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Congratulations to the shortlisted authors and illustrators of the 2025 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awar...
01/07/2025

Congratulations to the shortlisted authors and illustrators of the 2025 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards. Not one, not two, not three BUT FOUR UQP authors have been nominated for their work across two categories.⁠

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Book Award:⁠

👗'Three Dresses' by Wanda Gibson⁠

Age-related Award Category: Eight to ten years:⁠

🦴'Little Bones' by Sandy Bigna⁠

🌙🌳'Meet Me at the Moon Tree' by Shivaun Plozza⁠

&⁠

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

The Book of the Year Awards are judged by a panel of Certified Practising Speech Pathologists with specific knowledge and skill in children's language and literacy development.⁠

Congratulations again to all shortlisted authors and illustrators!⁠

To read more about the awards and find the books, head to the link below.

https://bit.ly/4epp3qY

Happy publication day to our July new releases! To celebrate, we're giving one lucky winner a chance to win a copy of th...
01/07/2025

Happy publication day to our July new releases! To celebrate, we're giving one lucky winner a chance to win a copy of their chosen July title:

🔮 'Dead Ends' by Samantha Byres
🐟️ 'Sonny & Tess' by Nova Weetman
🍁 'Ghost of Myself' by John Kinsella
🐸 'The Frog's First Song' by Jazz Money and Jason Phu

There'll be one winner for each platform. To enter, tag a friend and make sure you’re BOTH following us. Then, let us know in the comments which book(s) you'd love to have on your bookshelf and why!

🌿Monthly Wrap!🍩⁠⁠June was a whole lotta vibes! ⁠⁠Even kittens love our First Nations Classics Series, Swallow the Air FN...
29/06/2025

🌿Monthly Wrap!🍩⁠

June was a whole lotta vibes! ⁠

Even kittens love our First Nations Classics Series, Swallow the Air FNC Series 3 version was launched in Magandjin (sans kitten sadly), no copy of Our New Gods was safe from author Thomas Vowles signature, the resident UQP window cat, Felice, got an upgraded hat for plant-based week, we feasted (plant-based), the BookPeople conference was a whirl of joy, books, and love, and the team celebrated with the Jacaranda journal crew for the announcement of the UQP x Jacaranda prize! ⁠

😻Thank you for your support through this first half of 2025, we can't wait to show you what we have coming up next...

✨️RIGHTS WRAP🌟⁠⁠This past week, the UQP office has been flooded with overseas editions of our books. From the UK edition...
28/06/2025

✨️RIGHTS WRAP🌟⁠

This past week, the UQP office has been flooded with overseas editions of our books. From the UK edition of [tag] Jordan Prosser’s 'Big Time', out with Dead Ink Books in September, to the French edition of 'Too Much Lip' by Melissa Lucashenko, and the Italian edition of 'The Discontented Little Baby Book' by Pamela Douglas, plus many more, it has been a very happy mail week for UQP’s rights department.

🔮New blackly comical mystery fiction, a ghostly poetry collection, a charming middle grade novel, and a beautiful lyrica...
26/06/2025

🔮New blackly comical mystery fiction, a ghostly poetry collection, a charming middle grade novel, and a beautiful lyrical children's picture book, coming this July at UQP.⁠

Mark your calendars for the release of these fantastic reads.⁠

Pre-order online or at your favourite local bookstore. 🔖

💫ACQUISITION NEWS💫UQP is delighted to announce the acquisition of Debra Adelaide's book, 'When I Am Sixty-Four.'Told thr...
25/06/2025

💫ACQUISITION NEWS💫

UQP is delighted to announce the acquisition of Debra Adelaide's book, 'When I Am Sixty-Four.'

Told through fragments, this novel is about a writer reflecting on the final days of a friend and fellow writer, one whom she has known since childhood. Despite their shared past and seemingly parallel lives, she discovers that their memories of collective experiences often diverge or have been expunged along the way.

Based on Debra Adelaide’s lifelong friendship with Gabrielle Carey, 'When I Am Sixty-Four' explores universal themes of inherited trauma and grief; friendship, loyalty and ageing; and the tensions between motherhood and creativity.

