Monday, 31 August 2015
Writers Alexis Wright, Courtney Collins and Marieke Hardy are among 10 artists to be awarded 2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships, each worth $160,000 over two years.Wright is the author of...

Friday, 28 August 2015
The director and initial cast of the film adaptation of Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey, A&U) has been announced, with filming set to begin in the Western Australia’s South West in...

Friday, 28 August 2015
The program for the National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF), which will run in Newcastle, NSW, from 1-4 October, has been announced.  The festival will include more than 100 speakers for more than 80 events, including author Abigail Ulman (Hot Little...

Friday, 28 August 2015
A Texas judge has ordered Australian Amanda Hayward set aside US$10.7m (A$14.9m) for American Jennifer Lynn Pedroza, her former partner in The Writer’s Coffee Shop (TWCS), the original publisher of the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ series. ...

Friday, 28 August 2015
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has presented author Libby Gleeson the 2015 Nan Chauncy Award for her work in Australian children’s literature.The award was presented on the evening...

Thursday, 27 August 2015
The program for the second annual Word for Word Festival, to be held at Deakin University’s Waterfront campus in Geelong from 11-13 September, has been announced.More than 70 guests will...

Tuesday, 25 August 2015
The ninth Indigenous Literacy Day will take place around Australia next Wednesday 2 September.Indigenous Literacy Day at the Sydney Opera House will be hosted by NITV newsreader Natalie Ahmat, and...

Tuesday, 25 August 2015
Readings has announced the titles shortlisted for its $4000 New Australian Writing Award.The shortlisted titles are: The Other Side of the World (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette) Last Day in the Dynamite...

Monday, 24 August 2015
The winners of the 2015 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the ‘RUBYs’, were announced on 22 August at the RWA’s 24th national...

Monday, 24 August 2015
The three winning novellas in the 2015 Seizure Viva La Novella competition have been announced.The End of Seeing by Christy Collins, Formaldehyde by Jane Rawson and Welcome to Orphancorp by Marlee Jane Ward were...

Monday, 24 August 2015
Paul Kelly has won the 2015 John Button Prize for writing on policy and politics for his book Triumph and Demise (MUP).Kelly’s book was selected for the $20,000 prize ahead...

Monday, 24 August 2015
The shortlists for the 2015 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria for local and international...

Friday, 21 August 2015
The winners of the 2015 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced in Melbourne on 21 August, marking the official launch of Children’s Book...

Friday, 21 August 2015
The 10% GST will be applied to all goods purchased online from overseas retailers from 1 July 2017, following a meeting between federal and state government treasurers in Canberra on Friday.Australian...

Friday, 21 August 2015
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) presented the winners of this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing at a Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) event on Saturday 22 August.Candice Fox...

Thursday, 20 August 2015
The founder and director of the Australian and New Zealand Festival of Literature and the Arts, Jon Slack, has stepped down from his position. Slack told Books+Publishing that executive director...

Wednesday, 19 August 2015
A new writers’ and readers’ centre, Writers Activation, has opened on the Gold Coast.The centre is run by writer Helen Stubbs, who was awarded a grant by the Gold Coast...

Wednesday, 19 August 2015
The Guardian is taking its writing Masterclasses to the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. The course is designed for aspiring authors who want to spend structured time on their writing, and will be...