Writing and Publishing
Text Publishing joins Penguin Random House
The two publishing houses have joined forces.
Opportunities and awards
$130,000 portrait prize open for entries, plus winners of the Sydney Theatre Awards, finalists of the Novel Prize, and more!
Hot Brown Honey in partnership with Quiet Riot Creative and Multicultural Arts Victoria
Performing Artists
Hot Brown Honey’s professional development project HIVE CITY LEGACY for Black, Indigenous, and POC Femmes (18 - 35yrs) is coming…
Sydney Writers' Festival
Sydney Writers' Festival volunteer
Take part in Australia’s biggest literary festival! Sydney Writers\' Festival is recruiting a team of 300 volunteers to help stage…
Prizes and competitions to enter in 2025
A go-to list of prizes and competitions across the visual arts, performing arts and writing, periodically updated.
End of an era: Text Prize discontinued
A regular part of the Australian publishing calendar, the Text Prize has been discontinued.
Booktopia rescued: Australian book retailer rises from the dead
Booktopia has been purchased by successful Australian online entrepreneur Shant Kradjian.
Writing NSW
Year of the Novel
Make 2025 the year you finally write that book in this course from bestselling author Ashley Kalagian Blunt.
Did the US just kill BookTok?
The US's controversial TikTok ban has meant millions of BookTok users fleeing the platform in search of a new home…
Over 100 manuscripts from the British Library and National Portrait Gallery to arrive at HOTA
HOTA's exhibition will feature rare manuscripts, first editions and portraits of literary luminaries, including William Shakespeare, Jane Austen and the…