Simon & Schuster unveils Simon Stream website, ebook royalties
Tuesday, 28 July 2026
Simon & Schuster has announced further details of its new global imprint Simon Stream. Announced earlier this year as a digital-first imprint, Simon Stream is now described as “digital-focused” and...
Leading Edge creditors meeting called; “high volume” of ABA buying group enquiries
Tuesday, 28 July 2026
The first meeting of Leading Edge Group creditors has been called, via a letter of notice issued yesterday, 27 July. This follows news reported in a special bulletin on Thursday,...
Griffith Review 2026 Emerging Voices competition winners
Tuesday, 28 July 2026
Griffith Review has announced the winners of its 2026 Emerging Voices competition, which seeks “fiction and creative nonfiction that reflect new ideas, fresh voices and bold perspectives”. The winners are: Kailum Graves...
Wombat Books acquires Jess Horn’s “The Dandelion Wish Factory”
Tuesday, 28 July 2026
Wombat Books has acquired world rights to junior fiction novel The Dandelion Wish Factory by Jess Horn, to be illustrated by Lara Porter. The books takes readers “inside the wondrous...
Allen & Unwin acquires Joan Fleming’s debut novel “The Fig Book”
Tuesday, 28 July 2026
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Joan Fleming’s debut novel, The Fig Book, in a deal brokered by Alexandra Christie of Curtis Brown Australia. Christie also sold...
DANZ Children’s Book Award 2026 winners announced
Monday, 27 July 2026
The 2026 winners of the DANZ (Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children’s Book Awards have been announced by the Australian School Library Association (ASLA). Chosen from previously announced...
Kailum Graves wins 2026 Furphy Literary Award
Monday, 27 July 2026
Kailum Graves has won the 2026 Furphy Literary Award for the short story “The Magpies Have Unionised”. He receives $15,000 and an invitation to participate in the La Trobe University...
Faber Writing Academy 2026 Alumni Award winners announced
Monday, 27 July 2026
Faber Writing Academy has announced Kate Spenceley and Greg Tantala are the winners of the 2026 FWA Alumni Award. A merit award for 2023 to 2026 graduates of several FWA...
Blak & Bright Writers Festival 2026 program announced
Monday, 27 July 2026
The program for the 2026 Blak & Bright Writers Festival, set to run from 3 to 6 September in Naarm/Melbourne, has been announced. Program highlights include Evelyn Araluen, Melissa Lucashenko,...
Davitt Awards 2026 shortlists announced
Monday, 27 July 2026
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2026 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult novels At...
Nile wins ORIA for international expansion
Monday, 27 July 2026
The Nile has won an Online Retailer Industry Award (ORIA) for its international expansion. The online bookseller won in the International Conqueror category, which recognises an Australian-based retailer “making inroads...
Aotearoa New Zealand Book Industry Awards 2026 winners announced
Monday, 27 July 2026
The winners of the 2026 Aotearoa New Zealand Book Industry Awards have been announced by Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand and the Publishers Association of New Zealand/Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ)....
Leading Edge enters administration
Thursday, 23 July 2026
Leading Edge Group, which operates the Leading Edge Books buying group, has entered administration, reports ChannelNews. The Leading Edge group works with suppliers and retailers of computers and electronics, as...
National Biography Award 2026 shortlist announced
Thursday, 23 July 2026
The shortlist for the 2026 National Biography Award has been announced. The 6 titles shortlisted, chosen from 93 entries, are: Australian Gospel (Lech Blaine, Black Inc.) Chameleon (Robert Dessaix, Text...
What Are You Reading? app attracts 3,000 users
Thursday, 23 July 2026
The free What Are You Reading? app has gained more than 3,000 users since launch, according to its creators. Launched by the Better Reading team, the app allows users to...
Alisa Ahmed wins 2026 Rising Star award
Thursday, 23 July 2026
Alisa Ahmed has been named the Australian publishing industry’s 2026 Rising Star. Ahmed is the managing editor at Ultimo Press. She began her publishing career at a literary agency in...
Amazon Kindle research: Half of Australian gen Z readers feel reading “harder to sustain amid constant distractions”
Thursday, 23 July 2026
Amazon Kindle has released Australian research it says “suggests adults aren’t falling out of love with books, they’re being let down by reading experiences that haven’t evolved to fit the...
Varuna to launch new venue, public program
Thursday, 23 July 2026
Varuna, the National Writers’ House is launching a new public program and new workshop and event space. Originally the home of writers Eleanor Dark and Eric Dark, the house and...
Copyright Agency Publishing Fellowship recipients announced
Thursday, 23 July 2026
The Copyright Agency has announced the recipients of its latest Publishing Fellowships at the BookUp conference in Melbourne on Wednesday 22 July. The 3 successful applicants are: Alisa Ahmed, managing...
Allen & Unwin acquires “Bullyproof” by Matt Purcell
Thursday, 23 July 2026
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Bullyproof by Matt Purcell. According to the publisher, Australia ranks as the second-worst country in the world for bullying, and Bullyproof...
Bakers Lane Books acquires “Alice Comes Home” by Helen M Jones
Thursday, 23 July 2026
Bakers Lane Books has acquired world rights to the novel Alice Comes Home by Helen M Jones. Told in a dual timeline, the novel follows 39-year-old artist Alice in the...
Festival of Fiction 2026 program announced
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
Festival of Fiction has announced this year’s program, running 21 to 22 November 2026 at Edith Cowan University Joondalup, featuring 80 authors, 10 publishing professionals and 1,200 readers and writers,...
Australian Publishers Association Graphic Novel Editing Intensive announced
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced a Graphic Novel Editing Intensive, as part of its Children’s Editorial Program, to take place at RMIT in Melbourne on 29 to 30...
Wombat Books acquires debut picture book by AL Tait
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
Wombat Books has acquired world rights to Barnaby Percival Does Not Dress Up, the debut picture book by middle-grade author AL Tait, illustrated by Anke Noack. The book follows a...
Books Kinokuniya to open first Melbourne store
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
Books Kinokuniya will open its first flagship Melbourne store at Melbourne Central, with the bookshop scheduled to open in the first half of 2028. Ahead of the store’s launch, the...
Randa Abdel-Fattah sues Bendigo Writers Festival organisers
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
Author Randa Abdel-Fattah has launched legal action against the organisers of the Bendigo Writers Festival, reported ABC News. Abdel-Fattah is claiming Greater Bendigo City Council and Bendigo Writers Festival–sponsor La...
Researchers to investigate local editor and publisher AI use
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
University of Melbourne researchers Katherine Day and Sharon Mullins and RMIT researcher Rose Michael are surveying publishers and editors about their use of generative AI tools to understand how they...
Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize longlist announced
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the longlist for the 2026 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The longlisted stories are: Ursula Brunetti for “Peach” Belinda Castles for “Connie” Sally Cunningham for “Pliable Bones” Laura...
Hardie Grant appointed delivery partner for First Nations editorial development program
Monday, 20 July 2026
Following an expression of interest process led by Writing Australia, Hardie Grant has been appointed as the new delivery partner for the First Nations editorial development program formerly known as...
“Urchin Convicts” wins 2026 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History
Monday, 20 July 2026
Alistair Scott has won the 2026 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, worth $25,000, for Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer boys in Van Diemen’s Land (Forty South). Urchin...
