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ACT Literary Awards 2025 shortlist announced

ACT Literary Awards 2025 Thursday, 12 June 2025
MARION ACT has announced the shortlists for the 2025 ACT Literary Awards. The shortlisted titles are: Children’s literature shortlist (younger readers) Alphabetter (Maura Pierlot, illus by Jorge Garcia Redondo, Affirm Kids)...

UQP acquires Lucashenko’s first nonfiction title

Melissa Lucashenko photo (credit: Glenn Hunt) Thursday, 12 June 2025
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to Not Quite White in the Head, a collection of essays and journalism by Melissa Lucashenko, via Alex Adsett of...

Byron Writers Festival announces 2025 program

Byron Writers Festival logo Wednesday, 11 June 2025
The program for the Byron Writers Festival, running 8–10 August on Bundjalung Country, has been announced. With the theme Passion and Purpose, the 2025 program features over 160 writers from...

Atria acquires Hortinela debut

a portrait of Joshua Hortinela Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Atria Books Australia has acquired world rights to Hate You to Love You by bookseller Joshua Hortinela in a two-book deal through Daniel Pilkington at The Pilkington Agency. ‘Hate You...

Callout: 2025 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowship

Wednesday, 11 June 2025
In partnership with the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, the Sydney Review of Books invites applications for the 2025 Emerging Critics Fellowship program. Since 2016, the program has fostered diverse, provocative, and original...

Applications for the Peter Blazey Fellowship are now open

Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Applications for the Peter Blazey Fellowship are now open! This award is for a work-in-progress by writers with a publishing record. Worth $20,000 this year, the Fellowship honours the larger-than-life...

Editorial and production coordinator, Victoria

Wednesday, 11 June 2025
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is seeking an Editorial and Production Coordinator to coordinate the production, editorial, advertising, distribution and administration requirements of...

Varuna First Nations Fellowship 2025 recipients announced

2025 Varuna First Nations Fellowship winners Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Varuna, the National Writers' House has announced 12 recipients of the 2025 Copyright Agency First Nations Fellowship. The 2025 fellowship recipients are: Sharlene Allsopp Alison J Barton Skye Cusack Eugenia...

Vale John Partridge

Tuesday, 10 June 2025
John Partridge, the owner of McDonalds Booksellers & Stationers in Maitland, has died. Kay Drury of Affirm Press writes: Today I will attend the funeral of my oldest bookseller, John...

Transit Lounge acquires Gates novel

Geoffrey Gates Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to The Phantom Surrealist by Geoffrey Gates. According to the publisher, the novel follows protagonist Christopher Tiffen as he ‘moves between Sydney, London, Paris, Barcelona,...

ASLA DANZ Children’s Book Award winners announced

DANZ logo Tuesday, 10 June 2025
The Australian School Library Association (ASLA) has announced the 2025 Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (DANZ) Children's Book Award winners. Winning titles, chosen from a shortlist announced in...

Summit Books acquires Gray’s ‘Chosen Family’

MaddyGray photo with credit to Zan Wimberley Thursday, 5 June 2025
Summit Books has acquired ANZ rights to Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray, via Grace Heifetz at a4 Literary. Overseas, Chosen Family was also acquired by Lettice Franklin at Orion (UK), via...

Melbourne Rare Book Week program announced

Melbourne Rare Book Week Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Rare Books Melbourne has announced the 2025 program for the Melbourne Rare Book Week, running 24 July to 2 August across Melbourne.  The program, which ‘celebrates the rich tradition and...

Did you attend the 2025 ABIA ceremony?

Wednesday, 4 June 2025
We'd love to hear from you! B+P is collecting feedback from attendees about the ceremony, the music, the food, and the awards, so we can continue to deliver the premiere Australian...

Income tax returns and your Books+Publishing subscription

Wednesday, 4 June 2025
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) provides information on its website about work-related income tax deductions for digital information services, such as Books+Publishing. The ATO website says: To claim a deduction...

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Wednesday, 4 June 2025
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Murdoch acquires Leong memoir

the cover of Guts by Melissa Leong Tuesday, 3 June 2025
Murdoch Books has acquired world rights to Guts by Melissa Leong, a ‘gripping, incisive, and darkly funny memoir’. ‘Guts is a powerful exploration of identity, resilience and finding the courage...

No newsletter on Monday

Tuesday, 3 June 2025
Books+Publishing will not publish a newsletter on Monday, 9 June due to the King’s Birthday public holiday. The next newsletter will be published on Tuesday, 10 June. The deadline for...

Bendigo Writers Festival 2025 program announced

Bendigo Writers Festival Tuesday, 3 June 2025
The program for the 2025 Bendigo Writers Festival program, which runs 15–17 August on Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung Country, has been announced.  The festival will open with an ABC Radio...

PRH acquires Stedman’s ‘A Far-flung Life’

PRH logo Monday, 2 June 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights to A Far-flung Life by ML Stedman. The novel will be published simultaneously with Doubleday in the UK. A Far-flung Life...

S&S acquires Pub Choir creator’s memoir

Astrid Jorgensen photo and book cover. Thursday, 29 May 2025
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to Average at Best, a memoir by Pub Choir founder and director Astrid Jorgensen, via Alex Adsett Literary Agency. 'Average at...

Ganner awarded 2025 Janet Mackenzie Medal

Julie Ganner Thursday, 29 May 2025
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) announced Julie Ganner as the winner of its 2025 Janet Mackenzie Medal. Ganner has worked in the editing and publishing industry for over 35...

 

 

 

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