Festival of Fiction 2025 program announced
Monday, 23 June 2025
The Peter Cowan Writers Centre has announced the program for the 2025 Festival of Fiction, to be held at Edith Cowan University’s Joondalup campus 18–19 October. The festival will showcase...
PRH acquires Shara Curlett middle grade series
Monday, 23 June 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired world rights to the Protector of Beyond middle-grade series by Aotearoa New Zealand author Shara Curlett in a three-book deal, via Samuel Bernard...
McDonald, Gill win Carnegie medals
Monday, 23 June 2025
In the UK, the winners of the 2025 Carnegie medals for writing and illustration for children and young people have been announced. Margaret McDonald was announced the winner of the Carnegie...
Finding Beauty Poetry Prize shortlist announced
Monday, 23 June 2025
MARION has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Finding Beauty Poetry Prize. The shortlisted poets are: Alisha Brown for ‘As a matter of great importance’ Cate Furey for ‘Rosalie’ Annie...
Pan Macmillan acquires new Jane Harper novel
Monday, 23 June 2025
Pan Macmillan Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Last One Out by Jane Harper. The novel will also be published internationally by Flatiron in the US and Pan Macmillan UK...
British Library reinstates Oscar Wilde’s library card
Thursday, 19 June 2025
In the UK, the British Library has announced that it will reinstate Oscar Wilde's reader pass, 130 years after it was revoked following Wilde's conviction for gross indecency. ‘A contemporary...
Authors & Artists for Palestine Auction raises over $43,000
Thursday, 19 June 2025
The Authors & Artists for Palestine fundraising auction, organised by Sarah McKenzie, Karen Ginnane and Zewlan Moor, has raised over $43,000 in donations for charities providing aid to Palestinians in...
Pip Adam wins Michael King Writer’s Fellowship
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Creative New Zealand has announced Pip Adam as the recipient of the $100,000 Michael King Writer’s Fellowship. Awarded biennially, the fellowship is presented ‘to an established New Zealand writer of...
PRH acquires Mounser’s dark suspense novel
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired Oceania rights to The House at Hanger Hill by Ashleigh Mounser, via Michaela McGuire at a4 Literary in a two-book deal. Internationally, The...
Stella Day Out announces Warrnambool program
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Stella Day Out has announced its next iteration will be in Warrnambool, and released the date and full program. The free, one-day festival will take place on 28 June, from...
Rocket Entrepreneurs Launch SF Publisher
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
In the UK, Chris Larmour, founder of Europe's orbital space rocket company Orbex, along with Orbex founding investors Martin Coates and John May, has launched Factorial Books, a digital-first publisher...
Scribe acquires new Savva nonfiction
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Scribe Publications has acquired world rights to Earthquake: Signposts to the election that shook Australia by Niki Savva. Earthquake is a combination of selections from Savva's columns from the Age...
Hill of Content to move up Bourke Street
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Melbourne bookstore Hill of Content is moving to a new location after 103 years at its current address, 86 Bourke St, following the sale of the historic building. From mid-July,...
Clan Destine Press acquires Stephen Ross YA novel
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Clan Destine Press has acquired world rights to YA novel The Bride Must Be Stopped! and its two sequels by Aotearoa New Zealand author Stephen Ross. Set in the 1950s...
Amelia Mellor on ‘The Wicked Ship’
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Melbourne-based author Amelia Mellor’s new middle-grade adventure series, Oceanforged, launches with The Wicked Ship (Affirm, August), a 'rollicking mix of Treasure Island and The Sword in the Stone with a...
Amelia Mellor recommends
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
An in-joke with my sister recently led me to revisit Odo Hirsch’s Bartlett and the Ice Voyage, an audiobook we once listened to on a road trip as kids. The...
RWA announces Ruby Award 2025 finalists
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has announced the finalists for the 2025 Romantic Book of the Year (Ruby) Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Historical The Duke Says...
Words on the Waves report ‘record number of attendees’
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Words on the Waves, the Central Coast’s writers festival, reported ‘a record number of attendees’ at this year's festival. Representing a 20% increase from 2024, the festival reported 6084 festival...
Clan Destine Press acquires Gordon Thompson novel
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Clan Destine Press has acquired the world rights to Kill Will: Nightbird in Sunlight by Gordon Thompson. According to the publisher, Kill Will: Nightbird in Sunlight follows as ‘a young...
Wilderness Society announces Environment Awards, Karajia Awards shortlists
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
The Wilderness Society has announced the shortlists for the 2025 Environment Award for Children’s Literature and Karajia Award for First Nations Children’s Storytelling. The shortlisted titles in each category are:...
Affirm Press acquires MinOn picture book
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the picture book Make Them Say Poo by Steve MinOn under the pen name Stephen, via literary agent Martin Shaw of Shaw Literacy....
Powerhouse announces Shakthidharan memoir as first literary acquisition
Monday, 16 June 2025
Powerhouse has acquired ANZ rights for Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath, the debut memoir by S Shakthidharan, via Anthony Blair, Cameron’s Management. Gather Up Your World in...
Taylor’s ‘Ruins’ to be adapted for film
Monday, 16 June 2025
Miramax president of film group Alexandra Loewy has acquired film rights to the forthcoming novel Ruins (A&U, July) by Melbourne-based author Amy Taylor. The novel will be adapted into a...
TitlePage announces plans for upgraded search, new functionality
Monday, 16 June 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced a suite of upgrades to TitlePage, with a focus on improving access and use of TitlePage data. TitlePage launched in 2004 with eight...
Perentie Press acquires first YA graphic novel
Monday, 16 June 2025
Perentie Press has acquired world rights to The Curator, a YA graphic novel by author/illustrator Wendy Tyrer, the first YA graphic novel acquisition for the new press. The novel asks,...
BookPeople 2025 Book of the Year, Bookseller of the Year winners announced
Monday, 16 June 2025
BookPeople has announced the winners of the 2025 Book of the Year Awards, and the Bookseller of the Year awards. Adult fiction Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador) Adult nonfiction The Season (Helen...
Hachette acquires Chloe Fisher memoir
Monday, 16 June 2025
Hachette Australia has acquired Always You, a memoir from Chloe Fisher with Alley Pascoe. Always You follows Fisher’s life story as she meets and marries pro-surfer Paul Fisher, said the...
Inaugural New Voices of Aotearoa winners announced
Monday, 16 June 2025
The Coalition for Books has announced the winners of the inaugural New Voices of Aotearoa competition. Chosen from over 30 nominations, the winners are: Wellington essayist Una Cruickshank Raglan journalist,...
Sharp acquires Marshall short story film rights
Monday, 16 June 2025
Melbourne-based filmmaker Tim Sharp has acquired the film option to Wayne Marshall’s short story ‘A Night Out’ from Marshall’s debut collection Shirl (Affirm Press), via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. Sharp...
van der Wouden, Clarke win 2025 Women’s Prizes
Friday, 13 June 2025
In the UK, the 2025 Women’s Prizes have been announced. The SafeKeep by Dutch author Yael van der Wouden (Penguin) has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, while The Story...
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