Allen & Unwin acquires Human Nature memoir
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Human Nature’s memoir Only Human: Harmony Through the Hits & Hard Times, via manager Jennifer Fontaine. Pop vocal group Human Nature...
Byron Writers Festival 2026 program announced
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Byron Writers Festival has released the line-up for this year’s program, running from 14 to 16 August in Bundjalung Country, Byron Bay, NSW. Festival organisers said that with the theme...
HarperCollins acquires Anthony LaPaglia memoir
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to The Life We Choose, a memoir by actor Anthony LaPaglia. Described by the publisher as “raw and layered”, the memoir traces LaPaglia’s journey from...
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Sex Party
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
A sharp, darkly funny insider account of the sex industry’s collision with politics, censorship and everyday Australian life by Robbie Swan, a former national magazine editor turned political lobbyist for...
Artistic director, Sydney
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Sydney Writers’ Festival Australia’s leading literary festival and one of the largest and most influential globally Sydney Writers’ Festival sits at the intersection of culture, ideas and public discourse Exceptional...
Entries are open for 2026 UQP Mentorship Prize for Under-represented Writers
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
UQP is proud to announce that entries are open for the 2026 UQP Mentorship Prize for Under-represented Writers. Now in its second year, this award offers two successful applicants a...
Starfish Bay Publishing appoints Storyboat as new sales partner
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Starfish Bay Publishing is pleased to announce that all sales, marketing, and trade representation across Australia and New Zealand will now be handled exclusively by Storyboat Sales and Marketing, a...
Senior marketing & publicity coordinator, Melbourne
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Monash University Publishing Are you a strategic storyteller with a passion for books, ideas and culture? Do you know how to create a public conversation around an important scholarly narrative...
Echo Publishing
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Unmissable Australian crime fiction coming this winter.
Alice Jolly wins 2026 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
UK author Alice Jolly has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for her novel The Matchbox Girl (Bloomsbury), reports the Bookseller. The Matchbox Girl tells the story of Adelheid...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2026 longlist announced
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) has announced the longlist for the 2026 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, worth $50,000. The 14 longlisted titles, chosen from over 230...
Helen Goh, Yoko Nakazawa win 2026 James Beard Awards
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Local titles Baking and the Meaning of Life: How to Find Joy in 100 Recipes by Helen Goh (Murdoch Books) and The Japanese Art of Pickling & Fermenting: Preserving Vegetables...
UWA Publishing acquires Thuy On’s “Insolence”
Monday, 15 June 2026
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Insolence, the fourth poetry collection by Melbourne-based poet, critic and arts journalist Thuy On. According to the publisher, Insolence “reinvents, reimagines and...
HarperCollins acquires Kári Gíslason’s “To Catch a Fox”
Monday, 15 June 2026
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Kári Gíslason’s new crime novel, To Catch a Fox, in a deal brokered by Grace Heifetz at a4 Literary. Described by the publisher as...
A&U acquires two books in new Naïma Brown series
Monday, 15 June 2026
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to two books in a new series by Naïma Brown, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown. In the...
Stefen Brazulaitis, Graeme Aitken inaugural Lifetime Achievement winners at 2026 ABA bookseller and book of the year awards
Monday, 15 June 2026
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the winners of its 2026 Book of the Year and Bookseller of Year awards. Also announced at the ABA Conference Gala Dinner in...
Davitt Awards 2026 longlists announced
Monday, 15 June 2026
Sisters in Crime has announced the longlists for the 2026 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The longlisted titles in each category are: Adult novels At...
Evans, Doucet win 2026 Women’s Prizes
Monday, 15 June 2026
In the UK, the 2026 Women’s Prizes have been announced. US novelist Virginia Evans has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction for The Correspondent (Michael Joseph) and Canadian journalist Lyse...
Australians to speak at 35th International Publishers Congress
Monday, 15 June 2026
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has announced guest speakers for the 35th International Publishers Congress, which will be held from 5 to 9 July in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and hosted...
Book Club – this month’s reads
Friday, 12 June 2026
Looking for your next great group read? Our monthly Book Club rounds up new release titles perfect for sparking conversation and perhaps even some debate. From compelling fiction to thought-provoking...
Varuna announces First Nations fellowship
Thursday, 11 June 2026
Varuna, the National Writers’ House, has announced the recipients of the 2026 Copyright Agency First Nations Fellowship. This year’s recipients are: Gamilaraay and Yuwaalaraay journalist and industry professor Lorena Allam...
Allen & Unwin acquires Hannah Goldstein debut “Dream Girls”
Thursday, 11 June 2026
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to the debut novel Dream Girls by Hannah Goldstein, in a deal brokered by Rebecca Slater at a4 Literary. Inspired by Shakespeare’s...
Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund round 14 recipients announced
Thursday, 11 June 2026
Writers Victoria has announced the recipients of the 14th round of the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. The 9 recipients – who will share the $50,595 in funding – are:...
Varuna announces 2026 Irish Lamplight Online Fellowship recipients
Thursday, 11 June 2026
Varuna, the National Writers’ House, has announced the selected writers for the 2026 International Lamplight Online Fellowship – Ireland, a 2-week online fellowship for published fiction writers under the combined...
Brooke Maddison wins 2026 Penguin Literary Prize for “Driftwood”
Thursday, 11 June 2026
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced that Driftwood by Brooke Maddison is the winner of the 2026 Penguin Literary Prize. Chosen from a shortlist of 6, Driftwood “explores how traumatic...
Giramondo acquires Amy Crutchfield’s “Asterion”
Thursday, 11 June 2026
Giramondo has acquired world rights to the poetry collection Asterion by Amy Crutchfield. Asterion is the follow-up to Crutchfield’s debut collection The Cyprian, which won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award...
Magabala Books acquires Bruce Pascoe’s “The European Mind”
Thursday, 11 June 2026
Magabala Books has acquired The European Mind: Colonialism, Capitalism, Christianity & How to Recover by Bruce Pascoe. Described by the publisher as the follow-up title to Pascoe’s Dark Emu, the...
Black Inc. acquires Don Watson book on Dezi Freeman
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to a nonfiction book by Don Watson on the case of Dezi Freeman that will build on the theme of Watson’s December 2025 article...
Vale Richard Scolyer
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Pathologist, researcher and author Professor Richard Scolyer died on Sunday, 7 June 2026. Allen & Unwin writes: The hugely admired pathologist and researcher Professor Richard Scolyer, AO died on Sunday,...
Local translator on Voices of Today Literary Translation Prize
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Brisbane-based translator Jenny Lu has been shortlisted for the inaugural Voices of Today Literary Translation Prize. Participants were invited to translate a substantial excerpt from the novel Salty Jokes by...
