Thursday, 12 June 2014
Over 14,000 people attended the 2014 Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), the second festival under director Sam Twyford-Moore, breaking last year’s box office and attendance records.General manager Kate Callingham told Books+Publishing...

Wednesday, 11 June 2014
The finalists for the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year award, known as ‘the Ruby’, have been announced.The finalists in each category are:‘Short sexy’: What the...

Tuesday, 10 June 2014
The 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours List has been announced, with Lonely Planet founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler both awarded Officer in the General Division (AO) for ‘distinguished service to business and...

Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Five Australians have been longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. The Australians longlisted are Tony Birch for The Promise (UQP), Catherine McNamara for Pelt and Other Stories...

Tuesday, 10 June 2014
The finalists in the 2014 LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) Children’s Book Awards have been announced. The judges this year selected six finalists in the young...

Tuesday, 10 June 2014
The Copyright Agency Cultural Fund has announced it will continue its funding of RMIT University’s Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange (WrICE) program until 2017. The new $225,000 funding ‘will enable 15...

Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Two American women are suing Australian Amanda Hayward for a share in profits from E L James’ bestselling novel Fifty Shades of Grey.Hayward is the owner of The Writers Coffee...

Friday, 6 June 2014
The Byron Bay Writers’ Festival has launched its 2014 program.Joining international guest Jeanette Winterson, who was previously announced as the festival’s keynote speaker, are Geoff Dyer, Susie Orbach, David Finkel...

Wednesday, 4 June 2014
The shortlists for the Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced. The titles shortlisted for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian female...

Wednesday, 4 June 2014
Black Inc. has called on the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards to publish a list of all entries submitted for the award for nonfiction.In a statement, Black Inc. director Morry Schwarz...

Wednesday, 4 June 2014
‘The politicisation of this award means that the award’s integrity has been seriously damaged’—Morry Schwarz and Chris Feik of Black Inc. on the PMLA nonfiction award

Tuesday, 3 June 2014
The SA Writers Centre in Adelaide will hold a romance writers festival from 14 to 15 June. ‘Weekend Romance: A Fair to Remember’ will feature guests including Helene Young, Fiona...

Tuesday, 3 June 2014
The four winning novellas in the 2014 Seizure Viva La Novella competition have been announced.Sideshow by Nicole Smith, The Other Shore by Hoa Pham, The Neighbour by Julie Proudfoot and...

Tuesday, 3 June 2014
The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne is running a campaign to encourage public conversation that is ‘part street art and part New Yorker-style caption contest’.Under the campaign, Twitter users are asked to...

Tuesday, 3 June 2014
The winners of this year’s Territory Read Awards and Northern Territory Literary Awards have been announced.The winners in the Territory Read Awards are:Chief Minister’s Book of the Year ($5000) One...

Monday, 2 June 2014
‘More Australians are reading, and they are reading more often,’ according to a new survey of arts participation by the Australia Council.While the report Arts in Daily Life: Australian Participation...

Monday, 2 June 2014
HarperCollins Australia has announced the acquisition of a debut novel by Australian writer Sandra Leigh Price.HarperCollins acquired ANZ rights to A Tabernacle for the Birds in a two-book deal with the...

Friday, 30 May 2014
Online bookstore Boomerang Books has partnered with a number of bloggers to boost traffic to its website.The store, which is co-owned by Pages & Pages Booksellers, is inviting bloggers to become...

Thursday, 29 May 2014
Sarah Holland-Batt has been appointed poetry editor at Island. Holland-Batt is a lecturer in creative writing and literary studies at Queensland University of Technology and the author of the award-winning...

Wednesday, 28 May 2014
The 2014 CBCA National Conference was held in Canberra from 16-18 May under the theme ‘National Treasures’. Sharon Hayes, resource centre manager at Marian College in Melbourne, reports:This year’s CBCA...

Tuesday, 27 May 2014
The sun shone particularly brightly at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which ran from 19-25 May, with the warm weather matched by strong box office and book sales for...

Tuesday, 27 May 2014
HarperCollins has signed a three-book deal with self-published Perth author Lili St. Germain. St. Germain’s self-published ‘Seven Sons’ series—a ‘dark romance set in the outlaw world of biker clubs’—has sold nearly...