Waitere appointed PANZ president
Monday, 11 August 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, Eboni Waitere (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne) has been appointed president of the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ). Waitere is the first Māori...
Writers, lit organisations receive Cultural Fund grants
Monday, 11 August 2025
The Copyright Agency has announced the recipients of the latest funding round through its Cultural Fund. The 2025 Create Grants, which awards $20,000 to writers and artists to develop new...
Quay wins 2025 Crystal Kite Award
Monday, 11 August 2025
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has announced the winners of the 2025 Crystal Kite Award. Open to SCBWI authors, illustrators, and translators, the award is peer-judged to...
Byron Writers Festival showground events cancelled
Monday, 11 August 2025
Organisers of Byron Writers Festival (BWF) cancelled the Bangalow Showground events for the second and third days of the 2025 festival program, because of rain and safety issues. In an...
Creative Australia adjusts dates for North America Publishers’ Program
Monday, 11 August 2025
Creative Australia has adjusted the dates for the North America Publishers’ Program, to accommodate publishers, agents and rights-sellers who may wish to travel to the London Book Fair afterwards. The...
HarperCollins reports sales up 3%, profits up 10%
Monday, 11 August 2025
In the US, HarperCollins parent company News Corp has announced its fourth quarter and annual results. The company reported that its book publishing division saw sales rise six percent for...
Emerging Writers Festival 2025 program launched
Monday, 11 August 2025
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) has launched its 2025 program alongside a new logo. The festival, which will run 11–18 September, will hold 70 events with over 200 artists in...
Rapee wins CBCA 2025 Nan Chauncy Award
Monday, 11 August 2025
The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced Wendy Rapee as the recipient of the 2025 Nan Chauncy Award, which ‘honours a person, or a collaborative partnership, who has...
Stella Day Out to host Brisbane events
Monday, 11 August 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the program for its Stella Day Out Brisbane event, set to take place on 13 September 2025 at Avid Reader in West End. Two sessions...
Book Club – this month’s reads
Friday, 8 August 2025
Looking for your next great group read? Our monthly Book Club rounds up new release titles that are perfect for sparking conversation and perhaps even some debate. From compelling fiction to...
Byrne appointed director of Writing Australia
Thursday, 7 August 2025
Creative Australia has announced Wenona Byrne as the director of Writing Australia. Byrne was appointed acting director of Writing Australia on 1 July 2025 and was previously the head of...
NZ Coalition for Books strategic plan report
Thursday, 7 August 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, the Coalition for Books has released the Mahi Tahi Work Together: A Strategic Plan for the Aotearoa New Zealand Book Sector 2025–2030, which is the culmination...
Ned Kelly Awards 2025 best debut crime fiction shortlists announced
Thursday, 7 August 2025
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2025 Ned Kelly Awards shortlist for best debut crime fiction. The shortlisted titles are: All You Took From Me (Lisa Kenway, Transit...
Newcastle Writers Festival announces spring festival
Thursday, 7 August 2025
Newcastle Writers Festival (NWF) has announced a special spring program, which will run 20 September to 25 October 2025. The spring program reflects the organisation’s commitment to creating year-round opportunities...
Industry bodies respond to Productivity Commission AI interim report
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
The Australian government Productivity Commission’s (PC) current Harnessing Data and Digital Technology inquiry released an interim report overnight, calling for feedback on ‘the issue of copyrighted materials being used to...
Tinsel Time 2025: Young readers
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
Share the joy of reading under the tree (and in stockings, and for Secret Santas and for teacher gifts!). Junior fiction There’s hilarity and adventure to spare for junior readers...
Tinsel time: 2025 nonfiction
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
History, homes and health; art, essays and philosophy – Books+Publishing takes a walk through the nonfiction offerings publishers are highlighting this holiday season. First Nations wit, wisdom and writing Miles...
PANZ Publishing Market Size Report 2024 released
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) released its 2024 Publishing Market Size Report to members on the week of 30 July, revealing a total of NZD...
Collins Booksellers Warrnambool named 2025 Franchisee of the Year
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
Collins Booksellers Warrnambool (Michaelie Clark and Graeme Gallagher) was named 2025 Franchisee of the Year at the Collins Booksellers Annual Conference in Melbourne. A statement from Collins Booksellers said, ‘In...
UWAP at 90 years: ‘Our values will remain steadfast’
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
In 2025, University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP) celebrates its 90th anniversary. Books+Publishing spoke to communications officer Lauren Pratt about the history, the present and the future of the press....
UQP acquires Vucic debut poetry collection
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
UQP has acquired world rights to After War, the debut poetry collection from Dženana Vucic. After War is ‘a memoiristic poetry collection which unfurls from the dislocating trauma of the Bosnian...
Sarah Brill on ‘Catch’
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Sydney-based author Sarah Brill's Catch (A&U Children’s, October) is a ‘heartfelt and quietly thrilling coming-of-age novel’ about a 16-year-old who discovers she can catch people falling from the sky. Brill...
Sarah Brill recommends
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The last couple of Australian books I've read were Kate Grenville's Unsettled and Helen Garner's The Season. Both nonfiction, but by authors that I really love and admire for their...
Penguin SEA to publish ‘Stories from the Island’
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Southeast Asia (SEA) has announced the publication of Stories from the Islands, its first bilingual short story anthology of writers selected as part of the Ubud...
Island Readers and Writers Festival announced
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The inaugural Island Readers and Writers Festival will be held in Nipaluna / Hobart on 29 May–1 June 2026. Produced by literary organisation and magazine Island, the festival is accepting...
Together We Read online bookclub announces 2025 title
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Together We Read AU has announced that the fifth annual online bookclub, running 12–26 August 2025, will read Smoke by Michael Brissenden (Affirm). Smoke can be downloaded via the Libby App, which...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2025 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, worth $50,000, has been announced by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University (JCU). Chosen from...
A&U acquires Hone guide to surviving loss
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world English rights to How Will I Ever Get Through This? by Lucy Hone, in a deal brokered by Catherine Drayton at InkWell Management....
Nib Literary Award 2025 longlist announced
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The longlist for the 2025 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Australian Gospel (Lech Blaine, Black Inc.) Black Convicts: How...
Earp crowdfunds The Little Bookroom relocation
Monday, 4 August 2025
The Little Bookroom’s new owner, Michael Earp, has announced a crowdfunding campaign to cover the costs of moving the bookshop to a new location. Earp made the announcement on Friday...
