Events
Upcoming events
February 2026
North America Publishers’ Program (25 February–6 March 2026)
April 2026
Global Book Crawl 2026 (20–26 April 2026)
May 2026
International Literary Programmers Roundtable (4–9 May 2026)
National Simultaneous Storytime (27 May 2026)
Island Readers & Writers Festival (29 May–1 June 2026)
July 2026
International Publishers Congress (5–9 July 2026)
September 2026
Blak & Bright (3–6 September 2026)
Past events
(Most recent events first)
November 2025
Australian Short Story Festival (21–23 November)
Stella Day Out (15 November)
Words at Pearls (15 November)
China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (13–16 November)
A Day In Carlton (13–15 November)
A Day in Carlton (12–15 November)
Sunshine Coast Fiction Festival (7–9 November)
Weekend of Words (7–9 November)
Stella Day Out (5 November)
SIBF Publishers Conference (2–4 November)
History Unbound (1–2 November)
October 2025
Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival (31 October–2 November)
Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (30 October–2 November)
The Queenstown Writers Festival (QWF) (30 October–3 November)
Stella Day Out (28 October)
AusArt Day (23 October)
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) (22–26 October)
Canberra Writers Festival (22–26 October)
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) (22–26 October)
Stella Day Out (21 October)
OutWOMEN+ panel discussion (21 October)
Festival of Fiction (18–19 October)
Stella Day Out (17 October)
KUPU Māori Writers Festival (17–18 October)
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival (17–19 October)
Queenscliffe Literary Fetival (QLF) (17–26 October)
Queenscliffe Literary Festival (17–26 October)
Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) (11 October)
Hachette Book Haul (11 October)
The Jewish Poetry Project (10 October–5 November)
Brisbane Writers Festival (9–12 October)
National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF) (2–5 October)
September 2025
Stella Day Out (26 September)
Newcastle Writers Festival Spring Program (20 September–25 October)
Stella Day Out Brisbane (13 September)
Port Fairy Literary Weekend (12–14 September)
Papercuts Comics Festival (12–14 September)
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival (11–13 September)
Emerging Writers Festival (11–18 September)
Write Around the Murray (10–14 September)
Indigenous Literacy Foundation Day (3 September)
Parramatta's Lit! (1–30 September)
Somerset Storyfest Regional Tour (1–16 September)
August 2025
Northland Writers Readers and Poets Festival (29–31 August)
WORD Christchurch Festival (27–31 August)
Words in Winter (22–31 August)
Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day (22 August)
Dymocks Giving Day (21 August)
Together We Read (20–26 August)
Stella Day Out – Melbourne (18 August)
CBCA Book Week (16–23 August)
Bendigo Writers Festival (15–17 August)
Mudgee Readers’ Festival (15–17 August)
Stella Day Out (14 August)
BookUp research day (8 August)
Byron Writers Festival (8–10 August)
BookUp (7–8 August)
Stella Day Out - Canberra (2 August)
We Read Auckland (1–31 August)
Gippsland Writers Festival (1–3 August)
July 2025
Poetry Month (30 July–3 September)
Library and Information Week (28 July–3 August)
Laureate Week (28 July–3 August)
Phillip Island Festival of Stories (25–27 July)
Melbourne Rare Book Week (24 July–2 August)
BookPeople Christmas Roadshows (22–30 July)
Books Alive (22 July)
Stella Day Out - Adelaide (17 July)
Amplify Lit Festival Live (5–31 July)
June 2025
Stella Day Out – Warrnambool (28 June)
Big Day of Books (28 June)
Rose Scott Women Writers Festival (27–28 June)
Q-Lit (20–28 June)
Beijing International Book Fair (18–22 June)
BookPeople Conference (14–16 June)
May 2025
Northern Territory Writers Festival (29 May–1 June)
Words on the Waves (28 May–1 June)
Sydney Writers’ Festival (19–27 May)
Auckland Writers Festival (13–18 May)
Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival (9–11 May)
Melbourne Writers Festival (8–11 May)
March 2025
Bologna Children’s Book Fair (31 March–3 April)
Clunes Booktown (23–24 March)
Tasmania Reads (23–29 March)
Clunes Booktown (22–23 March)
London Book Fair (11–13 March)
Adelaide Writers' Week (1–6 March)