BookPeople Roadshow 2025 dates announced
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
BookPeople, the national booksellers' association, has announced dates for its 2025 Publishers' Christmas Product Roadshows. These events provide the opportunity for publishers to present key upcoming titles for the Christmas...
S&S acquires Ita Buttrose’s memoir
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired memoir Unapologetically Ita by Ita Buttrose. Unapologetically Ita 'reflects on [Buttrose's] time as the chair of the ABC, the changes in the workplace during...
A&U acquires Haddrick’s ‘The Mushroom Murders’
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights for nonfiction title The Mushroom Murders by Greg Haddrick. The book will follow the trial of Erin Patterson, who was convicted this week...
Affirm acquires White’s The Long Night
Monday, 7 July 2025
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Christian White’s upcoming crime novel, The Long Night, via RGM Artists. The story follows Em and Jodie as they negotiate the events of...
PRH acquires Hellmrich’s debut
Monday, 7 July 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to the as-yet unnamed debut by Kelly Hellmrich, via Sarah McKenzie Literary Management. The book will blend 'cultural commentary, personal reflection...
ACT Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
Thursday, 3 July 2025
MARION ACT has announced the winners of the 2025 ACT Literary Awards. The winners in each category, chosen from shortlists announced earlier this month, are: Children’s literature Big, Big Love...
PRH acquires Saintilan-Stocks debut
Thursday, 3 July 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights for The Right Hand, the debut political handbook from Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks, in a deal brokered by Kelly Fagan. ‘Chiefs of staff...
Varuna announces 2026 residential fellowships
Thursday, 3 July 2025
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of its residential fellowships for 2026, including twelve flagship fellowship recipients. The writers and their projects are: Blue Mountains fellowship Fiona...
Aotearoa NZ Audiobook of the Year Award finalists
Thursday, 3 July 2025
The Publishers Association of New Zealand/Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) and Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand have announced the finalists for the 2025 Libro.fm Audiobook of the Year Award. The six...
XL Express enters administration
Thursday, 3 July 2025
XL Express has gone into voluntary administration after 35 years in business, according to transport industry publication Big Rigs. The company operated one of Australia’s largest independent logistics networks. XL Express...
Writing Australia Council appointed
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Minister for the Arts Tony Burke has today launched Writing Australia in a statement, which also includes the announcement of the new Writing Australia Council members. Members are: Larissa Behrendt...
Saunders among ASAL academic, criticism award winners
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced winners of a suite of academic and criticism prizes. Walter McRae Russell Award Barron Field in New South Wales:...
Hourani wins 2025 Mary Gilmore Prize
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced Hasib Hourani the winner of the 2025 Mary Gilmore Prize for rock flight (Giramondo). The Mary Gilmore Prize is...
McFarlane wins 2025 ALS Gold Medal
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced Fiona McFarlane as the winner of the 2025 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for Highway 13 (A&U). In...
Gurn wins 2025 Deep Creek Residency Fellowship
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Matilda Bookshop has announced Tom Gurn as the winner of the 2025 Deep Creek Residency Fellowship for his submission, ‘Pugholes’. Gurn was chosen from a shortlist of six and will...
QWC launches Pitchable program
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has launched Pitchable, a program for Australian writers to pitch ideas and concepts for fiction, nonfiction, film scripts, stage plays, podcasts or video games in...
Readers and Writers Against the Genocide launch online store
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Readers and Writers Against the Genocide (RWAG) has launched an online store. Evolving from the Summer Reading for MPs program that ran last year, RWAG developed t-shirts and tote bags...
Hachette announces new collector’s edition of Farnham memoir
Monday, 30 June 2025
Hachette Australia has announced a full-colour collector’s edition of John Farnham’s memoir, The Voice Inside – co-authored with Poppy Stockell. Originally published in 2024, The Voice Inside follows Farnham ‘from...
SLV 2025 fellowships
Monday, 30 June 2025
State Library Victoria (SLV) has announced the 2025 fellowship recipients, including several writers working on book projects. The recipients include: Marion Orme Page Regional Creative Fellowships ($15,000) Louise Crisp for...
Fremantle Press relocates to permanent loction
Monday, 30 June 2025
Fremantle Press has announced the relocation of its office to the historic SEC Substation, 10 Parry Street, Fremantle. This relocation will coincide with the publisher's 50th anniversary in 2026. Fremantle...
BookUp 2025 conference, research day program announced
Thursday, 26 June 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the program for the 2025 BookUp conference and the inaugural BookUp research day. The APA's BookUp conference will take place on 7 August...
Stella Day Out announces Adelaide program
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Stella Day Out, a one-day literary festival that ‘celebrates and promotes the outstanding contributions of women and non-binary writers to Australian literature’, has announced a date and full program for...
Giramondo launches Poetry in Translation Prize
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Giramondo Publishing, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions have launched the Poetry in Translation Prize, a new biennial award for an outstanding poetry collection translated into English. The Poetry in Translation...
UQP acquires Adelaide’s autofiction novel
Thursday, 26 June 2025
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to When I Am Sixty-Four, an autofiction title by Debra Adelaide, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. When I Am Sixty-Four holds...
PRH acquires Meyer and Moss YA thriller
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights to The Escape Game, a YA mystery thriller by American author Marissa Meyer and Perth-based author Tamara Moss, via Jill Grinberg...
Sydney Writers’ Festival achieves ‘record-breaking year’
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
The 2025 Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF), which ran 19–27 May under the theme In This Together, recorded the ‘highest sales in the Festival’s 28-year history’. This year 101,038 attendees participated...
ASA appoints Bornstein to board of directors
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has appointed Josh Bornstein to the ASA Board of Directors. Bornstein is an author and lawyer specialising in employment and labour-relations. His writing has...
Lee wins Griffin Award for playwriting
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
The Griffin Theatre Company has announced Michele Lee as the winner of the 2025 Griffin Award for ‘outstanding new Australian playwriting’ for her play, ‘Snappy’. Chosen from 136 entries, Lee...
HQ acquires Brooke Crawford romcom
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
HQ, an imprint of HarperCollins, has acquired ANZ rights to Better than the Real Thing by Brooke Crawford in a two-book deal, via Samuel Bernard at Zeitgeist Agency. According to...
HarperCollins acquires Tony Abbott nonfiction
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to former prime minister Tony Abbott’s Australia: A History. According to the publisher, the book will include a forward by Geoffrey Blainey and will...
