2025 Dublin Literary Award shortlist announced
Thursday, 27 March 2025
Six novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. The prize, which is the 'world's most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction published in English'...
Arnott appointed ABR editor and CEO
Thursday, 27 March 2025
Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced Georgina Arnott as its new editor and CEO, succeeding Peter Rose, who is stepping down after 24 years in the role. Arnott has been...
Writing Australia to be funded in 2025–26 Federal Budget
Thursday, 27 March 2025
The forthcoming literature funding body Writing Australia will be funded in the 2025–26 Federal Budget, with the organisation set to commence operations on 1 July. This funding was announced as...
Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
Thursday, 27 March 2025
The winners of the Tasmanian Literary Awards for 2025 have been announced. Category winners – chosen from shortlists announced last month – are: Premier’s Prize for Fiction ($25,000) Heartsease (Kate...
ASA, APA, Copyright Agency, NZSA statement on LibGen: What to do next?
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
In Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, the book industry has been hit again this month by reports of massive numbers of copyrighted publications being used to train generative AI systems,...
Booktopia: ‘We need to work together – government and business – to emphasise the importance and joy of reading’
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
In the lead-up to the 2025 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs), Books+Publishing is in conversation with the event’s major sponsors about the status of the industry, what excites them about the future,...
S&S acquires Holmes debut
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired global rights for Australian journalist Tracey Holmes’s debut book, Not A Female Sports Reporter. The first woman to present ABC sports program Grandstand,...
Canadian booksellers, publishers lobby against tariffs
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
In Canada, booksellers are asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to exclude books from the 25% counter-tariffs due to take effect on 2 April, covering C$125 billion (A$139 billion) worth of...
HarperCollins acquires four Peter Cheong graphic novels
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
HarperCollins Children’s Publishing has acquired world rights via auction to four graphic novels by author and illustrator Peter Cheong in a deal brokered by Paige Terlip at Andrea Brown Literary...
CBCA 2025 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its shortlist for the 2025 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. The shortlisted books in each category, selected from the 2025...
A&U acquires new Delaney nonfiction
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to The Seeker and the Sage by Brigid Delaney in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown. ‘Whereas Reasons Not...
2025 Windham-Campbell recipients announced
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
The recipients of the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prizes, each worth US$175,000 (A$278,529), have been announced, reports Publishers Weekly. This year’s winning writers are Sigrid Nunez (US) and Anne Enright (Ireland) for...
Melbourne Books acquires Harris nonfiction
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Under the Influence of Salmon: How a Man and a Fish Turned Our World Upside Down by Steve Harris. Of the book, the publisher...
S&S announces Aotearoa New Zealand office
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Simon & Schuster Australia has announced the establishment of a new Auckland office and a dedicated sales and marketing team in Aotearoa New Zealand. The new team is scheduled to...
Victorian Community History Awards winners announced
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
The winners of the Victorian Community History Awards have been announced. Winning titles in each category are: Victorian Premier’s History Award ($5000) Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch's World of...
Arnott’s ‘Dusk’ wins Indie Book Awards 2025 Book of the Year
Monday, 24 March 2025
Robbie Arnott's Dusk (Picador) has been named Book of the Year in the Indie Book Awards 2025. Category winners also announced include: Fiction Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador) Nonfiction Three Wild Dogs...
Emma Lowe named LBF director
Monday, 24 March 2025
In the UK, Emma Lowe has been announced as the new director of the London Book Fair (LBF). Former director Adam Ridgway was appointed last year to succeed Gareth Rapley....
BookPeople conference program announced
Monday, 24 March 2025
BookPeople has announced the program for its 2025 conference, which will run 14–16 June in Brisbane. Aimed at booksellers, the conference program includes panels, practical sessions, and keynotes – with...
NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 winners announced
Monday, 24 March 2025
The winners of the 2025 NZ Booklovers Awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Best Adult Fiction Book The Space Between (Lauren Keenan, Penguin) Best Lifestyle Book Kai Feast: Food...
Melbourne Books acquires Cochrane art book
Monday, 24 March 2025
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Living Art: Papua New Guinea by Susan Cochrane. According to the publisher, the book will feature over 400 full-colour images of Papua New Guinean artists...
Two Carter crime series optioned for television
Monday, 24 March 2025
Tasmania-based crime author Alan Carter's Cato Kwong series and Nick Chester series (both Fremantle Press) have been optioned for television by Magnetic Stories. Production company Magnetic Stories launched last week...
MWF releases full 2025 program
Friday, 21 March 2025
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has launched the full program for its 2025 festival, the first under new festival director Veronica Sullivan, to be held in venues across the Melbourne CBD and...
UQP acquires Kemp debut novel ‘Soft Serve’
Thursday, 20 March 2025
UQP has acquired world rights for Soft Serve, the debut novel of playwright and actor George Kemp. The novel is 'set over one day almost exclusively in a regional McDonald’s as...
Atria acquires Koay romantasy debut
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Atria Books Australia has acquired world rights for romantasy novel A Curse Carved in Ink by Tzeyi Koay, in a two-book, six-figure deal with Charlotte Trumble at Simon & Schuster...
IPEd announces ‘Rosie’ shortlist
Thursday, 20 March 2025
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award. The shortlisted editors are: Kimberley Davis for Under the Weather: A Future Forecast...
Brooks memoir tops chart at 2025 Adelaide Writers’ Week
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Attendance at Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) – which ran 1–6 March 2025 as part of the Adelaide Festival – broke records in its 40th year, according to the festival. Themed...
Spotify launches indie author platform
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Streaming platform Spotify has announced a new short-form genre publishing initiative 'specifically targeting self-published authors', reports Publishers Weekly. 'This is a global program, and any author with an English-language short-form...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
The Wheeler Centre has announced the winners of the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs). Nukgal Wurra author-artist Wanda Gibson has won the overall Victorian Prize for Literature, worth $100,000,...
ABIA 2025 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Books+Publishing, in partnership with the Australian Publishers Association, has announced the 2025 shortlists for the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). The shortlisted titles in each category are: Audiobook of the...
Laura Elvery recommends
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Australian Gospel by Lech Blaine – a book that is completely fascinating, heartbreaking, measured and fair. There’s a pace and a clarity in Lech’s writing that is so refreshing.
