Nature Writing Prize shortlist revealed
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Literary journal Island has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Nature Writing Prize. Shortlisted writers and their pieces are: Frankey Chung-Kok-Lun for ‘Menura Novahollandiae’ Rosalee Kiely for ‘Habitat’ Bridget Webster for ‘Like...
HarperCollins acquires new Heyman fiction
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Circle of Wonders, a novel by Kathryn Heyman. The novel follows Roni over the course of a lunar month. ‘Roni has lived with breast...
A Love Letter to Whiskey
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
This is not your typical love story. It’s a story of almosts and could-have-beens.Of friendship that teeters on the edge of something more.Of passion so intoxicating, it burns. Sometimes, love...
Member services administration officer, Victoria
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
BookPeople BookPeople is seeking a highly organised and proactive Member Services Administration Officer to join our small, dedicated team. This role is central to supporting members and ensuring the smooth...
Unlock Books+Publishing
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Unlock Books+Publishing, Australia’s number-one source of news about the book industry, keeping subscribers up to date with the latest book industry news, events, features, interviews, opinion, personnel changes, job advertisements...
Leading with passion! Five inspiring books for sport, life and leadership from Wilkinson Publishing
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
Garner shortlisted for Baillie Gifford Prize
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Australian author Helen Garner (Text) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction in the UK. Selected from a...
Colouring makes reading stick: Emily Baulch on the under-valuing of branded and interactive texts in children’s literacy
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
BookUp’s inaugural research day was held on 8 August this year. As part of this full day dedicated to book industry research, Emily Baulch shared some of her findings on...
Better Reading Top 100 announced
Monday, 6 October 2025
Better Reading has announced its 2025 top 100 list, ‘a true reflection of what Australians read’. Voted on by readers, the number one spot went to Boy Swallows Universe by...
Stella Day Out announces new Sydney event
Monday, 6 October 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced a second Stella Day Out event in Sydney, set to take place on 21 October at Quest Chatswood, NSW. The evening event will offer drinks...
The Bookshop Darlinghurst to close
Monday, 6 October 2025
The Bookshop Darlinghurst in Sydney will close down on Christmas Eve 2025. Owner Charles Gregory said the closure was due to ‘repeated delays’ in the redevelopment of Oxford & Foley...
Ventura acquires Simon debut novel
Monday, 6 October 2025
Ventura Press has acquired world rights to Susan Simon’s debut novel The Secrets of St Jude’s, a ‘private school noir and commercial thriller’. The Secrets of St Jude’s follows the story...
Junior Book Club – this month’s reads
Friday, 3 October 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....
EWF 2025: ‘tending to and forging of community’
Thursday, 2 October 2025
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) had its ‘most successful’ festival since 2018, according to organisers. In 2025, the festival hosted 240 artists in 79 events over 8 days, almost doubling...
ASA announces 2025 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship shortlist
Thursday, 2 October 2025
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 2025 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship shortlist. Chosen from over 70 applicants, the shortlisted authors are: Lenny Bartulin for ‘A Calendar of Vandemonian...
Magabala Books acquires Cusack new adult debut
Thursday, 2 October 2025
Magabala Books has acquired world rights to The Dangers of Just One Person, a ‘funny, queer, regional’ novel by Skye Cusack. The novel ‘follows the intertwined stories of two young,...
Nottingham Women’s Library: ‘Staying true to community roots’
Thursday, 2 October 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...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards; Sovereign Texts journal; Magabala publisher Rachel Bin Salleh on Charmaine Papertalk Green
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
This week, Writing Australia announced the winners of the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, which included Theory & Practice (Michelle de Kretser, Text); Mean Streak (Rick Morton, Fourth Estate); Critical Care: Nurses...
Vale Charmaine Papertalk Green
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Poet, writer, artist and researcher Charmaine Papertalk Green has died. Magabala publisher Rachel Bin Salleh writes: Legacy is a profound gift, and the passing of Dr Charmaine Papertalk Green has...
Reader advice
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that today's newsletter includes the name and photograph of a person who has died. This content appears in the obituaries section.
Change for Taylor & Francis Australasia
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Australasia Old distributor: Hachette UK Distribution New distributor: Alliance Distribution Services Changeover date: 1 September 2025 Returns cut-off: 31 December 2025
Roper among 2025 Cundill History Prize finalists
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Australian historian and author Lyndal Roper has been named a finalist for the 2025 Cundill History Prize. The prize, worth US$75,000 (A$115,137), aims to highlight ‘books that uncover neglected histories...
Jewish Poetry Project exhibition announced
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
The Sydney Jewish Writers Festival has announced the Jewish Poetry Project, a month-long outdoor exhibition of Jewish poetry. Curated on the theme ‘The Door Is Always Open’, the exhibition is...
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival 2025 program announced
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
The 2025 program for the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival, which runs 17–19 October, has been announced. Across the program, over 50 local authors and artists will be speaking at...
A&U acquires Bagwell’s memoir
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world English rights to Letter from Provence by Sheryle Bagwell, via Margaret Connolly and Associates. In the memoir, Bagwell recounts buying a stone house...
Australian War Memorial literary prize deferred amid controversy
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
The Australian War Memorial has deferred awarding the Les Carlyon Literary Prize in a move that ‘effectively overruled a decision by its appointed judges to award a military history literary...
Sovereign Texts: Journal of First Peoples Literature launches
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Sovereign Texts: Journal of First Peoples Literature has launched as a print and online literary journal for works written by Australian First Peoples. Aiming to publish twice a year, the...
Chen wins 2025 Little Hare Illustration Prize
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has announced Wenwen Chen as the winner of the biennial Little Hare Illustration Prize. For this award for picture book artists across Australia and Aotearoa...
Taylor & Francis Australasia Moves to Alliance Distribution Services (ADS)
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
As part of its ongoing third-party publisher expansion, Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) is pleased to welcome Taylor & Francis Australasia to its distribution facility, effective 1st of September 2025. Taylor...
Marketing coordinator – trade and publishing, New South Wales
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Scholastic Australia We’re seeking a Marketing Coordinator to support our Trade Marketing team in delivering creative, high-impact campaigns that connect our books with booksellers, readers, and families. Please refer to...
