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Events

Upcoming events

February 2026

Midsumma Pride March (1 February)
  • BookPeople invites booksellers to Midsumma Pride March
    • GenreCon (20–22 February)
  • GenreCon 2026 announces new venue
    • North America Publishers’ Program (25 February–6 March)
  • Creative Australia adjusts dates for North America Publishers’ Program

    • April 2026

    Global Book Crawl 2026 (20–26 April)
  • Global Book Crawl 2026 dates released

    • May 2026

    International Literary Programmers Roundtable (4–9 May)
  • International Literary Programmers Roundtable set to return to Melbourne
    • National Simultaneous Storytime (27 May)
  • Luna Roo announced as 2026 NSS story
    • Island Readers & Writers Festival (29 May–1 June)
  • Island Readers and Writers Festival announced

    • July 2026

    International Publishers Congress (5–9 July)
  • IPA expands membership, firms up 2026 congress

    • September 2026

    Blak & Bright (3–6 September)
  • Blak & Bright moves to September

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    Past events

    (Most recent events first)

    November 2025

    Australian Short Story Festival (21–23 November 2025)
  • Australian Short Story Festival 2025 program announced
    • Stella Day Out (15 November 2025)
  • Stella Day Out Aireys Inlet program revealed
    • Words at Pearls (15 November 2025)
  • Words at Pearls program announced
    • China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (13–16 November 2025)
  • Shanghai Children’s Book Fair probes a changing market
    • A Day In Carlton (13–15 November 2025)
  • Ticket sales double at Readings’s A Day In Carlton
    • A Day in Carlton (12–15 November 2025)
  • Readings’ A Day in Carlton program announced
    • Sunshine Coast Fiction Festival (7–9 November 2025)
  • Sunshine Coast Fiction Festival 2025 program released
    • Weekend of Words (7–9 November 2025)
  • OzAsia Festival’s 2025 Weekend of Words program released
    • Stella Day Out (5 November 2025)
  • Stella Day Out Ballarat program announced
    • SIBF Publishers Conference (2–4 November 2025)
  • Publishers reaching across borders at Sharjah
    • History Unbound (1–2 November 2025)
  • History Unbound festival launches program

    • October 2025

    Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival (31 October–2 November 2025)
  • Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival: “a sense of community, intimate spaces, and engaging panel discussions”
  • Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival announces 2025 program
    • Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (30 October–2 November 2025)
  • Full program announced for Ubud 2025
    • The Queenstown Writers Festival (QWF) (30 October–3 November 2025)
  • Queenstown Writers Festival announces 2025 program
    • Stella Day Out (28 October 2025)
  • Stella Day Out announces new Melbourne event
  • Stella Day Out Perth program released
    • AusArt Day (23 October 2025)
  • Inaugural AusArt Day seeks to support creative work
    • Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) (22–26 October 2025)
  • Canberra Writers Festival 2025 program announced
    • Canberra Writers Festival (22–26 October 2025)
  • Canberra Writers Festival appoints Putnis as artistic director
    • Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) (22–26 October 2025)
  • CWF records 55% increase in attendance
    • Stella Day Out (21 October 2025)
  • Stella Day Out announces new Sydney event
    • OutWOMEN+ panel discussion (21 October 2025)
  • Hachette to host panel on LGBTQ+ support and allyship in the workplace
    • Festival of Fiction (18–19 October 2025)
  • Festival of Fiction 2025 program announced
    • Stella Day Out (17 October 2025)
  • Stella Day Out to host Byron Bay event
    • KUPU Māori Writers Festival (17–18 October 2025)
  • KUPU Māori Writers Festival releases full program
    • Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival (17–19 October 2025)
  • Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival 2025 program announced
    • Queenscliffe Literary Fetival (QLF) (17–26 October 2025)
  • Queenscliffe Literary Festival 2025 program announced
    • Queenscliffe Literary Festival (17–26 October 2025)
  • Record numbers at 2025 QLF
    • Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) (11 October 2025)
  • Love Your Bookshop Day 2025 theme announced
    • Hachette Book Haul (11 October 2025)
  • Hachette announces 2025 Book Haul
    • The Jewish Poetry Project (10 October–5 November 2025)
  • Jewish Poetry Project exhibition announced
    • Brisbane Writers Festival (9–12 October 2025)
  • Brisbane Writers Festival releases 2025 program
    • National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF) (2–5 October 2025)
  • NYWF announces 2025 program

    • September 2025

    Stella Day Out (26 September 2025)
  • Stella Day Out to host Hobart events
    • Newcastle Writers Festival Spring Program (20 September–25 October 2025)
  • Newcastle Writers Festival announces spring festival
    • Stella Day Out Brisbane (13 September 2025)
  • Stella Day Out to host Brisbane events
    • Port Fairy Literary Weekend (12–14 September 2025)
  • Port Fairy Literary Weekend announces program
    • Papercuts Comics Festival (12–14 September 2025)
  • Papercuts Comics Festival announces program
    • BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival (11–13 September 2025)
  • BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival program announced
    • Emerging Writers Festival (11–18 September 2025)
  • Emerging Writers Festival 2025 program launched
    • Write Around the Murray (10–14 September 2025)
  • Write Around the Murray 2025 program
    • Indigenous Literacy Foundation Day (3 September 2025)
  • ILF Day theme announced
    • Parramatta's Lit! (1–30 September 2025)
  • Parramatta’s Lit! festival launched
    • Somerset Storyfest Regional Tour (1–16 September 2025)
  • Somerset Storyfest announces 2025 regional program

