Meet the 2025 Rising Stars: Rachel Cramp
Monday, 30 June 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent fewer than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the...
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...
2025 Rising Star shortlist announced
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlist for its 2025 Rising Star award. The shortlisted professionals, who each began their publishing careers in the past 10 years, are:...
Regional winners announced for 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
The winners for the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize regional categories have been announced. Chosen from a shortlist of six, the winner for the Pacific region is Western Australian writer...
Hachette acquires Jones’ debut novel
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Theodora's Tea Shop by Christy Anne Jones in a joint acquisition with Wildfire, an imprint of Headline, taking UK and commonwealth rights excluding...
WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlist announced
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. This year, the awards have a total prize pool of $120,000 and four new categories. The new...
UWAP acquires Riots by Fiona Skyring
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Riots by Fiona Skyring. Riots is a nonfiction title delving into the Australian riots that occurred between 1918–1920 and involved returned soldiers....
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2025 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. Chosen from a longlist of ten, the shortlisted titles are: Chinese Postman (Brian Castro, Giramondo) Theory & Practice (Michelle de...
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...
BookPeople 2025 conference in numbers
Monday, 23 June 2025
The 2025 BookPeople conference, held in Brisbane 14–16 June, was matched with attendance numbers from last year's conference – ‘a very reassuring result for the team’, said the organisation. The...
Australian Children’s Laureate Week announced
Monday, 23 June 2025
The Australian School Library Association (ASLA) and the Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation (ACLF) have announced the inaugural Laureate Week, beginning on 28 July 2025, and ‘aimed at supporting students and...
Festival of Fiction 2025 program announced
Monday, 23 June 2025
The Peter Cowan Writers Centre has announced the program for the 2025 Festival of Fiction, to be held at Edith Cowan University’s Joondalup campus 18–19 October. The festival will showcase...
PRH acquires Shara Curlett middle grade series
Monday, 23 June 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired world rights to the Protector of Beyond middle-grade series by Aotearoa New Zealand author Shara Curlett in a three-book deal, via Samuel Bernard...
Finding Beauty Poetry Prize shortlist announced
Monday, 23 June 2025
MARION has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Finding Beauty Poetry Prize. The shortlisted poets are: Alisha Brown for ‘As a matter of great importance’ Cate Furey for ‘Rosalie’ Annie...
Pan Macmillan acquires new Jane Harper novel
Monday, 23 June 2025
Pan Macmillan Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Last One Out by Jane Harper. The novel will also be published internationally by Flatiron in the US and Pan Macmillan UK...
Authors & Artists for Palestine Auction raises over $43,000
Thursday, 19 June 2025
The Authors & Artists for Palestine fundraising auction, organised by Sarah McKenzie, Karen Ginnane and Zewlan Moor, has raised over $43,000 in donations for charities providing aid to Palestinians in...
Pip Adam wins Michael King Writer’s Fellowship
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Creative New Zealand has announced Pip Adam as the recipient of the $100,000 Michael King Writer’s Fellowship. Awarded biennially, the fellowship is presented ‘to an established New Zealand writer of...
PRH acquires Mounser’s dark suspense novel
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired Oceania rights to The House at Hanger Hill by Ashleigh Mounser, via Michaela McGuire at a4 Literary in a two-book deal. Internationally, The...
Stella Day Out announces Warrnambool program
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Stella Day Out has announced its next iteration will be in Warrnambool, and released the date and full program. The free, one-day festival will take place on 28 June, from...
Scribe acquires new Savva nonfiction
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Scribe Publications has acquired world rights to Earthquake: Signposts to the election that shook Australia by Niki Savva. Earthquake is a combination of selections from Savva's columns from the Age...
Hill of Content to move up Bourke Street
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Melbourne bookstore Hill of Content is moving to a new location after 103 years at its current address, 86 Bourke St, following the sale of the historic building. From mid-July,...
Clan Destine Press acquires Stephen Ross YA novel
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Clan Destine Press has acquired world rights to YA novel The Bride Must Be Stopped! and its two sequels by Aotearoa New Zealand author Stephen Ross. Set in the 1950s...
