Industry responds to rescinded black&write! fellowship, de Krester wins 2025 Stella Prize, ABDA winners announced
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Across the industry this week, B+P reported on the State Library Victoria’s published ‘Ways of Working Commitment’ and outlined the events leading up to this document including the cancellation of...
Fogarty receives 2025 Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Yugambeh poet and activist Lionel Fogarty has been recognised with a Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2025 First Nations Arts and Culture Awards. Born on Wakka Wakka...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Shortest History of AI (Toby Walsh) to Chongqing University Press; and Greek rights to The Shortest History of the...
Mary Gilmore Award 2025 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Mary Gilmore Award, a prize for a poet's first book of poetry. Judges Kate...
MWF ticket sales up 47%
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) recorded a 47% year-on-year increase in revenue for this year’s festival program, running 8–11 May. Representing the highest revenue since 2019, the festival reported over 21,000...
A note from Fashion Critical
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
The good folk at Murdoch Books have made the bold decision to turn me, a simple street sweeper from Gundagai, into a published author this October. Elevated to a soon-to-be...
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Wednesday, 28 May 2025
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Where the River Runs Free (Vikki Conley, illus Jedda Robaard, Windy Hollow)
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Where the River Runs Free is a celebration of time spent outdoors by multi-award-winning author Vikki Conley (Where the Lyrebird Lives) and illustrator Jedda Robaard (The Littlest Penguin and the...
Cure (Katherine Brabon, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Katherine Brabon’s Cure is a natural extension and companion to her novel Body Friend; both are introspective literary works centred on women living with autoimmune diseases – conditions Brabon herself...
CHAOS! Which way will YOU choose? (Andrew Cranna, Walker Books)
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
An eccentric grandfather, a talking pet pig, a rat, a toad and a baby alligator are just some of the characters in Andrew Cranna’s interactive middle-grade adventure, CHAOS! Which way...
Deep History: Country and Sovereignty (ed by Ann McGrath & Jackie Huggins, UNSW Press)
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Deep History: Country and Sovereignty is a layered and collaborative work that challenges dominant narratives and asks whose voices are heard in telling history. Edited by Jackie Huggins, a Bidjara...
Be a good girl, Valerie (Marcia van Zeller, Ventura Press)
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Be a good girl, Valerie by Marcia van Zeller is a quietly absorbing novel set predominantly in 2018 Perth with flashbacks to 1974 Toronto and 1978 London. It explores enduring...
Dead Ends (Samantha Byres, UQP)
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Is closure possible, or is it just a convenient fiction? This is the central question explored in Dead Ends, the meditative debut novel by Aotearoa New Zealand–born Naarm/Melbourne-based writer Samantha...
Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
In the UK and Ireland, the 2025 Fitzcarraldo Editions/Mahler & LeWitt Studios Essay Prize shortlist has been announced. Judges – Joanna Biggs, Brian Dillon, Sheila Heti, Joanna Kavenna and Jacques...
Affirm partners with Your Kid’s Next Read team for junior series
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Affirm Press and the creators of Your Kid’s Next Read (YKNR) have partnered to launch a new junior fiction series, titled Your Next Read (YNR), aiming to ‘encourage the joy...
King wins EWF Speculate Prize
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), in partnership with RMIT University, has announced Melissa King as the winner of the inaugural Speculate Prize for Emerging Writers for her short work 'The...
ABDA 2025 winners announced
Monday, 26 May 2025
The winners of the 2025 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The winners in each category are: Designer's Choice Award Eat...
‘The Adversary’ named 2025 Dublin Literary Award winner
Monday, 26 May 2025
The Adversary by Canadian author Michael Crummey (Knopf) has won the €100,000 (A$174,939) international Dublin Literary Award. This is the 30th iteration of the awards, ‘the world’s largest prize for...
Atria acquires BookToker Bateman debut
Monday, 26 May 2025
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Australia, has acquired world rights to Luke Bateman’s debut fantasy series in a two-book deal, via Sean Anderson and Tim Wall at...
The Luna Foundation launches new NZ residency
Monday, 26 May 2025
The Luna Foundation has launched an inaugural writers residency for Aotearoa New Zealand women writers. Running 3–7 November 2025, the Luna Foundation Writers Residency will be awarded to a woman writer...
PRH acquires two McInerney titles
Monday, 26 May 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights for a new novel, When Sullivan Met Lola, and a new work of collected nonfiction from Monica McInerney, via Fiona Inglis...
De Kretser wins 2025 Stella Prize for ‘Theory & Practice’
Friday, 23 May 2025
Michelle de Kretser has won the 2025 Stella Prize, worth $60,000, for her seventh novel, Theory & Practice (Text). In their joint report, the judges said: ‘Michelle de Kretser’s Theory...
National Simultaneous Storytime reaches more than 2 million readers
Thursday, 22 May 2025
National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS), which ran internationally on 21 May, showed ‘that Australia is a reading nation — at every age,' said the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), which...
Transit Lounge acquires Ouston’s Mine
Thursday, 22 May 2025
Transit Lounge has acquired ANZ rights to author Adam Ouston’s second novel, Mine, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. According to Shaw, Mine has been composed in one complete sentence. The...
Big Day of Books Perth program announced
Thursday, 22 May 2025
ABC Radio, Fremantle Press, UWA Publishing, Magabala Books and Boffins Books have announced the program for the Big Day of Books Perth. 'When the Perth Writers Festival was postponed, Fremantle...
SLQ rescinds Wyld ‘black&write!’ fellowship, postpones winner announcement
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Author KA Ren Wyld’s place in the black&write! fellowship program has been rescinded by the State Library of Queensland (SLQ), the author said on X (Twitter). The 2025 black&write! writing...
NSW Literary Award winners announced; digiDirect Group acquires James Bennett; Miles Franklin, ALS Gold Medal longlists
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
In local news, digiDirect Group owner Shant Kradjian has acquired library supplier James Bennett, after acquiring Booktopia in 2024; online bookseller The Nile has appointed John Purcell as head of books...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Sales Fiction Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary has sold Italian rights to Pip Adam's Audition (Giramondo) to Cantoni Editore. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold UK/Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ, India, Canada) to...
Raisin wins Romantic Novel of the Year Award
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Perth-based writer Rebecca Raisin has won the Contemporary Romance Novel Award for her book A Love Letter to Paris (Boldwood) in the 2025 Romantic Novel of the Year Awards. Chosen...
Pantera acquires Bridges’ book on perimenopause
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Pantera Press has acquired The Perimenopause Method from Michelle Bridges, via Joseph Hanrahan at Profile Talent Management. According to the publisher, The Perimenopause Method is a ‘comprehensive and holistic guide’...
