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UQP has sold world English (ex ANZ) rights to Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Discipline to Oneworld Publications | UQP

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Cheryl Leavy wins the 2026 Porter Prize | UQP

Little Bones shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Best Children's Fiction | UQP

First Name Second Name Shortlisted for the 2026 MUD Literary Prize | UQP

UQP acquires K.A Ren Wyld's extraordinary novel 'Whichway Shimmering Dust' | UQP

Madonna Duffy appointed UQP Director

The Boy and the Dog Tree | UQP

Winners of UQP Mentorship Prize for Under-Represented Writers Announced | UQP

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UQP announces the recipient of the 2025 UQP Writing Mentorship | UQP

UQP Mentorship Prize for Under-represented Writers Shortlist | UQP

UQP acquires Jordan Prosser's dazzling second novel, 'Blue Giant' | UQP

David Brooks wins the 2025 Patrick White Literary Award | UQP

Two Tongues | UQP

Pictures of You | UQP

UQP Digital Lead and Publicist Job Application

UQP acquires Angela O’Keeffe’s superb third novel | UQP

Soft Serve | UQP

Vote in the QLA People's Choice Award

UQP Acquires debut middle-grade novel by First Nations author Allison Rocca

UQP titles shortlisted for the 2025 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

Submissions open for our Children's & YA List!

UQP acquires debut poetry collection from Dženana Vucic.

Vote in the BAD Danger Awards: People's Choice Award

Slick & Black Witness longlisted for NIB Literary Award

UQP Mentorship Prize for Under-Represented Writers

Siang Lu's 'Ghost Cities' wins the Miles Franklin Literary Award

UQP shortlisted titles for the 2025 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards

UQP acquires exquisite new novel from Debra Adelaide

UQP Senior Publicist Sarah Valle Shortlisted for APA Rising Star Award

Dr Tracy Westerman's 'Jilya' shortlisted for the WA Premier's Non-Fiction Book of the Ye

Siang Lu's 'Ghost Cities' shortlisted for the Miles Franklin

PRE-ORDER! If Queers Weren't Meant to Have Kids...

'Slutdom' shortlised for 2025 ACT Literary Award

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

Support survivors, families and communities of stolen generations

UQP Mentorship Prize for Under-Represented Writers

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

Get tickets to the launch of Jacaranda Journal 12.1

UQP illustrators & cover artists award news

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

UQP Mentorship Prize for Under-Represented Writers

UQP wins Small Publishers’ Children’s Book of the Year & Small Publisher of the Year at the 2025 ABIA's

black&write! 2025 shortlist announcement

UQP authors shortlisted for the 2025 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

UQP X Open Book Intern Announced

'Someone Like Me' – a Q&A with the editors and contributors for Autism Acceptance Month

Siang Lu's 'Ghost Cities' Shortlisted for the 2025 Russell Prize for Humour Writing

Jordan Prosser's 'Big Time' shortlisted for a 2024 Aurealis Awards

Amy McQuire's 'Black Witness' shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize

UQP Acquires YA Historical Fiction by Meg Caddy

'Digger Digs Down' wins at the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards

'Digger Digs Down' shortlisted for 2025 CBCA New Illustrator Award

UQP authors win at the 2025 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards

UQP acquires accomplished debut from actor and playwright George Kemp

2025 Stella Prize Longlist

Rachel Morton wins the UQP 2025 Quentin Bryce Award

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Pre-order March Titles

'Digger Digs Down' shortlisted for the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards

UQP Acquires 'Odder: An Otter's Story' by Katherine Applegate, illustrated by Charles Santoso

Oneworld Publication acquires UK and US rights for 'Edenglassie'

UQP authors shortlisted for The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards

UQP Author Events

black&write! Writing Fellowships 2025

'Edenglassie' longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award

UQP acquires 'The Occupation' by Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah

Editor Intern (Identified: Australian First Nations) |   Brisbane Inner City |

'Digger Digs Down' longlisted for Minister for the Arts' Prize for Books for Young Readers and Children

Jarad Bruinstroop wins the 2024 Five Islands Poetry Prize

UQP acquires a picture book for adults from Narelda Jacobs and Karina Natt, illustrated by Molly Hunt

UQP sells 'The Nightmare Sequence' rights to the US & UK

UQP and black&write! announce new partnership

Melissa Lucashenko wins the 2024 Nib Literary Award.

