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Stella Prize 2026 longlist announced

Covers of the Stella Prize longlist titles on a green background Thursday, 12 March 2026
The longlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced. The longlisted books are: KONTRA (Eunice Andrada, Giramondo) The Rot (Evelyn Araluen, UQP) Memorial Days...

Local authors on 2026 British Book Awards shortlists 

Cover of "Careless People". Tuesday, 10 March 2026
The late Australian author Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Aotearoa New Zealand’s Sarah Wynn-Williams are among the writers and illustrators shortlisted for this year’s British Book Awards (also known as the...

Heads & Tales acquires Holy Cow! Creative 

Tuesday, 10 March 2026
Heads & Tales, Hardie Grant Media’s creative content and custom publishing agency, has acquired Sydney design agency Holy Cow! Creative. Founded in 1995 by Melissa Webber, Holy Cow! “brings deep...

Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize 2025 shortlist released

Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize logo. Tuesday, 10 March 2026
The shortlist for the 2025 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize has been announced. The 8 shortlisted stories, chosen from more than 500 entries, are: “Many Small Violences” by Arden Baker “Two...

ASAL 2026 fellows announced

ASAL logo. Thursday, 5 March 2026
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced its two writers’ fellowships for 2026 in association with the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. This year’s fellows are: Western...

Summit acquires Coper’s “Angertainment”

Ed Coper. Photo credit: Enzo Amato Thursday, 5 March 2026
Summit Books Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Angertainment: How Social Media Outrange Ruined Everything by political communications specialist Ed Coper. “Rage-bait – the 2025 Word of the Year –...

McConaghy longlisted for 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction

the cover of "Wild Dark Shore" Thursday, 5 March 2026
Local author Charlotte McConaghy is on the longlist for this year’s UK-based Women’s Prize for Fiction. McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore (Penguin) “expertly conveys the awe-inspiring majesty of the extreme climate...

Two Milligan novels optioned for TV

Louise Milligan. Tuesday, 3 March 2026
Allen & Unwin has optioned Louise Milligan’s crime novels Pheasants Nest and Shellybanks (both A&U) for screen adaptation by Ambience Entertainment. Pheasants Nest (2024) follows the abduction of journalist Kate Delaney...

Hachette acquires Sunday’s “Kill to Love”

Penny Sunday Tuesday, 3 March 2026
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to the novel Kill to Love by Penny Sunday after a 2-book auction with 5 bidders, in agent Chloe Berry’s first print deal since...

Pantera acquires Coombs Marr’s “Queerstralia” 

Photo of Zoë Coombs Marr. Tuesday, 3 March 2026
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to Queerstralia, comedian Zoë Coombs Marr’s exploration of Australia’s untold queer history. The book is a companion volume to the 2023 ABC documentary of...

Cannon leaves Monash University Publishing

Tuesday, 3 March 2026
Senior marketing coordinator Sarah Cannon is leaving Monash University Publishing after 21 years. Cannon, who has 35 years’ experience in publishing, joined Monash at the press's inception in 2004. “Since that time,”...

Christmas Press acquires Cullen middle-grade novel

Photo of Brenton Cullen. Monday, 2 March 2026
Christmas Press has acquired world rights in The Secret of Panther Valley, a mystery/adventure novel for middle-grade readers by author Brenton Cullen, via Debbie Golvan of Golvan Arts Management. Staying...

“Security Questions” wins Poetry in Translation Prize

Osdany Morales and Harry Bauld_Credit Hajoon Pong Monday, 2 March 2026
Osdany Morales’s Security Questions, translated from the Spanish by Harry Bauld, is the inaugural winner of the Poetry in Translation Prize, co-awarded by Giramondo. Shortlisted under the translated title of...

Sorrento Writers Festival program launched 

sorrento writers festival Monday, 2 March 2026
Described as “Victoria’s biggest literary event”, Sorrento Writers Festival has launched a 155-session program across 10 venues in the Victorian beachside towns of Sorrento and Portsea from 23 to 26...

Trans Book Festival program launched 

Monday, 2 March 2026
The full program has been launched for the second annual Trans Book Festival, which focuses on “uplifting and celebrating trans and gender diverse (TGD) literary excellence in all narrative forms.”...

Larrikan acquires Galatola picture book

Photo of Jess Galatola. Monday, 2 March 2026
Larrikan has acquired world rights to Jess Galatola’s The Witch Who Couldn’t Spell, illustrated by Lu Baker. The book follows the adventures of Wanda Spelled, “a little witch with a...

HarperCollins acquires Fineberg novel 

Warren Fineberg Monday, 2 March 2026
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Warren Fineberg’s novel A Boy from Buchenwald in a deal negotiated by Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. According to the publisher, “A Boy...

Larrikin acquires Purcell novel

Thursday, 26 February 2026
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to John Purcell’s novel The Amateur’s Guide to Killing Bad Guys. The novel begins on the “worst day” of entrepreneur Matthew Burton’s life. “The...

Upswell acquires Scott-Patrick Mitchell poetry

Scott-Patrick Mitchell Wednesday, 25 February 2026
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to poet Scott-Patrick Mitchell’s next collection, Incantations to a Drowned Canyon. A Perth-based poet and spoken word performer, Mitchell published their first volume of...

DARTS launches “Fair Play Reflections” report 

Cover of 'Fair Play Reflections'. Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Diversity Arts Australia (DARTS) has released “Fair Play Reflections”, an evaluation of the Fair Play equity and culture-change initiative over the past 7 years. Literature organisations represented 15% of project...

MidnightSun announces inaugural Picture Book Prize shortlist

An image of the MidnightSun picture book proze logo. Tuesday, 24 February 2026
MidnightSun Publishing has announced the shortlist for its inaugural picture book prize. Shortlisted works are: “An Excellent Hat” (Linda Brucesmith) “The Tinker’s Light” (Ashling Kwok) “The Battle of the Beast”...

A&U acquires Saunders’s “Fighting for Country”

Photo of James Saunders. Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to a new nonfiction title, Fighting for Country: The Extraordinary Life of Reg Saunders, Australia’s First Indigenous Military Officer, Hero of Two Wars by...

Aurealis Award 2025 winners announced

Cover of 'Little Bones' Monday, 23 February 2026
The winners of the 2025 Aurealis Awards for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing have been announced at GenreCon in Brisbane. Winning titles in each category, chosen from shortlists announced...

Leavy wins 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize

Photo of Cheryl Leavy. Monday, 23 February 2026
Cheryl Leavy has won the 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for her poem “Kumanjayi”. Presented by the Australian Book Review (ABR) and worth $6000, the prize honours the life and work...

Australian Poetry appoints Bufton as CEO and publisher

Melinda Bufton Monday, 23 February 2026
Australia’s peak poetry body, Australian Poetry, has appointed Melinda Bufton as its new CEO and publisher. Bufton is an experienced leader and poet, according to Australian Poetry. “She has worked...

 

 

 

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