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Inside the Australian and New Zealand book industry

Wednesday, 9 September 2026
The finalists for the 2026 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award have been announced; last Wednesday’s Indigenous Literacy Day live streamed event attracted over 263,000 viewers; the program for...

Indigenous Literacy Day viewers up 35,000 as “My Walk Through the Seasons on Ngaanyatjarra Country” launched

Wednesday, 9 September 2026
The Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) event held last Wednesday 2 September at the Sydney Opera House, and live streamed across the country, attracted over 263,000 viewers. Indigenous Literacy Foundation CEO...

Dandenong Ranges Literary Festival 2026 program announced

Wednesday, 9 September 2026
The Dandenong Ranges Literary Festival has announced its 2026 program, scheduled for 9 to 11 October in the Melbourne suburb of Belgrave, bringing “some of Australia’s best and most loved...

Brush Turkey Books thrives in Wingham

Wednesday, 9 September 2026
Helen Kemp and Lee Murray from Brush Turkey Books in Wingham, NSW, talk to Books+Publishing following their recent success at the 2026 MidCoast Business Awards, where they won both the...

Bloomsbury to appoint new CEO as Nigel Newton becomes executive chairman

Wednesday, 9 September 2026
In the UK, Bloomsbury has announced founder and CEO Nigel Newton will become executive chairman, effective immediately, as part of a five-year leadership succession plan that will include the appointment...

Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award 2026 finalists announced

Wednesday, 9 September 2026
The finalists for the 2026 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, have been announced. The shortlisted works, selected from the longlist announced in August, are: The Book...

New report finds India’s print book market worth US$10 billion

Tuesday, 8 September 2026
India’s print book market is worth an estimated US$10.1 billion, while its digital publishing market is worth approximately US$0.7 billion, according to a new report from NielsenIQ BookData and the...

Jess Hill named 2026 Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellow

Tuesday, 8 September 2026
Jess Hill is the recipient of the 2026 Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellowship, receiving $100,000 to support a year-long residency at the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre. Hill is a...

Australia Reads hosts “packed” Parliament House event

Tuesday, 8 September 2026
Australian ministers Jess Walsh and Clare O’Neil, Senator David Pocock and more than 30 other parliamentary representatives attended a Parliamentary Friends of Books & Reading event, focused on calling for...

Aotearoa research grant recipients announced

Tuesday, 8 September 2026
Tāwhia Copyright Aotearoa and New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa PEN NZ Inc. have announced the 2026 recipients of the organisations’ Research Grants, which support Aotearoa...

NSW History Awards 2026 winners announced

Tuesday, 8 September 2026
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the winners of the 2026 NSW History Awards. The winning works across six categories, selected from shortlists announced in August, are: Australian...

Q-Lit 2026 festival: high attendance numbers, book sales

Monday, 7 September 2026
The 2026 Q-Lit festival, which was held in Naarm/Melbourne from 16 to 19 July under the theme “queer nostalgia”, attracted 1,684 attendees and sold an estimated $27,000 in books. Q-Lit...

Australian Booksellers Association event grant recipients announced

Monday, 7 September 2026
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the 26 recipients of its inaugural Bookseller Events Program grants. The successful bookshops and their projects, chosen from 77 applications, are: New South...

Amplify Bookstore receives threats of arson, violence

Monday, 7 September 2026
Amplify Bookstore has received threats of arson and violence, and its shopfront has been vandalised, following “anti-woke post” on social media platform X, according to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA),...

Paperchain Bookstore to open in Braddon

Monday, 7 September 2026
Canberra bookshop Paperchain Bookstore, located in the suburb of Manuka, has announced it will open a store in Braddon. The new store will be located at 2/18 Lonsdale Street in...

South Australian Literary Awards 2026 shortlist announced

Monday, 7 September 2026
The 2026 South Australian Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The shortlists in selected categories, chosen from 766 entries, are: Fiction Award ($15,000) Discipline (Randa Abdel-Fattah, University of Queensland Press) Arborescence...

Junior Book Club – this month’s reads

Friday, 4 September 2026
Our Junior Book Club highlights new titles each month that are perfect for classrooms, libraries and family reading time. From fun and imaginative adventures to books that spark curiosity and...

Second APA Sustainability Survey finds number of publishers setting carbon targets has doubled

Thursday, 3 September 2026
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released the results of its second Sustainability Survey, reporting “an encouraging increase in publishers setting sustainability targets, and nominating staff to drive their sustainability...