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Highly anticipated young adult books coming in 2026

Get excited YA lovers, because 2026 promises to be HUGE for young adult books! From debut authors and new series, to sequels returning to our favourite worlds, it's going to be a busy year! For this list I've focused on books coming out in the first half of 2026 as…

Australia’s best children’s picture book poll - vote now

Cast your vote for the best Australian children’s picture book from 27 January to 5 February. You can vote every day

I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide writers’ week

Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation

“Proud history woven into a prouder fantasy”: Nock Loose’s radical silliness confronts a culture of noise - Overland literary journal

Nock Loose is radically silly, and it is the novel’s radical silliness that had me writing notes like “finally, Western Australian realism” and “it is easier to imagine the next extinction event than it is the end of the imperial petrostate.”

Writing Australia: can the new national literature body make a real difference for authors?

Supporting writers is nation-building work, and expectations are high for the new body with its re-inaugurated poet laureate