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Words at Pearls program announced

Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Words on the Waves has announced Words at Pearls, a one-day literary festival running Saturday 15 November at Pearl Beach, NSW. Under the theme ‘Wandering Wild’, the program features four...

Novel Insight launches Reviewer’s Choice Award

Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Book review site Novel Insight has launched a new prize – the Reviewer's Choice Award. With Australian-authored books eligible when reviewed within the first 12 months of their release date,...

Trump sues PRH, New York Times

Wednesday, 17 September 2025
US President Donald Trump is suing Penguin Random House (PRH), along with the New York Times (NYT) and several of its reporters for ‘disparagement’, reported Publishers Weekly (PW) yesterday. Among reporters...

Larrikin acquires Vee picture book

Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to My Spinning Anxious Brain, a picture book by Dani Vee, illustrated by Ruth-Mary Smith. ‘Empathetic, gentle and fun’, My Spinning Anxious Brain ‘explains exactly...

StoryBox Hub named Victorian finalist in the Telstra Best of Business Awards

Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Digital storytelling platform StoryBox Hub has been named a Victorian State Finalist in the Telstra Best of Business Awards 2025, with recognition in two categories: Building Communities and Embracing Innovation....

Have you tried a Books+Publishing Title Showcase?

Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Limited on budget? Advertise new titles to the book industry with a Books+Publishing Title Showcase. For as little as $330 (cover image included), advertising includes permanent display on B+P’s website,...

Arthur Sze named US poet laureate

Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Arthur Sze has been named the 25th poet laureate of the United States, reported Publishers Weekly yesterday. Sze will serve for one year and succeeds Ada Limón, whose term in the...

OzAsia Festival’s 2025 Weekend of Words program released

Tuesday, 16 September 2025
OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words has released its full program, running 7–9 November 2025 in Adelaide. The 2025 festival will include 24 free events featuring 56 Asian and Asian Australian...

Sunshine Coast Fiction Festival 2025 program released

Tuesday, 16 September 2025
The Sunshine Coast Fiction Festival has announced its 2025 program, running 7–9 November in Bokarina. Among Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand authors headlining the event are TL Swan, Candice Fox,...

PRH acquires Madden’s first adult novel

Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to debut adult novel Quite the Pair from author Tobias Madden, via a deal brokered by Claire Friedman at InkWell Management...

HarperCollins acquires Richell memoir

Tuesday, 16 September 2025
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to An Ocean and a Day, a memoir from Hannah Richell, via Sarah Lutyens at Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency. An Ocean and a Day...

Danger Awards 2025 winners announced

Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Winners of the 2025 Danger Awards have been announced. From shortlists released in August, the winners in each category are: Debut crime fiction A Town Called Treachery (Mitch Jennings, HarperCollins)...

Arts NT Fellowships 2025 recipients announced

Monday, 15 September 2025
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced six recipients of the 2025 Arts NT Fellowships. Supported in partnership with Arts NT, each of the six recipients will receive a two-week...

Queenscliffe Literary Festival 2025 program announced

Monday, 15 September 2025
Queenscliffe Literary Festival (QLF) has announced its 2025 program. Under the theme ‘Rising Tides’, the festival will run 17–26 October 2025 on the lands of the Wadawurrung people. Among local...

Chan wins 2025 Paragraph Fellowship

Monday, 15 September 2025
Time to Write has announced Grace Chan as the 2025 winner of the $25,000 Paragraph Fellowship for ‘Caretakers’, a speculative fiction novel. Born in Malaysia, Chan is a psychiatrist living...

Ngaio Marsh Awards 2025 finalists announced

Monday, 15 September 2025
The shortlists for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Awards, which celebrate Aotearoa New Zealand crime, mystery or thriller writing, have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: Best novel...

Tunion wins inaugural Antigone Kefala Memorial Prize

Monday, 15 September 2025
Giramondo Publishing has announced Carielyn Tunion as the inaugural recipient of the Antigone Kefala Memorial Prize. Carielyn Tunion/ᜃᜇᜒ/林嘉蓮 (she/they) is a writer, videopoet, educator and cultural worker with a background...

Book Club – this month’s reads

Friday, 12 September 2025
Looking for your next great group read? Our monthly Book Club rounds up new release titles that are perfect for sparking conversation and perhaps even some debate. From compelling fiction to...

Richell Prize 2025 longlist announced

Thursday, 11 September 2025
Hachette Australia, in partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), has announced the longlist for the 2025 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. Chosen from 775 entrants, the 20 longlisted writers...

NewSouth acquires Hausheer’s nonfiction

Thursday, 11 September 2025
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to The Vanishing Wild: Australian Wildlife and the Fight Against Extinction by science writer Justine E Hausheer, via literary agent Martin Shaw. The Vanishing...

Myint wins 2025 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award

Thursday, 11 September 2025
James Cook University’s (JCU) Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) has announced Khin Myint as the winner of the 2025 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award for Fragile Creatures: A...

Stadtbibliothek Bremen: Access to reading is a human right

Thursday, 11 September 2025
With libraries, their work, and free access to information under increasing threat around the world, B+P and the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office reached out to libraries in other designated cities of...

Bundyi acquires Lawrie’s picture book

Thursday, 11 September 2025
Bundyi Publishing has acquired world rights to Bella’s Journey, a Swan Lake picture book retelling by Rowena Lawrie. ‘With themes of duality, identity, and transformation through the lens of a...

Meanjin literary journal to close ‘on financial grounds’, NSW History Award winners revealed, Anthropic settles book piracy lawsuit

Wednesday, 10 September 2025
In a move roundly condemned by industry figures and other publications, Melbourne University Publishing shuttered 85-year-old literary journal Meanjin last Thursday ‘on financial grounds’. This was followed by a brief...