Love Your Bookshop Day 2025 theme announced
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
BookPeople has announced 'Discover the magic. Discover you' as the theme for Love Your Bookshop Day 2025 (LYBD), which will take place on 11 October 2025. LYBD ‘aims to reignite...
Indigenous Literacy Foundation releases 2024 impact report
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has released its 2024 impact report, detailing its activities and outcomes over the past 12 months. Among key achievements, the organisation reported delivery of 136,800...
Text acquires Hornung’s ‘The Minstrels’
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to The Minstrels by Eva Hornung, via Jenny Darling & Associates. The Minstrels follows the Thurston family, farming land overlooked by the Minstrels, the plunging gorge...
Alizzi named 2025 Rising Star
Monday, 11 August 2025
Arlie Alizzi has been named the Australian publishing industry's 2025 Rising Star. Alizzi is a Yugambeh editor, writer, researcher and anti-racism educator based in Rubibi/Broome and works as an editor at Magabala...
Waitere appointed PANZ president
Monday, 11 August 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, Eboni Waitere (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne) has been appointed president of the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ). Waitere is the first Māori...
Writers, lit organisations receive Cultural Fund grants
Monday, 11 August 2025
The Copyright Agency has announced the recipients of the latest funding round through its Cultural Fund. The 2025 Create Grants, which awards $20,000 to writers and artists to develop new...
Quay wins 2025 Crystal Kite Award
Monday, 11 August 2025
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has announced the winners of the 2025 Crystal Kite Award. Open to SCBWI authors, illustrators, and translators, the award is peer-judged to...
Byron Writers Festival showground events cancelled
Monday, 11 August 2025
Organisers of Byron Writers Festival (BWF) cancelled the Bangalow Showground events for the second and third days of the 2025 festival program, because of rain and safety issues. In an...
Creative Australia adjusts dates for North America Publishers’ Program
Monday, 11 August 2025
Creative Australia has adjusted the dates for the North America Publishers’ Program, to accommodate publishers, agents and rights-sellers who may wish to travel to the London Book Fair afterwards. The...
Emerging Writers Festival 2025 program launched
Monday, 11 August 2025
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) has launched its 2025 program alongside a new logo. The festival, which will run 11–18 September, will hold 70 events with over 200 artists in...
Rapee wins CBCA 2025 Nan Chauncy Award
Monday, 11 August 2025
The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced Wendy Rapee as the recipient of the 2025 Nan Chauncy Award, which ‘honours a person, or a collaborative partnership, who has...
Stella Day Out to host Brisbane events
Monday, 11 August 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the program for its Stella Day Out Brisbane event, set to take place on 13 September 2025 at Avid Reader in West End. Two sessions...
Byrne appointed director of Writing Australia
Thursday, 7 August 2025
Creative Australia has announced Wenona Byrne as the director of Writing Australia. Byrne was appointed acting director of Writing Australia on 1 July 2025 and was previously the head of...
NZ Coalition for Books strategic plan report
Thursday, 7 August 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, the Coalition for Books has released the Mahi Tahi Work Together: A Strategic Plan for the Aotearoa New Zealand Book Sector 2025–2030, which is the culmination...
Ned Kelly Awards 2025 best debut crime fiction shortlists announced
Thursday, 7 August 2025
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2025 Ned Kelly Awards shortlist for best debut crime fiction. The shortlisted titles are: All You Took From Me (Lisa Kenway, Transit...
Newcastle Writers Festival announces spring festival
Thursday, 7 August 2025
Newcastle Writers Festival (NWF) has announced a special spring program, which will run 20 September to 25 October 2025. The spring program reflects the organisation’s commitment to creating year-round opportunities...
Island Readers and Writers Festival announced
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The inaugural Island Readers and Writers Festival will be held in Nipaluna / Hobart on 29 May–1 June 2026. Produced by literary organisation and magazine Island, the festival is accepting...
Together We Read online bookclub announces 2025 title
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Together We Read AU has announced that the fifth annual online bookclub, running 12–26 August 2025, will read Smoke by Michael Brissenden (Affirm). Smoke can be downloaded via the Libby App, which...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2025 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, worth $50,000, has been announced by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University (JCU). Chosen from...
A&U acquires Hone guide to surviving loss
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world English rights to How Will I Ever Get Through This? by Lucy Hone, in a deal brokered by Catherine Drayton at InkWell Management....
Nib Literary Award 2025 longlist announced
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The longlist for the 2025 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Australian Gospel (Lech Blaine, Black Inc.) Black Convicts: How...
Earp crowdfunds The Little Bookroom relocation
Monday, 4 August 2025
The Little Bookroom’s new owner, Michael Earp, has announced a crowdfunding campaign to cover the costs of moving the bookshop to a new location. Earp made the announcement on Friday...
Port Fairy Literary Weekend announces program
Monday, 4 August 2025
Port Fairy Literary Weekend, which runs 12–14 September, has announced its full program. Headliners include Helen Garner, Jock Serong, Emily Maguire, Sharmini Kumar and Jayne Tuttle. The festival will open...
The Berry Agency expands to literary representation
Monday, 4 August 2025
Chloe Berry of The Berry Agency (TBA) has announced the agency will expand to include literary representation in October 2025. Launched earlier this year to ‘provide advice and support to...
Stella Day Out announces Melbourne program
Monday, 4 August 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the program for its Stella Day Out Melbourne event, set to take place on 18 August at the Queen Victoria Women's Centre. Three sessions have...
CBCA’s Children’s Book Week turns 80
Monday, 4 August 2025
Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced Children's Book Week Birthday Book Adventure events, running 16 to 23 August 2025, to celebrate Book Week's 80th birthday. On Saturday 23...
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival program announced
Monday, 4 August 2025
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, running 11–13 September, has launched its 2025 program. Among the headliners are Michael Robotham, Candice Fox, Jane Caro and Gary Jubelin. The program will feature...
Larrikin House acquires Hayward’s picture book
Monday, 4 August 2025
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to What Can I Get For Mother’s Day?, a picture book written by Renae Hayward and illustrated by Susan Joy Lu. According to the...
Transit Lounge acquires Hinton’s second crime novel
Monday, 4 August 2025
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to SD Hinton’s new crime novel, Inlet Bridge, via Sarah McKenzie Literary Management. ‘The inspiration for Inlet Bridge came in two parts,' said Hinton....
Morsi wins 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award
Thursday, 31 July 2025
Mohammed Massoud Morsi has won the 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award for his unpublished fiction manuscript The Hair of the Pigeon. Chosen from a shortlist of six, Morsi receives a publishing...
