NZ Coalition for Books strategic plan report
Thursday, 7 August 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, the Coalition for Books has released the Mahi Tahi Work Together: A Strategic Plan for the Aotearoa New Zealand Book Sector 2025–2030, which is the culmination...
Ned Kelly Awards 2025 best debut crime fiction shortlists announced
Thursday, 7 August 2025
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2025 Ned Kelly Awards shortlist for best debut crime fiction. The shortlisted titles are: All You Took From Me (Lisa Kenway, Transit...
Newcastle Writers Festival announces spring festival
Thursday, 7 August 2025
Newcastle Writers Festival (NWF) has announced a special spring program, which will run 20 September to 25 October 2025. The spring program reflects the organisation’s commitment to creating year-round opportunities...
Industry bodies respond to Productivity Commission AI interim report
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
The Australian government Productivity Commission’s (PC) current Harnessing Data and Digital Technology inquiry released an interim report overnight, calling for feedback on ‘the issue of copyrighted materials being used to...
Tinsel Time 2025: Young readers
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
Share the joy of reading under the tree (and in stockings, and for Secret Santas and for teacher gifts!). Junior fiction There’s hilarity and adventure to spare for junior readers...
Tinsel time: 2025 nonfiction
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
History, homes and health; art, essays and philosophy – Books+Publishing takes a walk through the nonfiction offerings publishers are highlighting this holiday season. First Nations wit, wisdom and writing Miles...
PANZ Publishing Market Size Report 2024 released
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) released its 2024 Publishing Market Size Report to members on the week of 30 July, revealing a total of NZD...
Collins Booksellers Warrnambool named 2025 Franchisee of the Year
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
Collins Booksellers Warrnambool (Michaelie Clark and Graeme Gallagher) was named 2025 Franchisee of the Year at the Collins Booksellers Annual Conference in Melbourne. A statement from Collins Booksellers said, ‘In...
UWAP at 90 years: ‘Our values will remain steadfast’
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
In 2025, University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP) celebrates its 90th anniversary. Books+Publishing spoke to communications officer Lauren Pratt about the history, the present and the future of the press....
UQP acquires Vucic debut poetry collection
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
UQP has acquired world rights to After War, the debut poetry collection from Dženana Vucic. After War is ‘a memoiristic poetry collection which unfurls from the dislocating trauma of the Bosnian...
Sarah Brill on ‘Catch’
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Sydney-based author Sarah Brill's Catch (A&U Children’s, October) is a ‘heartfelt and quietly thrilling coming-of-age novel’ about a 16-year-old who discovers she can catch people falling from the sky. Brill...
Sarah Brill recommends
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The last couple of Australian books I've read were Kate Grenville's Unsettled and Helen Garner's The Season. Both nonfiction, but by authors that I really love and admire for their...
Penguin SEA to publish ‘Stories from the Island’
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Southeast Asia (SEA) has announced the publication of Stories from the Islands, its first bilingual short story anthology of writers selected as part of the Ubud...
Island Readers and Writers Festival announced
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The inaugural Island Readers and Writers Festival will be held in Nipaluna / Hobart on 29 May–1 June 2026. Produced by literary organisation and magazine Island, the festival is accepting...
Together We Read online bookclub announces 2025 title
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Together We Read AU has announced that the fifth annual online bookclub, running 12–26 August 2025, will read Smoke by Michael Brissenden (Affirm). Smoke can be downloaded via the Libby App, which...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2025 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, worth $50,000, has been announced by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University (JCU). Chosen from...
A&U acquires Hone guide to surviving loss
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world English rights to How Will I Ever Get Through This? by Lucy Hone, in a deal brokered by Catherine Drayton at InkWell Management....
Nib Literary Award 2025 longlist announced
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The longlist for the 2025 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Australian Gospel (Lech Blaine, Black Inc.) Black Convicts: How...
Earp crowdfunds The Little Bookroom relocation
Monday, 4 August 2025
The Little Bookroom’s new owner, Michael Earp, has announced a crowdfunding campaign to cover the costs of moving the bookshop to a new location. Earp made the announcement on Friday...
Port Fairy Literary Weekend announces program
Monday, 4 August 2025
Port Fairy Literary Weekend, which runs 12–14 September, has announced its full program. Headliners include Helen Garner, Jock Serong, Emily Maguire, Sharmini Kumar and Jayne Tuttle. The festival will open...
Pearson: first half of 2025 stable, ‘stronger growth expected’ in second half
Monday, 4 August 2025
In the UK, educational publisher Pearson has reported a stable financial performance for the first half of 2025, with sales up two percent, to £1.7bn (A$3.5bn), and adjusted operating profit...
The Berry Agency expands to literary representation
Monday, 4 August 2025
Chloe Berry of The Berry Agency (TBA) has announced the agency will expand to include literary representation in October 2025. Launched earlier this year to ‘provide advice and support to...
Stella Day Out announces Melbourne program
Monday, 4 August 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the program for its Stella Day Out Melbourne event, set to take place on 18 August at the Queen Victoria Women's Centre. Three sessions have...
CBCA’s Children’s Book Week turns 80
Monday, 4 August 2025
Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced Children's Book Week Birthday Book Adventure events, running 16 to 23 August 2025, to celebrate Book Week's 80th birthday. On Saturday 23...
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival program announced
Monday, 4 August 2025
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, running 11–13 September, has launched its 2025 program. Among the headliners are Michael Robotham, Candice Fox, Jane Caro and Gary Jubelin. The program will feature...
Larrikin House acquires Hayward’s picture book
Monday, 4 August 2025
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to What Can I Get For Mother’s Day?, a picture book written by Renae Hayward and illustrated by Susan Joy Lu. According to the...
Transit Lounge acquires Hinton’s second crime novel
Monday, 4 August 2025
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to SD Hinton’s new crime novel, Inlet Bridge, via Sarah McKenzie Literary Management. ‘The inspiration for Inlet Bridge came in two parts,' said Hinton....
Junior Book Club – this month’s reads
Friday, 1 August 2025
Searching for your next great read to share with kids? Our Junior Book Club highlights 10 new titles each month that are perfect for classrooms, libraries and family reading time....
El-Zein wins 2025 National Biography Award
Friday, 1 August 2025
Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars (Abbas El-Zein, Upswell) has won the 2025 National Biography Award. El-Zein wins $25,000, while the other shortlisted authors receive $2000 each. Bullet,...
Morsi wins 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award
Thursday, 31 July 2025
Mohammed Massoud Morsi has won the 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award for his unpublished fiction manuscript The Hair of the Pigeon. Chosen from a shortlist of six, Morsi receives a publishing...
