Vale Abram Goldberg
Monday, 29 September 2025
Author Abram Goldberg has died at the age of 100. Affirm Press writes: Affirm Press is deeply saddened by the passing of Abram Goldberg, author of the heartbreaking and powerful...
Stella Day Out Aireys Inlet program revealed
Monday, 29 September 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the evening program for its Stella Day Out event in Aireys Inlet, Victoria, to take place on 15 November 2025 at the Aireys Inlet Community Centre....
Bakers Lane Books acquires Drum’s YA novel
Monday, 29 September 2025
Bakers Lane Books has acquired world rights to Don’t Forget to Remember Me, a YA debut by Annie Drum, via Sally Bird of Calidris Literary Agency. According to the publisher,...
Anderson wins 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers
Monday, 29 September 2025
Susie Anderson has won the 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers for her short story ‘The Claimant’. Presented by Overland, the award offers a $5000 cash prize and...
Keri Hulme Award 2025 finalists announced
Monday, 29 September 2025
The Māori Literature Trust Te Waka Taki Kōrero has announced the finalists for the 2025 Keri Hulme Award, which recognises ‘the contributions of mid-career Māori writers who exemplify the values...
Queensland Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
Monday, 29 September 2025
The winners of the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. Amy McQuire has won the $30,000 Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance for Black Witness (UQP)....
Aotearoa New Zealand publishers represented at Frankfurt
Monday, 29 September 2025
Six publishers are exhibiting at the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) as part of the Aotearoa New Zealand collective stand. The stand will be managed by Publishers Association of New Zealand...
MidnightSun Publishing acquires Madsen’s ‘Animal Force’
Thursday, 25 September 2025
MidnightSun has acquired world rights to Animal Force, a junior fiction novel written by Cerise Madsen and illustrated by Sally Heinrich. According to the publisher, Animal Force centres on twins Leo and...
Stella Day Out Ballarat program announced
Thursday, 25 September 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the evening program for its Stella Day Out event in Ballarat, Victoria, to take place on 5 November at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute. The first...
Little Big Sky acquires Baker’s picture books in four-book deal
Thursday, 25 September 2025
Little Big Sky has acquired world rights to Calm Your Farm and I Love to Draw by Dale Baker in a four-book deal, marking the imprint's first acquisition since launching this year....
Kuhmo City Library: People are drawn to stories
Thursday, 25 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...
Authors among Creative Australia Fellowship recipients
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Authors Isobelle Carmody, Jennifer Mills and Fiona Murphy are among the 2025 recipients of the $80,000 Creative Australia Fellowships. The fellowships, which last two years, involve the provision of financial...
Pink Shorts Press acquires Mills, Dovey and Dubosarsky anthology
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Pink Shorts Press has acquired world rights to A Concise Compendium of Wonder, a collection of ‘radical reimagined eco-fairytales’ by Jennifer Mills, Ceridwen Dovey and Ursula Dubosarsky, with illustrations by...
HarperCollins acquires de Sousa cookbooks
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to two cookbooks by Steph de Sousa. The deal was brokered by HarperCollins fiction and nonfiction publisher Roberta Ivers and TalentINK Group’s Brooke Taylor...
Booker Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 Booker Prize has been announced. Shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$102,449) prize are six titles: Flashlight (Susan Choi, Jonathan Cape) The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (Kiran...
No newsletter on Friday
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Books+Publishing will not publish a newsletter on Friday, 26 September due to a public holiday in Victoria. The next newsletter will be published on Monday, 29 September.
ARA Historical Novel Prize shortlists announced
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the shortlists for the 2025 ARA Historical Novel Prize. Chosen from longlists announced earlier this month, the shortlisted books in each category...
Lonely Planet Art Destinations
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
The definitive guide for art-loving travellers awaits: discover 70 inspiring destinations around the world where artists, artworks and art-making are the beating heart of their identity, history and culture. From...
Commissioning editor, Sydney
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
HarperCollins HarperCollinsPublishers is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated team player to join our HQ publishing department as a Commissioning Editor on a 12-month parental leave relief basis. The main purpose...
Stella Day Out to host Hobart events
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the program for its second Hobart event, running 26 September at the University of Tasmania. Michelle de Kretser, the 2025 Stella Prize winner, will discuss...
UQP acquires O’Keeffe’s third novel
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Angela O’Keeffe’s third novel, Phanton Days, via Martin Shaw Literary. In this forthcoming novel, the story is narrated from...
Pink Shorts Press acquires Crisp’s first nonfiction title
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Pink Shorts Press has acquired Pearls, a collection of essays by Tracy Crisp. According to the publisher, Pearls is a collection of ‘coming-of-middle-age’ memoir essays, ‘drawn from a series of...
Hilary Mantel Prize launched
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Literary agency AM Heath has launched a biennial prize for novel writers in the UK and Ireland, in honour of late author Hilary Mantel. ‘Hilary was a staunch supporter of...
Revelation Beach
Monday, 22 September 2025
When Eleanor Freeman’s enigmatic stepmother, Ida, dies in a suspicious fire, a lifetime of secrets begins to unravel. Was Ida an Indonesian spy entangled in the murders of the Balibo...
Archaeologies of Food in Australia
Monday, 22 September 2025
Twenty-first century Australia is obsessed with food. From cookbooks to television, we're surrounded by conversations about what and how we eat. This fixation highlights that food has always been central...
Patriots and Propaganda: Chinese Australians and the Politics of Loyalty, 1930s–1940s
Monday, 22 September 2025
During China's War of Resistance against Japan (1931–1945), a complex narrative unfolded in Australia. Patriots and Propaganda: Chinese Australians and the Politics of Loyalty, 1930s–1940s explores Chinese wartime propaganda efforts,...
Ferryman: The Life and Deathwork of Ephraim Finch
Monday, 22 September 2025
Ferryman is a powerful exploration of life, death, and community through the story of Ephraim Finch OAM—a deathworker and cultural custodian who served Melbourne’s Jewish community for over 30 years. Drawing...
Rights sales: Screen
Monday, 22 September 2025
Australia is set to star in a number of screen adaptations as international and local producers tap into talent down under. Brad Pitt is set to star as protagonist Fred...
Latest acquisitions: Children’s and YA
Monday, 22 September 2025
See what Australian publishers have been signing recently in children's and YA. Picture books: First Nations storytelling, a sausage dog, cooking and phonics University of Western Australia Publishing (UWA Publishing)...
Baker’s ‘Sight Lines’ wins best book at PANZ Book Design Awards
Monday, 22 September 2025
The winners of the 2025 New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu Publishers Association (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. Chosen from finalists announced in July, the winners are: Gerard...
