Wilderness Society announces Karajia, environment award winners
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
The Wilderness Society has announced the winners for the 2025 Environment Award for Children’s Literature and Karajia Award for Children’s Literature. Chosen from shortlists announced in June, the winners are:...
PRH acquires Timms’s debut crime novel
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to The Lineup, a crime fiction debut by Nicholas Timms. PRH commercial fiction publisher Beverley Cousins acquired the novel via Daniel...
Bragg science writing prize shortlist announced
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
The shortlist for this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing has been announced. Shortlisted pieces are: “The Unexpected Poetry of PhD Acknowledgements” by Tabitha Carvan “The Night I...
Chidgey named Aotearoa New Zealand public’s favourite woman writer
Monday, 13 October 2025
Waikato author Catherine Chidgey (The Book of Guilt, Penguin, 2025) has taken out the number-one spot in The Women’s Bookshop's Top 50 Women Writers of the Last 50 Years survey....
Barnes wins inaugural Bundyi Writing Prize
Monday, 13 October 2025
Bundyi Publishing has announced Shannon Barnes as the winner of the inaugural Bundyi Writing Prize for her mixed-genre novel Strangelands. Barnes wins a $10,000 cash prize, manuscript development, and a...
Affirm acquires Lewis’s debut nonfiction
Monday, 13 October 2025
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to I’m Not Mad (Anymore), a debut piece of nonfiction from Bron Lewis, in a deal brokered by Bec Sutherland of Jubilee St Management....
Melbourne Books acquires Buckrich history
Monday, 13 October 2025
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Fitzroy North: People, Place, Protest by Judith Buckrich. “[Beginning with] the local Aboriginal communities prior to European colonisation, Fitzroy North: People, Place and Protest reveals...
Cleary wins A&U NZ Fiction Prize
Thursday, 9 October 2025
Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand (A&U NZ) has announced Tauranga writer Anne Cleary as the winner of the 2025 Fiction Prize for her entry Apple Man. According to the...
Gillard to judge Women’s Prize for Fiction
Thursday, 9 October 2025
In the UK, the Women’s Prize Trust has announced former prime minister of Australia Julia Gillard will chair the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction judging panel. Gillard will be joined...
Bakers Lane Books acquires McLean’s nonfiction
Thursday, 9 October 2025
Bakers Lane Books has acquired world rights to The Town Like No Other by Robert McLean. The Town Like No Other tells the story of Broken Hill, a ‘world-class mining centre that...
Windeyer awarded 2025 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Writing NSW has announced Kirsty Windeyer as the winner of its 2025 Varuna fellowship for her novel manuscript ‘You Fix It’. Judges praised Windeyer's work for its ‘compelling synopsis, gripping...
A&U acquires Bailey’s sixth novel
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Click, the sixth novel from Sarah Bailey, in a deal brokered by Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. ‘Click is a taut...
Nature Writing Prize shortlist revealed
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Literary journal Island has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Nature Writing Prize. Shortlisted writers and their pieces are: Frankey Chung-Kok-Lun for ‘Menura Novahollandiae’ Rosalee Kiely for ‘Habitat’ Bridget Webster for ‘Like...
HarperCollins acquires new Heyman fiction
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Circle of Wonders, a novel by Kathryn Heyman. The novel follows Roni over the course of a lunar month. ‘Roni has lived with breast...
Garner shortlisted for Baillie Gifford Prize
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Australian author Helen Garner (Text) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction in the UK. Selected from a...
Better Reading Top 100 announced
Monday, 6 October 2025
Better Reading has announced its 2025 top 100 list, ‘a true reflection of what Australians read’. Voted on by readers, the number one spot went to Boy Swallows Universe by...
Stella Day Out announces new Sydney event
Monday, 6 October 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced a second Stella Day Out event in Sydney, set to take place on 21 October at Quest Chatswood, NSW. The evening event will offer drinks...
The Bookshop Darlinghurst to close
Monday, 6 October 2025
The Bookshop Darlinghurst in Sydney will close down on Christmas Eve 2025. Owner Charles Gregory said the closure was due to ‘repeated delays’ in the redevelopment of Oxford & Foley...
Ventura acquires Simon debut novel
Monday, 6 October 2025
Ventura Press has acquired world rights to Susan Simon’s debut novel The Secrets of St Jude’s, a ‘private school noir and commercial thriller’. The Secrets of St Jude’s follows the story...
EWF 2025: ‘tending to and forging of community’
Thursday, 2 October 2025
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) had its ‘most successful’ festival since 2018, according to organisers. In 2025, the festival hosted 240 artists in 79 events over 8 days, almost doubling...
ASA announces 2025 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship shortlist
Thursday, 2 October 2025
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 2025 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship shortlist. Chosen from over 70 applicants, the shortlisted authors are: Lenny Bartulin for ‘A Calendar of Vandemonian...
Magabala Books acquires Cusack new adult debut
Thursday, 2 October 2025
Magabala Books has acquired world rights to The Dangers of Just One Person, a ‘funny, queer, regional’ novel by Skye Cusack. The novel ‘follows the intertwined stories of two young,...
Roper among 2025 Cundill History Prize finalists
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Australian historian and author Lyndal Roper has been named a finalist for the 2025 Cundill History Prize. The prize, worth US$75,000 (A$115,137), aims to highlight ‘books that uncover neglected histories...
Jewish Poetry Project exhibition announced
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
The Sydney Jewish Writers Festival has announced the Jewish Poetry Project, a month-long outdoor exhibition of Jewish poetry. Curated on the theme ‘The Door Is Always Open’, the exhibition is...
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival 2025 program announced
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
The 2025 program for the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival, which runs 17–19 October, has been announced. Across the program, over 50 local authors and artists will be speaking at...
A&U acquires Bagwell’s memoir
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world English rights to Letter from Provence by Sheryle Bagwell, via Margaret Connolly and Associates. In the memoir, Bagwell recounts buying a stone house...
Australian War Memorial literary prize deferred amid controversy
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
The Australian War Memorial has deferred awarding the Les Carlyon Literary Prize in a move that ‘effectively overruled a decision by its appointed judges to award a military history literary...
Sovereign Texts: Journal of First Peoples Literature launches
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Sovereign Texts: Journal of First Peoples Literature has launched as a print and online literary journal for works written by Australian First Peoples. Aiming to publish twice a year, the...
Chen wins 2025 Little Hare Illustration Prize
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has announced Wenwen Chen as the winner of the biennial Little Hare Illustration Prize. For this award for picture book artists across Australia and Aotearoa...
PRH acquires Wilson’s ‘I Eat the Stars’
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World by Sarah Wilson. I Eat the Stars is a guide...
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