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BookPeople Awards 2025 shortlists announced

2025 BookPeople Award Shortlist tile. Wednesday, 23 April 2025
BookPeople has announced the 2025 shortlist for the BookPeople Awards. The shortlisted titles for the awards are: Adult fiction Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador) Juice (Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton) Safe Haven (Shankari...

HarperCollins acquires ‘Frosty’

'Frosty' by Mark Winterbottom with James Phelps cover page. Wednesday, 23 April 2025
HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to Frosty, a memoir by motor-sport athlete Mark Winterbottom. The memoir will be co-written with James Phelps. 'From his emergence from the suburbs of...

Books Alive expands to Palmerston North 

Sasha Eastwood and Aland Dingley from Books Alive. Tuesday, 22 April 2025
This year, Books Alive will expand to Palmerston North, the fourth regional centre to participate in the Aotearoa New Zealand program. The one-day event currently runs in Christchurch, Wellington and...

ILF announces new Talent Pathways Program 

Bronanna Waterloo, Darren Moncrieff, Deborah “Rose” Archie, sitting in front of a bookshelf with blue ILF shirts on for the ILF Talent Pathways Program inaugural workshops in Sydney in April 2025. Tuesday, 22 April 2025
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced the inaugural Talent Pathways Program. The two-year pilot program aims to 'prepare and equip First Nations participants to use their creative skills within...

Local authors on 2025 CWA Daggers longlists 

The Crime Writers' Association Daggers Award logo. Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Several Australia-based and Aotearoa New Zealand-based authors have been longlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association’s (CWA) 2025 Dagger Awards. The local longlisted authors are: Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Sanctuary...

A&U acquires The Australian Wars

Henry Reynolds, Mina Murray, Rachel Perkins and Stephen Gapps portraits. Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to The Australian Wars, edited by Rachel Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray and Henry Reynolds. The book will be drawn from Blackfella...

Bacon wins Nebula 2025 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award

a portrait of Eugen Bacon Thursday, 17 April 2025
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced Eugen Bacon as winner of the 2025 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award. Created in 2008, the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award is...

Echo Publishing announces new Heather Morris novel

a portrait of Heather Morris Thursday, 17 April 2025
Echo Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to The Wish, a contemporary novel by Heather Morris. The Wish is Morris's first contemporary novel, and introduces Jesse, a young teenager who, despite...

Hardie Grant acquires Wankernomics

a portrait of Charles Firth and James Schloefel Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights to Wankernomics by comedians James Schloeffel and Charles Firth. Wankernomics is ‘the hilarious must-have handbook for anyone who has ever had to endure the buzzwords,...

APA collates, launches First Nations publishing resources 

Wednesday, 16 April 2025
This month saw the publication of a new set of First Nations publishing resources collated by the Australian Publishers Association (APA) to support Australian publishers when publishing First Nations stories. ...

Aurealis Awards 2024 finalists announced 

Tuesday, 15 April 2025
The 2024 finalists for the Aurealis Awards, which recognise 'the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror writers', have been announced. Awards are presented across 15 categories. The finalists...

Global Book Crawl attracts over 60 Australian bookstores 

logo for Global Book Crawl Tuesday, 15 April 2025
The Australian arm of the Global Book Crawl – an international initiative to ‘unite independent bookshops worldwide in a celebration of local literature, community, and culture’ – will include more...

PRH acquires Carter middle-grade series

Tuesday, 15 April 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights for Reece Carter's new middle-grade series The Nightmare League, in a six-publisher auction brokered by Gemma Cooper from Gemma Cooper Literary....

NT Writers Festival announces 2025 program 

Northern Territory writers festival logo Tuesday, 15 April 2025
The Northern Territory Writers Festival (NTWF)  has announced its 2025 program, which will run 29 May–1 June on Arrernte Country, Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Events will take place outdoors at the Olive...

Atria Books acquires debut Peppernell novel

Image of Courtney Peppernell leaning againt wall. Tuesday, 15 April 2025
Atria Books Australia has acquired world rights (ex North America) to poet Courtney Peppernell's debut novel, The Last Poem.  'Bestselling author and poet Wren Paisley is a mess after the...

Collins to open Queanbeyan store 

Monday, 14 April 2025
A new Collins Booksellers franchise store will open in Queanbeyan, New South Wales in May. The store is ‘locally owned and deeply connected to the Queanbeyan community,’ according to Collins,...

2025 Calibre Essay Prize shortlist announced

ABR logo Monday, 14 April 2025
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the 2025 Calibre Essay Prize shortlist. Shortlisted essays include: ‘Tracing Threads’ (Anneke Bender, US) ‘Consolation of Clouds’ (Robin Boord, SA) ‘Inner World Supertramp’ (Chris...

Ang wins Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize

Monday, 14 April 2025
Overland has announced Rachel Ang as the winner of the 2024 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize for their story ‘Thalassophobia’. Ang's story, chosen from a shortlist of ten, will be published in...

Silcox wins inaugural KYD Flash Fiction Prize

a portrait of Beejay Silcox Monday, 14 April 2025
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced Beejay Silcox as the inaugural winner of the KYD Flash Fiction Prize, for her story '‘Mefloquine’. As the winner, Silcox receives $1000. ‘Mefloquine’ has been...

Australian editors, illustrators among Hugo finalists

Monday, 14 April 2025
Two Australian editors and two Australian illustrators are among the 2025 Hugo Award finalists. Perth-based editor and podcaster Jonathan Strahan is nominated for two awards – Best Editor Short Form...

 

 

 

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