Garner shortlisted for Baillie Gifford Prize
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Australian author Helen Garner (Text) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction in the UK. Selected from a...
Better Reading Top 100 announced
Monday, 6 October 2025
Better Reading has announced its 2025 top 100 list, ‘a true reflection of what Australians read’. Voted on by readers, the number one spot went to Boy Swallows Universe by...
Stella Day Out announces new Sydney event
Monday, 6 October 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced a second Stella Day Out event in Sydney, set to take place on 21 October at Quest Chatswood, NSW. The evening event will offer drinks...
The Bookshop Darlinghurst to close
Monday, 6 October 2025
The Bookshop Darlinghurst in Sydney will close down on Christmas Eve 2025. Owner Charles Gregory said the closure was due to ‘repeated delays’ in the redevelopment of Oxford & Foley...
Ventura acquires Simon debut novel
Monday, 6 October 2025
Ventura Press has acquired world rights to Susan Simon’s debut novel The Secrets of St Jude’s, a ‘private school noir and commercial thriller’. The Secrets of St Jude’s follows the story...
EWF 2025: ‘tending to and forging of community’
Thursday, 2 October 2025
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) had its ‘most successful’ festival since 2018, according to organisers. In 2025, the festival hosted 240 artists in 79 events over 8 days, almost doubling...
ASA announces 2025 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship shortlist
Thursday, 2 October 2025
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 2025 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship shortlist. Chosen from over 70 applicants, the shortlisted authors are: Lenny Bartulin for ‘A Calendar of Vandemonian...
Magabala Books acquires Cusack new adult debut
Thursday, 2 October 2025
Magabala Books has acquired world rights to The Dangers of Just One Person, a ‘funny, queer, regional’ novel by Skye Cusack. The novel ‘follows the intertwined stories of two young,...
Roper among 2025 Cundill History Prize finalists
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Australian historian and author Lyndal Roper has been named a finalist for the 2025 Cundill History Prize. The prize, worth US$75,000 (A$115,137), aims to highlight ‘books that uncover neglected histories...
Jewish Poetry Project exhibition announced
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
The Sydney Jewish Writers Festival has announced the Jewish Poetry Project, a month-long outdoor exhibition of Jewish poetry. Curated on the theme ‘The Door Is Always Open’, the exhibition is...
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival 2025 program announced
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
The 2025 program for the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival, which runs 17–19 October, has been announced. Across the program, over 50 local authors and artists will be speaking at...
A&U acquires Bagwell’s memoir
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world English rights to Letter from Provence by Sheryle Bagwell, via Margaret Connolly and Associates. In the memoir, Bagwell recounts buying a stone house...
Australian War Memorial literary prize deferred amid controversy
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
The Australian War Memorial has deferred awarding the Les Carlyon Literary Prize in a move that ‘effectively overruled a decision by its appointed judges to award a military history literary...
Sovereign Texts: Journal of First Peoples Literature launches
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Sovereign Texts: Journal of First Peoples Literature has launched as a print and online literary journal for works written by Australian First Peoples. Aiming to publish twice a year, the...
Chen wins 2025 Little Hare Illustration Prize
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has announced Wenwen Chen as the winner of the biennial Little Hare Illustration Prize. For this award for picture book artists across Australia and Aotearoa...
PRH acquires Wilson’s ‘I Eat the Stars’
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World by Sarah Wilson. I Eat the Stars is a guide...
Ventura acquires Carrick debut fiction
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Ventura Press has acquired world rights to Brigid Carrick’s debut commercial fiction, The Belfast Express. Set in Dublin during the 1970s, The Belfast Express is described by the publisher as...
Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Book Awards 2025 winners announced
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
The 2025 Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Writer Awards winners have been announced. Winners, selected from shortlists announced in July, are: Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Nonfiction ($10,000) Jana...
Scribe announces new branding, website
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Scribe Publications has launched new branding and a new website. Designed and developed by Inkahoots, the website features interactive 3D-rendered models of Scribe titles, multimedia content, a new streamlined checkout...
Hachette acquires two new Robotham novels
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Hachette Australia has acquired two novels by Michael Robotham, via Mark Lucas at the Soho Agency, in a multi-territory partnership with Little, Brown Book Group in the UK. The first...
Ned Kelly Awards 2025 winners announced
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2025 Ned Kelly Award winners. Winning works in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in August, are: Best crime fiction The Creeper...
A&U acquires new Moule fiction
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to The Mother of All Calamities by Lisa Moule, in a deal brokered by Samuel Bernard at the Zeitgeist Agency. The Mother...
Stella Day Out announces new Melbourne event
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced a second Stella Day Out event in Melbourne. The evening event is set to take place on 28 October at Quest NewQuay in the Docklands,...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
Monday, 29 September 2025
Writing Australia has announced the winners of the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Chosen from shortlists announced in August, the winners are: Fiction Theory & Practice (Michelle de Kretser, Text)...
Books in the media this weekend, 27–28 September
Monday, 29 September 2025
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. This week's round-up will be updated as information becomes available. National The Saturday Paper Apron-Sorrow...
Stella Day Out Aireys Inlet program revealed
Monday, 29 September 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the evening program for its Stella Day Out event in Aireys Inlet, Victoria, to take place on 15 November 2025 at the Aireys Inlet Community Centre....
Bakers Lane Books acquires Drum’s YA novel
Monday, 29 September 2025
Bakers Lane Books has acquired world rights to Don’t Forget to Remember Me, a YA debut by Annie Drum, via Sally Bird of Calidris Literary Agency. According to the publisher,...
Anderson wins 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers
Monday, 29 September 2025
Susie Anderson has won the 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers for her short story ‘The Claimant’. Presented by Overland, the award offers a $5000 cash prize and...
Keri Hulme Award 2025 finalists announced
Monday, 29 September 2025
The Māori Literature Trust Te Waka Taki Kōrero has announced the finalists for the 2025 Keri Hulme Award, which recognises ‘the contributions of mid-career Māori writers who exemplify the values...
Queensland Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
Monday, 29 September 2025
The winners of the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. Amy McQuire has won the $30,000 Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance for Black Witness (UQP)....
