Do you have a Junior or Young Adult story (writing for readers between 8–18yrs) that you'd like to tell? Beau Windon did when they submitted to our 2025 award! Will you be this year's recipient?
Apply here: bit.ly/2Yi30NX
Applications close 30 April 2026 ⏳
2 Magabala books have been longlisted in the 2026 ASLA DANZ Awards 📚 'Bapa's Last Canoe' by Maree McCarthy Yoelu has been nominated in the 'Children's Picture Book' category and 'Ngurra Home' by Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler has been nominated in the 'Middle Grade' category.
Congratulations all 🥳
We're thrilled to announce that Magabala has been shortlisted for Small Publisher of the Year & Children's Publisher of Year in the 2026 Australian Book Industry Awards 📚
This would not be possible with our incredible Board, team, creators and our founding Elders. Thank you to all🖤
❗SUBMISSIONS CLOSE 24 APRIL
If you're planning to apply to the inaugural Pride Fellowship, supporting LGBTQIASB+ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers, you can get all the details here: bit.ly/4tjK50s
It's release day for these two deadly titles! 🤩
🖤 'Big Sky: When the Emu Left the Earth' by Bruce Pascoe and Professor Ray Norris
🖤 'In the Kelp Forest' by Aunty Patsy Cameron and Reena Balding, illustrated by Belinda Casey
Congrats to all 📚
Come celebrate the book launch of 'Muttonfish Magic' by Aunty Ruth Simms and Lucy Robertson, illustrated by Jasmine Seymour 🖤
📅 Saturday 11 April
🕰️ 10am
🏠 Bundanon Art Museum
🎟️ Free for mob, tickets here: bit.ly/4s5ubFW
🌈 Announcing the Magabala Pride Fellowship 🌈
In partnership with Pride Foundation Australia, the Fellowship will award $10,000 to a First Nations storyteller to dedicate time to developing or completing a manuscript.
📅 Applications close 24 April 2026
👉 Apply now: bit.ly/4tjK50s
HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! We're so excited to announce that we are opening a Magabala Bookstore in Naarm/Melbourne. This news is so deadly it almost feels too good to be true, right? 👀
Heads up! 🗣️ We'll be closed for the public holidays on Good Friday and Easter Monday. You can still place orders online, but dispatches will resume when we're back on Tuesday 7 April.
Enjoy the long weekend! 🐰🥚
🖤 📖 Cover reveal 📖🖤
'In The Kelp Forest' is a stunning picture book that explores the beauty and strength of Country beneath the waves and celebrates the living kelp forests, their creatures, and deep Cultural knowledge of Tasmania’s First Nations people.
📆 Out 7 April
Today we're celebrating all the deadly Blak poets out there for #WorldPoetryDay 🙌🏽 Each Magabala poetry collection offers a distinct voice, but together this list reflects the strength, diversity, and ongoing presence of First Nations peoples.
Check them out here: bit.ly/4sZrrej
Congratulations to Luke Patterson, whose poetry collection 'A Savage Turn' has been longlisted for the 2026 ALS Gold Medal 🥳
Read more here: bit.ly/4cQRU93
Join Ellen van Neerven and Nova Weetman at the Naarm launch of 'Ruby's Web' 🖤
📅 Saturday 28 March
🕰️ 2pm
🏠 The Little Bookroom
🎟️ FREE, RSVP here: bit.ly/3KqSrCZ
'Ruby’s Web' is a powerful story about finding your voice, seeking help, and addressing cyberbullying and victimisation.
Did you read at least one of our 2025 titles? We'd love to know what you thought....
Complete our short online survey and you can go in the draw to win EVERY book we published in 2025. That's 20 books!
Survey closes 19th March 2026 and competition drawn 23rd March 2026.
Link here: bit.ly/3P2JVvK
Thank you to everyone who came to the Meanjin launch of 'Ruby's Web' by Ellen van Neerven 🕷️🕸️ What a deadly way to launch a deadly book!
