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...
Rapee wins CBCA 2025 Nan Chauncy Award
Monday, 11 August 2025
The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced Wendy Rapee as the recipient of the 2025 Nan Chauncy Award, which ‘honours a person, or a collaborative partnership, who has...
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...
Ned Kelly Awards 2025 best debut crime fiction shortlists announced
Thursday, 7 August 2025
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2025 Ned Kelly Awards shortlist for best debut crime fiction. The shortlisted titles are: All You Took From Me (Lisa Kenway, Transit...
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...
Productivity Commission report; El-Zein wins National Biography Award; PANZ Publishing Market Size Report
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
Headlining the news this week, the Australian government Productivity Commission’s (PC) current Harnessing Data and Digital Technology inquiry released an interim report, which called for feedback on ‘the issue of copyrighted materials...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
Sales Fiction Allen & Unwin (A&U) has sold UK rights for The Frenchman by Jack Beaumont to Atlantic Books, brokered by WME. Nonfiction A&U has sold North American rights for I Am Dyslexic...
Collins Booksellers Warrnambool named 2025 Franchisee of the Year
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
Collins Booksellers Warrnambool (Michaelie Clark and Graeme Gallagher) was named 2025 Franchisee of the Year at the Collins Booksellers Annual Conference in Melbourne. A statement from Collins Booksellers said, ‘In...
UQP acquires Vucic debut poetry collection
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
UQP has acquired world rights to After War, the debut poetry collection from Dženana Vucic. After War is ‘a memoiristic poetry collection which unfurls from the dislocating trauma of the Bosnian...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
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A Great Act of Love (Heather Rose, A&U)
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Heather Rose's A Great Act of Love follows Caroline, an upper class widow who leaves London in the late 1830s to undertake a long and dangerous journey to Van Diemen’s...
The Legend of Jessie Hickman (Mark Greenwood, illus Frané Lessac, NLA)
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The Legend of Jessie Hickman is a beautifully crafted nonfiction picture book that tells the remarkable true story of a 20th century Australian circus performer turned bushranger. Written by Mark...
Seed (Bri Lee, Summit Books)
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Bri Lee’s Seed is a suspenseful literary thriller that asks urgent, existential questions: What does it mean to leave an impact on the world? Is it too late to halt...
Catch (Sarah Brill, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Sarah Brill’s Catch is a heartfelt and quietly thrilling coming-of-age novel. The story follows 16-year-old Beth as she navigates the upheaval of her older sister’s surprise pregnancy, the quiet chaos of...
The Peach King (Inga Simpson, illus Tannya Harricks, Lothian)
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Nature writer Inga Simpson (The Thinning, Willowman) and award-winning artist Tannya Harricks (Mallee Sky) have created a modern classic in The Peach King – an exquisite book destined to be...
Average at Best (Astrid Jorgensen, S&S)
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Average at Best is one of those rare books that sneaks up on you with its funny and effortless voice, as well as its emotional depth. It doesn’t try to...
The Underworld (Sofie Laguna, Penguin)
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Sofie Laguna’s The Underworld is an introspective, bittersweet coming-of-age tale that follows a 15-year-old Martha Mullins in 1970s Sydney from adolescence through to university, focusing on her female friendships, her...
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...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2025 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, worth $50,000, has been announced by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University (JCU). Chosen from...
A&U acquires Hone guide to surviving loss
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world English rights to How Will I Ever Get Through This? by Lucy Hone, in a deal brokered by Catherine Drayton at InkWell Management....
Nib Literary Award 2025 longlist announced
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
The longlist for the 2025 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Australian Gospel (Lech Blaine, Black Inc.) Black Convicts: How...
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...
Larrikin House acquires Hayward’s picture book
Monday, 4 August 2025
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to What Can I Get For Mother’s Day?, a picture book written by Renae Hayward and illustrated by Susan Joy Lu. According to the...
Transit Lounge acquires Hinton’s second crime novel
Monday, 4 August 2025
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to SD Hinton’s new crime novel, Inlet Bridge, via Sarah McKenzie Literary Management. ‘The inspiration for Inlet Bridge came in two parts,' said Hinton....
