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Larrikin acquires Harry’s ‘The Fast Lane’

Monday, 18 August 2025
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to The Fast Lane, a picture book written by Pip Harry and illustrated by Katrin Dreiling. According to the publisher, The Fast Lane is ‘charming, funny...

Bendigo Writers Festival 2025 closes without ceremony

Bendigo Writers Festival Monday, 18 August 2025
Bendigo Writers Festival cancelled its closing night ceremony on Sunday evening, along with more than twenty other sessions over the course of the festival weekend, which ran 15–18 August. The...

A&U acquires Katz’s memoir

Monday, 18 August 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world English rights to My Cursed Vagina, a memoir by Lally Katz, via Wendy Howell and Lucy White from Creative Representation. The memoir follows...

Vale David Stratton

Friday, 15 August 2025
Author and film critic David Stratton has died, aged 85. Allen & Unwin writes: Allen & Unwin is deeply saddened by the loss of Australia’s beloved film critic, David Stratton...

Brisbane Writers Festival releases 2025 program

Brisbane Writers Festival 2025 logo Friday, 15 August 2025
Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has launched the full program for its 2025 festival, to be held at the new venue of Brisbane Powerhouse 9–12 October. The program includes over 100 events and features...

CBCA Book of the Year Award winners

Friday, 15 August 2025
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the winners for the 2025 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. The CBCA shadow judging winners – titles chosen by 400...

Reykjavik City Library: Fostering ‘open conversation’

Reykjavik Library Thursday, 14 August 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...

Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day program

Thursday, 14 August 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, the NZ Book Awards Trust has announced the program for the Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day. Among the events around the country, Invercargill Public Library will...

UQP acquires Rocca’s middle-grade novel

A portrait of Allison Rocca Thursday, 14 August 2025
UQP has acquired world rights to the debut middle-grade novel Joey and the Junjardy written by Allison Rocca and illustrated by Brenton E McKenna, in a deal brokered by Danielle...

Write Around the Murray 2025 program

Thursday, 14 August 2025
The Write Around the Murray (WAM) festival, running 10–14 September in Albury City, has announced its 2025 program. Among the headliners attending the event are journalist, social commentator and writer...

Christmas Press acquires Kelleher middle-grade

A portrait of Victor Kelleher Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Christmas Press imprint Eagle Books has acquired world rights to Only the Wild, an upper middle-grade/YA novel by Victor Kelleher, via Margaret Connolly of Margaret Connolly and Associates. Christmas Press...

Red Room Poetry announces 2025 youth ambassadors

Red Room Poetry logo Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Red Room Poetry has announced the 2025 participants in its Red Room Poetry Youth Ambassadors program. The 2025 ambassadors are: Rataj Abdullah (regional NSW) Charlee Brooks (Vic) Maggie Knight-Williams (ACT)...

Publicity manager, Melbourne

Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster is a global leader in general interest publishing, committed to delivering high-quality fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages across print, digital, and...

Children’s editor, Melbourne

Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster Australia is seeking a skilled editor to join our vibrant children’s publishing team. Reporting to the Children’s Publishing Director, you’ll manage titles from manuscript...

Cartwheeling Sally and Jumping Jack Jim

Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Cartwheeling Sally and Jumping Jack Jim prove that restless kids can be heroes in their own unique way. Cartwheeling Sally and Jumping Jack Jim just can’t keep still, no matter...

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...

Book designer, Sydney

Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Rockpool Publishing Fantastic opportunity in Book publishing! Nominated Small Publisher of the Year Leichhardt, Sydney Rockpool Publishing, a leading publisher of non-fiction books including wellness, mind-body-spirit, sport and recreation books,...

Book your advertising for Think Australian Frankfurt

Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Bookings are open 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 Book...

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

Rising Star winner Arlie Alizzi 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...