Sara Saleh wins 'Readers Choice Award' at The Woolahra Digital Literary Awards

Pre-order 'Little Bones' by Sandy Bigna

Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts wins marie claire 2024 Change Maker Of The Year Award

Jeanine Leane wins 2024 Canberra Critics Circle Award

UQP acquires new a middle-grade novel from Fiona Wood

UQP editor Yasmin Smith wins 2024 Nakata Brophy Prize

'First Name Second Name' by Steve MinOn availble for pre-order

We're hiring: Marketing and Graphic Design Officer

Sara Haddad's 'The Sunbird' acquired by UQP

Royce Kurmelovs 'Slick' shortlisted for the 2024 Walkley Book Award

UQP Acquires debut novel from Samantha Byres

Edenglassie wins the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize.

Edenglassie wins the 2024 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award

Pitfall wins at the 2024 NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards and 2024 SCWE Competition

2024 South Australian Literary Award Winners

Slick by Royce Kurmelovs longlisted for the 2024 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism

Jarad Bruinstroop wins 2024 Wesley Michel Wright Prize for 'Reliefs'

Edenglassie and Women & Children shortlisted for the ARA Historical Novel Prize 2024

Melissa Lucashenko and Mirandi Riwoe shortlisted for 2024 Barbara Jefferis Award

Vote for Edenglassie in the 2024 Nib People's Choice Prize

Be a Proud Voice for Country: Indigenous Literacy Day livestream and free film

mark the dawn Magandjin (Brisbane) launch at Avid Reader

mark the dawn Mparntwe (Alice Springs) launch

Siang Lu's 'Ghost Cities' shortlisted for the 2024 Readings Prize

Media Release: 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlist

Edenglassie shortlisted for the 2024 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award

UQP acquires two new books from Omar Sakr

UQP Titles shortlisted for 2024 QLA's!

Melbourne launch of mark the dawn by Jazz Money

Sydney launch of Jazz Money's mark the dawn

Darwin launch of Jazz Money's mark the dawn

UQP acquires new poetry collection from Stella Prize winner Evelyn Araluen

UQP titles longlisted for the 2024 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award

UQP acquires accomplished debut from screenwriter Thomas Vowles

Digger Digs Down Pre-order

Byron Writers Festival 2024

Acquisition of Rachel Morton’s debut novel

UQP's Special Projects Editor Yasmin Smith shortlisted for APA Rising Star Award 2024

Melissa Lucashenko wins BookPeople's 2024 Adult Fiction Book of the Year Award

Sara M Saleh wins 2024 Anne Elder Award

Leo and Ralph shortlisted for the 2024 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year

Sara M. Saleh and Omar Sakr Shortlisted for ALS Gold Medal 2024

Angela O'Keeffe wins Christina Stead Prize for Fiction

Pre-order First Nations Classics: Series Two

Edenglassie and The Sitter make the Miles Franklin Longlist

Jazz Money wins UQP QB Award

NSW Premier's Literary Awards

Pre-order Summer of Shipwrecks

Events with UQP authors

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

Slick by Royce Kurmelovs

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Writers announced for Autism anthology

Black Witness by Amy McQuire

Running with Pirates by Kári Gíslason

Always Will Be by Mykaela Saunders

Jilya by Tracy Westerman

Big Time by Jordan Prosser

Slutdom by Hilary Caldwell

Launch of Leo and Ralph at Beyond the Book Literature Festival

UQP Blog

Everything is Water by Simon Cleary

Vote in the 2023 Booktopia FAB Awards!

Nightsong by Sally Soweol Han

The Gorgon Flower by John Richards

UQP titles shortlisted for the 2024 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards

Women & Children by Tony Birch

Leo & Ralph by Peter Carnavas

UQP acquires Slutdom by Dr Hilary Caldwell

The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat by Sara M Saleh

Tony Birch on tour

We're hiring: Children's Publisher

Breath by Carly-Jay Metcalfe

Solomon Macaroni and the Vampire Vacation by Ashleigh Barton

UQP titles shortlisted for the PM's Literary Awards 2023

The Strangers trilogy by Katherena Vermette

Sunbirds by Mirandi Riwoe

Gawimarra by Jeanine Leane

The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt

Book Tour: Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko

Pearl by Siân Hughes

UQP acquires new novel from award-winning author Siang Lu

UQP to publish Booker-longlisted Pearl by Siân Hughes

Call-out for submissions to an anthology by autistic women and gender-diverse writers

