BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival program announced
Monday, 4 August 2025
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, running 11–13 September, has launched its 2025 program. Among the headliners are Michael Robotham, Candice Fox, Jane Caro and Gary Jubelin. The program will feature...
Larrikin House acquires Hayward’s picture book
Monday, 4 August 2025
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to What Can I Get For Mother’s Day?, a picture book written by Renae Hayward and illustrated by Susan Joy Lu. According to the...
Transit Lounge acquires Hinton’s second crime novel
Monday, 4 August 2025
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to SD Hinton’s new crime novel, Inlet Bridge, via Sarah McKenzie Literary Management. ‘The inspiration for Inlet Bridge came in two parts,' said Hinton....
El-Zein wins 2025 National Biography Award
Friday, 1 August 2025
Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars (Abbas El-Zein, Upswell) has won the 2025 National Biography Award. El-Zein wins $25,000, while the other shortlisted authors receive $2000 each. Bullet,...
Morsi wins 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award
Thursday, 31 July 2025
Mohammed Massoud Morsi has won the 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award for his unpublished fiction manuscript The Hair of the Pigeon. Chosen from a shortlist of six, Morsi receives a publishing...
Sharman wins 2025 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Thursday, 31 July 2025
Victorian writer Tara Sharman has won the 2025 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize ($6000) for ‘Shelling’. At 22, Sharman is the youngest recipient in the prize's...
Sam Quyên Huỳnh wins SLQ 2025 Young Writers Award
Thursday, 31 July 2025
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced Sam Quyên Huỳnh as the winner of the 2025 Young Writers Award. Huỳnh, 21,wins $2000, a membership with Queensland Writers Centre (QWC)...
Griffith Review 2025 Emerging Voices competition winners
Thursday, 31 July 2025
Griffith Review has announced the winners of its 2025 Emerging Voices competition, which seeks ‘fiction and creative nonfiction that reflect new ideas, fresh voices and bold perspectives’. The winners, chosen...
Morgan wins 2025 Mallinson Rendell Illustrators Award
Thursday, 31 July 2025
The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi has announced Josh Morgan (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Te Whānau-a-Kai) as the 2025 Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award recipient. The 2025 selection panel, which included illustrator...
New PANZ Council announced
Thursday, 31 July 2025
The Publishers Association of New Zealand/Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) has announced its new council members. The new council includes: Eboni Waitere (Huia Publishers, PANZ President) Suzy Maddox (Hachette Aotearoa...
A New Approach releases position paper
Wednesday, 30 July 2025
Australian arts and culture think tank A New Approach (ANA) has released 'Imagine 2035', a position paper on the future of arts in Australia. Timed to coincide with the halfway...
QWC Varuna shortlists announced
Wednesday, 30 July 2025
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced shortlists for two Varuna fellowships. Shortlisted writers and their projects are: QWC Established Writers Fellowship Madeleine Dale for 'Poem for Many Voices' Cass...
Suckling promoted to associate agent at Annabel Barker Agency
Wednesday, 30 July 2025
Bella Suckling has been promoted to associate agent at Annabel Barker Agency, where she will represent writing for adults and young people. Suckling has been with the Annabel Barker Agency...
Riveted Press acquires Cullen debut middle-grade
Wednesday, 30 July 2025
Riveted Press has acquired world rights to The Prime Minister Problem, a debut middle-grade novel by Brenton Cullen. The Prime Minister Problem is 'a heartfelt and timely story about an...
CYA Writers & Illustrators Conference announces 2025 competition winners
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
Winners of a range of writing and illustrating competitions have been announced as part of the 2025 CYA Writers & Illustrators Conference. Among the winners are: Illustrations (published) ‘Janey Has...
Australia Reads announces first LitUp participants
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
Australia Reads has announced the 27 schools, libraries and bookshops that will host LitUp events as part of the pilot for this live literature initiative. In its pilot year, the...
A&U acquires Gifford picture book
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
Albert Street Books, an imprint of Allen & Unwin (A&U), has acquired world rights to picture book Valerie: Australia’s Bravest Sausage Dog by Lucinda Gifford, via Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown...
Creative Australia latest funding recipients announced
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
Creative Australia has announced successful applicants for the International Engagement Fund, arts projects for organisations, and arts projects for groups and individuals. Among the recipients with ties to literature are:...
We Read Auckland announces full program
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
We Read Auckland | Ka Pānui Tātou i Tāmaki Makaurau has announced its full program, which will run 1–31 August. The month-long reading and writing festival offers free events with...
Riveted Press acquires Farrell junior fiction trilogy
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
Riveted Press has acquired world rights to a junior fiction trilogy by debut author Anne Farrell. The as-yet-untitled speculative fiction series is suitable for readers aged 6 years and above,...
Board changes at Booksellers Aotearoa NZ
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand has appointed three new board members at its AGM, held as part of the organisation's annual conference, while two existing members are departing the board. New...
Stelter appointed S&S operations director
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has announced that Anna Stelter has been appointed operations director. Among her duties in the new Australian role, Stelter is set to ‘oversee key operational...
Princess Pictures adapting ‘Stillwater’ novel to the screen
Monday, 28 July 2025
Melbourne-based film company Princess Pictures is adapting Tanya Scott’s crime novel Stillwater (A&U) as a feature film, reports Variety. Stillwater follows the story of ‘Jack Quinn, whose mother died of...
2025 Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Writer Awards shortlist
Monday, 28 July 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Writer Awards have been announced. The shortlisted writers and their titles are: The Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Nonfiction ($10,000)...
NSW literary hub combines state library, SWF
Monday, 28 July 2025
A new literature hub based at the State Library of NSW will deliver year-round Sydney Writers’ Festival events, after a $1.5 million investment by the NSW Government. The hub will...
Rafferty wins 2025 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award
Monday, 28 July 2025
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Emma Rafferty as the 2025 winner of the biennial Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award for her editorial work on the novel 17 Years...
Elliffe awarded the 2025 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize
Monday, 28 July 2025
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) (NZSA) has announced Susanna Elliffe as the winner of the 2025 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press...
Moss wins 2025 Furphy Literary Award
Monday, 28 July 2025
Serena Moss has won the 2025 Furphy Literary Award, worth $15,000, for her short story ‘The Eulogy Business’. Based in Geraldton, Moss works in real estate and is an aspiring...
Lu awarded 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Thursday, 24 July 2025
Siang Lu has won the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for his novel Ghost Cities (UQP). Lu is an author based in both Brisbane, Australia, and Kuala Lumpur,...
George Robertson Award 2025 winners
Thursday, 24 July 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the 2025 winners of the George Robertson Award. The recipients, chosen by the APA board of directors, are: Penny Evershed (head of supply...
