WORD Christchurch 2025 program announced
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
WORD Christchurch Festival, which will run this year 27–31 August, has announced its full program. With the theme ‘Share the Joy of Words’, this year's program includes over 90 writers...
Johnson wins 2025 Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Writing NSW and Text Publishing have announced Yasmin Johnson as the 2025 winner of the Indigenous Writer's Mentorship for her nonfiction manuscript exploring intergenerational storytelling set in Palm Island. A...
Davitt Awards 2025 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2025 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult novels Highway...
Varuna Climate Fellowship 2025 recipients announced
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced six recipients of the 2025 Varuna Climate Fellowships. The 2025 fellowship recipients are: Cynthia Banham Jo Chandler Lauren Fuge Lesley Head Patrick Lau...
UWAP acquires collection of Nyangumarta children’s stories
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Stories About Fire, Wind, the Moon and Other Dreamings – Warinypa wariny Mangunyjaja muwarr wirlarrapa wangalpa wika by Solomon...
Aotearoa Booksellers Choice Award 2025 finalists announced
Monday, 14 July 2025
Booksellers NZ has announced the finalists for the 2025 Booksellers' Choice Awards. Voted on by Aotearoa's booksellers, the finalists are: Adult Award Amma (Saraid de Silva, Moa Press) The Bookshop Detectives:...
Text acquires ‘The Mushroom Tapes’ by Garner, Hooper and Krasnostein
Monday, 14 July 2025
Text Publishing has acquired The Mushroom Tapes written by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein. ‘[Garner, Hooper and Krasnostein] joined the media scrum at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts,...
Creative Futures Fund recipients announced
Monday, 14 July 2025
Creative Australia has announced the latest recipients of funding from its Creative Futures Fund. An ‘initiative of the Australian Government’s National Cultural Policy Revive’, the Creative Futures Fund ‘supports the...
Parramatta’s Lit! festival launched
Monday, 14 July 2025
The Sydney Fringe Festival has announced Parramatta’s Lit!, a new writer-led literary festival as part of Sydney Fringe. The festival, which will run through September, will celebrate Parramatta’s authors, publishers...
African publishing could ‘double in value’
Monday, 14 July 2025
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has released a new report that ‘maps the book publishing industry across Africa, identifying trends, obstacles, and strategic recommendations to unlock...
Hill of Content book chain: ‘thousands’ of books moved
Monday, 14 July 2025
Last week, Melbourne bookshop Hill of Content which, after 103 years at its current location is moving 130m up Bourke Street, used a human chain to move books from the...
Creative Victoria latest funding recipients
Monday, 14 July 2025
Creative Victoria has announced the latest recipients of funding from its Creative Projects Fund. One hundred and fifteen Victorian creators have shared in $1.5m of funding which ‘Victorian artists, creative...
UQP acquires new Riwoe novel
Monday, 14 July 2025
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to A Short History of Longans, a new novel by Mirandi Riwoe, through Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown. The novel...
Book Club – this month’s reads
Friday, 11 July 2025
Looking for your next great group read? Our monthly Book Club rounds up new release titles that are perfect for sparking conversation and perhaps even some debate. From compelling fiction to...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2025 longlist announced
Thursday, 10 July 2025
The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) has announced the longlist for the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, worth $50,000. The 10 longlisted titles, chosen from over 200 entries,...
Vale David Glasheen
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Businessman and author David Glasheen has died at the age of 81. Affirm Press writes: Affirm Press is deeply saddened by the passing of David Glasheen, author of the incredibly...
National Biography Award 2025 shortlist announced
Thursday, 10 July 2025
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the $25,000 National Biography Award. The shortlisted works, selected from 103 entries, are: Bullet, Paper, Rock: A...
Meet the Rising Stars: Melena Cole-Manolis
Thursday, 10 July 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent fewer than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the...
‘How to Kill a Client’ selected for Dynamic Television Scripted Initiative
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Joanna Jenkins' How to Kill a Client (A&U) has been selected for the Dynamic Television Scripted Initiative, announced Screen Australia and Dynamic TV. The story, which follows ‘corporate high-flyer’ Gavin...
The Nile launches new website
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Online bookshop The Nile has launched a new Australian website, with Aotearoa New Zealand to follow. According to the organisation, the website has been ‘designed specifically with readers in mind’...
Bakers Lane Books: New publisher, writing prize launched
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
New independent publisher Bakers Lane Books has been launched by founder Ginny Grant, with a commitment to ‘platforming bold, inclusive storytelling’. Bakers Lane said it aims to publish ‘a select number...
A tough sell: Fighting for space on the path to publication
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Dr Melanie Saward is a proud Bigambul and Wakka Wakka woman. She is a writer, editor and academic based in Tulmur (Ipswich), Queensland. She’s the author of two novels, Burn...
Telling stories, telling ourselves stories: Recapping BookPeople 2025
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
The annual BookPeople conference ran in Brisbane 14–16 June. This conference includes a program of panels and discussions, a trade exhibition, and a dinner and awards night for the Australian...
A&U acquires new crime novel from Brown
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to a new crime novel, The Hidden, by Bryan Brown. The Hidden introduces Sergeant William Jarrett, said the publisher. The novel is set...
Hachette acquires McNab’s true crime ‘Recipe for Murder’
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights for the nonfiction title Recipe for Murder by Duncan McNab, in a deal brokered by Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. The book ‘delves...
Open letter sets terms for generative AI in the book industry
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
In the US, more than 70 authors have signed an open letter on LitHub calling on publishers to ‘make a pledge that they will never release books that were created...
Wombat Books launches writing prize for teens
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Wombat Books has launched the Rhiza Teen Author Prize, a new competition for young aspiring authors. Two winners will be chosen from a shortlist of four. Each shortlisted writer will...
Wiley acquires Edwards’ The Wardrobe Project
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Wiley has acquired world rights to The Wardrobe Project, a nonfiction title by Emma Edwards. The Wardrobe Project details Edwards' year of buying no clothes. 'She learned that when you stop...
Amplify Lit Festival Live program announced
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Aotearoa New Zealand writer and editor Jackie Lee Morrison has announced the program for the inaugural Amplify Lit Festival Live program, running 5–31 July on Instagram and TikTok. The line-up...
Baker named 2025 Reading Australia Fellow
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
The Copyright Agency has awarded ACT teacher librarian Libby Baker the 2025 Reading Australia Fellowship. The annual Reading Australia Fellowship is open to English and literacy teachers and teacher librarians...
