Australian Political Book of the Year Award 2025 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
The 2025 Australian Political Book of the Year Award shortlist has been announced. Chosen from a longlist announced in August, the shortlisted titles are: The Chairman’s Lounge (Joe Aston, Scribner) Mean...
HarperCollins acquires Orgias’ debut crime novel
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
HarperCollins Publishers Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Teeth Kicker, the debut crime novel by Glenn Orgias, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans of Key People Literary Management. ‘Set on...
Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship to end in 2026
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
The Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship will conclude in 2026. In a joint email from the Hazel Rowley Fellowship committee and Writers Victoria, organisers said, ‘It is with some sadness, but...
Queensland Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance ($30,000) Australian Gospel:...
Meanjin archive to be ‘made available for free’
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Literary journal Meanjin will make its complete archive available online for free from February 2026, according to a post made to the journal's social media pages. This follows news late...
Books for Cooks named ‘2025 Legend’
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
The Melbourne Food & Wine Festival (MFWF) has inducted Books for Cooks bookshop owners Tim White and Amanda Schulze to its Legends Hall of Fame in the Communicators, Educators category....
Davitt Awards 2025 winners announced
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Sisters in Crime has announced the winners of the 2025 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The winning titles in each category, chosen from shortlists announced...
Queenstown Writers Festival announces 2025 program
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
The Queenstown Writers Festival (QWF) has announced its 2025 program, running 30 October to 3 November 2025 in Queenstown, Aotearoa New Zealand. Local guests headlining this year’s festival include Nalini...
Story Factory announces ambassador program
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Story Factory has announced its inaugural ambassador program. Six ambassadors joining the organisation are: Julia Baird Benjamin Law Zindzi Okenyo Debra Oswald Amy Thunig-McGregor Jennifer Wong. The ambassadors will amplify...
A&U acquires Cullen memoir
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to The Desert Swimmer, a memoir by Brendan Cullen. The Desert Swimmer follows Cullen as he begins swimming ‘as part of his recovery from...
Garner longlisted for 2025 Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize
Monday, 8 September 2025
In the UK, How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Australian author Helen Garner (Text) has been longlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, worth £50,000 (A$103,010)....
NSW History Awards 2025 winners announced
Monday, 8 September 2025
The winners of the 2025 NSW History Awards, worth a total of $85,000, were announced on 5 September 2025 at the State Library of NSW (SLNSW) as part of NSW...
Nakata Brophy Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Monday, 8 September 2025
Overland journal has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize for the best short story by a young Indigenous writer. The shortlisted writers, selected by judges Mykaela Saunders and...
PRH announces 2025 Personal Penguin
Monday, 8 September 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced the Personal Penguin figurine will return for this year’s Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD), running on 11 October 2025. The collectable figurine aims...
The Booksellers Association of Aotearoa New Zealand announces Bookshop Day
Monday, 8 September 2025
The Booksellers Association of Aotearoa New Zealand has announced that national Bookshop Day will run on Saturday 11 October 2025, to encourage readers to celebrate their local bookstores. This year’s...
Meanjin literary journal to close on ‘financial grounds’
Thursday, 4 September 2025
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has withdrawn funding to quarterly literary journal Meanjin, forcing the journal to close. In a statement, Melbourne University professor and MUP chair, Warren Bebbington, said, ‘This...
Hachette announces 2025 Book Haul
Thursday, 4 September 2025
Hachette has announced Harry Hartog Carindale as the location for its 2025 Hachette Book Haul. This is the third iteration of the competition, which will take place on Love Your...
NYWF announces 2025 program
Thursday, 4 September 2025
The National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF) has announced its 2025 program, running 2–5 October on the land of the Awabakal and Worimi peoples in Newcastle, NSW. To open the festival...
Tasmanian Writers and Illustrators Mentorship Program 2025 recipients announced
Thursday, 4 September 2025
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 2025 Tasmanian Writers and Illustrators Mentorship Program recipients. The writer recipients are: Fiction Bev Goldfarb for ‘Legacy’ Ellie Campbell for ‘Billie...
Canberra Writers Festival 2025 program announced
Thursday, 4 September 2025
The program for this year’s Canberra Writers Festival (CWF), running 22–26 October 2025, has been announced. International guests include Griffin Dunne, Eric Puchner, Cheng Lei, Sophie Gilbert and Omar El...
Roper on 2025 Cundill History Prize shortlist
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Australian historian and author Lyndal Roper has been named on the 2025 Cundill History Prize shortlist. The prize, worth US$75,000 (A$115,137), aims to highlight ‘books that uncover neglected histories and...
ARA Historical Novel Prize 2025 longlists announced
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the longlists for the 2025 ARA Historical Novel Prize. Longlisted titles are: Adult category All the Bees in the Hollows (Lauren Keegan,...
Time to Write announces Paragraph Fellowship shortlist
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Time to Write has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Paragraph Fellowship, worth $25,000. The six shortlisted writers and the working titles of their entries are: Alan Fyfe for ‘The...
Hill’s ‘The Desert Knows Her Name’ to be adapted for film
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Playwright, filmmaker and Wotjobaluk and Ngarrindjeri woman Tracey Rigney has acquired film rights to The Desert Knows Her Name (Affirm, 2024) by Lia Hills. Rigney acquired the rights through her...
Big Issue 2025 fiction edition released
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
The Big Issue has announced the authors chosen for its 21st annual fiction edition. The 2025 edition includes short stories from 11 writers. Stories were selected from more than 863 submissions,...
RMIT announces new non/fictionLab Graphic Storyteller Fellowship
Tuesday, 2 September 2025
RMIT has announced the inaugural non/fictionLab Graphic Storyteller Fellowship, a new fellowship for ‘established artists working broadly in the field of comics – graphic novel, manga, cartooning, nonfiction comics or...
Booktopia hosts book fair, raises $300,000 for Lifeline
Tuesday, 2 September 2025
Booktopia has raised over $300,000 for Lifeline during the online bookseller's inaugural book fair last week. During 23–24 August, Booktopia opened its Sydney warehouse to the public for the first time...
Neale wins 2025 Janet Frame Prize
Tuesday, 2 September 2025
Ōtepoti Dunedin novelist and poet Emma Neale has won the 2025 Janet Frame Prize, worth NZ$10,000. Neale is a freelance editor for publishers in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, as...
2025 Grieve Project longlist announced
Tuesday, 2 September 2025
The Hunter Writers’ Centre has announced the longlist for the 2025 Grieve Project, an annual competition for writing on grief and loss. Among longlisted entrants are: Poetry Anne Benjamin for...
Moss, Hess announced as 2025 LYBD ambassadors
Tuesday, 2 September 2025
BookPeople has announced authors Tara Moss and Megan Hess as the 2025 adult and children’s author ambassadors, respectively, for this year’s Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) campaign. As ambassadors, Moss...
