Events
Upcoming events
July 2026
ABA Summer Circuit (15 July–13 August)
Q-Lit (16–19 July)
Marginalia Lit Fest Live (16–19 July)
Mildura Writers Festival (16–19 July)
BookUp (22–23 July)
Melbourne Rare Book Week (23 July–1 August)
Apollo Bay WORDfest (24–26 July)
Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Conference and Trade Day (24–25 July)
From Manuscript to Print: A Self-Publishing Prepress Workshop (25 July)
August 2026
Poetry Month (1–31 August)
Byron Writers Festival (14–16 August)
Aotearoa NZ Children’s Book Week (15–21 August)
Children’s Book Week (22–28 August)
Festival of Dangerous Ideas (30 August)
September 2026
Blak & Bright (3–6 September)
Blak & Bright Writers Festival (3–6 September)
Whitsundays Writers Festival (13 September)
October 2026
Melbourne Kids Book Fest (2–3 October)
Frankfurt Book Fair (7–11 October)
Brisbane Writers Festival (8–11 October)
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (21–25 October)
Past events
(Most recent events first)
July 2026
International Publishers Congress (5–9 July)
June 2026
Surf Coast Writers Festival (27 June)
Southern Highlands Writers’ Festival (23–26 June)
Big Day of Books Perth (20 June)
Australian Booksellers Association Conference (13–15 June)
Willy Lit Fest (12–14 June)
May 2026
Island Readers & Writers Festival (29 May–1 June)
NT Writers Festival (28 May)
National Simultaneous Storytime (27 May)
Words on the Waves Writers Festival (27 May–1 June)
Sydney Writers’ Festival (17–24 May)
Festival director speed dating event (13 May)
Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki (12–17 May)
ALIA National Conference (11–14 May)
Melbourne Writers Festival (7–10 May)
International Literary Programmers Roundtable (4–9 May)
April 2026
Sorrento Writers Festival (23–26 April)
Global Book Crawl 2026 (20–26 April)
Global Book Crawl (20–26 April)
Fitzroy Writers Festival (18 April)
Trans Book Festival (17–19 April)
Paris Book Festival (17–19 April)
March 2026
Newcastle Writers Festival (27–29 March)
Belonging and Storytelling: Diversity in Publishing (25 March)
Clunes Booktown Festival 2026 (21–22 March)
Manly Writers’ Festival (19–22 March)
February 2026
Constellations: Not Writers’ Week (28 February–6 March)
North America Publishers’ Program (25 February–6 March)
GenreCon (20–22 February)
Midsumma Pride March (1 February)
November 2025
Australian Short Story Festival (21–23 November 2025)
Words at Pearls (15 November 2025)
Stella Day Out (15 November 2025)
China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (13–16 November 2025)
A Day In Carlton (13–15 November 2025)
A Day in Carlton (12–15 November 2025)
Sunshine Coast Fiction Festival (7–9 November 2025)
Weekend of Words (7–9 November 2025)
Stella Day Out (5 November 2025)
SIBF Publishers Conference (2–4 November 2025)
History Unbound (1–2 November 2025)
October 2025
Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival (31 October–2 November 2025)
Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (30 October–2 November 2025)
The Queenstown Writers Festival (QWF) (30 October–3 November 2025)
Stella Day Out (28 October 2025)
AusArt Day (23 October 2025)
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) (22–26 October 2025)
Canberra Writers Festival (22–26 October 2025)
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) (22–26 October 2025)
Stella Day Out (21 October 2025)
OutWOMEN+ panel discussion (21 October 2025)
Festival of Fiction (18–19 October 2025)
Queenscliffe Literary Fetival (QLF) (17–26 October 2025)
Stella Day Out (17 October 2025)
KUPU Māori Writers Festival (17–18 October 2025)
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival (17–19 October 2025)
Queenscliffe Literary Festival (17–26 October 2025)
Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) (11 October 2025)
Hachette Book Haul (11 October 2025)
The Jewish Poetry Project (10 October–5 November 2025)
Brisbane Writers Festival (9–12 October 2025)
National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF) (2–5 October 2025)
September 2025
Stella Day Out (26 September 2025)
Newcastle Writers Festival Spring Program (20 September–25 October 2025)
Stella Day Out Brisbane (13 September 2025)
Port Fairy Literary Weekend (12–14 September 2025)
Papercuts Comics Festival (12–14 September 2025)
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival (11–13 September 2025)
Emerging Writers Festival (11–18 September 2025)
Write Around the Murray (10–14 September 2025)
Indigenous Literacy Foundation Day (3 September 2025)
Parramatta's Lit! (1–30 September 2025)
Somerset Storyfest Regional Tour (1–16 September 2025)
August 2025
Northland Writers Readers and Poets Festival (29–31 August 2025)
WORD Christchurch Festival (27–31 August 2025)
Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day (22 August 2025)
Words in Winter (22–31 August 2025)
Dymocks Giving Day (21 August 2025)
Together We Read (20–26 August 2025)
Stella Day Out – Melbourne (18 August 2025)
CBCA Book Week (16–23 August 2025)
Bendigo Writers Festival (15–17 August 2025)
Mudgee Readers’ Festival (15–17 August 2025)
Stella Day Out (14 August 2025)
BookUp research day (8 August 2025)
Byron Writers Festival (8–10 August 2025)
BookUp (7–8 August 2025)