Dymocks Giving Day date, program announced
Tuesday, 19 August 2025
Dymocks has announced its 2025 Giving Day will take place on 21 August. Free in-store events will occur in Dymocks stores around the country, including Matt Cosgrove leading a storytime...
Global Book Crawl 2026 dates released
Tuesday, 19 August 2025
The 2026 Global Book Crawl (GBC) will take place on April 20–26. GBC is ‘a worldwide celebration of local (indie, bricks and mortar) bookshops and those who love them,’ said...
Brisbane Writers Festival releases 2025 program
Friday, 15 August 2025
Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has launched the full program for its 2025 festival, to be held at the new venue of Brisbane Powerhouse 9–12 October. The program includes over 100 events and features...
Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day program
Thursday, 14 August 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, the NZ Book Awards Trust has announced the program for the Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day. Among the events around the country, Invercargill Public Library will...
Write Around the Murray 2025 program
Thursday, 14 August 2025
The Write Around the Murray (WAM) festival, running 10–14 September in Albury City, has announced its 2025 program. Among the headliners attending the event are journalist, social commentator and writer...
Love Your Bookshop Day 2025 theme announced
Tuesday, 12 August 2025
BookPeople has announced 'Discover the magic. Discover you' as the theme for Love Your Bookshop Day 2025 (LYBD), which will take place on 11 October 2025. LYBD ‘aims to reignite...
Byron Writers Festival showground events cancelled
Monday, 11 August 2025
Organisers of Byron Writers Festival (BWF) cancelled the Bangalow Showground events for the second and third days of the 2025 festival program, because of rain and safety issues. In an...
Creative Australia adjusts dates for North America Publishers’ Program
Monday, 11 August 2025
Creative Australia has adjusted the dates for the North America Publishers’ Program, to accommodate publishers, agents and rights-sellers who may wish to travel to the London Book Fair afterwards. The...
Emerging Writers Festival 2025 program launched
Monday, 11 August 2025
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) has launched its 2025 program alongside a new logo. The festival, which will run 11–18 September, will hold 70 events with over 200 artists in...
Stella Day Out to host Brisbane events
Monday, 11 August 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the program for its Stella Day Out Brisbane event, set to take place on 13 September 2025 at Avid Reader in West End. Two sessions...
Newcastle Writers Festival announces spring festival
Thursday, 7 August 2025
Newcastle Writers Festival (NWF) has announced a special spring program, which will run 20 September to 25 October 2025. The spring program reflects the organisation’s commitment to creating year-round opportunities...
Island Readers and Writers Festival announced
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The inaugural Island Readers and Writers Festival will be held in Nipaluna / Hobart on 29 May–1 June 2026. Produced by literary organisation and magazine Island, the festival is accepting...
Together We Read online bookclub announces 2025 title
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Together We Read AU has announced that the fifth annual online bookclub, running 12–26 August 2025, will read Smoke by Michael Brissenden (Affirm). Smoke can be downloaded via the Libby App, which...
Port Fairy Literary Weekend announces program
Monday, 4 August 2025
Port Fairy Literary Weekend, which runs 12–14 September, has announced its full program. Headliners include Helen Garner, Jock Serong, Emily Maguire, Sharmini Kumar and Jayne Tuttle. The festival will open...
Stella Day Out announces Melbourne program
Monday, 4 August 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the program for its Stella Day Out Melbourne event, set to take place on 18 August at the Queen Victoria Women's Centre. Three sessions have...
CBCA’s Children’s Book Week turns 80
Monday, 4 August 2025
Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced Children's Book Week Birthday Book Adventure events, running 16 to 23 August 2025, to celebrate Book Week's 80th birthday. On Saturday 23...
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival program announced
Monday, 4 August 2025
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, running 11–13 September, has launched its 2025 program. Among the headliners are Michael Robotham, Candice Fox, Jane Caro and Gary Jubelin. The program will feature...
Australia Reads announces first LitUp participants
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
Australia Reads has announced the 27 schools, libraries and bookshops that will host LitUp events as part of the pilot for this live literature initiative. In its pilot year, the...
We Read Auckland announces full program
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
We Read Auckland | Ka Pānui Tātou i Tāmaki Makaurau has announced its full program, which will run 1–31 August. The month-long reading and writing festival offers free events with...
Somerset Storyfest announces 2025 regional program
Wednesday, 23 July 2025
Youth literary festival Somerset Storyfest has announced its regional touring program for 1–16 September 2025, traveling beyond its base on the Gold Coast, Queensland, to the towns of St George,...
Stella Day Out to host evening in Darwin
Wednesday, 23 July 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced an inaugural Darwin Stella Day Out event, set to take place on 13 August in partnership with the Darwin Festival. At the evening event, author...
Stella Day Out to host evening in Sydney
Wednesday, 23 July 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced an evening edition of its Stella Day Out program, to take place in Sydney on 14 August in partnership with Western Sydney University. Featured authors...
Mudgee Readers’ Festival announces 2025 program
Wednesday, 23 July 2025
Mudgee Readers’ Festival (MRF) has announced its full 2025 program, set to run 15–17 August. Over 25 writers will appear over three days, including Chris Hammer, Victoria Purnam, Sara M...
Stella Day Out announces Canberra program
Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Stella has announced a date and full program for its upcoming Stella Day Out event in Canberra. Stella Day Out is a free one-day literary festival that ‘celebrates and promotes...
Phillip Island Festival of Stories announces 2025 program
Monday, 21 July 2025
Phillip Island Festival of Stories, which runs 25–27 July, has announced its full program. Among the headliners are Peter Greste, Candice Fox, Jane Caro, Paul Bangay, Alice Zaslavsky and Foong...
Gippsland Writers Festival releases 2025 program
Thursday, 17 July 2025
The Gippsland Writers Festival, formerly known as StoryFest, has released its 2025 program. The festival, which runs 1–3 August in Yarram, will open with ‘You are Here’, a conversation featuring...
Words in Winter 2025 festival program launched
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
The Words in Winter festival has announced its full 2025 program, which will run 22–21 and 29–31 August on Dja Dja Wurrung country, across Daylesford and Hepburn Springs, Victoria. The...
WORD Christchurch 2025 program announced
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
WORD Christchurch Festival, which will run this year 27–31 August, has announced its full program. With the theme ‘Share the Joy of Words’, this year's program includes over 90 writers...
Parramatta’s Lit! festival launched
Monday, 14 July 2025
The Sydney Fringe Festival has announced Parramatta’s Lit!, a new writer-led literary festival as part of Sydney Fringe. The festival, which will run through September, will celebrate Parramatta’s authors, publishers...
Amplify Lit Festival Live program announced
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Aotearoa New Zealand writer and editor Jackie Lee Morrison has announced the program for the inaugural Amplify Lit Festival Live program, running 5–31 July on Instagram and TikTok. The line-up...
