XL Express enters administration
Thursday, 3 July 2025
XL Express has gone into voluntary administration after 35 years in business, according to transport industry publication Big Rigs. The company operated one of Australia’s largest independent logistics networks. XL Express...
Meet the 2025 Rising Stars: Jen Topham
Thursday, 3 July 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent fewer than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the...
Wiley acquires Duggan’s next nonfiction
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Wiley Australia has acquired world rights to Clear in Tension, a nonfiction title by Tim Duggan, in a deal between Wiley publisher Lucy Raymond and Lou Johnson at Key People...
Murdoch Books acquires ‘Eat!’ cookbook by Sooshi Mango
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Murdoch Books has acquired world rights to Eat!, a debut cookbook by the comedy trio known as Sooshi Mango – Joe Salanitri, Carlo Salanitri and Andrew Manfre. Sooshi Mango has...
Writing Australia Council appointed
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Minister for the Arts Tony Burke has today launched Writing Australia in a statement, which also includes the announcement of the new Writing Australia Council members. Members are: Larissa Behrendt...
Saunders among ASAL academic, criticism award winners
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced winners of a suite of academic and criticism prizes. Walter McRae Russell Award Barron Field in New South Wales:...
Hourani wins 2025 Mary Gilmore Prize
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced Hasib Hourani the winner of the 2025 Mary Gilmore Prize for rock flight (Giramondo). The Mary Gilmore Prize is...
McFarlane wins 2025 ALS Gold Medal
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced Fiona McFarlane as the winner of the 2025 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for Highway 13 (A&U). In...
Meet the 2025 Rising Stars: Sarah Valle
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent fewer than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the...
Gurn wins 2025 Deep Creek Residency Fellowship
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Matilda Bookshop has announced Tom Gurn as the winner of the 2025 Deep Creek Residency Fellowship for his submission, ‘Pugholes’. Gurn was chosen from a shortlist of six and will...
QWC launches Pitchable program
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has launched Pitchable, a program for Australian writers to pitch ideas and concepts for fiction, nonfiction, film scripts, stage plays, podcasts or video games in...
Readers and Writers Against the Genocide launch online store
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Readers and Writers Against the Genocide (RWAG) has launched an online store. Evolving from the Summer Reading for MPs program that ran last year, RWAG developed t-shirts and tote bags...
Hachette announces new collector’s edition of Farnham memoir
Monday, 30 June 2025
Hachette Australia has announced a full-colour collector’s edition of John Farnham’s memoir, The Voice Inside – co-authored with Poppy Stockell. Originally published in 2024, The Voice Inside follows Farnham ‘from...
SLV 2025 fellowships
Monday, 30 June 2025
State Library Victoria (SLV) has announced the 2025 fellowship recipients, including several writers working on book projects. The recipients include: Marion Orme Page Regional Creative Fellowships ($15,000) Louise Crisp for...
Fremantle Press relocates to permanent loction
Monday, 30 June 2025
Fremantle Press has announced the relocation of its office to the historic SEC Substation, 10 Parry Street, Fremantle. This relocation will coincide with the publisher's 50th anniversary in 2026. Fremantle...
Meet the 2025 Rising Stars: Rachel Cramp
Monday, 30 June 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent fewer than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the...
BookUp 2025 conference, research day program announced
Thursday, 26 June 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the program for the 2025 BookUp conference and the inaugural BookUp research day. The APA's BookUp conference will take place on 7 August...
Stella Day Out announces Adelaide program
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Stella Day Out, a one-day literary festival that ‘celebrates and promotes the outstanding contributions of women and non-binary writers to Australian literature’, has announced a date and full program for...
Giramondo launches Poetry in Translation Prize
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Giramondo Publishing, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions have launched the Poetry in Translation Prize, a new biennial award for an outstanding poetry collection translated into English. The Poetry in Translation...
UQP acquires Adelaide’s autofiction novel
Thursday, 26 June 2025
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to When I Am Sixty-Four, an autofiction title by Debra Adelaide, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. When I Am Sixty-Four holds...
PRH acquires Meyer and Moss YA thriller
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights to The Escape Game, a YA mystery thriller by American author Marissa Meyer and Perth-based author Tamara Moss, via Jill Grinberg...
2025 Rising Star shortlist announced
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlist for its 2025 Rising Star award. The shortlisted professionals, who each began their publishing careers in the past 10 years, are:...
Regional winners announced for 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
The winners for the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize regional categories have been announced. Chosen from a shortlist of six, the winner for the Pacific region is Western Australian writer...
Hachette acquires Jones’ debut novel
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Theodora's Tea Shop by Christy Anne Jones in a joint acquisition with Wildfire, an imprint of Headline, taking UK and commonwealth rights excluding...
WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlist announced
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. This year, the awards have a total prize pool of $120,000 and four new categories. The new...
UWAP acquires Riots by Fiona Skyring
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Riots by Fiona Skyring. Riots is a nonfiction title delving into the Australian riots that occurred between 1918–1920 and involved returned soldiers....
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2025 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. Chosen from a longlist of ten, the shortlisted titles are: Chinese Postman (Brian Castro, Giramondo) Theory & Practice (Michelle de...
Sydney Writers’ Festival achieves ‘record-breaking year’
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
The 2025 Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF), which ran 19–27 May under the theme In This Together, recorded the ‘highest sales in the Festival’s 28-year history’. This year 101,038 attendees participated...
ASA appoints Bornstein to board of directors
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has appointed Josh Bornstein to the ASA Board of Directors. Bornstein is an author and lawyer specialising in employment and labour-relations. His writing has...
Lee wins Griffin Award for playwriting
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
The Griffin Theatre Company has announced Michele Lee as the winner of the 2025 Griffin Award for ‘outstanding new Australian playwriting’ for her play, ‘Snappy’. Chosen from 136 entries, Lee...
