New bookshops, new grants
Thursday, 18 June 2026
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) is offering new bookseller event grants; the Australian Society of Authors has updated its author contract templates with AI clauses; the Wilderness Society has announced...
Artistic director, Sydney
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Sydney Writers’ Festival Australia’s leading literary festival and one of the largest and most influential globally Sydney Writers’ Festival sits at the intersection of culture, ideas and public discourse Exceptional...
Entries are open for 2026 UQP Mentorship Prize for Under-represented Writers
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
UQP is proud to announce that entries are open for the 2026 UQP Mentorship Prize for Under-represented Writers. Now in its second year, this award offers two successful applicants a...
Starfish Bay Publishing appoints Storyboat as new sales partner
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Starfish Bay Publishing is pleased to announce that all sales, marketing, and trade representation across Australia and New Zealand will now be handled exclusively by Storyboat Sales and Marketing, a...
Senior marketing & publicity coordinator, Melbourne
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Monash University Publishing Are you a strategic storyteller with a passion for books, ideas and culture? Do you know how to create a public conversation around an important scholarly narrative...
Changes at Booktopia
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Several Booktopia staff have been made redundant; local authors are among this year’s James Beard winners; the longlist for the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award has been announced; WH...
Congratulations to the ABA award winners
Monday, 15 June 2026
Last night, the Australian Booksellers Association book and bookselling award winners were announced in Canberra; the longlists for the 2026 Davitt Awards are out; the winners of this year’s Women’s...
PRH has a winner
Thursday, 11 June 2026
The winner of the Penguin Literary Prize has been announced; as have the recipients of this year’s Neilma Sidney travel fund; 2 former Big Fivers have launched a new author-support...
A Funny Thing Happened … with Robbie Swan and Fiona Patten
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
A sharp, darkly funny insider account of the sex industry’s collision with politics, censorship and everyday Australian life by Robbie Swan, a former national magazine editor turned political lobbyist for...
Rising Star Award for emerging Australian publishing talent – nomination deadline extended
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Good news – there's still time to get your entries in for the 2026 Rising Star Award! We want to hear about the emerging talent who is quietly (or not...
Vendor manager (publishers), Melbourne
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
RMIT UP Overview Salary: $100,000 prorated + 12% superannuation Part time: 4 days a week, ongoing Work in a brand-new office building in Melbourne’s CBD on Franklin Street, within walking distance of...
Junior graphic designer, West Melbourne
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Readings Junior Graphic Designer – (3 days/week) We’re looking for an early career designer to join our marketing team — working across digital, social, print, and signage assets, campaign production,...
Production manager, Leichhardt, NSW
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Moore Street Media Moore Street Media is a dynamic, independent Australian Publisher (imprints include Rockpool, Gelding Street, Sweet Hearts, and Major Street Press). We are seeking an organized Production Manager...
Income tax returns and your Books+Publishing subscription
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) provides information on its website about work-related income tax deductions for digital information services, such as Books+Publishing. The ATO website says: To claim a deduction...
Mother Waters (Lisa Nan Joo, Affirm Press)
Tuesday, 9 June 2026
Lisa Nan Joo’s debut, Mother Waters, is an atmospheric, quietly unsettling novel that explores ambition, grief, inheritance and the emotional legacies left by fathers. It shifts between thriller and literary...
A New Kind of Beautiful (Suzy Zail, Walker Books)
Tuesday, 9 June 2026
In Suzy Zail’s A New Kind of Beautiful, 16-year-old Paige Wilding has her future mapped out: win the coveted school art prize, graduate at the top of her class and...
Blue Giant (Jordan Prosser, University of Queensland Press)
Tuesday, 9 June 2026
A Danish tech billionaire announces he’s seeking volunteers for the first colony on Mars. Abby Horne, a 30-something woman in Melbourne, knows in her bones that it’s her destiny to...
King’s Birthday Honours
Tuesday, 9 June 2026
Industry figures are on the King’s Birthday Honours list; Kaye Wright has landed at Woodslane; The Good Sea (Vannessa Hearman, Melbourne University Press) tops the NT Writers Festival bestsellers list;...
Scribe among publishers being impersonated by scammers
Thursday, 4 June 2026
Ann Mossop is stepping down at Sydney Writers’ Festival; Kirsty Wilson has resigned from University of Queensland Press; the shortlists for the 2026 ACT Literary Awards have been announced; Allen...
Nominations open for the Australian publishing industry’s Rising Star Award
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
The Rising Star Award is a great opportunity to shine a spotlight on the incredible early-career staff who are making a significant impact in your organisation. Nominees must currently be...
Head of trade sales (parental leave), Victoria
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Hardie Grant Hardie Grant is looking for an experienced Head of Trade Sales to lead our national sales function on a 12-month parental leave contract, based in either Melbourne or...
Field account manager, New South Wales
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Simon & Schuster The Job Profile The Field Account Manager is responsible for managing a designated sales territory within NSW, including planning and maintaining a regular monthly call cycle with...
The Festival of Ice and Snow (Angie Cui, illus Anna Wilson, University of Queensland Press)
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
In The Festival of Ice and Snow, Angie Cui (My Mum Is a Bird) and illustrator Anna Wilson (A Taste of Home) transport readers aged 5 to 8 to the...
Theodora’s Tea Shop (Christy Anne Jones, Hachette)
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Christy Anne Jones has brewed a bewitching concoction in Theodora’s Tea Shop, her first adult fantasy novel. Dot, a timid girl from a seaside town, strikes out for the capital...
Thames & Hudson moves to Bookreps NZ
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Thames & Hudson is partnering with Bookreps NZ for Aotearoa sales and distribution; S Shakthidharan’s memoir, Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath, has been sold to Le Bruit du Monde;...
Leading Edge restructure
Monday, 1 June 2026
Kaye Wright has left Leading Edge as part of a restructure; Justin Ractliffe has joined The Pilkington Agency; the DANZ Children’s Book Award 2026 shortlist, Dick and Joan Green Family...
Local books “take flight” at Hachette
Thursday, 28 May 2026
Hachette is launching a new Australian imprint; Bronwyn Bancroft has received a Red Ochre lifetime achievement award; the NT Writers Festival kicks off its 2026 program today; Radio National will...
ABIA 2026 lost & found
Wednesday, 27 May 2026
A few items were left behind at the Australian Book Industry Awards on Thursday, 21 May. If you think something might belong to you, we would love to help reunite...
ABIA 2026 photos available
Wednesday, 27 May 2026
Books+Publishing hopes you enjoyed the 2026 Australian Book Industry Awards. Photos of the award ceremony on 21 May are now available for download. Access photos by Peanut Productions on...
A Funny Thing Happened…with Robbie Swan and Fiona Patten
Wednesday, 27 May 2026
A sharp, darkly funny insider account of the sex industry’s collision with politics, censorship and everyday Australian life by Robbie Swan, a former national magazine editor turned political lobbyist for...
