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BookPeople Awards 2025 shortlists announced

2025 BookPeople Award Shortlist tile. Wednesday, 23 April 2025
BookPeople has announced the 2025 shortlist for the BookPeople Awards. The shortlisted titles for the awards are: BookPeople BookData Adult Fiction Book of the Year Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador) Juice (Tim...

HarperCollins acquires ‘Frosty’

'Frosty' by Mark Winterbottom with James Phelps cover page. Wednesday, 23 April 2025
HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to Frosty, a memoir by motor-sport athlete Mark Winterbottom. The memoir will be co-written with James Phelps. 'From his emergence from the suburbs of...

No newsletter on Friday

Wednesday, 23 April 2025
Due to the Anzac Day public holiday, the Books+Publishing newsletter will not be published on Friday, 25 April.

Marija Peričić on ‘Foreign Country’ 

Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Marija Peričić’s first novel, The Lost Pages (A&U), won the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award in 2017. Her ‘lyrical and haunting’ third novel, Foreign Country (Ultimo, July) is a work ‘vivid and...

2025 Publishing Triangle Awards Winners announced 

The Publishing Triangle logo. Tuesday, 22 April 2025
In the US, the Publishing Triangle, an association of LGBTQ+ people in publishing, has announced winners for the 2025 Publishing Triangle Awards. The awards honour 'the best LGBTQ+ books published...

Books Alive expands to Palmerston North 

Sasha Eastwood and Aland Dingley from Books Alive. Tuesday, 22 April 2025
This year, Books Alive will expand to Palmerston North, the fourth regional centre to participate in the Aotearoa New Zealand program. The one-day event currently runs in Christchurch, Wellington and...

ILF announces new Talent Pathways Program 

Bronanna Waterloo, Darren Moncrieff, Deborah “Rose” Archie, sitting in front of a bookshelf with blue ILF shirts on for the ILF Talent Pathways Program inaugural workshops in Sydney in April 2025. Tuesday, 22 April 2025
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced the inaugural Talent Pathways Program. The two-year pilot program aims to 'prepare and equip First Nations participants to use their creative skills within...

Local authors on 2025 CWA Daggers longlists 

The Crime Writers' Association Daggers Award logo. Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Several Australia-based and Aotearoa New Zealand-based authors have been longlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association’s (CWA) 2025 Dagger Awards. The local longlisted authors are: Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Sanctuary...

A&U acquires The Australian Wars

Henry Reynolds, Mina Murray, Rachel Perkins and Stephen Gapps portraits. Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to The Australian Wars, edited by Rachel Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray and Henry Reynolds. The book will be drawn from Blackfella...

Bacon wins Nebula 2025 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award

a portrait of Eugen Bacon Thursday, 17 April 2025
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced Eugen Bacon as winner of the 2025 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award. Created in 2008, the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award is...

Echo Publishing announces new Heather Morris novel

a portrait of Heather Morris Thursday, 17 April 2025
Echo Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to The Wish, a contemporary novel by Heather Morris. The Wish is Morris's first contemporary novel, and introduces Jesse, a young teenager who, despite...

B+P Easter publishing schedule

Thursday, 17 April 2025
Due to the Easter long weekend, the Books+Publishing newsletter will not be published tomorrow, Friday, 18 April or Monday, 21 April. The deadline for classifieds and job advertisements in the next...

Changes to B+P editorial policy 

books and publishing logo Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Books+Publishing would like to share updates to its editorial policies. From 16 April 2025, B+P will run acquisition stories from three months prior to publication (previously six months). To qualify for...

Hardie Grant acquires Wankernomics

a portrait of Charles Firth and James Schloefel Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights to Wankernomics by comedians James Schloeffel and Charles Firth. Wankernomics is ‘the hilarious must-have handbook for anyone who has ever had to endure the buzzwords,...

Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2025 shortlist revealed 

the logo for the carol shields prize for fiction Wednesday, 16 April 2025
The 2025 shortlist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction has been announced. Shortlisted titles are: All Fours (Miranda July, Canongate) Code Noir (Canisia Lubrin, Soft Skull) Liars (Sarah Manguso,...

APA collates, launches First Nations publishing resources 

Wednesday, 16 April 2025
This month saw the publication of a new set of First Nations publishing resources collated by the Australian Publishers Association (APA) to support Australian publishers when publishing First Nations stories. ...

Thomas Vowles recommends 

Tuesday, 15 April 2025
Losing Face by George Haddad. He knows something about the complicated nature of the human soul. I can’t wait to see what he does next.

Thomas Vowles on ‘Our New Gods’ 

Tuesday, 15 April 2025
Melbourne-based screenwriter and author Thomas Vowles makes his novel debut with Our New Gods (UQP, June), a ‘twisty and menacing’ psychological literary thriller set in Melbourne’s queer scene that is...

Aurealis Awards 2024 finalists announced 

Tuesday, 15 April 2025
The 2024 finalists for the Aurealis Awards, which recognise 'the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror writers', have been announced. Awards are presented across 15 categories. The finalists...

Global Book Crawl attracts over 60 Australian bookstores 

logo for Global Book Crawl Tuesday, 15 April 2025
The Australian arm of the Global Book Crawl – an international initiative to ‘unite independent bookshops worldwide in a celebration of local literature, community, and culture’ – will include more...

 

 

 

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