Ventura acquires Carrick debut fiction
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Ventura Press has acquired world rights to Brigid Carrick’s debut commercial fiction, The Belfast Express. Set in Dublin during the 1970s, The Belfast Express is described by the publisher as...
Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Book Awards 2025 winners announced
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
The 2025 Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Writer Awards winners have been announced. Winners, selected from shortlists announced in July, are: Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Nonfiction ($10,000) Jana...
Scribe announces new branding, website
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Scribe Publications has launched new branding and a new website. Designed and developed by Inkahoots, the website features interactive 3D-rendered models of Scribe titles, multimedia content, a new streamlined checkout...
Hachette acquires two new Robotham novels
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Hachette Australia has acquired two novels by Michael Robotham, via Mark Lucas at the Soho Agency, in a multi-territory partnership with Little, Brown Book Group in the UK. The first...
Ned Kelly Awards 2025 winners announced
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2025 Ned Kelly Award winners. Winning works in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in August, are: Best crime fiction The Creeper...
A&U acquires new Moule fiction
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to The Mother of All Calamities by Lisa Moule, in a deal brokered by Samuel Bernard at the Zeitgeist Agency. The Mother...
Stella Day Out announces new Melbourne event
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced a second Stella Day Out event in Melbourne. The evening event is set to take place on 28 October at Quest NewQuay in the Docklands,...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
Monday, 29 September 2025
Writing Australia has announced the winners of the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Chosen from shortlists announced in August, the winners are: Fiction Theory & Practice (Michelle de Kretser, Text)...
Books in the media this weekend, 27–28 September
Monday, 29 September 2025
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. This week's round-up will be updated as information becomes available. National The Saturday Paper Apron-Sorrow...
Stella Day Out Aireys Inlet program revealed
Monday, 29 September 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the evening program for its Stella Day Out event in Aireys Inlet, Victoria, to take place on 15 November 2025 at the Aireys Inlet Community Centre....
Bakers Lane Books acquires Drum’s YA novel
Monday, 29 September 2025
Bakers Lane Books has acquired world rights to Don’t Forget to Remember Me, a YA debut by Annie Drum, via Sally Bird of Calidris Literary Agency. According to the publisher,...
Anderson wins 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers
Monday, 29 September 2025
Susie Anderson has won the 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers for her short story ‘The Claimant’. Presented by Overland, the award offers a $5000 cash prize and...
Keri Hulme Award 2025 finalists announced
Monday, 29 September 2025
The Māori Literature Trust Te Waka Taki Kōrero has announced the finalists for the 2025 Keri Hulme Award, which recognises ‘the contributions of mid-career Māori writers who exemplify the values...
Queensland Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
Monday, 29 September 2025
The winners of the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. Amy McQuire has won the $30,000 Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance for Black Witness (UQP)....
Aotearoa New Zealand publishers represented at Frankfurt
Monday, 29 September 2025
Six publishers are exhibiting at the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) as part of the Aotearoa New Zealand collective stand. The stand will be managed by Publishers Association of New Zealand...
MidnightSun Publishing acquires Madsen’s ‘Animal Force’
Thursday, 25 September 2025
MidnightSun has acquired world rights to Animal Force, a junior fiction novel written by Cerise Madsen and illustrated by Sally Heinrich. According to the publisher, Animal Force centres on twins Leo and...
Stella Day Out Ballarat program announced
Thursday, 25 September 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the evening program for its Stella Day Out event in Ballarat, Victoria, to take place on 5 November at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute. The first...
Little Big Sky acquires Baker’s picture books in four-book deal
Thursday, 25 September 2025
Little Big Sky has acquired world rights to Calm Your Farm and I Love to Draw by Dale Baker in a four-book deal, marking the imprint's first acquisition since launching this year....
Authors among Creative Australia Fellowship recipients
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Authors Isobelle Carmody, Jennifer Mills and Fiona Murphy are among the 2025 recipients of the $80,000 Creative Australia Fellowships. The fellowships, which last two years, involve the provision of financial...
Smith Street Books launches Little Smith imprint
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Smith Street Books has announced the launch of children’s book imprint Little Smith, ‘dedicated to creating colourful, bold and joyful books that spark imagination’. With its first titles due next...
Pink Shorts Press acquires Mills, Dovey and Dubosarsky anthology
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Pink Shorts Press has acquired world rights to A Concise Compendium of Wonder, a collection of ‘radical reimagined eco-fairytales’ by Jennifer Mills, Ceridwen Dovey and Ursula Dubosarsky, with illustrations by...
Stella Day Out Perth program released
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the program for an edition of its Stella Day Out event in Perth, to take place on 26 October at the State Library of Western...
HarperCollins acquires de Sousa cookbooks
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to two cookbooks by Steph de Sousa. The deal was brokered by HarperCollins fiction and nonfiction publisher Roberta Ivers and TalentINK Group’s Brooke Taylor...
ARA Historical Novel Prize shortlists announced
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the shortlists for the 2025 ARA Historical Novel Prize. Chosen from longlists announced earlier this month, the shortlisted books in each category...
Stella Day Out to host Hobart events
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the program for its second Hobart event, running 26 September at the University of Tasmania. Michelle de Kretser, the 2025 Stella Prize winner, will discuss...
UQP acquires O’Keeffe’s third novel
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Angela O’Keeffe’s third novel, Phanton Days, via Martin Shaw Literary. In this forthcoming novel, the story is narrated from...
Pink Shorts Press acquires Crisp’s first nonfiction title
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Pink Shorts Press has acquired Pearls, a collection of essays by Tracy Crisp. According to the publisher, Pearls is a collection of ‘coming-of-middle-age’ memoir essays, ‘drawn from a series of...
Baker’s ‘Sight Lines’ wins best book at PANZ Book Design Awards
Monday, 22 September 2025
The winners of the 2025 New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu Publishers Association (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. Chosen from finalists announced in July, the winners are: Gerard...
Hachette acquires Carmody’s dystopian romantasy
Monday, 22 September 2025
Hachette Australia has acquired The Shadows that Listen, a debut dystopian romantasy by Louisa Carmody, in a deal brokered between Hachette head of fiction Rebecca Saunders and C&W Agency, after...
Pink Shorts Press acquires ‘Scared Angry Laughing’ by Merrilees
Monday, 22 September 2025
Pink Shorts Press has acquired Scared Angry Laughing, a nonfiction title by Margaret Merrilees. Scared Angry Laughing is a creative memoir essay collection, said the publisher. ‘These pieces speak to...