UQP authors shortlisted for the 2023 QLAs

The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat by Sara M Saleh

Pre-order 'Edenglassie' by Melissa Lucashenko

UQP acquires new book from Sarah Holland-Batt

Nightsong by Sally Han

UQP announces 2023 recipient of the UQP Quentin Bryce Award

NT Writers Festival

Sydney Writers' Festival

Preorder 'Me, Her, Us' by Yen-Rong Wong

Buy tickets to Chat 10 Looks 3 in Brisbane with Sarah Holland-Batt

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UQP blog

Believe In Me wins the 2022 ACT Book of the Year Award

Cathy Vallance shortlisted for the 2023 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award

Queensland Literary Awards 2023

Roseghetto by Kirsty Jagger

The Stella Interviews: Sarah Holland-Batt · Stella

Pre-order The Garden at the End of the World

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlistings

UQP acquires 'Gawimarra: Gathering' from Jeanine Leane

UQP acquires 'Flinch' by Saraid Taylor

Q&A with Alison Lester

UQP acquires New and Used Ghosts by Samuel Wagan Watson

Exactly As I Am by Rae White

UQP acquires Roseghetto by Kirsty Jagger

The Consul extract in Good Weekend Magazine

Saving the Reef by Rohan Lloyd

Designer Spotlight: Harrison Vial

An evening with Sally Piper at North Stores

A Feather on a Wing by Maria Speyer

The Conversation review This All Come Back Now

Book tickets for the Railway Neighbourhood House fundraiser with Tony Birch

After Story by Larissa Behrendt

The Guardian: Sarah Holland-Batt on fighting for her father

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards

UQP acquires poetry collection from Sara M. Saleh

Patti Miller in The Guardian

Meet Kari Gislason at Bracken Ridge Library

Solomon Macaroni and the Cousin Catastrophe

The Consul by Ian Kemish

Readings Literary Preview: Stella Shortlist

Learn more about the David Unaipon Award

The Strangers by Katherena Vermette

Chris Flynn in The Age

Chris Flynn in The Age

Lauren Burns in The Guardian

A River with a City Problem by Margaret Cook

Margaret Cook on flooding in The Conversation

Al Campbell in The Guardian

Pre-order 'A Feather on a Wing'

The Saturday Paper reviews 'Sister Girl'

Pre-order The Way of Dog by Zana Fraillon

Guardian review of Another Day in the Colony

UQP author events

Pre-order Losing Face by George Haddad

Pre-order The Burnished Sun by Mirandi Riwoe

Pre-order What Snail Knows by Kathryn Apel

Pre-order Triple Helix by Lauren Burns

Teachers' notes

My Brother Ben Backyard Bird Hunt

Stone Sky Gold Mountain

John Shobbrook on Life and Crimes with Andrew Rule

Australia Reads artwork

Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome

Jazz Money on Indigenous Literacy Day

Evelyn Araluen on ABC's Big Weekend of Books

If You're Happy

Booktopia: Tony Birch's book recommendations

UQP acquires The Way of Dog by Zana Fraillon

Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego

Review of Flock in SMH

Fishing for Lightning by Sarah Holland-Batt

Sydney Writers Festival program online

A Thousand Crimson Blooms

Believe In Me by Lucy Neave

As Fast As I Can by Penny Tangey

how to make a basket by Jazz Money

David Unaipon Award

Launch of Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

Stories of incredible women for #IWD2021

Dymocks - Top 101 Voting

It’s Not You, Geography, It’s Me by Kristy Chambers

After Story by Larissa Behrendt

A River with a City Problem by Margaret Cook

Vote in the Booktopia FAB awards

Born Into This by Adam Thompson

The Bird in the Herd by Kathryn Apel and Renee Treml

Girl of the Southern Sea by Michelle Kadarusman

UQP podcast

The Ballad of Melodie Rose by Kate Gordon

Mammoth by Chris Flynn

Inaugural UQP Mentorship recipient announced: Martine Kropkowski

Footprints on the Moon by Lorraine Marwood

The Edge of Thirteen by Nova Weetman

The Heartsong of Wonder Quinn

Word for Today by Roly Sussex

Episode 4: EV4ET podcast

Bookseller Spotlight: Leni from Neighbourhood Books

Love Your Bookshop Day: Find your local bookshop

UQP acquires book by Amy Thing

Steven Herrick writes in The Guardian 'To deny children the simple joy of riding a bike is an abdication of our parental responsibilities'

Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

Kate Gordon interviewed by The Hobart Mercury on The Heartsong of Wonder Quinn

Creative Writing Fellowship

Born Into This by Adam Thompson

#AustraliaReadsIndies virtual roadshow

Cadaver Dog by Luke Best

SBS Voices

Meet Me at Lennon’s at UQ Book Club

The Heartsong of Wonder Quinn by Kate Gordon

Black Witness by Amy McQuire acquisition

Indigenous Literacy Day - Live

The White Girl by Tony Birch

Extraordinary Voices for Extrordinary Times podcast

UQ Book Club - Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch

Aileen Moreton-Robinson at The Wheeler Centre

Change Machine by Jaya Savige

Only Happiness Here by Gabrielle Carey

Ordinary Matter by Laura Elvery

Voices of Indigenous Resistance - Ellen van Neerven in conversation at Edinburgh Book Festival

To Preserve and Protect by Anastasia Dukova

UQP blog

Vote now for The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award

My Dog Gets a Job by Elizabeth Fensham

The Storytellers at Museum of Brisbane

UQ Book Club: Mammoth by Chris Flynn

This One Is Ours by Kate O’Donnell

Professor Aileen Moreton Robinson at the Blackfulla Bookclub

Extraordinary Voices for Extraordinary Times Podcast

UQP website

Become a UQP member

Ordinary Matter by Laura Elvery

Too Much Lip (B-format) by Melissa Lucashenko

The Comfort of Figs by Simon Cleary

Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko

Talkin’ Up to the White Woman by Aileen Moreton-Robinson

UQ book club with Tony Birch

Just Money by Royce Kurmelovs

Home to Mother by Doris (Garimara) Pilkington

Throat by Ellen van Neerven

UQP acquisitions news

THROAT by Ellen van Neerven

ABIA shortlist

UQP Writer’s Room: Mirandi Riwoe

Poetry as Processing event

Love Your Bookshop virtual event directory

THE TRESPASSERS by Meg Mundell

Kat Bat Draws

SQUISH RABBIT by Katherine Battersby

SQUISH RABBIT teacher’s notes

STONE SKY GOLD MOUNTAIN by Mirandi Riwoe

ASK ME ABOUT THE FUTURE by Rebecca Jessen

Bec Sparrow’s home learning ideas

Find Your Tribe by Bec Sparrow

CBCA shortlist announcement

Throat by Ellen van Neerven

Read the UQP blog

Bone and Beauty by Jeanette M. Thompson

Blog: how to keep tweens reading

Growing Pineapples in the Outback by Rebecca Lister and Tony Kelly

Principled by Paul Browning

Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai

Preorder Throat by Ellen van Neerven

Too Much Lip

Pre-order Squish Rabbit's Pet

Preorder THROAT by Ellen van Neerven

Preorder THE MAN IN THE WATER by David Burton

A Quiet Girl by Peter Carnavas

David Burton on the Booktopia blog

Preorder HEARTLAND

Flash fiction at Riverbend

Preorder MEET ME AT LENNON'S

KYD Qld Showcase

Preorder 100 Ways to Fly

Preorder A RIVER WITH A CITY PROBLEM

People's Choice Qld Book of the Year Award

Preorder Sensitive

Preorder SICK BAY

Bernard Cohen at Better Read Than Dead

Little Stones

Book trailer: A QUIET GIRL by Peter Carnavas

BWF

Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook

Better Words podcast with Sally Piper

Pre-order SOLID AIR

Fryer lecture: UQP makes history with Nicholas Jose

CALL OF THE REED WARBLER by Charles Massy

SHOWTIME: A HISTORY OF THE BRISBANE EXHIBITION

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Bone and Beauty by Jeanette M. Thompson

Brisbane launch of SOLID AIR

Growing Pineapples in the Outback

SOLID AIR

Principled by Paul Browning

Book club notes for TOO MUCH LIP