Thursday, 27 March 2014
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (Vintage) has been named Indie Book of the Year at the 2014 Indie Awards, presented by Leading Edge Books in Sydney...

Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Penguin Books Australia will publish a second series of Pink Popular Penguins to raise money for the McGrath Foundation.Penguin will publish eight new Pink Popular Penguins on 23 April, following...

Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Dunedin on the South Island of New Zealand has applied to become a UNESCO City of Literature.Dunedin mayor Dave Cull submitted the city’s application to UNESCO on 19 March. Cull...

Monday, 24 March 2014
Newcomer Kylie Scott was named Favourite Australian Romance Author at the Australian Romance Readers Awards in Sydney on 22 March. Scott was selected from a shortlist of 10 authors, which included...

Thursday, 20 March 2014
The shortlist for the second Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Burial Rites (Hannah Kent, Picador) Night Games (Anna Krien, Black Inc.) The Night Guest (Fiona McFarlane,...

Wednesday, 19 March 2014
A new website dedicated to Australian children’s poetry has launched. Australian Children’s Poetry was launched by author Dianne Bates on 15 March. The website, which is dedicated to showcasing contemporary...

Wednesday, 19 March 2014
The shortlist for this year’s Ashurst Business Literature Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Shark’s Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature Is Inspiring Innovation (Jay Harman, Nicholas Brealey) Boom: The...

Tuesday, 18 March 2014
The ACT Writers Centre in Canberra has launched a new professional development program aimed at emerging fiction writers, called Hardcopy. The six-month program, which is currently open for applications, is...

Friday, 14 March 2014
Random House Australia has launched a website devoted to crime and thriller books.The new site, which went live in early March, features news, reviews, author interviews, staff recommendations and other...

Friday, 14 March 2014
Penguin Books Australia will publish a set of 10 war-themed Popular Penguins later this month to commemorate the centenary of World War I. The War Popular Penguins will feature a...

Thursday, 13 March 2014
Allen & Unwin, Berbay Publishing, Hinkler Books and Walker Books have been nominated in the Oceania category of this year’s Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year....

Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Maxine Beneba Clarke has won the 2014 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. Clarke was announced as the winner at a Writers Victoria event in Melbourne on 11 March. Writers Victoria said...

Wednesday, 12 March 2014
The shortlist for the 2013 Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Canberra (Paul Daley, NewSouth) Island Earth: New and Selected Poems...

Tuesday, 11 March 2014
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced a number of changes to the Barbara Jefferis Award.In 2014, the award’s prize money will increase from $35,000 to $55,000, with $50,000...

Friday, 7 March 2014
A number of writers have been awarded Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships for 2014.Scholarships for poetry were awarded to Jessica Wilkinson, Elizabeth Campbell and Candy Royalle. Wilkinson, a lecturer in creative...

Friday, 7 March 2014
Books by Australian authors Hannah Kent and Evie Wyld and New Zealand author Eleanor Catton are among the titles longlisted for this year’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction in the...

Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Dymocks Collins Place in Melbourne’s CBD will close on 7 March after almost 20 years of trading. The store, which is located near the larger Dymocks store at 234 Collins Street, first opened in May...

Monday, 3 March 2014
Frank Moorhouse has won the overall Premier’s Award, worth $25,000, in the 2014 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature for the third book in his ‘Edith’ trilogy, Cold Light (Vintage). The...

Thursday, 27 February 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: What Was Left (Eleanor Limprecht, Sleepers) An Elegant Young Man (Luke Carman, Giramondo)...