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Sinéad Stubbins' fiction debut named in Guardian Australia's '25 best Australian books of 2025'
HUGE news (just in time for the holidays)! Sinéad Stubbins’ fiction debut Stinkbug (Simon & Schuster) has been named in Guardian Australia’s The 25 best Australian books of 2025!
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JdM creators recognised in the 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards!
We are absolutely delighted to discover that JdM youth literature creators have been recognised in the 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards! The Victorian Premier’s were inaugurated by the State government …
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Jane Caro Longlisted in the 2026 Indie Book Awards!
Australian independent booksellers have nominated their favourite Australian books of the past year and we are delighted that Jane Caro’s Lyrebird (Allen & Unwin) is on the Fiction Longlist for the Indie Book Awards 2026!
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'Näku Dhäruk' wins Australian Political Book of the Year Award!
Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions by Clare Wright OAM, published by Text Publishing has won the Australian Political Book of the Year Award for 2025!
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Clare Wright shortlisted finalist for the Walkley Book Award
We are so thrilled to see Ckare Wright’s Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions : how the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy (Text Publishing) has been announced as a shortlisted finalist for the Walkley Book Award!
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Bigna & Binks shortlisted in the 2025 Speech Pathology Australia, Book of the Year Awards
Sandy Bigna and Danielle Binks have both been shortlisted in the 8-10 year-old category of the 2025 Speech Pathology Australia
Book of the Year Awards, the winners of which will be announced on social media on 29 October 2025!Posted
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Jane Gilmore launches 'It Takes A Village To Teach Your Children About Consent'
Consent and respectful relationships education became mandatory across Australia in 2024. Parents and teachers are often struggling to keep up as children and teens come to grips with new concepts about sex, consent, gender, relationships and the online world.
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Kirsty Murray awarded 2025 ASA Medal
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Kirsty Murray as the 2025 ASA Medal recipient. The ASA Medal is awarded annually to an Australian author or illustrator with a significant body of work who has made an outstanding contribution to Australian literary culture, both as a creator and an advocate.
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Book Launch: 'Code of Silence' by Diana Thorp
November 12th, 6pm – 8pm (FREE!) – The Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000
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Featuring author Diana Thorp in conversation with Professor Clare Wright
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Refreshments will be served from 6pm – 6.30pm when the speakers will commence.
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—This event can be attended in-person or online via Zoom.
—The RHSV Gallery Downstairs is an accessible venue.Posted
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'It Takes A Village To Teach Your Children About Consent' by Jane Gilmore
Consent and respectful relationships education became mandatory across Australia in 2024. Parents and teachers are often struggling to keep up as children and teens come to grips with new concepts about sex, consent, gender, relationships and the online world.
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'Love, Al Dente' by Jenna Lo Bianco
A deliciously tantalising, will-they-won’t-they culinary affair by bestselling Italian-Australian author Jenna Lo Bianco.
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'Might Cry Later' by Kay Kerr
Might Cry Later – a hilarious, romantic, messy, autistic story by Kay Kerr
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Bigna and Wright win at the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards!
So thrilled that two of our creators took home wins at the Queensland Literary Awards 2025!
Congratulations to Sandy Bigna and Clare Wright who won in the Children’s Book Award and Non-Fiction Book Award, respectively.Posted
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'Code of Silence: How Australian Women Helped Win the War' by Diana Thorp
The compelling and as-yet-untold story of the Australian women whose secret work helped to end World War II.
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Grace Chan wins 2025 Paragraph Fellowship
Thrilled to announce that author Grace Chan is the winner of the 2025 Paragraph Fellowship! Announced last night at Emerging Writers Festival in Melbourne.
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