Monday, 10 November 2014
The Perth Writers Festival has announced a number of authors appearing at its 2015 event.Among the international guests participating in the festival, which runs from 19 to 22 February, are...

Friday, 7 November 2014
Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (A&U) and The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane (Penguin) are the joint winners of the 2014 Barbara Jefferis Award. The prize is awarded every two...

Friday, 7 November 2014
The Australian Embassy Beijing has announced that A J Betts, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Tim Cope, Brooke Davis and Damon Young will be the guest authors at Australian Writers Week in...

Friday, 7 November 2014
Jo Chandler has won this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her piece ‘TB and Me: A Medical Souvenir’, first published in the Global Mail.Chandler will receive a...

Friday, 7 November 2014
Avid Reader Bookshop is offering world leaders attending the G20 Summit in Brisbane in November a collection of free books with the proviso that they must pick the books up from...

Friday, 7 November 2014
Author and playwright Brian Castro is the 2014 recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award. Castro was presented with the $24,000 award on 7 November. The annual award was established...

Thursday, 6 November 2014
Australian author Hannah Kent has been shortlisted for the International Author of the Year Award in this year’s National Book Awards in the UK.Kent, who is shortlisted for Burial Rites...

Thursday, 6 November 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Harbinger’ (Stevi-Lee Alver) ‘dermOid’ (Beth Cardier) ‘Resistance’...

Thursday, 6 November 2014
‘No one has time to read everything—or the money—so when you do pick up a book, you want to know it’s the right one’—Cheryl Akle on the launch of independent...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Australian author Lily Brett has become the first Australian to win the French literary award Prix Medicis Etranger.The award, which is given to the author of a work that has...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has appointed two new ABR Fellows. ‘The current ABR Ian Potter Foundation Fellowship (the third to be supported by The Ian Potter Foundation) attracted a...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Express Media has appointed Fiona Dunne as creative producer. ‘Fiona has experience across a number of festivals, events, and organisations, most recently through her work at Playwriting Australia,’ said the...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
A new online literary journal, Connect the Dots (CTD Journal), has been launched and is now open for submissions.Originally developed as a project for a creative writing subject offered by...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Perth retailers are allowed to trade for extended hours during the Christmas period after changes to trading hours by the Western Australian Government Department of Commerce, reports the ABC. Beginning...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) will hold its first dedicated children’s festival from 14 November to 4 December 2014. The Children’s Festival of Moving Stories features 25 authors in almost 40...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Writers Victoria and Melbourne-based bookseller Hares & Hyenas are among the businesses nominated for funding from ‘Kochie’s Business Builders’ $100K Rescue My Site’ competition.Writers Victoria has been nominated for the $25,000...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Adelaide-based publisher MidnightSun will publish its first children’s book in February 2015 following a successful crowdfunding campaign. One Step at a Time, written by Jane Jolly and illustrated by Sally...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Australia Post has opened ShopMate, an international postal-forwarding service in the US, reports Inside Retail. The ShopMate website allows Australian shoppers to buy goods from US retailers and have them...

Monday, 3 November 2014
Lucinda Gifford has won the inaugural Five Mile Press Illustrator Prize. Five Mile publisher Kay Scarlett said the judges of the prize felt Gifford had the ‘strongest individual style’ of...

Monday, 3 November 2014
Cheryl Akle announced the launch of new ‘independent book recommendations and news site’ Better Reading on 3 November 2014. The website at www.betterreading.com.au has been assisted by financial contributions from...