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APA opportunity for Frankfurt Book Fair: 9-13 October 

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
The Frankfurt Book Fair is a meeting place for the industry’s experts and the most important marketplace for books, media, rights and licences worldwide. 7307 Exhibitors from 97 countries make...

‘ABR’ offers prizes and fellowships 

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Australian Book Review is offering Australian writers a suite of prizes and fellowships. Entries are open for the Calibre Prize, the essay prize in its eighth year worth $5000, and the Peter Porter Poetry Prize...

David Harold Tribe Poetry Award entries open 

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
The David Harold Tribe Poetry Award, presented by the Department of English at the University of Sydney, is open for submissions. The award, with prize money of $12,000, is designed to encourage...

Editors Victoria workshop: Navigating the New Media 

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Editors Victoria will hold a workshop on Navigating the New Media.  Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance Victorian secretary Louise Connor will discuss the rapidly changing landscape in the creative content industries: books,...

Ormsby leaves RMIT Publishing 

Monday, 8 July 2013
Kevin Ormsby has retired from the position of publishing manager at RMIT Publishing in Melbourne after eight years at the compny. Prior to joining RMIT Publishing in 2006, Ormsby held...

Abrahams, Booton to join the Wheeler Centre 

Friday, 5 July 2013
At the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne, Simon Abrahams has been appointed to the role of head of programming, replacing associate director Jenny Niven while she is...

‘Rudd v. Abbott’ by David Marr available Tuesday 9 July 

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott have resumed battle for leadership of the nation. Rudd v. Abbott beings together their definitive portraits by Australia’s pre-eminent biographer and investigative journalist, David Marr....

Macdonald to join HarperCollins NZ 

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Journalist and editor Finlay Macdonald will join HarperCollins New Zealand on 18 July in the newly created position of contract publisher. Macdonald, who will be based in Auckland and will...

Redmayne to replace Barnsley as HarperCollins UK CEO 

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Victoria Barnsley, CEO of HarperCollins UK, has announced that she will leave HarperCollins this month after 13 years with the company. Barnsley, who was also previously CEO of HarperCollins International,...

Most Underrated Book Award entries open 

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Entries are open for the Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA), which aims to ‘shine a light on some of the outstanding titles that are released by small and independent publishers...

HarperCollins Oxfam Trailwalker Trivia Night 

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Every year, tens of thousands of over-nourished, self-involved, slightly paunchy, social smoking, wee bit unfit, guilt-ridden First-Worlders pretend to take an interest in someone else’s problems for a change by...

Editors Victoria workshops 

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Editors Victoria is running several workshops over the coming weeks. Introduction to Copy-editing on Saturday 13 July. Introduction to Structural Editing on Saturday 27 July. From InDesign to EPUB (Mac)...

APA Professional Development: Children’s Digital Publishing Seminar 

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
The Click on Kids’: Children’s Digital Publishing Seminar will be held on Thursday 1 August in Sydney, supported by Australian Publishers Association (APA) Children’s Publishing Committee. The seminar venue is Aerial UTS Function Centre, Level 7, 235...

Australian Educational Publishing Awards deadline extended 

Monday, 1 July 2013
The Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2013 are open for nominations. The awards, presented by the Australian Publishers Association (APA), recognise the best educational materials published during the year in the...