‘Bridget Crack’ wins 2019 Tasmania Book Prize
The winners of the 2019 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The winning works and their authors are: Tasmania ...
Arts to be merged into new government ‘super-department’
From 1 February 2020, the Department of Communications and the Arts (DCA) will be incorporated into the new Department of ...
Booton appointed Stella Prize executive director
The Stella Prize has appointed Jaclyn Booton as its new executive director, replacing previous ED Michelle Scott Tucker, who in ...
Chen wins Deborah Cass Prize 2019
Writer Janette Chen has won the 2019 Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds for her manuscript extract ...
Aman, Brabon named joint winners of the David Harold Tribe Fiction Award
Writers Claire Aman and Katherine Brabon are the joint winners of the 2019 David Harold Tribe Fiction Award, worth $12,000. ...
‘We have to create demand for our books precisely because they are not stacked up at the front of the shop—on ‘the dick table’ as Clare Wright so memorably called it.’—Ventura Press publisher Jane Curry on how small publishers can remain competitive by creating buzz for their titles.
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