HBG records strong third quarter
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Dymocks Children’s Charities celebrates 25th birthday with literacy forum
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Dymocks has announced an anniversary lunch and panel discussion on the future of children’s literacy, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Dymocks Children’s Charities. The event, running on 25 October, will...
UQP announces mentorship prize for under-represented writers shortlist
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has announced the shortlist for its inaugural mentorship prize for under-represented writers, which was initially announced in May. The shortlisted writers are: Carielyn Tunion...
Luna Roo announced as 2026 NSS story
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
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...
MidnightSun acquires Ryan’s Big Brother Brody
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
MidnightSun has acquired world rights to Big Brother Brody, a YA novel by Benjamin John Ryan. The novel is set in a world coming to an end because of a...
ASA, APA, authors take on Senate over AI
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
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...
NielsenIQ Brazil reports encouraging market growth, colouring book trend
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Books+Publishing’s Andrew Wrathall attended last month’s International ISBN Agency annual general meeting (AGM) in São Paulo, Brazil, as an Australian ISBN Agency representative. Here he reports on NielsenIQ’s presentation of...
Melbourne Books warns writers about imposter publisher
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
A scam publisher is trying to convince authors that it is Melbourne Books, but the real publisher is fighting back. Books+Publishing’s Andrew Wrathall has taken a closer look at the...
Integrating sustainability research into postgraduate writing and publishing programs
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
BookUp’s inaugural research day was held on 8 August this year. As part of this full day dedicated to book industry research, Sarah Gory and Angela Meyer shared some of their...
New journal of trans and gender-diverse creativity launches
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
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
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...
Dukes awarded 2025 Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) has announced Breton Dukes as the recipient of the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2025,...
UQP acquires new Prosser novel
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights for Blue Giant by writer and filmmaker Jordan Prosser. The novel centres on disillusioned Melburnian millennial Abby Horne. “Abby once believed...
Create NSW announces literature strategy
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
The New South Wales government has launched Stories Matter: A Writing and Literature Strategy for NSW to support writers and readers across the state and beyond. The strategy, developed in...
Manawatu wins 2025 Keri Hulme Award
Monday, 20 October 2025
Becky Manawatu (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe, Waitaha) has been awarded the 2025 Keri Hulme Award for Kataraina (The Cube Press) as part of the biennial Pikihuia awards. The Keri Hulme...
Boy Swallows Universe takes top spot in ABC Radio National top 100
Monday, 20 October 2025
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton (Fourth Estate, 2018) took first place in ABC Radio National’s Top 100 Books of the 21st Century poll. The results were announced on air...
Varnish lit mag, prize launches
Monday, 20 October 2025
Varnish, a new Australian literary journal that aims to publish “evocative written art with timeless beauty”, has launched. “Motivated by the desire to see a broadening space for literary culture,...
Murdoch acquires King nonfiction
Monday, 20 October 2025
Murdoch Books has acquired world rights to Screen Wise by Madonna King. Screen Wise will address screen time and online safety, “the biggest issue facing parents today”, said the publisher....
Hachette to host panel on LGBTQ+ support and allyship in the workplace
Monday, 20 October 2025
Hachette Australia has announced an OutWOMAN+ panel discussion in collaboration with Out Leadership, a global platform aiming to promote LGBTQ+ equality. The panel, which will take place 21 October between...
Australian Short Story Festival 2025 program announced
Monday, 20 October 2025
The Australian Short Story Festival (ASSF) has announced its 2025 program. The festival will be held in Adelaide from 21 to 23 November 2025 under the theme “Good Things Come...
David Brooks wins 2025 Patrick White Literary Award
Monday, 20 October 2025
Poet, writer, and academic David Brooks has won the $20,000 Patrick White Literary Award for 2025. Award trustee Perpetual described the award as “a richly deserved recognition of [Brooks’s] profound...
