivery of 136,800...

Text acquires Hornung’s ‘The Minstrels’

Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to The Minstrels by Eva Hornung, via Jenny Darling & Associates. The Minstrels follows the Thurston family, farming land overlooked by the Minstrels, the plunging gorge...

Alizzi named 2025 Rising Star

Monday, 11 August 2025
Arlie Alizzi has been named the Australian publishing industry's 2025 Rising Star. Alizzi is a Yugambeh editor, writer, researcher and anti-racism educator based in Rubibi/Broome and works as an editor at Magabala...

Quay wins 2025 Crystal Kite Award

Monday, 11 August 2025
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has announced the winners of the 2025 Crystal Kite Award. Open to SCBWI authors, illustrators, and translators, the award is peer-judged to...

Byron Writers Festival showground events cancelled

Monday, 11 August 2025
Organisers of Byron Writers Festival (BWF) cancelled the Bangalow Showground events for the second and third days of the 2025 festival program, because of rain and safety issues. In an...

Rapee wins CBCA 2025 Nan Chauncy Award

Monday, 11 August 2025
The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced Wendy Rapee as the recipient of the 2025 Nan Chauncy Award, which ‘honours a person, or a collaborative partnership, who has...

Stella Day Out to host Brisbane events

Monday, 11 August 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the program for its Stella Day Out Brisbane event, set to take place on 13 September 2025 at Avid Reader in West End. Two sessions...

Book Club – this month’s reads

Friday, 8 August 2025
Looking for your next great group read? Our monthly Book Club rounds up new release titles that are perfect for sparking conversation and perhaps even some debate. From compelling fiction to...

Byrne appointed director of Writing Australia

Thursday, 7 August 2025
Creative Australia has announced Wenona Byrne as the director of Writing Australia. Byrne was appointed acting director of Writing Australia on 1 July 2025 and was previously the head of...

NZ Coalition for Books strategic plan report

Thursday, 7 August 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, the Coalition for Books has released the Mahi Tahi Work Together: A Strategic Plan for the Aotearoa New Zealand Book Sector 2025–2030, which is the culmination...

Productivity Commission report; El-Zein wins National Biography Award; PANZ Publishing Market Size Report

Wednesday, 6 August 2025
Headlining the news this week, the Australian government Productivity Commission’s (PC) current Harnessing Data and Digital Technology inquiry released an interim report, which called for feedback on ‘the issue of copyrighted materials...

UQP acquires Vucic debut poetry collection

Wednesday, 6 August 2025
UQP has acquired world rights to After War, the debut poetry collection from Dženana Vucic. After War is ‘a memoiristic poetry collection which unfurls from the dislocating trauma of the Bosnian...

The Farm

Wednesday, 6 August 2025
An eerie psychological thriller, rippling with the Gothic undertones of Rebecca. The Farm enthrals from the very first page. When 37-year-old Leila suffers a health tragedy, she doesn't recover as quickly as she expected. Her...