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June

Australian Booksellers Association Conference
(13–15 June)
Big Day of Books Perth
(20 June)
Southern Highlands Writers’ Festival 
(23–26 June)

July

International Publishers Congress 
(5–9 July)
Mildura Writers Festival
(16–19 July)
Q-Lit
(16–19 July)
BookUp 
(22–23 July)
Melbourne Rare Book Week 
(23 July–1 August)
Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Conference and Trade Day 
(24–25 July)
Apollo Bay WORDfest
(24–26 July)

August

Byron Writers Festival 
(14–16 August)
Aotearoa NZ Children’s Book Week
(15–21 August)
Children’s Book Week
(22–28 August)

September

Blak & Bright
(3–6 September)
Whitsundays Writers Festival
(13 September)

October

Frankfurt Book Fair 
(7–11 October)
Brisbane Writers Festival 
(8–11 October)

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Melbourne Rare Book Week announces 2026 program 

Rare Book Week Thursday, 11 June 2026
Melbourne Rare Book Week (MRBW) returns on 23 July, running until 1 August 2026 with a line-up of events, exhibitions, talks and lectures. Book experts will explore topics including the...

Willy Lit Fest 2026 program announced

Willy lit fest logo Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Willy Lit Fest will run in the Williamstown Town Hall, Melbourne, from 12 to 14 June under the theme of “reflections”. The event will feature 40 sessions and almost 80...

NT Writers Festival 2026 festival opens

Thursday, 28 May 2026
The NT Writers Festival will return to Garramilla/Darwin today, running from 28 to 31 May under the theme “Navigating”. Panels, workshops and conversations will include appearances by writers Omar Musa,...

SWF 2026 “the most successful” ever 

SWF Box office Tuesday, 26 May 2026
The 2026 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which this year ran 17 to 24 May, recorded a second consecutive year of record-breaking attendance and ticket sales, making it “the most successful...

AWF26 breaks box office, bookstall records 

Monday, 25 May 2026
Ticket sales for the 2026 Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki (AWF26), held in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland from 12 to 17 May, were up 15% on the previous year, representing...

Q-Lit 2026 program announced

Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Q-Lit has announced the program for this year’s festival, to be held in Naarm/Melbourne from 16 to 19 July, with the theme “queer nostalgia”. The opening gala at Kensington Town...

Island Readers & Writers Festival 2026 program

Logo of the Island Readers & Writers Festival, Nipaluna / Hobart, 28 May to 1 June 2026 Tuesday, 19 May 2026
The inaugural Island Readers & Writers Festival, which will run from 28 May to 1 June, has announced its event program. Presented across 7 series – in conversations, panel discussions,...

Whitsundays Writers Festival announces 2026 program

Tuesday, 28 April 2026
Whitsundays Writers Festival has announced the program for its one-day event, to be held on 13 September 2026. Festival director Richard Evans said the 2026 program elevates local storytelling. “This...

Words on the Waves 2026 program announced

Wednesday, 1 April 2026
The program for the Words on the Waves Writers Festival, to run from 27 May to 1 June on the NSW Central Coast, has been announced. The festival’s opening address,...

Newcastle Writers Festival kicks off tomorrow

Newcastle Writers Festival Thursday, 26 March 2026
Newcastle Writers Festival (NWF) runs from 27 to 29 March, with an opening night event featuring London-based Australian author Kathy Lette, who will reflect on “her writing career, resilience, and...

Fitzroy Writers Festival 2026 program announced

Fitzroy Writers Festival logo. Tuesday, 17 March 2026
Yarra Libraries has released the program for this year’s Fitzroy Writers Festival, running on 18 April. To be held in inner Melbourne’s Fitzroy Town Hall, sessions are set to cover...

Apollo Bay WORDfest 2026 line-up announced

Apollo Bay WORDfest logo. Monday, 16 March 2026
The Apollo Bay WORDfest has released the program for its 2026 festival, to be held in the Victorian coastal town from Friday 24 July to Sunday 26 July. Authors scheduled...

Manly Writers’ Festival announces 2026 program 

Manly Writers' Festival logo. Thursday, 12 March 2026
The Manly Writers’ Festival has released its program, which will run from 19 to 22 March 2026, bringing together almost 90 writers, journalists, historians, thinkers and musicians, while examining “how...

Sydney Writers’ Festival program announced

Wednesday, 11 March 2026
The program for this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival, running from 17–24 May, has been announced. The festival is hosting 200+ in-person and live-streamed events featuring 39 international guests and over...

Sorrento Writers Festival program launched 

sorrento writers festival Monday, 2 March 2026
Described as “Victoria’s biggest literary event”, Sorrento Writers Festival has launched a 155-session program across 10 venues in the Victorian beachside towns of Sorrento and Portsea from 23 to 26...

Trans Book Festival program launched 

Monday, 2 March 2026
The full program has been launched for the second annual Trans Book Festival, which focuses on “uplifting and celebrating trans and gender diverse (TGD) literary excellence in all narrative forms.”...

Sorrento Writers Festival announces full 2026 program

sorrento writers festival logo Monday, 9 February 2026
The Sorrento Writers Festival (SWF) has announced its 2026 festival program, running from 23 to 26 April 2026 in Sorrento, Victoria. This year's festival will feature over 180 speakers across...

Frankfurt Book Fair names new CEO 

Frankfurt Book Fair logo. Thursday, 29 January 2026
Joachim Kaufmann has been named the next president and CEO of the Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse), effective September 2026, reported Publishers Weekly (PW). Kaufmann will take over after this...

 

 

 

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