O’Malley wins 2025 CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Vincent O’Malley has won the 2025 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Writers’ Award, worth...
Tse named 2025 Malouf poet-in-residence
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Aotearoa New Zealand poet and editor Chris Tse has been named the 2025 Arts Queensland Malouf poet-in-residence. Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), Tse was Aotearoa New Zealand’s Poet Laureate from...
Voss Literary Prize 2025 longlist announced
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
The longlist for the 2025 Voss Literary Prize, awarded to the best novel published in Australia in the previous year, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Burrow (Melanie...
Transit Lounge acquires Hawthorn’s next novel
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to High Land, a novel by Sarah Hawthorn, via Sally Bird at Calidris Literary Agency. According to the publisher, High Land follows Annie, who...
Scribe acquires Woollett nonfiction debut
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Scribe has acquired world rights to Hell Days, Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s nonfiction debut. Blending memoir, true crime, medical research, interviews, and cultural analysis, Hell Days investigates premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a hormonal...
In the Name of the Trees
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
From award-winning Filipina-Australian author Merlinda Bobis comes a luminous novel spanning four generations of women shaped by war, colonisation, migration, and ecological loss. Set between the Philippines and Australia, In...
Sales coordinator, Victoria
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Monash University Publishing Sales Coordinator, Monash University Publishing (0.6 FTE) Location: Clayton campus Employment Type: Part-time Remuneration: Pro-rata $96,768–104,450 HEW6, plus 17% superannuation Monash University Publishing has an exciting opportunity...
Program director, Melbourne
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Williamstown Literary Festival Willy Lit Fest Organising Committee is seeking an energetic and creative Program Director to design and manage its annual celebration of books and writing – 12–14 June...
The Mediterranean (Lonely Planet)
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Donovan wins inaugural Novelry Prize
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
The Novelry has announced Stella Donovan as the winner of the inaugural Novelry Prize for her submission titled “Grace Labeille is turning 20 on top of a man who does...
Riveted Press acquires Hargreaves’s middle-grade fantasy trilogy
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Riveted Press has acquired world rights to middle-grade fantasy trilogy The Sterling Brothers by debut author Cody Hargreaves. The first instalment, The Ostrich Dilemma, features estranged twin brothers who must overcome their lifelong...
Wilderness Society announces Karajia, environment award winners
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
The Wilderness Society has announced the winners for the 2025 Environment Award for Children’s Literature and Karajia Award for Children’s Literature. Chosen from shortlists announced in June, the winners are:...
PRH acquires Timms’s debut crime novel
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to The Lineup, a crime fiction debut by Nicholas Timms. PRH commercial fiction publisher Beverley Cousins acquired the novel via Daniel...
Bragg science writing prize shortlist announced
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
The shortlist for this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing has been announced. Shortlisted pieces are: “The Unexpected Poetry of PhD Acknowledgements” by Tabitha Carvan “The Night I...
Chidgey named Aotearoa New Zealand public’s favourite woman writer
Monday, 13 October 2025
Waikato author Catherine Chidgey (The Book of Guilt, Penguin, 2025) has taken out the number-one spot in The Women’s Bookshop's Top 50 Women Writers of the Last 50 Years survey....
CBL drives advocacy, innovation and growth in Brazil’s book trade
Monday, 13 October 2025
As an Australian ISBN Agency representative, Andrew Wrathall attended the International ISBN Agency Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 16-17 September in São Paulo, Brazil. Wrathall reports on the keynote session...
Barnes wins inaugural Bundyi Writing Prize
Monday, 13 October 2025
Bundyi Publishing has announced Shannon Barnes as the winner of the inaugural Bundyi Writing Prize for her mixed-genre novel Strangelands. Barnes wins a $10,000 cash prize, manuscript development, and a...
Affirm acquires Lewis’s debut nonfiction
Monday, 13 October 2025
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to I’m Not Mad (Anymore), a debut piece of nonfiction from Bron Lewis, in a deal brokered by Bec Sutherland of Jubilee St Management....
Melbourne Books acquires Buckrich history
Monday, 13 October 2025
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Fitzroy North: People, Place, Protest by Judith Buckrich. “[Beginning with] the local Aboriginal communities prior to European colonisation, Fitzroy North: People, Place and Protest reveals...
Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature
Friday, 10 October 2025
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature for “his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”....
Book Club – this month’s reads
Friday, 10 October 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...
Cleary wins A&U NZ Fiction Prize
Thursday, 9 October 2025
Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand (A&U NZ) has announced Tauranga writer Anne Cleary as the winner of the 2025 Fiction Prize for her entry Apple Man. According to the...
Gillard to judge Women’s Prize for Fiction
Thursday, 9 October 2025
In the UK, the Women’s Prize Trust has announced former prime minister of Australia Julia Gillard will chair the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction judging panel. Gillard will be joined...
Bakers Lane Books acquires McLean’s nonfiction
Thursday, 9 October 2025
Bakers Lane Books has acquired world rights to The Town Like No Other by Robert McLean. The Town Like No Other tells the story of Broken Hill, a ‘world-class mining centre that...
Perpustakaan Jakarta Cikini: Communities need a library
Thursday, 9 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...
Cuthbert to leave B+P
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Kate Cuthbert has resigned as publishing director at Books+Publishing. She began the newly created role in January. Her last day will be 30 October.
Windeyer awarded 2025 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Writing NSW has announced Kirsty Windeyer as the winner of its 2025 Varuna fellowship for her novel manuscript ‘You Fix It’. Judges praised Windeyer's work for its ‘compelling synopsis, gripping...
The Bookshop Darlinghurst to close; Garner shortlisted for Baillie Gifford; EWF shares 2025 report
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
In Books+Publishing (B+P) news this week, Kate Cuthbert has resigned as publishing director. Her last day will be 30 October. In B+P features this week, Emily Baulch shared her research...
A&U acquires Bailey’s sixth novel
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Click, the sixth novel from Sarah Bailey, in a deal brokered by Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. ‘Click is a taut...
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...
