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...
Authors among Creative Australia Fellowship recipients
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Authors Isobelle Carmody, Jennifer Mills and Fiona Murphy are among the 2025 recipients of the $80,000 Creative Australia Fellowships. The fellowships, which last two years, involve the provision of financial...
Smith Street Books launches Little Smith imprint
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Smith Street Books has announced the launch of children’s book imprint Little Smith, ‘dedicated to creating colourful, bold and joyful books that spark imagination’. With its first titles due next...
Pink Shorts Press acquires Mills, Dovey and Dubosarsky anthology
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Pink Shorts Press has acquired world rights to A Concise Compendium of Wonder, a collection of ‘radical reimagined eco-fairytales’ by Jennifer Mills, Ceridwen Dovey and Ursula Dubosarsky, with illustrations by...
Stella Day Out Perth program released
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the program for an edition of its Stella Day Out event in Perth, to take place on 26 October at the State Library of Western...
HarperCollins acquires de Sousa cookbooks
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to two cookbooks by Steph de Sousa. The deal was brokered by HarperCollins fiction and nonfiction publisher Roberta Ivers and TalentINK Group’s Brooke Taylor...
ARA Historical Novel Prize shortlists announced
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the shortlists for the 2025 ARA Historical Novel Prize. Chosen from longlists announced earlier this month, the shortlisted books in each category...
Melbourne Books acquires Pellegrino’s ‘Melbourne Coffee Roasters’
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Melbourne Coffee Roasters, a nonfiction title by Dominic Pellegrino. Melbourne Coffee Roasters focuses on the history of Melbourne-founder coffee roasters and houses, including Vittoria, Pellegrini's...
Monash acquires Altman essay collection
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Monash University Publishing has acquired world rights to Righting My World: Essays from the Past Half-Century by Dennis Altman. ‘From the inauguration of Richard Nixon to Trump’s America, from Gay Liberation...
Pigface Bookstore opens in Perth
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Pigface Bookstore opened on 12 September in Perth, after completing renovations. The new bookstore occupies the bottom floor of a shop on Barrack Street in Perth’s city centre, with plans...
Radio National runs Top 100 Books poll
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
ABC Radio National is running a month-long poll to compile a list of its top 100 books of the 21st century. The poll, which opened 1 September, asks readers to...
Novel Insight launches Reviewer’s Choice Award
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Book review site Novel Insight has launched a new prize – the Reviewer's Choice Award. With Australian-authored books eligible when reviewed within the first 12 months of their release date,...
Larrikin acquires Vee picture book
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to My Spinning Anxious Brain, a picture book by Dani Vee, illustrated by Ruth-Mary Smith. ‘Empathetic, gentle and fun’, My Spinning Anxious Brain ‘explains exactly...
Blak & Bright and Magabala Books announce the First Stories Collective
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
Blak & Bright and Magabala Books have announced the establishment of the First Stories Collective. The collective will support Creative Australia as the delivery partner in providing services to Aboriginal...
Australian Political Book of the Year Award 2025 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
The 2025 Australian Political Book of the Year Award shortlist has been announced. Chosen from a longlist announced in August, the shortlisted titles are: The Chairman’s Lounge (Joe Aston, Scribner) Mean...
HarperCollins acquires Orgias’ debut crime novel
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
HarperCollins Publishers Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Teeth Kicker, the debut crime novel by Glenn Orgias, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans of Key People Literary Management. ‘Set on...
Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship to end in 2026
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
The Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship will conclude in 2026. In a joint email from the Hazel Rowley Fellowship committee and Writers Victoria, organisers said, ‘It is with some sadness, but...
Queensland Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance ($30,000) Australian Gospel:...
Roper on 2025 Cundill History Prize shortlist
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Australian historian and author Lyndal Roper has been named on the 2025 Cundill History Prize shortlist. The prize, worth US$75,000 (A$115,137), aims to highlight ‘books that uncover neglected histories and...
ARA Historical Novel Prize 2025 longlists announced
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the longlists for the 2025 ARA Historical Novel Prize. Longlisted titles are: Adult category All the Bees in the Hollows (Lauren Keegan,...
Time to Write announces Paragraph Fellowship shortlist
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Time to Write has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Paragraph Fellowship, worth $25,000. The six shortlisted writers and the working titles of their entries are: Alan Fyfe for ‘The...
Hill’s ‘The Desert Knows Her Name’ to be adapted for film
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Playwright, filmmaker and Wotjobaluk and Ngarrindjeri woman Tracey Rigney has acquired film rights to The Desert Knows Her Name (Affirm, 2024) by Lia Hills. Rigney acquired the rights through her...
Big Issue 2025 fiction edition released
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
The Big Issue has announced the authors chosen for its 21st annual fiction edition. The 2025 edition includes short stories from 11 writers. Stories were selected from more than 863 submissions,...
Roche wins 2025 Moth Short Story Prize
Wednesday, 27 August 2025
The Moth magazine has announced Australian author Clare Roche as the winner of the 2025 Moth Short Story Prize for ‘(Un)Tethered’. Roche will receive €3,000 (A$5376), and ‘(Un)Tethered’ will be...
