Wombat acquires Page’s interactive novel
Thursday, 13 November 2025
Wombat Books has acquired world rights to Gabriella Page’s The Nardi Puzzle, an interactive middle-grade story that allows readers to solve puzzles alongside the characters. The novel follows Sebastian Walker’s...
WestWords acquires Lee’s debut novel
Thursday, 13 November 2025
WestWords Books has acquired adult novel Bound by Samantha WL Lee. Set in four countries – China, Malaysia, Britain and Australia – and extending over more than a century, Bound...
A&U acquires Flynn biography
Thursday, 13 November 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Errol Flynn, Patricia A O’Brien’s biography of Australian-born Hollywood actor Errol Flynn, known for his swashbuckling roles and controversial off-screen life....
SLQ fellowship, medal recipients announced
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced the 2026 recipients of 6 fellowships, worth $105,000, along with 2 John Oxley Library Medals. The recipients in each category are: John Oxley...
New First Nations metadata standards published
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Australian publishing staff have contributed to new international metadata standards designed to make First Nations books and publishing more consistently labelled and more easily...
Wiley acquires O’Connell’s “Unscript”
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Wiley has acquired world rights to broadcaster Christian O’Connell’s personal development book Unscript. Unscript strips away “the ghost scripts that keep us disconnected, through a mix of vibrant storytelling, authentic...
Riveted acquires Gordon’s latest children’s book
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Riveted Press has acquired world rights to The Midlands by Kate Gordon, in a deal brokered by Alex Adsett Literary. The Midlands takes place during the First World War as 11-year-old Lorna Whittle and her 4...
Affirm acquires Keegan’s second novel
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Lauren Keegan’s second novel, The Woman in the Seal Skin. Set on a Scottish island, the novel follows Malie, who grew up hearing...
NewSouth acquires Kale’s debut
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to Foreign Return: On Art and Inhabitation, the debut literary nonfiction work by writer and cultural critic Neha Kale. Kale migrated from India to...
Pantera acquires Bassingthwaighte memoir
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to the memoir Love Like This by actor and singer Natalie Bassingthwaighte. The publisher described Love Like This as an “unflinchingly honest and intimate memoir...
Affirm Press acquires Moloney’s “Why We Garden”
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Why We Garden, a new title by ABC Gardening Australia presenter Hannah Moloney. According to the publisher, Why We Garden investigates why Australians...
KYD announces 2025 Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize shortlist
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced the shortlist for the 2025 KYD Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize. The 6 shortlisted essays are: “Where My Body Hides Water" by Madison Godfrey “Playing God” by Tallulah...
HGCP announces Zac Power film adaptation
Monday, 10 November 2025
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has announced the film adaptation of the Zac Power series (HI Larry) is slated for release in early 2027. “The film follows Zac as he...
Ansons wins 2025 Fresh Ink Prize
Monday, 10 November 2025
Newcastle Writers Festival (NWF) has announced Jessie Ansons as the winner of the 2025 Fresh Ink Prize, an award for emerging writers in regional NSW, for “Forever Yours”, an extract...
CWF records 55% increase in attendance
Monday, 10 November 2025
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) has recorded more than 10,000 audience attendees at its 2025 program, an increase of 55% on the 2024 festival. This year’s 5-day program included 114 events,...
Ruffino to depart Simon & Schuster
Friday, 7 November 2025
Managing director of Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) Dan Ruffino is stepping down from his position in December, the publisher announced today. Ruffino first became managing director of S&S in...
“Clever Men” wins 2025 Nib Literary Award
Thursday, 6 November 2025
Historian and essayist Martin Thomas has been awarded the 2025 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, for Clever Men (A&U). Chosen from a longlist announced in August...
“Naku Dharuk: The Bark Petitions” wins 2025 Australian Political Book of the Year
Thursday, 6 November 2025
Clare Wright has won the Australian Political Book of the Year for Naku Dharuk: The Bark Petitions (Text). The book “makes an enormous contribution not only to the history of Australian...
Carvan wins 2025 Bragg Prize for Science Writing
Thursday, 6 November 2025
Tabitha Carvan has been awarded this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing for her essay “The Unexpected Poetry of PhD Acknowledgements”. The publisher said, “Carvan’s piece reflects...
Awesome Black announces new music and literary fund
Thursday, 6 November 2025
The Awesome Black Foundation has announced the Voices Rising Fund, a new initiative for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians and writers. The foundation has also announced that Western Sydney–based...
Wombat Books acquires Gemmill’s middle-grade
Thursday, 6 November 2025
Wombat Books has acquired world rights to The Ghost Horse of Snowy River, a middle-grade novel by Stef Gemmill. According to the publisher, The Ghost Horse of Snowy River follows 12-year-old...
Indigenous Literacy Foundation announces new ambassadors
Thursday, 6 November 2025
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced seven new ambassadors for 2026. The ambassadors are: Anh Do (ILF ambassador) Lucas Proudfoot (ILF ambassador) Tehya Makani (ILF ambassador) Bronte Charles (ILF...
Australian delegates bring optimism and energy to Frankfurt Book Fair
Thursday, 6 November 2025
Australian rights managers and literary agents returned from this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (from 15 to 19 October) reporting a strong sense of optimism, after a packed schedule of deals,...
Garner wins Baillie Gifford
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
In the UK, author Helen Garner has won the £50,000 (A$100,700) Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction for How to End a Story: Collected Diaries (Text). The winning title was described...
A&U acquires Ham’s first nonfiction book
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to Look After Your Feet by Rosalie Ham, via literary agency Jenny Darling and Associates. In this first nonfiction book, the author of...
HarperCollins acquires Bailey memoir
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Flamingos Aren’t Born Pink, a memoir by Robin Bailey. Described by the publisher as “a moving and uplifting memoir on heartbreak, grief and finding...
2025 speech pathology book award winners announced
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Speech Pathology Australia has announced the winners of its 2025 Book of the Year Awards. Chosen from shortlists announced in July, the winners in each category are: Birth to 3 years...
Suwannakit nominated for Carnegie Medal for Illustration
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Australian author and illustrator Tull Suwannakit’s Higher Ground (New Frontier) is among the newly announced nominees for the UK-based 2026 Carnegie Medal for Illustration. Nominated titles for the partner prize,...
Newcastle Short Story Award 2025 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
The Hunter Writers’ Centre has announced the shortlist for this year’s Newcastle Short Story Award. Shortlisted stories are: “Sun, Do Not Die” by ALB “Solastalgia” by Liz Allan “Backburn”...
Marani wins 2025 Richell Prize
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Croatian Australian writer and theatre-maker Monique Ivankovič Marani has won the 2025 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. Marani’s winning entry, “The Sweeter”, was selected from a shortlist of 5 manuscripts....
