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16 January 2025

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Green wins 2025 Margaret Mahy Medal

The Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki has announced poet Paula Green as the 2025 recipient of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal. Said Publishers Association of New... Read more
 
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Singleton on 2024 Novel Prize shortlist

Publishers Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions have announced the 2024 shortlist for the Novel Prize. Local author Hollen Singleton is among those shortlisted for the prize, for their novel... Read more
 
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Local authors on Dublin Literary Award 2025 longlist

Several works by authors from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand have been longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000 (A$165,236). The Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand longlisted titles... Read more
 
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Aotearoa New Zealand authors recognised in New Year's Honours List x

New Zealand Aotearoa authors are among those recognised in the 2025 New Year’s Honours List. Fiction writer and poet Lee Murray has been appointed an Officer of the New Zealand... Read more
 

A photo of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. She has long brown hair parted in the middle and brown eyes. She is wearing a red top and muted red lipstick, and smiling into the camera.

 

UQP acquires first work of adult fiction by Abdel-Fattah x

UQP has acquired world rights to a first work of adult fiction by writer and activist Randa Abdel-Fattah. The Occupation is set during Israel’s May 2021 bombing of Gaza, and... Read more
 

UK 2024 book sales down as indie bookstore numbers decline

In the UK, there was a ‘small decline’ in the number of independent bookstores in 2024, from 1063 to 1052, reports the Bookseller. The decline continues the previous year’s downward... Read more
 

 

Gutsy Girls (Josie McSkimming, UQP) x

When Dorothy Porter died in 2008, Australia lost one of its greatest contemporary poets. The author of nine poetry collections and five verse novels, Porter had a lusty, raw and... Read more

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