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Aurealis Awards 2024 winners announced

Aurealis Awards winner logo. Monday, 5 May 2025
The winners of the 2024 Aurealis Awards have been announced. Winning titles in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in April, are: Best fantasy novel Thoroughly Disenchanted (Alexandra Almond, Voyager) Best science...

WestWords acquires Curic debut novel

Monday, 5 May 2025
WestWords Books has acquired world rights to debut novel Sing to Me by Jelena Curic. ‘Sing to Me tells the story of Pero, a Croatian immigrant, father, husband, musician, and philanderer...

The Age Book of the Year 2025 shortlists announced 

the age logo Thursday, 1 May 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 Age Book of the Year awards have been announced. Shortlisted works in each category are: Fiction The Burrow (Melanie Cheng, Text) This Kingdom of Dust (David...

Melbourne Books acquires women’s cricket nonfiction title

a photo of Craig Horne Thursday, 1 May 2025
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Full Corset and Stockings: A History of Women’s Cricket by historian and musician Craig Horne. 'Full Corset and Stockings details the history of women’s cricket...

black&write! shortlist announced

black&write! 2025 shortlist images. Wednesday, 30 April 2025
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced the shortlist for the 2025 black&write! Writing Fellowships. The shortlisted authors are: Marilyn ‘Marly’ Hooper, for the children's novel ‘Moodu Gutta Will...

Bin Salleh wins Pixie O’Harris Award

Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Rachel Bin Salleh has been named the recipient of 2025 Pixie O’Harris Hall of Fame Award, presented at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) by the Australian Publishers Association (APA)....

Gibb wins Lloyd O’Neil Award

Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Ross Gibb has been named the recipient of the 2025 Lloyd O’Neil Hall of Fame Award, presented at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) by the Australian Publishers Association (APA)....

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Sales Fiction Scribe has sold Polish rights to Auē (Becky Manawatu) to Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Nonfiction Rockpool Publishing has sold German rights to Folklore Oracle (Hadas Knox, illus by Giada Rose). Scribe...

ABR announces new editorial cadetship

ABR logo Wednesday, 30 April 2025
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the Peter Rose Editorial Cadetship to honour outgoing CEO and editor Peter Rose's ‘extraordinary contribution to the training of publishing professionals’. In its...

Mrozinski wins 2025 Calibre Essay Prize 

Jeanette Mrozinski photo. Image credit is Erin Lewis. Wednesday, 30 April 2025
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has named Jeanette Mrozinski as the 2025 winner of the $5000 Calibre Essay Prize for her essay 'Eucharist'. 'Eucharist' was chosen from a shortlist of...

Transit Lounge acquires new novel from Carmel Bird

Carmel Bird author photo. Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Crimson Velvet Heart, a new novel by Carmel Bird (Love Letter to Lola, Family Skeleton). ‘This sumptuous historical novel centres on Marie Adelaide...

NSW Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced 

NSW Literary Awards shortlists Wednesday, 30 April 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 New South Wales Literary Awards have been announced. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) One Another (Gail Jones, Text) Heartsease (Kate...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 30 April 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.

Salvage (Jennifer Mills, Picador) 

Tuesday, 29 April 2025
In Salvage, Jennifer Mills (The Airways, Dyschronia) weaves a haunting, speculative tale of two sisters navigating the fallout of a fractured world. Jude, rootless and always on the move, once...

Wait Here (Lucy Nelson, S&S) 

Tuesday, 29 April 2025
Lucy Nelson’s debut short story collection, Wait Here, is a striking reflection on women’s lives in all their beautiful complexity. Through narratives of varying lengths, Nelson deftly incorporates many perspectives...

Cultivate 2025 winners announced

Huyen Hac Helen Tran headshot. Tuesday, 29 April 2025
Writing NSW has announced the winners of the 2025 Cultivate Mentorship Program for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Emerging Writers. The annual program was developed by Writing NSW to 'help build equity and diversity...

Sheppard wins 2025 McCraith House Residency

Tuesday, 29 April 2025
Blak & Bright Festival has announced performing artist and creator Jackie Sheppard as the recipient of its 2025 McCraith House Residency. The festival said in its announcement: ‘Based in Naarm,...

Open Book 2025 interns announced

Monday, 28 April 2025
The successful interns for the 2025 Open Book: Australian Publishing Internship have been announced. Chosen from over 450 applications, the 2025 interns and their placements are: Olivia De La Mare...

Sir Julius Vogel Award 2025 winners announced 

SFFANZ logo. Monday, 28 April 2025
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand Inc. (SFFANZ) has announced the winners of the 2025 Sir Julius Vogel Awards. This year's winners include: Best novel   Echoes of...

Perentie Press launches graphic novel prize 

Perentie Prize logo. Monday, 28 April 2025
New Australian publisher Perentie Press has announced the Perentie Prize for a graphic novel manuscript. Calling for text-only manuscripts for graphic novels, Perentie Press has opened the prize to junior...

 

 

 

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