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We’re delighted to announce that The Mushroom Tapes has been named the 2026 Australian Book Industry Awards Nonfiction Book of the Year. Congratulations to Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein.

NSW Literary Awards Book of the Year

Congratulations to Clare Wright! Naku Dharuk: The Bark Petitions has won Book of the Year at the NSW Literary Awards. ‘A book that should be read by all Australians’

ASAL Magarey Medal shortlist

Congratulations to Judith Brett and Brenda Niall on their longlistings for the 2026 Association for the Study of Australian Literature Magarey Medal for Biography.

Edgar Award Winner

Huge congratulations to Vikki Wakefield! Her latest novel, To the River (published in the US as The Backwater) has won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original in the Mystery Writers of America’s 2026 Edgar Allan Poe Awards.