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Booker Prize launches £50K children’s prize

Monday, 27 October 2025
The Booker Prize Foundation has launched the inaugural Children’s Booker Prize, an award “celebrating the best contemporary fiction for children aged 8 to 12 years old”. The prize will open...

Labor blocks AI industry moves to waive copyright

Photo of attorney-general Michelle Rowland speaking in parliament. Monday, 27 October 2025
The federal government won’t change the law to allow tech companies to train artificial intelligence (AI) models using copyright material, Australian media outlets reported today. The decision is a rejection of...

Hardie Grant acquires Joyce memoir

A photo of Alan Joyce smiling. He is wearing a suit and glasses. Monday, 27 October 2025
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce’s memoir, in a deal brokered by Robert Joske at Robert Joske Management. Joyce “will take a reflective...

Elton named HarperCollins UK CEO 

a portrait of Kate Elton Monday, 27 October 2025
Kate Elton has been formally appointed as CEO of HarperCollins UK, after the recent departure of previous CEO Charlie Redmayne. Elton has been acting as interim CEO since Redmayne’s resignation....

Inaugural Spiers Prize shortlist

The Spiers Prize logo Monday, 27 October 2025
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Spiers Prize, as well as some changes to the award. The publisher announced that “due to the enthusiastic number of...

2026 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award candidates

A sketch of a woman's profile under the text "Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award". Monday, 27 October 2025
The nominees for the 2026 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award have been announced. The Aotearoa New Zealand and Australian nominees are: Alison Lester Gavin Bishop (NZ) Oliver Jeffers Susanne Gervay Ursula...

Janson, van Loon, Vucic awarded Copyright Agency fellowships

Composite photo showing authors Julie Janson, Julienne-van-Loon and Dženana Vucic. Thursday, 23 October 2025
The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has announced the recipients of its 2025 Fellowships for established and emerging Australian writers. Julie Janson, a Burruberongal woman of the Darug Aboriginal Nation and...

HBG records strong third quarter 

Photo of man in his 40s in blue shirt. Thursday, 23 October 2025
Hachette Book Group (HBG) has recorded a strong third-quarter sales and revenue performance, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). “The encouraging third quarter follows a six-month period when HBG sales were up...

BWF breaks attendance records in new venue 

Brisbane Writers Festival 2025 logo Thursday, 23 October 2025
Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) recorded more than 16,000 attendees at its 2025 program, held in its new venue partner, the Brisbane Powerhouse. The program comprised more than 100 live events...

Inaugural AusArt Day seeks to support creative work

AusArt Day Thursday, 23 October 2025
Creative Australia’s (CA) inaugural national giving to the arts day, AusArt Day, takes place today, 23 October. The new initiative is “designed to support artists and arts organisations to fundraise...

Fremantle Press announces new board members

Fremantle Press logo for 2025 and 2026 Thursday, 23 October 2025
Fremantle Press has announced that Libby Jackson-Barrett and Ben Paganoni have joined the publishing house’s board of directors. Jackson-Barrett, a proud Whadjuk woman, is the associate dean (Academic) within Kurongkurl...

History Unbound festival launches program

History Unbound logo Thursday, 23 October 2025
The Historical Novel Society Australasia have announced the full program for the History Unbound festival, which will take place from 1 to 2 November in Parramatta. The event marks a...

Simon reaches finals in BookLife prize

the book cover for The Art in my Palm Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Australian author Luke Icarus Simon has been named a quarter finalist in the Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize – Fiction for his novel The Art in My Palm. In their report, the...

Flame Tree acquires new Bacon anthology

A portrait of Eugen Bacon, an African Australian woman wearing a red dress and standing between two trees Wednesday, 22 October 2025
UK-based publisher Flame Tree Publishing has acquired world rights to Sauuti Terrors, two speculative fiction anthologies co-edited by Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton and Cheryl S Ntumy, in a deal brokered...

Luna Roo announced as 2026 NSS story

the book cover for Luna Roo the Kangaroo Baller Wednesday, 22 October 2025
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced Luna Roo the Kangaroo Baller (Adam Jackson & Adrian Lloyd, illus by Jake A Minton, Little Book Press) as the National...

Magabala wins Workplace Team Culture & Inclusivity Award

Four Magabala award winners with their award. Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Magabala Books has been announced as the winner of the Workplace Team Culture & Inclusivity Award at the 2025 Broome Business Excellence Awards. The award comes after Magabala’s staff surveys...

ASA, APA, authors take on Senate over AI 

Four authors at Parliament Huuse Wednesday, 22 October 2025
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) was recently joined by the Australian Publishers Association (APA) and a formidable coalition of authors to speak to a Senate committee at Parliament House...

Farrells wins best LYBD display

a photo of Farrells front window, featuring colourful hearts Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Mornington Peninsula bookshop Farrells has won the Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) award for the best window display. According to BookPeople, the Australian booksellers association, “Their amazing window display captured...

New journal of trans and gender-diverse creativity launches

the front cover of transitive rag, a yellow and orange sunburst Tuesday, 21 October 2025
transitive rag, a journal for trans and gender-diverse creativity, has launched its first issue. The quarterly online journal will publish poetry, personal writing, art and digital projects from transgender and...

ThomsonReuters named world’s biggest publisher 

Thomson Reuters logo Tuesday, 21 October 2025
ThomsonReuters has taken the title of world’s largest publisher, reported Publishers Weekly. The Canadian-based legal and professional publisher replaces RELX, which has held the title for the last 7 years....

A&U acquires Wright fiction

A portrait of Michelle Wright. Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Michelle Wright’s Good Boy, in a deal brokered by Alexandra Christie at Curtis Brown Australia. The novel follows Cookie, an inmate in a...

 

 

 

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