Tuesday, 29 April 2014
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the book award categories in this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards. The shortlisted titles are: International book of the year...

Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Australian author Hannah Kent and New Zealand author Paul Cleave are among the writers nominated for this year’s Barry Awards for crime writing.Awarded annually by the editors of US crime...

Tuesday, 29 April 2014
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright (Text) is the winner of the 2014 Stella Prize for women’s writing. Wright was presented with the $50,000 prize at an awards...

Thursday, 24 April 2014
Screen Australia has announced development funding for the CGI-animated film Blinky Bill based on the children’s book series by Dorothy Wall, which was published by Angus & Robertson in the 1930s.Due for release in June 2015,...

Wednesday, 23 April 2014
A number of Australians are in the running for the 2014 Hugo Awards for science-fiction.Foz Meadows, author of YA urban fantasy novels Solace & Grief and The Key to Starveldt...

Tuesday, 22 April 2014
The Australia Council has awarded Artistic Leadership grants to Melbourne Writers Festival director Lisa Dempster and South Australia Writers Centre director Sarah Tooth, and an Executive Leadership grant to New...

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
This year’s London Book Fair, which wound up on 10 April, was ‘undeniably buzzy’, with international publishers ‘keen to mine Australian lists for the next Rosie Project’, reports Allen &...

Monday, 14 April 2014
The titles shortlisted for this year’s Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award have been announced.The shortlisted titles, chosen from 100 entries, are: The Collapse (Aidan Anderson) Dream England (Stephanie Bishop) The Windy Season...

Monday, 14 April 2014
The successful applicants for two new Australia Council for the Arts grants for Australian editors and for Australian publishers of mid-list authors have been announced.The successful applicants for the Publishing...

Friday, 11 April 2014
The longlists for this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced.The longlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian female...

Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Australian author Hannah Kent has been shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Burial Rites (Picador).The full shortlist was announced in the UK on 8 April.The...

Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Pan Macmillan’s digital-only imprint Momentum is publishing Matthew Reilly’s latest novella as a serialised ebook.The first episode of Troll Mountain, a quest story set in the ‘kingdom of the trolls’,...

Tuesday, 8 April 2014
The finalists for the 2014 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are:Picture Books Machines and Me: Boats (Catherine Foreman, Scholastic NZ)...

Monday, 7 April 2014
Multiple overseas rights to a debut novel by Perth bookseller Brooke Davis have been acquired ahead of its publication by Hachette Australia in July.Rights to Lost & Found have been...

Monday, 7 April 2014
The 2013 Aurealis Award winners were announced at a ceremony in Canberra on Saturday 5 April. The winning titles were:Science-fiction novel Lexicon (Max Barry, Hachette)  Fantasy novel A Crucible of...

Thursday, 3 April 2014
The longlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced.The longlisted titles are: The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Tracy Farr, Fremantle Press) The Narrow Road to...

Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Independent Melbourne bookseller Readings has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Readings Children’s Book Prize. The shortlisted titles are: Song for a Scarlet Runner (Julie Hunt, A&U) The Girl Who...

Tuesday, 1 April 2014
The Sex Lives of Australians: A History by Frank Bongiorno (Black Inc.) has been named the 2013 ACT Book of the Year. Bongiorno’s book was chosen from a shortlist that...

Monday, 31 March 2014
Shearer’s Bookshop in Leichhardt, Sydney, will close its bricks-and-mortar store on 31 May but will continue to operate as an online business.Shearer’s co-owner Barbara Horgan told Books+Publishing that the decision was made...