If you're based in Naarm, you haven't missed out! There will be a Naarm launch at The Little Bookroom at 2pm on Saturday 28 March.
RSVP here: bit.ly/3KqSrCZ
Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all the deadly women and gender diverse mob out there 🖤
Pictured: 'Wurnan' (2025) by the Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation.
Today, on #WorldBookDay, we're grateful to the creators who choose to work with and support Magabala Books, gracing us with their presence, offering their stories of truth, resources, survival, resistance, humour, Culture and Country 🖤💛❤️
We're thrilled to announce that 'Going Fishing with Nana', 'Going For Pippies', 'Ngurra Home' and 'Old Days Imanka nurna laakinha nitjaarta' are Children’s Book Council of Australia 2026 Book of the Year Notables.
Congratulations to all 📚
Today we're celebrating the launch of 'Janigun at the Beach', created by Mabu Yawuru Ngan-ga and Brenton E McKenna 🏖️
This First Nations word board book helps young bubs explore the world around them, like fun seagulls, red jelly fish and shy hermit crabs 🦀
Check it out: bit.ly/4rVhOgI
Huge congratulations to Luke Patterson for 'A Savage Turn' and Marjorie ‘Nunga’ Williams for 'Old Days Imanka nurna laakinha nitjaarta', both Highly Commended in the Indigenous Writing category of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 🖤✨
Congrats to all writers recognised across the awards 📚
Say hello to newly released 'Ruby's Web' by Ellen van Neerven 🕷️🖤 This upper middle grade book is a powerful story about finding your voice, seeking help, and addressing cyberbullying and victimisation.
Check it out here: bit.ly/4qt8sHm
Educators, this one is for you! 🕷️🕸️ We’re excited to announce that we’ll be hosting a free online webinar featuring Dr Lilly Brown in conversation with award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, exploring their new upper middle grade book 'Ruby’s Web'.
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/3ZMemIM
How beautiful is 'Muttonfish Magic'? 😍 Join Aunty Ruth Simms, Lucy Robertson and Jasmine Seymour in celebrating this deadly kids book 📚
📅 Saturday 21 February
🕰️ 12pm
🏠 Better Read Than Dead, NSW
🎟️ FREE
Enjoy listening as Aunty Ruth read, followed by a language activity that speaks to the book!
Give your Valentine the gift of a Magabala book 💝 Whether your sweetheart is into poetry, literary fiction, or non-fiction, there’s a Blak book for everyone (and their love).
It's not too late to grab one before your Valentine's date! Available at any good bookshop 🌹
Come celebrate the book launch of 'Wurnan, Sharing on Ngarinyin Country' by the Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation 🖤
📅 Saturday 21 February
🕰️ 10am
🏠 Mowanjum Arts, Derby WA
🎟️ FREE
13 February marks the 18th Anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations. We pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples affected by policies of removal.
Pictured: 'Kunyi' (2021) by Kunyi June Anne McInerney.
Come celebrate the book launch of 'Muttonfish Magic' by Aunty Ruth Simms and Lucy Robertson, illustrated by Jasmine Seymour 🖤
📅 Saturday 21 February
🕰️ 12pm
🏠 Better Read Than Dead, NSW
🎟️ FREE
Introducing Magabala's first titles of 2026! We're so excited to start the year with these incredible books:
🖤 'Wurnan, Sharing on Ngarinyin Country' by Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation
🖤 'Muttonfish Magic' by Aunty Ruth Simms and Lucy Robertson, illustrated by Jasmine Seymour
Congrats to all 📚
Thank you to everyone who came together to celebrate the new edition of ‘Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari’, written by the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council Aboriginal Corporation 🖤
Check out the book: bit.ly/49yH8T2
Come celebrate the book launch of 'Going Fishing With Nana' by Frances Haji-Ali & Lindsay Haji-Ali, illustrated by Karen Briggs!
📅 Sunday 15 February
🕰️ 9.30am
🏠 Paper Bird Children's Books and Arts
🎟️ FREE