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The Miles Frankling Literary Award Longlist for 2025 features a diverse range of authors and books. Image: Kimberly Farmer, Unsplash.
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Miles Franklin Literary Award 2025 longlist announced

The prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist for 2025 features 10 diverse novels from across Australia.

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Actors championing Australian short stories

Love short stories and want to hear them read by professional actors on stage? Come to Newtown or listen to…

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Live & Local returns in Sydney Writers' Festival 2025

Highlights of the 28th edition of the Live & Local program.

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Bestselling romantasy author Lauren Roberts touring Australia

To celebrate the release of the final book in her trilogy the author is visiting select cities across the country.

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2025 International Booker Prize shortlist announced

Which six books are in the running for the prize?

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Tributes and celebrations for Jane Austen's 250th anniversary

It's a truth universally acknowledged that the Regency writer continues to inspire.

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Upcoming Australian fiction and non-fiction for 2025, January to June

What will be in Australian bookshops this year? Here's a selection of new titles that will be released in the…

Author Samantha Harvey holding up her book 'Orbital'. She has long blonde hair and is wearing a black top. On the background is the Booker Prize 2024 signage.
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Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize 2024

A surprise winner in this year's award is out of this world.

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Another glittering award for Melissa Lucashenko, as she takes out the ARA Historical Prize

The much feted writer adds a couple more trophies to her cabinet for her acclaimed 2024 novel.

Winners of the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards: 024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. From left, back row: Ryan Cropp, Andre Dao, Cecelia Edwards, Penny Smith and Amy Crutchfield. From left, front row: Leah Leaman, Daniel Browning, Will Kostakis and Gregory Crocetti. Five people are standing, another four sit in front of them, in the forecourt of Parliament House, Canberra.
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Failure and frustration spawn success for Prime Minister’s Literary Awards winners

Six books including a debut novel and a debut poetry collection have each received $80,000 in this year’s Prime Minister’s…

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