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A win for illustrated books all round: Thames & Hudson celebrates with “another reprint on top of the reprint”

Wednesday, 27 May 2026
Once I Was a Giant (Zeno Sworder) was shortlisted in this year’s CBCA awards ahead of its overall win as Book of the Year at last week’s Australian Book Industry...

“My parents made a brilliant decision … to choose a bookseller as our godmother”: Zeno Sworder on winning ABIA Book of the Year

Wednesday, 27 May 2026
A heartfelt thank you to ABIA and Australian booksellers and publishers for this honour and for the valuable work that you do. My parents made a brilliant decision before my...

Riveted Press acquires Sandhu middle-grade fiction

Wednesday, 27 May 2026
Riveted Press has acquired world rights to Khet and the Medallion of Ra by Jo Sandhu, via a Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Queensland pitch event. The...

Miles Franklin longlist; ABIA winners; record-breaking SWF

Wednesday, 27 May 2026
Sydney Writers’ Festival and Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki each reported box office record-breaking years for the 2026 festival (and shared their bestsellers); while Melbourne Writers Festival reported attendance...

When the World Sleeps (Francesca Albanese, Hardie Grant)

Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Francesca Albanese, the first woman to serve as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, conveys the soul of a people through ten unforgettable stories of resilience and...

Allen & Unwin acquires James’s “The Wreck”

Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to crime novel The Wreck by Riley James in a deal brokered by Caitlan Cooper-Trent of Curtis Brown Australia. In 1998, researchers...

Story Factory opens Bidwill centre

Monday, 25 May 2026
Creative writing not-for-profit Story Factory has opened a new centre in the western Sydney suburb of Bidwill, New South Wales. Having previously established centres in Redfern and Parramatta, the Story...

Sworder wins ABIA Book of the Year

Thursday, 21 May 2026
The winners of the 2026 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have been announced, with Once I Was a Giant by Zeno Sworder (Thames & Hudson) taking out the overall Book...

Tax offsets, GST reductions, solutions to “theft of Australian authors’ work”: industry bodies’ submissions to next National Cultural Policy

Thursday, 21 May 2026
As this Sunday’s deadline for submissions to the next National Cultural Policy approaches, Writing Australia and other industry bodies are calling on those in the publishing sector to shape the...

“Taiwan Travelogue” wins 2026 International Booker Prize

Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Taiwanese author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ has won the 2026 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$94,300) for Taiwan Travelogue (translated by Lin King, Scribe), reported the Bookseller. The International Booker Prize is awarded...

NSW Literary Awards; Stella winner; Heiss resigns from UQ

Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Anita Heiss has announced her resignation from the University of Queensland; Penguin Random House marketing and publicity director Dot Tonkin has left the publishing house; Better Reading has appointed Natika...

Miles Franklin 2026 longlist announced

Wednesday, 20 May 2026
The longlist for the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. Longlisted titles for the $60,000 prize are: Discipline (Randa Abdel-Fattah, University of Queensland Press) I Want Everything (Dominic...

Macdonald wins 2026 Pixie O’Harris Award

Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Paul Macdonald has been named as the recipient of the 2026 Pixie O’Harris Award in the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). The outgoing president of the Children’s Book Council of...

Fox wins 2026 Lloyd O’Neil Award

Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Mem Fox has been named as the recipient of the 2026 Lloyd O’Neil Award in the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). Fox has written more than 40 books for children,...

Time Travel for Beginners (Jaclyn Moriarty, Ultimo)

Tuesday, 19 May 2026
On a bustling road in Sydney lies a nondescript storefront known simply as the Time Travel Agency. Inside, you’ll be welcomed by the smell of freshly brewed coffee, a selection...

Q-Lit 2026 program announced

Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Q-Lit has announced the program for this year’s festival, to be held in Naarm/Melbourne from 16 to 19 July, with the theme “queer nostalgia”. The opening gala at Kensington Town...

Rossell selected for Greenway Residency

Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Melbourne writer and illustrator Judith Rossell has been selected for the inaugural writer residency at the UK National Trust’s Greenway property. The Greenway Residency is a project of UNESCO City...

Allen & Unwin acquires Knight nonfiction

Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to The Most Interesting People You’ve Never Heard Of by Riley Knight, via Florence Dodd at WME Agency. According to A&U, the book “brings...

Island Readers & Writers Festival 2026 program

Tuesday, 19 May 2026
The inaugural Island Readers & Writers Festival, which will run from 28 May to 1 June, has announced its event program. Presented across 7 series – in conversations, panel discussions,...

NSW Literary Awards 2026 winners announced

Monday, 18 May 2026
The winners of the 2026 NSW Literary Awards have been announced. Clare Wright’s Näku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions: How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy (Text Publishing) is...

Debevec-McKenney wins 2026 Dylan Thomas Prize

Monday, 18 May 2026
US poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney has been awarded the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize for her debut collection, Joy Is My Middle Name (Fitzcarraldo), reports the Bookseller. The book was chosen...

HarperCollins acquires third Ringland novel

Monday, 18 May 2026
HarperCollins Australia has acquired The World Beneath Her Feet, the third novel by Holly Ringland. The World Beneath Her Feet tells the story of Maggie Byrd, a woman in her...

Berkelouw Leichhardt in talks to move

Monday, 18 May 2026
Berkelouw Books Leichhardt has announced the business is in talks with the store’s landlord to move, rather than closing down as previously announced. In an Instagram post, the store said...

Magarey Medal for Biography 2026 longlist announced

Monday, 18 May 2026
The longlist for the 2026 Magarey Medal for Biography has been announced. Longlisted titles are: The Fearless Beatrice Faust (Judith Brett, Text) Max Dupain: A Portrait (Helen Ennis, 4th Estate)...

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