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'Slutdom' shortlised for 2025 ACT Literary Award

'Slutdom' shortlised for 2025 ACT Literary Award

Slutdom by Dr Hilary Caldwell shortlisted the non-fiction prize at the 2025 ACT Literary Awards

UQP acquires Melissa Lucashenko's first work of non-fiction

UQP acquires Melissa Lucashenko's first work of non-fiction

UQP acquires Melissa Lucashenko's first work of non-fiction, Not Quite White in the Head.

'Jilya' wins UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing at the 2025 NSW Literary Awards

'Jilya' wins UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing at the 2025 NSW Literary Awards

Jilya by Dr Tracy Westerman wins UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing at the 2025 NSW Literary Awards

UQP illustrators & cover artists award news

UQP illustrators & cover artists award news

Abdul Abdullah (Non-Essential Work), Jason Phu (The Frog's First Song) &Holly Anderson (The Sun Was Electric Light)

Siang Lu's 'Ghost Cities' longlisted for The Miles Franklin Literary Award 2025

Siang Lu's 'Ghost Cities' longlisted for The Miles Franklin Literary Award 2025

Siang Lu's Ghost Citites longlisted for The Miles Franklin Literary Award 2025

UQP Mentorship Prize for Under-represented Writers

UQP Mentorship Prize for Under-represented Writers

UQP Mentorship Prize for Under-Represented Writers.

Our New Gods by Thomas Vowles

Our New Gods

Pack of four First Nations Classics: Series three by MaryAnn Bin-Sallik, Tara June Winch, Paul Collis, Bill Dodd

Pack of four First Nations Classics:
Series three

MaryAnn Bin-Sallik, Tara June Winch, Paul Collis, Bill Dodd

Swallow the Air (with an introduction by Yasmin Smith) by Tara June Winch

Swallow the Air (with an introduction by Yasmin Smith)

Tara June Winch

Broken Dreams (with an introduction by Gayle Kennedy) by Bill Dodd

Broken Dreams (with an introduction by Gayle Kennedy)

Dancing Home (with an introduction by Samuel Wagan Watson) by Paul Collis

Dancing Home (with an introduction by Samuel Wagan Watson)

The Frog's First Song by Jazz Money, Jason Phu

The Frog's First Song

Jazz Money, Jason Phu

Hailstones Fell without Rain by Natalia Figueroa Barroso

Hailstones Fell without Rain

Natalia Figueroa Barroso

Sonny & Tess by Nova Weetman

Sonny & Tess

Song of a Thousand Seas by Zana Fraillon

Song of a Thousand Seas

Typewriter Music by David Malouf

Typewriter Music

Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko

Edenglassie

Melissa Lucashenko

The Sitter by Angela O'Keeffe

The Sitter

Angela O'Keeffe

Personal Score: Sport, culture, identity by Ellen van Neerven

Personal Score:
Sport, culture, identity

Ellen van Neerven

The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt

The Jaguar

Sarah Holland-Batt

mark the dawn by Jazz Money

mark the dawn

The House of Rural Realness by Curtis Campbell

The House of Rural Realness

Curtis Campbell

My Mum is a Bird by Angie Cui, Evie Barrow

My Mum is a Bird

Angie Cui, Evie Barrow

Three Dresses by Wanda Gibson

Three Dresses

How to Break a World Record and Survive Grade Five by Carla Fitzgerald

How to Break a World Record and Survive Grade Five

Carla Fitzgerald

Digger Digs Down by Johanna Bell, Huni Melissa Bolliger

Digger Digs Down

Johanna Bell, Huni Melissa Bolliger

Always Will Be by Mykaela Saunders

Always Will Be

Mykaela Saunders

Women & Children by Tony Birch

Women & Children

Slutdom: Reclaiming shame-free sexuality by Hilary Caldwell

Slutdom:
Reclaiming shame-free sexuality

Hilary Caldwell

Big Time by Jordan Prosser

Big Time

Sunbirds by Mirandi Riwoe

Sunbirds

The Sunbird by Sara Haddad

The Sunbird

Mettle by Anne-Marie Te Whiu

Mettle

Anne-Marie Te Whiu

Kumiko and the Dragon by Briony Stewart

Kumiko and the Dragon

Little Bones by Sandy Bigna

Little Bones

Jilya: How one Indigenous woman from the remote Pilbara transformed psychology by Tracy Westerman

Jilya: How one Indigenous woman from the remote Pilbara transformed psychology

Tracy Westerman

The White Girl by Tony Birch

The White Girl

The Only Branch on the Family Tree by Sherryl Clark

The Only Branch on the Family Tree

Leo and Ralph by Peter Carnavas

Leo and Ralph

Odder by Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso

Odder

Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso

Nightingale by Laura Elvery

Nightingale

Ngunnawal Country Launch of The Nightmare Sequence

Ngunnawal Country Launch of The Nightmare Sequence

Safdar Ahmed in conversation with Bilquis Ghani

June 24 7:30pm - Smith's Alternative 76 Alinga Street, Ngunnawal Country (Civic, ACT)

Tara June Winch - First Nations Classic: Swallow the Air launch

Tara June Winch - First Nations Classic: Swallow the Air launch

Launch of Tara June Winch's Swallow the Air (with an introduction by Yasmin Smith), re-released as part of UQP's First Nations Classics series.

June 26 6:00pm - Avid Reader - 193 Boundary Street, Kurilpa (West End)

ASK THE AUTHOR - Steve MinOn, First Name Second Name at Riverbend Books.

Riverbend Books - 4/77 Oxford Street, Tugulawah (Bulimba)

June 28 11:45am

Sara M Saleh & Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts at the Rose Scott Women Writers Festival 2025

The Womens Club - L4 179 Elizabeth Street, Gadigal Country (Sydney)

Naarm launch of Sonny & Tess by Nova Weetman

Readings Kids Carlton - 315 Lygon Street, Wurundjeri Country (Carlton)

UQP Titles on the 2025 CBCA Notables List

Changemaker Of The Year: Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts

Jeanine Leane wins Canberra Critics Circle Award for poetry