Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival: “a sense of community, intimate spaces, and engaging panel discussions”
Monday, 17 November 2025
The Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival, which ran from 31 October to 2 November, reports that it sold 502 weekend passes, 241 single-day passes, 295 workshop tickets and 2135 single-session tickets...
Readings Prize 2025 winners announced
Friday, 14 November 2025
Readings has announced the winners of the 2025 Readings Prize in each category and the winner of the Gab Williams Prize. The winning titles are: New Australian Fiction Prize I...
PRH Write It fellowship recipients announced
Thursday, 13 November 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced the recipients of the 2025 Write It Fellowship. Chosen from a shortlist announced in July, the winners are: Dayle Fogarty for “After Dark” Naomi...
Small Press Network partners with IPG UK
Thursday, 13 November 2025
The Small Press Network (SPN) in Australia and the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) in the United Kingdom have established “a new alliance to provide their members with mutual benefits,” said...
Saunders awarded 2026 Peter Blazey Fellowship
Thursday, 13 November 2025
Author and academic Mykaela Saunders has won the $20,000 Peter Blazey Fellowship for her work in progress, “Dear Uncle”. “Dear Uncle” is about Koori artist Kev Saunders (1956–2012), a Dharug...
UQP mentorship prize winners announced
Thursday, 13 November 2025
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has announced the winners of the inaugural UQP Mentorship Prize for under-represented writers. Chosen from a shortlist of 5, the winners are: SD Munawara...
ASA appoints Mills as chair
Thursday, 13 November 2025
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has appointed Jennifer Mills as chair of its board of directors. Mills first became an ASA director in 2022 and has served as deputy...
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,...
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