Article December 2025
Call for Entries: The Best Australian Science Writing and the UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing 2026
Fiona McMillan-Webster

Entries are now open for The Best Australian Science Writing 2026 and the UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing 2026.

Article December 2025
Contributor Announcement: Crip Stories – A Mascara Literary Review Anthology

NewSouth Publishing is proud to announce the contributors to the forthcoming release of Crip Stories: An anthology of disabled writers, a Mascara Literary Review anthology.

Article November 2025
NewSouth Publishing Acquires World Rights to Stan Grant’s New Book When Words Fail Us: Truth beyond time

NewSouth is excited to announce the acquisition of world rights to When Words Fail Us: Truth beyond time, the powerful new work by acclaimed author and broadcaster Stan Grant, through leading literary agent Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown.

Media release November 2025
January to June 2026 Catalogue

Take a look at our exciting January to June 2026 titles.

Article November 2025
NewSouth Publishing Acquires World Rights to Foreign Return by Neha Kale

NewSouth Publishing is proud to announce the acquisition of world rights to Foreign Return: On Art and Inhabitation, the debut literary nonfiction work by acclaimed writer and cultural critic Neha Kale.

Event info October 2025
Unfinished Revolution - Events

Join author Virginia Haussegger to celebrate the release of Unfinished Revolution: The feminist fightback. Learn about Australian feminist movements, past and present, that have shaped our lives today.

Event info September 2025
Darryl Jones - (Be)wilder Events

Join acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones at events across the country to hear about how people around the world interact with wildlife. You'll (be)wilder as a result!

Article September 2025
NewSouth Publishing Acquires Justine E. Hausheer’s The Vanishing Wild: Australian Wildlife and the Fight Against Extinction

NewSouth Publishing is thrilled to announce the acquisition of world rights to The Vanishing Wild: Australian Wildlife and the Fight Against Extinction, via literary agent Martin Shaw, a powerful and poignant new book by award-winning science writer Justine E. Hausheer.

Event info September 2025
Susan Wyndham - Elizabeth Harrower Events

Renowned journalist and writer Susan Wyndham grapples with the elusive Elizabeth Harrower - one of the most intense, original and highly regarded novelists of the twentieth century. Join Susan as she discusses the author's tumultuous family, her complex friendships and her remarkable body of work.

Event info August 2025
Belinda Castles - Walking Sydney Events

Join Belinda Castles as she walks with a city’s writers, sharing places of home and imagination. From suburban streets to the shores of the harbour, as we walk amid diasporas, countercultures, activists, artists, dreamers and thieves, Walking Sydney brings the city to life with story.

Event info July 2025
Deep History Events with Ann McGrath, Jackie Huggins

Join Ann McGrath and Jackie Huggins to celebrate the release of Deep History: Country and – a landmark anthology exploring Indigenous histories of caring for Country across millennia. ⁠

Event info June 2025
NewSouth authors at Willoughby Literary Festival 2025

Willoughby Literary Festival is taking place from 17–27 July. NewSouth is delighted to have our authors there at a range of exciting events.