UQP acquired world rights from Jane Novak Literary Agency and will publish in April 2026.

To read more, including quotes from Debra and publisher Aviva Tuffield, head to the blog https://www.uqp.com.au/blog/uqp-acquires-exquisite-new-novel-from-debra-adelaide

✨️A huge congratulations to Sarah Valle, UQP's Senior Publicist, for being shortlisted for the Australian Publishers Ass...
25/06/2025

✨️A huge congratulations to Sarah Valle, UQP's Senior Publicist, for being shortlisted for the Australian Publishers Association 2025 Rising Star Award!

Sarah has been recognised by the APA as an emerging talent in the publishing industry for her leadership, passion, determination, and exceptional contributions to publishing.

Well done Sarah, the UQP team is incredibly proud of you and are honoured to work alongside such a conscientious and inspiring star like you.

The winner will be announced at the BookUp Conference on 7 July.

To read the judges comments about the APA Rising star award, head to the link http://www.uqp.com.au/blog/uqps-sarah-valle-shortlisted-for-the-2025-apa-rising-star-award

🎉We are exceptionally excited to announce that Siang Lu's allegorical and imaginative novel 'Ghost Cities' has been shor...
25/06/2025

🎉We are exceptionally excited to announce that Siang Lu's allegorical and imaginative novel 'Ghost Cities' has been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin literary award!

Siang will join the other shortlisted authors at a live panel event on the 2nd of July, at Gleebooks, and the winner will be announced on the 24th of July.

Congratulations once again Siang, this is a huge achievement! 👏

You can read the judges comments, and more about the Miles Franklin Literary Award, through the link in our bio.

🗓️We can’t believe we’re nearly over halfway through 2025! In anticipation of what’s coming from UQP in July, let’s take...
24/06/2025

🗓️We can’t believe we’re nearly over halfway through 2025! In anticipation of what’s coming from UQP in July, let’s take a look back on the beautiful things, readers, reviewers, media outlets and wonderful booksellers, have had to say about UQPs 2025 titles, so far. (Post 2 of 2).

April titles cont
- ‘The Sun Was Electric Light’ by Rachel Morton

May titles
- ‘Mettle’ by Anne-Marie Te Whiu
- ‘Nightingale’ by Laura Elvery
- ‘Odder’ by Katherine Applegate & Charles Santoso
- ‘The Only Branch on the Family Tree’ by Sherryl Clark

June titles
- ‘Music Camp’ by Penny Tangey
- ‘Our New Gods’ by Thomas Vowles
First Nations Classics: Series Three ft
- ‘Aboriginal Women by Degrees’ by MaryAnn Bin-Sallik
- ‘Broken Dreams’ by Bill Dodd
- ‘Swallow the Air’ by Tara June Winch
- ‘Dancing Home’ by Paul Collis

July titles coming soon…. ♥️

🗓️We can’t believe we’re nearly halfway through 2025! In anticipation of what’s coming from UQP in July, let’s take a lo...
24/06/2025

🗓️We can’t believe we’re nearly halfway through 2025! In anticipation of what’s coming from UQP in July, let’s take a look back on the beautiful things, readers, reviewers, media outlets and wonderful booksellers, have had to say about UQPs 2025 titles, so far. (Post 1 of 2).

Feb titles
- ‘We Speak of Flowers’ by Eileen Chong
- ‘Gutsy Girls’ by Josie McSkimming
- ‘The House of Rural Realness’ by Curtis Campbell

March titles
- ‘First Name Second Name’ by Steve MinOn
- ‘Is That You, Ruthie?: The Play’ by Leah Purcell
- ‘Little Bones’ by Sandy Bigna
- ‘Someone Like Me: An anthology of non-fiction by Autistic writers’ edited by Clem Bastow & Jo Case

April titles
- ‘My Mum is a Bird’ by Angie Cui & Evie Barrow
- ‘The Nightmare Sequence’ by Omar Sakr & Safdar Ahmed

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