4+ day, 42+ min ago  (88+ words) Books+Publishing Multiple Commonwealth short story winners accused of using AI We now offer a pay-by-the-month subscription. Password: Forgot my password If you have purchased IP access, please click the button below to activate your service. "Taiwan Travelogue" wins 2026 International…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (59+ words) Books+Publishing L-R: Daryl Hunt and Natasha Hunt New owners for Collins Booksellers Sale We now offer a pay-by-the-month subscription. Password: Forgot my password If you have purchased IP access, please click the button below to activate your service. Allen…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (232+ words) Paul Macdonald has been named as the recipient of the 2026 Pixie O'Harris Award in the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). The outgoing president of the Children's Book Council of Australia(CBCA) NSW, Macdonald is an author, former bookseller and "tireless…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (280+ words) Books+Publishing Allen & Unwin acquires Knight nonfiction Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to The Most Interesting People You've Never Heard Ofby Riley Knight, via Florence Dodd at WME Agency. According to A&U, the book "brings to light…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (189+ words) Melbourne writer and illustrator Judith Rossell has been selected for the inaugural writer residency at the UK National Trust's Greenway property. The Greenway Residency is a project of UNESCO City of Literature Exeter, in Devon. It aims "to give space…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (53+ words) Books+Publishing Grandma Gogo series being developed for screen We now offer a pay-by-the-month subscription. Password: Forgot my password If you have purchased IP access, please click the button below to activate your service. Harper Collins acquires third Ringland novel…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (331+ words) The winners of the 2026 NSW Literary Awards have been announced. Clare Wright's'N'ku Dh'ruk The Bark Petitions: How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy'(Text Publishing) is the winning title for both the Douglas Stewart Prize for…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (218+ words) Donna Fisher, a UK author currently based in Queensland, is the inaugural winner of the "50, 000 (A$93, 000) Libraro Prize for her novel Sheep's Clothing. Administered by the community digital platform Libraro, in partnership with Hachette UK and book recommendation platform Love…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (219+ words) In Aotearoa New Zealand, the winners of the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. Poet, memoirist and scholar Ingrid Horrocks won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for her debut story collection All Her Lives, published in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (304+ words) Karen Howie Casey has won the 2026 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize for unpublished manuscripts for her novel All the Little Wide Worlds, as announced by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and Harper Collins publishing division HQ. The prize organisers described…...