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Creative Australia launches Creative Workplaces 

Creative Workplaces logo Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Creative Australia has launched the Creative Workplaces website, a ‘free online hub of resources about pay, safety and respect, to help everyone working in the creative industries understand their rights...

Atria acquires Hortinela debut

a portrait of Joshua Hortinela Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Atria Books Australia has acquired world rights to Hate You to Love You by bookseller Joshua Hortinela in a two-book deal through Daniel Pilkington at The Pilkington Agency. ‘Hate You...

Olivia De Zilva on ‘Plastic Budgie’ 

Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Tarndanya/Adelaide-based writer Olivia De Zilva’s debut, Plastic Budgie (Pink Shorts Press, August), is described as a ‘sharply funny, sad and sentimental reflection on the people, places and cultural forces that...

Olivia De Zilva recommends 

Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Cher Tan’s Peripathetic: Notes on (Un)belonging. I’ve worked with Cher before and have been a fan of her writing for a long time. Cher was really one of the first...

Varuna First Nations Fellowship 2025 recipients announced

2025 Varuna First Nations Fellowship winners Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Varuna, the National Writers' House has announced 12 recipients of the 2025 Copyright Agency First Nations Fellowship. The 2025 fellowship recipients are: Sharlene Allsopp Alison J Barton Skye Cusack Eugenia...

Q-Lit Festival 2025 program announced 

Q-Lit 2025 header Tuesday, 10 June 2025
The program for the 2025 Q-Lit Festival, running this year 20–28 June, has been announced. Under the theme 'What Fills Your Cup', the 2025 festival will begin with an opening...

Jhalak Prize 2025 winners announced 

The cover of Namesake: reflections on a warrior woman Tuesday, 10 June 2025
In the UK, the 2025 winners of the Jhalak Prize have been announced, reports Book Brunch. The winners – chosen from shortlists announced in April – are: Jhalak Prose Prize Namesake:...

Transit Lounge acquires Gates novel

Geoffrey Gates Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to The Phantom Surrealist by Geoffrey Gates. According to the publisher, the novel follows protagonist Christopher Tiffen as he ‘moves between Sydney, London, Paris, Barcelona,...

First Nations Writers Festival award winners announced 

2025 First Nations Writers Festival attendees Tuesday, 10 June 2025
The First Nations Writers Festival (FNWF) has announced the 2025 winners of the festival's book awards and short story awards. Winning titles are: Book award 'Dual' (Marshall Ericho, PNG) 'Resilient...

ASLA DANZ Children’s Book Award winners announced

DANZ logo Tuesday, 10 June 2025
The Australian School Library Association (ASLA) has announced the 2025 Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (DANZ) Children's Book Award winners. Winning titles, chosen from a shortlist announced in...

Evaristo awarded Outstanding Contribution award 

a portrait of Bernadine Evaristo Thursday, 5 June 2025
In the UK, the Women’s Prize has announced Bernadine Evaristo as the winner of its ‘one-off Outstanding Contribution award, marking the 30th anniversary year of the Women’s Prize for Fiction....

Slatter announced as 2025 Hedberg Writer-in-Residence 

Angela Slatter photo. Thursday, 5 June 2025
The University of Tasmania has announced author Angela Slatter as the 2025 Hedberg Writer-in-Residence, running from 4 August to 12 December 2025. Slatter receives a $20,000 stipend, three months of...

Green appointed Story Factory chair 

Ali Green headshot Thursday, 5 June 2025
Ali Green has been appointed chair of the Story Factory board, replacing Gemma Salteri, who served three three-year terms. Story Factory is a not-for-profit organisation delivering creative writing programs for...

Summit Books acquires Gray’s ‘Chosen Family’

MaddyGray photo with credit to Zan Wimberley Thursday, 5 June 2025
Summit Books has acquired ANZ rights to Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray, via Grace Heifetz at a4 Literary. Overseas, Chosen Family was also acquired by Lettice Franklin at Orion (UK), via...

Melbourne Rare Book Week program announced

Melbourne Rare Book Week Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Rare Books Melbourne has announced the 2025 program for the Melbourne Rare Book Week, running 24 July to 2 August across Melbourne.  The program, which ‘celebrates the rich tradition and...

The quiet revolution of bookshop succession 

Wednesday, 4 June 2025
In the independent bookstores of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, a new generation of book lovers is taking the reins. Incoming owners are learning that bookstores are more than just...

Kandrusevich, Strotsev awarded 2025 Prix Voltaire 

Nadia Kandrusevich and Dmitri Strotsev Wednesday, 4 June 2025
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has awarded exiled Belarusian Publishers Nadia Kandrusevich and Dmitri Strotsev the 2025 Prix Voltaire, which supports defenders of freedom to publish. Both Kandrusevich and Strotsey were...

 

 

 

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