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22/10/2025

UQP is delighted to announce the shortlist for the inaugural UQP Mentorship Prize for Under-represented Writers. 🎉

Congratulations to Suri Matondkar, SD Munawara, Daniel Ray, Carielyn Tunion and Cat Yen.

The prize was judged by Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Siang Lu, acclaimed author, journalist and academic Sarah Malik, and UQP Publishing Director Madonna Duffy.

The two winners will be announced in November.

Congratulations once again to our fabulous shortlisted writers, and thank you to all who submitted their work for consideration.

To read the judges comments and more about the shortlistees, head to the link in our bio. 🔗

21/10/2025

If you liked that, you'll LOVE this: the debut edition!

This week, we're highlighting some of our recent debut novels.

Head to the UQP website to learn more about these captivating titles.

21/10/2025

🌿🌹Evelyn Araluen touring 'The Rot'

Evelyn Araluen, Goorie and Koori poet, editor, researcher and 2022 Stella Prize winner for 'Dropbear,' has a line-up of fantastic events coming up for her scorching, much-anticipated new book, 'The Rot'.

'The Rot' is an unflinching study of the decaying romances, expired hopes and abject injustices of the world. A liturgy for girlhood in the dying days of late-stage capitalism, these poems expose fraying nerves and tendons of a speaker refusing to avert their gaze from the death of Country, death on Country, and the bloody violence of settler colonies here and afar. Across sleepless nights, fractured alliances and self-destructive coping strategies, 'The Rot' is what happens when poetry swallows more rage than it can console, quiet or ironise – this book demands you ready yourself for a better world.

Catch Evelyn across the country throughout the rest of the year! Head to www.uqp.com.au/events to register for an event near you.

21/10/2025

💫ACQUISITION NEWS💫

UQP is delighted to announce that we’ve acquired the second novel by writer and filmmaker Jordan Prosser, author of 2024’s 'Big Time'.

Titled 'Blue Giant', the new novel centres on disillusioned Melburnian millennial Abby Horne. Abby once believed she was destined for great things, but her attempts at becoming an industry-disrupting fashion designer, a celebrity yogi and/or a renowned wildlife conservationist all went up in smoke. Now she’s in her mid-thirties, having narrowly survived the deadly Australian bushfires of 2020, with the unbearable burdens of adulthood, anonymity, climate catastrophe, and the total moral and aesthetic decline of Western civilisation bearing down on her. In short: planet Earth is cooked, and Abby Horne wants off.

After a drunken bender, she wakes up one morning with an all-new, all-consuming purpose in life: to be the first person on Mars. As luck would have it, charismatic billionaire Tor Skovgaard is currently recruiting for a one-way mission to colonise the red planet through his mysterious new start-up, MarsNow. So begins Abby’s final, ill-fated quest for purpose, fame and fortune. And if she can’t be humanity’s saviour … she’ll settle for being its martyr.

'Blue Giant' is an unruly eulogy for millennial optimism; a helter-skelter love letter to a generation torn between helplessness and selfishness, where every sentence brims with the detritus and anxieties of life in the 2020s.

UQP has acquired world rights and will publish in August 2026

To read quotes from Jordan and publisher Aviva Tuffield on this acquisition, head to www.uqp.com.au/blog

20/10/2025

🎉AWARD NEWS🎉

Congratulations to David Brooks, who has been awarded the 2025 Patrick White Literary Award.

The judging committee said in their citation, 'Brooke's contributions to Australian literature have been profound...The Patrick White Literary award is a hugely deserving recognition of David Brooks as an outstanding Australian writer, thinker, scholar and educator who has had a major influence on contemporary poetry and environmental thought.'

Author Patrick White established the annual literary award, using the proceeds of his 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, to advance recognise authors who have made an ongoing contribution to Australian literature but may not have received adequate recognition.

A huge congratulations to David on receiving this wonderful award. To read more from David, publisher Madonna Duffy, and the award judges, head to www.uqp.com.au/blog

16/10/2025

🐍COVER REVEAL👅

‘Two Tongues’

Written by Maria van Neerven

Release Date: 03/02/2026

Written with a tender love for her Yugambeh language, Maria van Neerven reflects on the legacy of colonisation and racism, and the aftermath of intergenerational harm. At the same time, she shines a light on the importance of family and culture, celebrating the Indigenous women who guided and taught her – extraordinary women filled with resilience and strength. In this way, van Neerven reclaims the stories of her ancestors, giving a voice to those who weren’t allowed one in the past. Two Tongues regathers what has been stolen to reassemble a life of compassion and – above all – love for family and Blak pride.

Cover designed by Jenna Lee

Available for pre-order online or in-store. Head to the link in our bio for more information.

15/10/2025

🏆️AWARD NEWS🏆️

Congratulations to who has been longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize. 🎉

The Voss Literary Prize is designed to acknowledge the best Australian novel published in the preceding year. The judges for the 2025 Voss Literary Prize long-listed 'Ghost Cities' from 52 eligible titles.

The award is dedicated to the memory of Vivian Robert de Vaux Voss, historian and lover of literature.

Congratulations, once again, to Siang Lu on this longlisting.

13/10/2025

📸BOOK SPOTLIGHT📸

It’s been two weeks since we sent Pictures of You out into the world.

Pictures of You: Collected Stories brings together the best of acclaimed writer Tony Birch’s short fiction from the past two decades.

This anthology showcases his skills at finding the extraordinary in ordinary lives, and the often-unexpected connections and kindnesses between strangers. His work is by turns poignant, sad, profound and funny – and always powerful. Throughout this stellar collection, Birch’s preoccupation with the humanity of those who are often marginalised or overlooked, and the search for justice for people and the natural environment shines bright.

Pictures of You is now available in-store an online.

10/10/2025

📚LOVE YOUR BOOKSHOP DAY📚

Tomorrow is Love Your Bookshop Day. We’ve decided to get in early, because we all know that Saturdays are for visiting your local bookstore and replenishing your TBR pile! Big love to ALL our stockists across the country and beyond — here a some happy snaps from just a few! Can you spot the UQP titles?

Follow their pages and show your support. Head to YOUR local bookstore tomorrow and thank your booksellers for everything they do. The world would be a much poorer place without them.

03/10/2025