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Blak & Bright moves to September

An image of the Blak & Bright logo. Tuesday, 28 October 2025
The 2026 Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival will run from 3 to 6 September 2026, organisers have announced. This marks a shift in the timing of the biennial...

Industry welcomes government’s AI copyright announcement

Photo of attorney-general Michelle Rowland speaking at a conference. Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Publishing industry organisations have reacted enthusiastically to news that the Australian Government has ruled out relaxing copyright rules for generative AI training. Attorney-General Michelle Rowland announced on Sunday that the...

Carman named 2025 Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellow

A photo of Luke Carman. A man is smiling at the camera and wears a navy blazer over a blue shirt. Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Luke Carman is the recipient of the 2025 Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellowship, receiving $100,000 to support a year-long residency at the Charles Perkins Centre. Based in Western Sydney, Carman is...

HarperCollins acquires Crowe’s nonfiction work

A photo of Ben Crowe. He stands in front of a black brick wall. He wears glasses and a white jumper. Tuesday, 28 October 2025
HarperCollins has acquired Australian rights to Where the Light Gets In, a nonfiction book by Ben Crowe. Where the Light Gets In, a book about personal growth, “explains how 9...

Southerly journal returns

The cover of Southerly 80.1. It features artwork of a kookaburra by Kerry Klimm. Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Literary journal Southerly has returned after 3-year hiatus with issue 80.1, “First, the Future”, guest-edited by KA Ren Wyld and new Southerly editor Roanna Gonsalves. According to the editors, this...

NSW State Library announces 2026 fellowships

logo for the state library of new south wales Monday, 27 October 2025
The State Library of NSW has announced its 2026 fellowships, with a total of $314,000 awarded across 9 categories. The fellowships cover a range of original research topics to be...

Rix, Cormick win ACT Book of the Year

Warra Warra Wai book cover Monday, 27 October 2025
Darren Rix and Craig Cormick have won the ACT Book of the Year award for their title Warra Warra Wai (Scribner). Rix and Cormick will share the $10,000 prize. Judges praised Warra...

Labor blocks AI industry moves to waive copyright

Photo of attorney-general Michelle Rowland speaking in parliament. Monday, 27 October 2025
The federal government won’t change the law to allow tech companies to train artificial intelligence (AI) models using copyright material, Australian media outlets reported today. The decision is a rejection of...

Hardie Grant acquires Joyce memoir

A photo of Alan Joyce smiling. He is wearing a suit and glasses. Monday, 27 October 2025
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce’s memoir, in a deal brokered by Robert Joske at Robert Joske Management. Joyce “will take a reflective...

Inaugural Spiers Prize shortlist

The Spiers Prize logo Monday, 27 October 2025
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Spiers Prize, as well as some changes to the award. The publisher announced that “due to the enthusiastic number of...

2026 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award candidates

A sketch of a woman's profile under the text "Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award". Monday, 27 October 2025
The nominees for the 2026 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award have been announced. The Aotearoa New Zealand and Australian nominees are: Alison Lester Gavin Bishop (NZ) Oliver Jeffers Susanne Gervay Ursula...

Janson, van Loon, Vucic awarded Copyright Agency fellowships

Composite photo showing authors Julie Janson, Julienne-van-Loon and Dženana Vucic. Thursday, 23 October 2025
The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has announced the recipients of its 2025 Fellowships for established and emerging Australian writers. Julie Janson, a Burruberongal woman of the Darug Aboriginal Nation and...

BWF breaks attendance records in new venue 

Brisbane Writers Festival 2025 logo Thursday, 23 October 2025
Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) recorded more than 16,000 attendees at its 2025 program, held in its new venue partner, the Brisbane Powerhouse. The program comprised more than 100 live events...

Inaugural AusArt Day seeks to support creative work

AusArt Day Thursday, 23 October 2025
Creative Australia’s (CA) inaugural national giving to the arts day, AusArt Day, takes place today, 23 October. The new initiative is “designed to support artists and arts organisations to fundraise...

Fremantle Press announces new board members

Fremantle Press logo for 2025 and 2026 Thursday, 23 October 2025
Fremantle Press has announced that Libby Jackson-Barrett and Ben Paganoni have joined the publishing house’s board of directors. Jackson-Barrett, a proud Whadjuk woman, is the associate dean (Academic) within Kurongkurl...

History Unbound festival launches program

History Unbound logo Thursday, 23 October 2025
The Historical Novel Society Australasia have announced the full program for the History Unbound festival, which will take place from 1 to 2 November in Parramatta. The event marks a...

Farrells wins best LYBD display

a photo of Farrells front window, featuring colourful hearts Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Mornington Peninsula bookshop Farrells has won the Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) award for the best window display. According to BookPeople, the Australian booksellers association, “Their amazing window display captured...

New journal of trans and gender-diverse creativity launches

the front cover of transitive rag, a yellow and orange sunburst Tuesday, 21 October 2025
transitive rag, a journal for trans and gender-diverse creativity, has launched its first issue. The quarterly online journal will publish poetry, personal writing, art and digital projects from transgender and...

A&U acquires Wright fiction

A portrait of Michelle Wright. Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Michelle Wright’s Good Boy, in a deal brokered by Alexandra Christie at Curtis Brown Australia. The novel follows Cookie, an inmate in a...

UQP acquires new Prosser novel

A portrait of Jordan Prosser. Tuesday, 21 October 2025
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights for Blue Giant by writer and filmmaker Jordan Prosser. The novel centres on disillusioned Melburnian millennial Abby Horne. “Abby once believed...

Create NSW announces literature strategy 

NSW government logo Tuesday, 21 October 2025
The New South Wales government has launched Stories Matter: A Writing and Literature Strategy for NSW to support writers and readers across the state and beyond. The strategy, developed in...

Manawatu wins 2025 Keri Hulme Award

Pikihuia Awards logo Monday, 20 October 2025
Becky Manawatu (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe, Waitaha) has been awarded the 2025 Keri Hulme Award for Kataraina (The Cube Press) as part of the biennial Pikihuia awards. The Keri Hulme...

Varnish lit mag, prize launches 

Varnish literary magazine logo Monday, 20 October 2025
Varnish, a new Australian literary journal that aims to publish “evocative written art with timeless beauty”, has launched. “Motivated by the desire to see a broadening space for literary culture,...

Murdoch acquires King nonfiction

A portrait of Madonna King, a woman with long red hair wearing a fuchsia blouse. Monday, 20 October 2025
Murdoch Books has acquired world rights to Screen Wise by Madonna King. Screen Wise will address screen time and online safety, “the biggest issue facing parents today”, said the publisher....

 

 

 

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