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The recipients of the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours have been announced. Various writers and book industry professionals are among those presented with awards. Appointed a Companion of the Order of... Read more |
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The Australian School Library Association (ASLA) has announced the 2025 Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (DANZ) Children’s Book Award winners. Winning titles, chosen from a shortlist announced in... Read more |
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The First Nations Writers Festival (FNWF) has announced the 2025 winners of the festival’s book awards and short story awards. Winning titles are: Book award ‘Dual’ (Marshall Ericho, PNG) ‘Resilient... Read more |
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Fremantle Press has launched its 2025 Books for Little Bookaburras program, an initiative that distributes a selection of Western Australian books to young readers aged 3–4 within the state. Books... Read more |
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The program for the 2025 Q-Lit Festival, running this year 20–28 June, has been announced. Under the theme ‘What Fills Your Cup’, the 2025 festival will begin with an opening... Read more |
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Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced 12 recipients of the 2025 Copyright Agency First Nations Fellowship. The 2025 fellowship recipients are: Sharlene Allsopp Alison J Barton Skye Cusack Eugenia... Read more |
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Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to The Phantom Surrealist by Geoffrey Gates. According to the publisher, the novel follows protagonist Christopher Tiffen as he ‘moves between Sydney, London, Paris, Barcelona,... Read more |
John Partridge, the owner of McDonalds Booksellers & Stationers in Maitland, has died. Kay Drury of Affirm Press writes: Today I will attend the funeral of my oldest bookseller, John... Read more |
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In the UK, the 2025 winners of the Jhalak Prize have been announced, reports Book Brunch. The winners – chosen from shortlists announced in April – are: Jhalak Prose Prize Namesake:... Read more |
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A Gift from the Birds is the first middle-grade novel by picture book author Caroline Stills. Winner of the 2024 Text Prize – and the final recipient before the prize... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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