    • August 2025

    Northland Writers Readers and Poets Festival (29–31 August 2025)
  • Northland Writers, Readers and Poets Festival announces program
    • WORD Christchurch Festival (27–31 August 2025)
  • WORD Christchurch 2025 program announced
    • Words in Winter (22–31 August 2025)
  • Words in Winter 2025 festival program launched
    • Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day (22 August 2025)
  • Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day program
    • Dymocks Giving Day (21 August 2025)
  • Dymocks Giving Day date, program announced
    • Together We Read (20–26 August 2025)
  • Together We Read online bookclub announces 2025 title
    • Stella Day Out – Melbourne (18 August 2025)
  • Stella Day Out announces Melbourne program
    • CBCA Book Week (16–23 August 2025)
  • CBCA’s Children’s Book Week turns 80
    • Bendigo Writers Festival (15–17 August 2025)
  • Bendigo Writers Festival 2025 program announced
    • Mudgee Readers’ Festival (15–17 August 2025)
  • Mudgee Readers’ Festival announces 2025 program
    • Stella Day Out (14 August 2025)
  • Stella Day Out to host evening in Sydney
  • Stella Day Out to host evening in Darwin
    • BookUp research day (8 August 2025)
  • Back into BookUp (again): The inaugural research day wrapped
    • Byron Writers Festival (8–10 August 2025)
  • Byron Writers Festival announces 2025 program
  • Byron Writers Festival showground events cancelled
    • BookUp (7–8 August 2025)
  • BookUp 2025 conference, research day program announced
    • Stella Day Out - Canberra (2 August 2025)
  • Stella Day Out announces Canberra program
    • We Read Auckland (1–31 August 2025)
  • We Read Auckland announces full program
    • Gippsland Writers Festival (1–3 August 2025)
  • Gippsland Writers Festival releases 2025 program

    • July 2025

    Poetry Month (30 July–3 September 2025)
  • First events announced for Red Room Poetry Month 2025
    • Library and Information Week (28 July–3 August 2025)
  • Literacy theme for Library and Information Week
    • Laureate Week (28 July–3 August 2025)
  • Australian Children’s Laureate Week announced
    • Phillip Island Festival of Stories (25–27 July 2025)
  • Phillip Island Festival of Stories announces 2025 program
    • Melbourne Rare Book Week (24 July–2 August 2025)
  • Melbourne Rare Book Week program announced
    • BookPeople Christmas Roadshows (22–30 July 2025)
  • BookPeople Roadshow 2025 dates announced
    • Books Alive (22 July 2025)
  • Books Alive expands to Palmerston North
    • Stella Day Out - Adelaide (17 July 2025)
  • Stella Day Out announces Adelaide program
    • Amplify Lit Festival Live (5–31 July 2025)
  • Amplify Lit Festival Live program announced

    • June 2025

    Stella Day Out – Warrnambool (28 June 2025)
  • Stella Day Out announces Warrnambool program
    • Big Day of Books (28 June 2025)
  • Big Day of Books Perth program announced
    • Rose Scott Women Writers Festival (27–28 June 2025)
  • Rose Scott Women Writers Festival releases 2025 program
    • Q-Lit (20–28 June 2025)
  • Q-Lit Festival 2025 program announced
    • Beijing International Book Fair (18–22 June 2025)
  • Beijing International Book Fair: ‘record’ international participation
  • BIBF to increase focus on academic publishing
    • BookPeople Conference (14–16 June 2025)
  • BookPeople conference program announced
  • BookPeople 2025 conference in numbers

    • May 2025

    Northern Territory Writers Festival (29 May–1 June 2025)
  • NT Writers Festival announces 2025 program
    • Words on the Waves (28 May–1 June 2025)
  • Words on the Waves announces dates, full program
    • Sydney Writers’ Festival (19–27 May 2025)
  • Harvey, Winterson, Rankin, Keyes among 2025 SWF headliners
  • Sydney Writers’ Festival achieves ‘record-breaking year’
  • Community and Courage: B+P reflects on SWF
    • Auckland Writers Festival (13–18 May 2025)
  • AWF 2025: attendance, book sales up
  • Auckland Writers Festival announces 2025 program
    • Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival (9–11 May 2025)
  • Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2025 program announced
    • Melbourne Writers Festival (8–11 May 2025)
  • MWF ticket sales up 47%
  • On alchemy: B+P reflects on Melbourne Writers Festival 2025
  • MWF releases full 2025 program

    • March 2025

    Bologna Children’s Book Fair (31 March–3 April 2025)
  • Australian rights managers positive, ‘cautiously optimistic’ after Bologna
    • Clunes Booktown (23–24 March 2025)
  • Clunes Booktown 2025 – books, bands, and breaking records
    • Tasmania Reads (23–29 March 2025)
  • Tasmania Reads 2025 events announced
    • Clunes Booktown (22–23 March 2025)
  • Clunes Booktown Festival 2025 program announced
    • London Book Fair (11–13 March 2025)
  • LBF: Australians report ‘buoyant’, ‘busy and buzzy’ fair
    • Adelaide Writers' Week (1–6 March 2025)
  • Brooks memoir tops chart at 2025 Adelaide Writers’ Week

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