OUP reports ‘hampered’ financial progress
Thursday, 14 August 2025
In the UK, Oxford University Press has announced its annual results. The company reported a turnover of £796 million (A$1.65b), and a surplus from trading of £75m (A$156m), however when...
ALIA announces Australian School Library Day theme
Thursday, 14 August 2025
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced ‘All the Literacies’ as the 2025 theme for Australian School Library Day (ASLD). ASLD, which in 2025 takes place on 20...
New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults winners
Thursday, 14 August 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, Ross Calman (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Kāi Tahu) has won the overall Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award at the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards...
Reykjavik City Library: Fostering ‘open conversation’
Thursday, 14 August 2025
With libraries, their work, and free access to information under increasing threat around the world, B+P and the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office reached out to libraries in other designated cities of...
Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day program
Thursday, 14 August 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, the NZ Book Awards Trust has announced the program for the Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day. Among the events around the country, Invercargill Public Library will...
UQP acquires Rocca’s middle-grade novel
Thursday, 14 August 2025
UQP has acquired world rights to the debut middle-grade novel Joey and the Junjardy written by Allison Rocca and illustrated by Brenton E McKenna, in a deal brokered by Danielle...
Write Around the Murray 2025 program
Thursday, 14 August 2025
The Write Around the Murray (WAM) festival, running 10–14 September in Albury City, has announced its 2025 program. Among the headliners attending the event are journalist, social commentator and writer...
Unfolded podcast seeks to ‘go inside what makes a story great’
Thursday, 14 August 2025
University of Melbourne lecturer and creative producer Seth Robinson has launched the new podcast Unfolded, a literary podcast that combines audio performances and author interviews. In each episode, an actor performs...
Tinsel time: 2025 biography and memoir
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
From sports stars to media mavens, performers to podcasters, Books+Publishing pulls together titles about lives less-ordinary from publishers' 2025 gifting season recommendations. Well-known women Among the highlights from publishers for...
Christmas Press acquires Kelleher middle-grade
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Christmas Press imprint Eagle Books has acquired world rights to Only the Wild, an upper middle-grade/YA novel by Victor Kelleher, via Margaret Connolly of Margaret Connolly and Associates. Christmas Press...
Red Room Poetry announces 2025 youth ambassadors
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Red Room Poetry has announced the 2025 participants in its Red Room Poetry Youth Ambassadors program. The 2025 ambassadors are: Rataj Abdullah (regional NSW) Charlee Brooks (Vic) Maggie Knight-Williams (ACT)...
Promotions, moves at S&S
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has announced staffing changes, alongside news that the Affirm Press team will move to the S&S Melbourne offices. S&S marketing and publicity director Fleur Hamilton...
S&S announces new dedicated children’s team
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has announced the formation of a ‘dedicated team focused on publishing, product, sales, marketing and publicity for children’s books’. Under S&S children's publishing director Tash...
Polari Prizes to proceed despite withdrawals after ‘terf’ longlisting
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
In the UK, the Polari Prize organisation has announced plans to undertake a ‘full review’ following the withdrawal of a significant proportion of authors on its longlists (and several judges)...
Books pitched at MIFF 2025
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Six titles were selected for pitching at the 37ºSouth Market’s Books at MIFF program, which promotes books to potential screen rights buyers at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). The...
Books on the Rail’s Ali and Michelle in conversation
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Books on the Rail is an Australian initiative that places books on local public transport services – or, as co-founders Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus put it, ‘turns Australia's trains...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Creative Australia has announced the titles shortlisted for the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Always Will Be: Stories of Goori Sovereignty from the...
AP to stop publishing book reviews
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
The Associated Press (AP) will stop publishing its weekly book reviews effective 1 September, reported Publishers Weekly (PW). In an email from AP global entertainment and lifestyles editor Anthony McCartney to...
Newman to step down from Dymocks CEO role
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Dymocks has announced that Mark Newman will step down from his role as CEO of Dymocks Retail, after five years of leadership. Newman was appointed as Dymocks managing director in...
Hachette acquires Grieve’s ‘Duty to Warn’
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Hachette Australia has acquired world English rights for Duty to Warn, a memoir by Charlotte Grieve, who was a named defendant in the Al Muderis v Nine Network defamation trial,...
Love Your Bookshop Day 2025 theme announced
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
BookPeople has announced 'Discover the magic. Discover you' as the theme for Love Your Bookshop Day 2025 (LYBD), which will take place on 11 October 2025. LYBD ‘aims to reignite...
Indigenous Literacy Foundation releases 2024 impact report
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has released its 2024 impact report, detailing its activities and outcomes over the past 12 months. Among key achievements, the organisation reported delivery of 136,800...
Text acquires Hornung’s ‘The Minstrels’
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to The Minstrels by Eva Hornung, via Jenny Darling & Associates. The Minstrels follows the Thurston family, farming land overlooked by the Minstrels, the plunging gorge...
Alizzi named 2025 Rising Star
Monday, 11 August 2025
Arlie Alizzi has been named the Australian publishing industry's 2025 Rising Star. Alizzi is a Yugambeh editor, writer, researcher and anti-racism educator based in Rubibi/Broome and works as an editor at Magabala...
Waitere appointed PANZ president
Monday, 11 August 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, Eboni Waitere (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne) has been appointed president of the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ). Waitere is the first Māori...
Writers, lit organisations receive Cultural Fund grants
Monday, 11 August 2025
The Copyright Agency has announced the recipients of the latest funding round through its Cultural Fund. The 2025 Create Grants, which awards $20,000 to writers and artists to develop new...
Quay wins 2025 Crystal Kite Award
Monday, 11 August 2025
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has announced the winners of the 2025 Crystal Kite Award. Open to SCBWI authors, illustrators, and translators, the award is peer-judged to...
Byron Writers Festival showground events cancelled
Monday, 11 August 2025
Organisers of Byron Writers Festival (BWF) cancelled the Bangalow Showground events for the second and third days of the 2025 festival program, because of rain and safety issues. In an...
Creative Australia adjusts dates for North America Publishers’ Program
Monday, 11 August 2025
Creative Australia has adjusted the dates for the North America Publishers’ Program, to accommodate publishers, agents and rights-sellers who may wish to travel to the London Book Fair afterwards. The...
HarperCollins reports sales up 3%, profits up 10%
Monday, 11 August 2025
In the US, HarperCollins parent company News Corp has announced its fourth quarter and annual results. The company reported that its book publishing division saw sales rise six percent for...
