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Danger Awards 2025 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 27 August 2025
The BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival has announced the shortlists for the 2025 Danger Awards. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Debut crime fiction What I Would Do to You...

A&U acquires New Blue Ribbon Cookbook

A portrait of LIz Harfull Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world English rights to The New Blue Ribbon Cookbook by Liz Harfull, in a deal brokered by Fiona Inglis at Curtis Brown. ‘Every year thousands...

UWAP acquires ‘Mother Salad’ by Pantsis

Tuesday, 26 August 2025
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Mother Salad, a collection of short stories by Helena Pantsis. ‘Mother Salad is a series of small fictions that explore the plights...

WestWords announces new CYA manuscript prize

Tuesday, 26 August 2025
WestWords has announced the Libby Gleeson Prize for Children’s Literature, a new biennial prize for an unpublished manuscript for children or young adults. The winning manuscript is set to be...

David Allen named Dymocks CEO 

A portrait of David Allen Monday, 25 August 2025
Dymocks has announced the appointment of David Allen as its new CEO, effective from Monday 8 September 2025. Allen replaces outgoing CEO Mark Newman, who announced his departure earlier this...

yinfluence editorial agency relaunches 

Monday, 25 August 2025
Editorial agency yinfluence has announced an expansion from a solo practice into ‘collective of freelance editors dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices in fiction’, including people of colour and queer and...

Copyright Agency relaunches industry grants

logo for the copyright agency cultural fund Monday, 25 August 2025
The Copyright Agency has announced the launch of the Publishing Fellowships – an updated extension of its previous Publishing Industry Career Development grants (PICD), which were paused during the pandemic....

Sanders wins the 2025 NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award

Monday, 25 August 2025
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (NZSA) has announced Cristina Sanders as the winner of the 2025 NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award, worth NZ$5000. Sanders is...

Atlantic Books acquires Grey’s next novel

Monday, 25 August 2025
Atlantic Books Australia, a division of Allen & Unwin, has acquired UK/ANZ rights to Start at the End by Emma Grey, in a two-book deal brokered by Anjanette Fennell at Key...

RWA announces Ruby Award 2025 winners

Return to Hope Creek cover Monday, 25 August 2025
Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2025 Romantic Book of the Year Awards, known as the Ruby Awards. Chosen from shortlists announced in June, the...

Inaugural Sustainable Story Award shortlist announced 

Thursday, 21 August 2025
World of Books has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Sustainable Story Award. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction ‘AYAH’ (Annabelle Sami) ‘The First Years’ (Kate Evans) ‘Life or Death’ (Rebecca...

World Kid Lit Reading Challenge Award

Thursday, 21 August 2025
WorldKidLit has announced a new award for schools ‘to promote international and inclusive reading’, said organisers. Running through September and open internationally, the award aims to encourage reading, connect young...

ILF Day theme announced

Grinj det K'taun Krok! Thursday, 21 August 2025
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced ‘Strength In Our Stories: For Now & Future Generations’ as the 2025 Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) theme and Grinj det K’Taun Krok! (Grinch...

Shadaya named a Time magazine Girl of the Year 

Thursday, 21 August 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, 17-year-old Rutendo Shadaya has been named one of Time magazine's girls of the year, reported the Guardian. Shadaya is featured alongside nine other ‘young leaders inspiring...

Seattle Public Library: Breaking down barriers

Seattle Central Library exterior Thursday, 21 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...

IPEd 2025: Editors as changemakers 

Wednesday, 20 August 2025
Books+Publishing publishing director Kate Cuthbert was an invited guest to this year’s Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) conference, held 23–25 July 2025 in Adelaide. During the conference, she was one...

Papercuts Comics Festival announces program

Papercuts Comics Festival 2025 Wednesday, 20 August 2025
Papercuts Comics Festival has announced its 2025 program, running 12–14 September in Adelaide. Artists appearing include Alice Lam, Chad Molyneux, Evie ‘YEEVZ’ Hilliar, Molly Hunt, Nicola Scott and Robin Tatlow-Lord....

S&S acquires Kitching’s next thriller

Wednesday, 20 August 2025
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to thriller novel The Secrets of Strangers by Jess Kitching, in a deal brokered by Daniel Pilkington at the Pilkington Agency....

Keeperton acquires Belan’s debut

Wednesday, 20 August 2025
Keeperton has acquired world rights to debut novel The Line by Jeremy Belan, in a two-book deal. The Line is a coming-of-age story following Eddie, who is caught between two...

Pryor awarded 2025 Curlew Regional Writer’s Grant

Tuesday, 19 August 2025
Writing NSW has announced Robyn Pryor as the recipient of the 2025 Curlew Regional Writer’s Grant, worth $1000. The grant helps a regional NSW writer ‘to participate in a one-day...

Queensland Poetry Awards prize money increases

Queensland Writers Centre logo Tuesday, 19 August 2025
The Queensland Writers Centre has announced increases in the value of its Queensland Poetry Awards, which has opened for entries this week. Award categories and their first-place cash prizes are:...

 

 

 

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