MTC to adapt Pung’s ‘Laurinda’
Alice Pung’s YA novel Laurinda (Black Inc.) will be adapted for the stage, as part of Melbourne Theatre Company’s (MTC) ...
SPN Book of the Year Award shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Small Press Network (SPN) book of the year award has been announced. The shortlisted books are: ...
Court dismisses defamation case against Cannane, HarperCollins
A federal court judge has dismissed a defamation case brought by two doctors against HarperCollins and author Steve Cannane relating ...
Bertelsmann to acquire S&S
Bertelsmann, the parent company of Penguin Random House (PRH), has announced it will acquire Simon & Schuster (S&S) from media ...
PRH NZ announces scholarship for Māori and Pasifika students
Penguin Random House New Zealand (PRH NZ) has announced a new publishing scholarship for Māori and Pasifika students. The Penguin Random ...
‘Being a writer in Australia is seen as an esoteric thing at best, certainly not a profession, a hobby maybe, and this is the first time I’ll say it and I’ll say it again in the next 40 minutes—Australia doesn’t care about most kinds of artists, but it doesn’t care about writers in particular.’—Maria Tumarkin, in her State of the Writing Nation address, questions the role of the writer in Australian society.
