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Readings 2025 Young Adult Prize shortlist

Readings logo Monday, 1 September 2025
Readings has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Readings Young Adult Prize, for the best new contribution to Australian young adult literature. This year’s six shortlisted books are: Aisle Nine...

WestWords Varuna Emerging Writers Residency 2025 recipients

Monday, 1 September 2025
Varuna, the National Writers' House has announced the recipients of the 2025 WestWords Varuna Emerging Writers Residency. The four recipients are: Jasmine Baker for work on multiple projects including poetry,...

Ditmar Awards ballot announced

Thursday, 28 August 2025
The Ditmar subcommittee has announced the Ditmar Award ballot for works celebrating Australian science fiction. The shortlisted works include: Best Novel Blood Covenant (Alan Baxter, Cemetery Dance Publications) The Escher...

Northern Territory Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced

Thursday, 28 August 2025
The Northern Territory Literary Awards 2025 shortlists have been announced. Chosen from over 240 entries, the shortlisted writers are: Brown’s Mart Theatre ($1000) Jada Alberts for ‘Black light’ Ryanna Clayton...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 27 August 2025
Sales Fiction Arndell has sold Hungarian rights to The Do-Over and Miles Ever After by TL Swan to Maxim Hungary. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold German rights to The Shortest...

Roche wins 2025 Moth Short Story Prize

Wednesday, 27 August 2025
The Moth magazine has announced Australian author Clare Roche as the winner of the 2025 Moth Short Story Prize for ‘(Un)Tethered’. Roche will receive €3,000 (A$5376), and ‘(Un)Tethered’ will be...

Danger Awards 2025 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 27 August 2025
The BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival has announced the shortlists for the 2025 Danger Awards. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Debut crime fiction What I Would Do to You...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 27 August 2025
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. View the edition here.

Between (Anna Walker, Scribble) 

Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Between by Anna Walker, CBCA Award–winning creator of Lottie and Walter and Florette, is a beautiful and meditative picture book that invites readers to pause, observe and imagine. Told with...

The Lucky Sisters (Rachael Johns, Penguin) 

Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Rachael Johns (The Patterson Girls, The Greatest Gift) delivers one of her most heartfelt and emotionally layered novels yet in The Lucky Sisters, a story marking a confident shift beyond...

Last Chance Joey (Meredith Resce, Rhiza Edge) 

Tuesday, 26 August 2025
In Meredith Resce’s debut YA novel, Last Chance Joey, 17-year-old Joey Walton – who is struggling with dyslexia, toxic social circles and a troubled home life – is sent to live in the...

A&U acquires New Blue Ribbon Cookbook

A portrait of LIz Harfull Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world English rights to The New Blue Ribbon Cookbook by Liz Harfull, in a deal brokered by Fiona Inglis at Curtis Brown. ‘Every year thousands...

UWAP acquires ‘Mother Salad’ by Pantsis

Tuesday, 26 August 2025
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Mother Salad, a collection of short stories by Helena Pantsis. ‘Mother Salad is a series of small fictions that explore the plights...

WestWords announces new CYA manuscript prize

Tuesday, 26 August 2025
WestWords has announced the Libby Gleeson Prize for Children’s Literature, a new biennial prize for an unpublished manuscript for children or young adults. The winning manuscript is set to be...

Copyright Agency relaunches industry grants

logo for the copyright agency cultural fund Monday, 25 August 2025
The Copyright Agency has announced the launch of the Publishing Fellowships – an updated extension of its previous Publishing Industry Career Development grants (PICD), which were paused during the pandemic....

Sanders wins the 2025 NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award

Monday, 25 August 2025
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (NZSA) has announced Cristina Sanders as the winner of the 2025 NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award, worth NZ$5000. Sanders is...

Atlantic Books acquires Grey’s next novel

Monday, 25 August 2025
Atlantic Books Australia, a division of Allen & Unwin, has acquired UK/ANZ rights to Start at the End by Emma Grey, in a two-book deal brokered by Anjanette Fennell at Key...

RWA announces Ruby Award 2025 winners

Return to Hope Creek cover Monday, 25 August 2025
Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2025 Romantic Book of the Year Awards, known as the Ruby Awards. Chosen from shortlists announced in June, the...

World Kid Lit Reading Challenge Award

Thursday, 21 August 2025
WorldKidLit has announced a new award for schools ‘to promote international and inclusive reading’, said organisers. Running through September and open internationally, the award aims to encourage reading, connect young...

ILF Day theme announced

Grinj det K'taun Krok! Thursday, 21 August 2025
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced ‘Strength In Our Stories: For Now & Future Generations’ as the 2025 Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) theme and Grinj det K’Taun Krok! (Grinch...

 

 

 

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