Wednesday, 8 January 2014
A new Australian editing business aimed at individual authors wanting to self-publish ebooks launched this month. Ebookedit was founded by Nicola O’Shea and Keith Stevenson. O’Shea is a regular freelancer...

Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Writers Victoria has announced the finalists for the 2014 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, which is presented each year to an Australian writer for a proposed biography. The shortlisted writers and...

Tuesday, 7 January 2014
The University of Melbourne will hold a series of public lectures based on ‘10 Great Books’ throughout 2014. The series, which will launch in February with a discussion of Jean-Jacques...

Friday, 20 December 2013
The Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards will include an award for emerging writers for the first time in 2014. The $10,000 Western Australian Emerging Writers Award will be awarded to a...

Friday, 13 December 2013
Films based on books by Malcolm Knox, Timothy Conigrave and Erin McKean are among the latest projects to receive funding from Screen Australia. Screen Australia announced $424,000 in development funding...

Thursday, 12 December 2013
Pan Macmillan Australia has announced that it will partner with US daytime television show The Bold and the Beautiful to publish a series of novellas based on the show. The...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Books+Publishing has conducted an overview of its reviews pages for 2013 to reveal some interesting statistics about the Australian publishing industry. In total, 232 Australian and New Zealand originated titles...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Hardie Grant Books has launched a recipe subscription website called Cooked, which draws on content from the publisher’s cookbooks and allows members to create their own recipe collections to share...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
The Stella Prize is one of seven organisations that will receive a share of $134,750 in grants from the Readings Foundation in 2014. The prize, which was established in 2012 to...

Monday, 9 December 2013
Alice Springs will lose its only generalist bookstore when Dymocks Alice Springs closes in mid-January. The franchise store’s owner Bev Ellis told Books+Publishing that she has decided to retire from...

Monday, 9 December 2013
Bloomsbury has announced that it will publish illustrated editions of J K Rowling’s Harry Potter series with artwork from UK illustrator Jim Kay. The first title in the series, Harry...

Monday, 9 December 2013
The shortlists for the 2014 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Fiction ($15,000) A World of Other People (Steven...

Friday, 6 December 2013
Brisbane writer, lecturer and book industry figure Stuart Glover has won the 2013 Johnno Award, presented by the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) for outstanding contributions to writing in Queensland. Glover...

Wednesday, 4 December 2013
The Emerging Writers’ Festival has announced that it will hold a Digital Writers’ Festival in February 2014. The purely online festival will run from 13-24 February at a new festival website, which...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013
A new Australian online bookstore that specialises in sports books opened in November. Parade Lap Books sells motorsport, cricket, football and horseracing titles. It is owned by a company called...

Friday, 29 November 2013
The shortlists for the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction Burial Rites (Hannah Kent, Picador) The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard...

Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Children’s author Jackie French has been named the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2014-2015. Author, actor and director Rhys Muldoon presented French with the laureate’s Magpie Award at a ceremony at the...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Melbourne-based publisher Affirm Press has announced that it won’t be supplying print books to Amazon and the Book Depository in a bid to support the local industry. Affirm Press sales...

Monday, 25 November 2013
The winners of the 2013 Canberra’s Own Outstanding List (COOL) Awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture Storybooks (joint winners) Mirror (Jeannie Baker, Walker Books) The Very Cranky...