Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day program
Thursday, 14 August 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, the NZ Book Awards Trust has announced the program for the Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day. Among the events around the country, Invercargill Public Library will...
UQP acquires Rocca’s middle-grade novel
Thursday, 14 August 2025
UQP has acquired world rights to the debut middle-grade novel Joey and the Junjardy written by Allison Rocca and illustrated by Brenton E McKenna, in a deal brokered by Danielle...
Write Around the Murray 2025 program
Thursday, 14 August 2025
The Write Around the Murray (WAM) festival, running 10–14 September in Albury City, has announced its 2025 program. Among the headliners attending the event are journalist, social commentator and writer...
PMLA shortlists; Byrne appointed Writing Australia director; Waitere appointed PANZ president
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Welcome to this week's news. The Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2025 shortlisted titles were announced this week, with a record 645 titles submitted for consideration. This will be the first year...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Sales Fiction UQP has sold simplified Chinese rights to Mammoth (Chris Flynn) to Shanghai Eco-Reading; and Arabic rights to Ghost Cities (Siang Lu) to Al Amal al Kubra. Nonfiction Black...
Christmas Press acquires Kelleher middle-grade
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Christmas Press imprint Eagle Books has acquired world rights to Only the Wild, an upper middle-grade/YA novel by Victor Kelleher, via Margaret Connolly of Margaret Connolly and Associates. Christmas Press...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
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Spud and Snowball and the Fancy Fish (Spud and Snowball #1) (Judith Rossell, ABC Books)
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Mischief abounds in Spud and Snowball and the Fancy Fish, Judith Rossell’s new illustrated junior fiction chapter book, which introduces us to the adventures of two charming but chaotic cats. When...
The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done (Clare Stephens, Atlantic)
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done is a sharp and unsettling novel that makes you reconsider every online interaction, bad review, snarky comment or quick judgment. Journalist Ruby Williams wants...
I’d Rather Be a Cat (Laura Bunting & Philip Bunting, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Laura and Philip Bunting’s charming I’d Rather Be a Cat is a fun, rhyming addition to the corpus of picture books about being comfortable in your own skin. With a...
Do We Deserve This? (Eleanor Elliott Thomas, Text)
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Do We Deserve This? by Eleanor Elliott Thomas (The Opposite of Success) follows twenty-something underachiever Bean Halloway, who buys a lottery ticket for her mother, only for it to win...
Boobs (Lisa Portolan & Amanda Goff, Echo)
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Boobs is an exploration of all things breasts. Combining personal insight with research, Amanda Goff (Misfit: The Unravelling of Samantha X) and Lisa Portolan examine the ways that breasts are perceived, augmented...
Arsenic Flower (Dakota Feirer, Hachette)
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Dakota Feirer’s Arsenic Flower carves meaning from masculinity and memory. Tender and intimate, this debut poetry collection finds harmony in two contradictory realities: the harm of the Australian colony and...
Be(wilder): Journeys in Nature (Darryl Jones, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Ecologist Darryl Jones (Curlews on Vulture Street) travels across Australia and the world to study the lives of wild animals in urban environments and how humans and non-human animals can comfortably...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Creative Australia has announced the titles shortlisted for the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Always Will Be: Stories of Goori Sovereignty from the...
Hachette acquires Grieve’s ‘Duty to Warn’
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Hachette Australia has acquired world English rights for Duty to Warn, a memoir by Charlotte Grieve, who was a named defendant in the Al Muderis v Nine Network defamation trial,...
Love Your Bookshop Day 2025 theme announced
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
BookPeople has announced 'Discover the magic. Discover you' as the theme for Love Your Bookshop Day 2025 (LYBD), which will take place on 11 October 2025. LYBD ‘aims to reignite...
Text acquires Hornung’s ‘The Minstrels’
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to The Minstrels by Eva Hornung, via Jenny Darling & Associates. The Minstrels follows the Thurston family, farming land overlooked by the Minstrels, the plunging gorge...
Alizzi named 2025 Rising Star
Monday, 11 August 2025
Arlie Alizzi has been named the Australian publishing industry's 2025 Rising Star. Alizzi is a Yugambeh editor, writer, researcher and anti-racism educator based in Rubibi/Broome and works as an editor at Magabala...
Writers, lit organisations receive Cultural Fund grants
Monday, 11 August 2025
The Copyright Agency has announced the recipients of the latest funding round through its Cultural Fund. The 2025 Create Grants, which awards $20,000 to writers and artists to develop new...
Quay wins 2025 Crystal Kite Award
Monday, 11 August 2025
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has announced the winners of the 2025 Crystal Kite Award. Open to SCBWI authors, illustrators, and translators, the award is peer-judged to...
Byron Writers Festival showground events cancelled
Monday, 11 August 2025
Organisers of Byron Writers Festival (BWF) cancelled the Bangalow Showground events for the second and third days of the 2025 festival program, because of rain and safety issues. In an...
Creative Australia adjusts dates for North America Publishers’ Program
Monday, 11 August 2025
Creative Australia has adjusted the dates for the North America Publishers’ Program, to accommodate publishers, agents and rights-sellers who may wish to travel to the London Book Fair afterwards. The...
Emerging Writers Festival 2025 program launched
Monday, 11 August 2025
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) has launched its 2025 program alongside a new logo. The festival, which will run 11–18 September, will hold 70 events with over 200 artists in...
Rapee wins CBCA 2025 Nan Chauncy Award
Monday, 11 August 2025
The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced Wendy Rapee as the recipient of the 2025 Nan Chauncy Award, which ‘honours a person, or a collaborative partnership, who has...
Stella Day Out to host Brisbane events
Monday, 11 August 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the program for its Stella Day Out Brisbane event, set to take place on 13 September 2025 at Avid Reader in West End. Two sessions...
Ned Kelly Awards 2025 best debut crime fiction shortlists announced
Thursday, 7 August 2025
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2025 Ned Kelly Awards shortlist for best debut crime fiction. The shortlisted titles are: All You Took From Me (Lisa Kenway, Transit...
Newcastle Writers Festival announces spring festival
Thursday, 7 August 2025
Newcastle Writers Festival (NWF) has announced a special spring program, which will run 20 September to 25 October 2025. The spring program reflects the organisation’s commitment to creating year-round opportunities...
Productivity Commission report; El-Zein wins National Biography Award; PANZ Publishing Market Size Report
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
Headlining the news this week, the Australian government Productivity Commission’s (PC) current Harnessing Data and Digital Technology inquiry released an interim report, which called for feedback on ‘the issue of copyrighted materials...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
Sales Fiction Allen & Unwin (A&U) has sold UK rights for The Frenchman by Jack Beaumont to Atlantic Books, brokered by WME. Nonfiction A&U has sold North American rights for I Am Dyslexic...
