WORD Christchurch 2025 program announced
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
WORD Christchurch Festival, which will run this year 27–31 August, has announced its full program. With the theme ‘Share the Joy of Words’, this year's program includes over 90 writers...
Johnson wins 2025 Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Writing NSW and Text Publishing have announced Yasmin Johnson as the 2025 winner of the Indigenous Writer's Mentorship for her nonfiction manuscript exploring intergenerational storytelling set in Palm Island. A...
Davitt Awards 2025 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2025 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult novels Highway...
Varuna Climate Fellowship 2025 recipients announced
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced six recipients of the 2025 Varuna Climate Fellowships. The 2025 fellowship recipients are: Cynthia Banham Jo Chandler Lauren Fuge Lesley Head Patrick Lau...
UWAP acquires collection of Nyangumarta children’s stories
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Stories About Fire, Wind, the Moon and Other Dreamings – Warinypa wariny Mangunyjaja muwarr wirlarrapa wangalpa wika by Solomon...
Aotearoa Booksellers Choice Award 2025 finalists announced
Monday, 14 July 2025
Booksellers NZ has announced the finalists for the 2025 Booksellers' Choice Awards. Voted on by Aotearoa's booksellers, the finalists are: Adult Award Amma (Saraid de Silva, Moa Press) The Bookshop Detectives:...
Text acquires ‘The Mushroom Tapes’ by Garner, Hooper and Krasnostein
Monday, 14 July 2025
Text Publishing has acquired The Mushroom Tapes written by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein. ‘[Garner, Hooper and Krasnostein] joined the media scrum at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts,...
Creative Futures Fund recipients announced
Monday, 14 July 2025
Creative Australia has announced the latest recipients of funding from its Creative Futures Fund. An ‘initiative of the Australian Government’s National Cultural Policy Revive’, the Creative Futures Fund ‘supports the...
Parramatta’s Lit! festival launched
Monday, 14 July 2025
The Sydney Fringe Festival has announced Parramatta’s Lit!, a new writer-led literary festival as part of Sydney Fringe. The festival, which will run through September, will celebrate Parramatta’s authors, publishers...
Hill of Content book chain: ‘thousands’ of books moved
Monday, 14 July 2025
Last week, Melbourne bookshop Hill of Content which, after 103 years at its current location is moving 130m up Bourke Street, used a human chain to move books from the...
Creative Victoria latest funding recipients
Monday, 14 July 2025
Creative Victoria has announced the latest recipients of funding from its Creative Projects Fund. One hundred and fifteen Victorian creators have shared in $1.5m of funding which ‘Victorian artists, creative...
UQP acquires new Riwoe novel
Monday, 14 July 2025
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to A Short History of Longans, a new novel by Mirandi Riwoe, through Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown. The novel...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2025 longlist announced
Thursday, 10 July 2025
The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) has announced the longlist for the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, worth $50,000. The 10 longlisted titles, chosen from over 200 entries,...
National Biography Award 2025 shortlist announced
Thursday, 10 July 2025
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the $25,000 National Biography Award. The shortlisted works, selected from 103 entries, are: Bullet, Paper, Rock: A...
‘How to Kill a Client’ selected for Dynamic Television Scripted Initiative
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Joanna Jenkins' How to Kill a Client (A&U) has been selected for the Dynamic Television Scripted Initiative, announced Screen Australia and Dynamic TV. The story, which follows ‘corporate high-flyer’ Gavin...
The Nile launches new website
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Online bookshop The Nile has launched a new Australian website, with Aotearoa New Zealand to follow. According to the organisation, the website has been ‘designed specifically with readers in mind’...
Amplify Lit Festival Live program announced
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Aotearoa New Zealand writer and editor Jackie Lee Morrison has announced the program for the inaugural Amplify Lit Festival Live program, running 5–31 July on Instagram and TikTok. The line-up...
Baker named 2025 Reading Australia Fellow
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
The Copyright Agency has awarded ACT teacher librarian Libby Baker the 2025 Reading Australia Fellowship. The annual Reading Australia Fellowship is open to English and literacy teachers and teacher librarians...
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:...
