Saunders among ASAL academic, criticism award winners
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced winners of a suite of academic and criticism prizes. Walter McRae Russell Award Barron Field in New South Wales:...
Hourani wins 2025 Mary Gilmore Prize
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced Hasib Hourani the winner of the 2025 Mary Gilmore Prize for rock flight (Giramondo). The Mary Gilmore Prize is...
McFarlane wins 2025 ALS Gold Medal
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced Fiona McFarlane as the winner of the 2025 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for Highway 13 (A&U). In...
Meet the 2025 Rising Stars: Sarah Valle
Tuesday, 1 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...
Gurn wins 2025 Deep Creek Residency Fellowship
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Matilda Bookshop has announced Tom Gurn as the winner of the 2025 Deep Creek Residency Fellowship for his submission, ‘Pugholes’. Gurn was chosen from a shortlist of six and will...
QWC launches Pitchable program
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has launched Pitchable, a program for Australian writers to pitch ideas and concepts for fiction, nonfiction, film scripts, stage plays, podcasts or video games in...
Readers and Writers Against the Genocide launch online store
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Readers and Writers Against the Genocide (RWAG) has launched an online store. Evolving from the Summer Reading for MPs program that ran last year, RWAG developed t-shirts and tote bags...
Hachette announces new collector’s edition of Farnham memoir
Monday, 30 June 2025
Hachette Australia has announced a full-colour collector’s edition of John Farnham’s memoir, The Voice Inside – co-authored with Poppy Stockell. Originally published in 2024, The Voice Inside follows Farnham ‘from...
IBBY, UNESCO launch collection of Indigenous, endangered languages
Monday, 30 June 2025
The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) have launched the IBBY-UNESCO Collection of Remarkable Books for Young Readers...
SLV 2025 fellowships
Monday, 30 June 2025
State Library Victoria (SLV) has announced the 2025 fellowship recipients, including several writers working on book projects. The recipients include: Marion Orme Page Regional Creative Fellowships ($15,000) Louise Crisp for...
Fremantle Press relocates to permanent loction
Monday, 30 June 2025
Fremantle Press has announced the relocation of its office to the historic SEC Substation, 10 Parry Street, Fremantle. This relocation will coincide with the publisher's 50th anniversary in 2026. Fremantle...
Here’s something absolutely cooked about books in Australia
Monday, 30 June 2025
Alice Grundy is an editor, publisher, researcher and teacher. She has worked on both sides of the publishing industry – holding various trade publishing roles over a 15-year period, as well...
Meet the 2025 Rising Stars: Rachel Cramp
Monday, 30 June 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...
Canadian Vincentian writer Sutherland wins 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Canadian Vincentian writer Chanel Sutherland has won the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for ‘Descend’, a story in which enslaved Africans share their life stories, as the ship transporting them...
BookUp 2025 conference, research day program announced
Thursday, 26 June 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the program for the 2025 BookUp conference and the inaugural BookUp research day. The APA's BookUp conference will take place on 7 August...
Stella Day Out announces Adelaide program
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Stella Day Out, a one-day literary festival that ‘celebrates and promotes the outstanding contributions of women and non-binary writers to Australian literature’, has announced a date and full program for...
Giramondo launches Poetry in Translation Prize
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Giramondo Publishing, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions have launched the Poetry in Translation Prize, a new biennial award for an outstanding poetry collection translated into English. The Poetry in Translation...
UQP acquires Adelaide’s autofiction novel
Thursday, 26 June 2025
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to When I Am Sixty-Four, an autofiction title by Debra Adelaide, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. When I Am Sixty-Four holds...
PRH acquires Meyer and Moss YA thriller
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights to The Escape Game, a YA mystery thriller by American author Marissa Meyer and Perth-based author Tamara Moss, via Jill Grinberg...
2025 Rising Star shortlist announced
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlist for its 2025 Rising Star award. The shortlisted professionals, who each began their publishing careers in the past 10 years, are:...
Regional winners announced for 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
The winners for the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize regional categories have been announced. Chosen from a shortlist of six, the winner for the Pacific region is Western Australian writer...
Editorial Letter: Epitexts, First Nations representation, and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
As with all similar publications, Books+Publishing has a set of editorial guidelines and a style manual, designed to ground us in our core purpose and the needs of our audience....
ABIA winner profile: Jeanmarie Morosin
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Following on from the Australian Book Industry Awards in early May, Books+Publishing reached out to the industry winners to ask them about their career, their challenges, their goals and what...
Hachette acquires Jones’ debut novel
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Theodora's Tea Shop by Christy Anne Jones in a joint acquisition with Wildfire, an imprint of Headline, taking UK and commonwealth rights excluding...
WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlist announced
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. This year, the awards have a total prize pool of $120,000 and four new categories. The new...
Beijing International Book Fair: ‘record’ international participation
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
The Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), which ran 18–22 June, welcomed 'record international participation', said the organisers, with 1,700 exhibitors from 80 countries and regions, and over 220,000 titles on...
UWAP acquires Riots by Fiona Skyring
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Riots by Fiona Skyring. Riots is a nonfiction title delving into the Australian riots that occurred between 1918–1920 and involved returned soldiers....
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2025 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. Chosen from a longlist of ten, the shortlisted titles are: Chinese Postman (Brian Castro, Giramondo) Theory & Practice (Michelle de...
Sydney Writers’ Festival achieves ‘record-breaking year’
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
The 2025 Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF), which ran 19–27 May under the theme In This Together, recorded the ‘highest sales in the Festival’s 28-year history’. This year 101,038 attendees participated...
Community and Courage: B+P reflects on SWF
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
This year, publishing director of Books+Publishing, Kate Cuthbert, attended Sydney Writers' Festival in May. We asked her to share her thoughts on the festival which ran between 19 and 27...
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