Friday, 13 September 2013
The winners of this year’s New South Wales Premier’s History Awards have been announced. The winners in the book-related categories are: Australian History Prize ($15,000) Kitty’s War: The Remarkable Wartime...

Thursday, 12 September 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Toyo: A Memoir (Lily Chan, Black Inc.) The Two Frank Thrings (Peter Fitzpatrick, Monash University...

Wednesday, 11 September 2013
A new Australian children’s book publisher called Christmas Press will specialise in publishing traditional folktales from around the world. Christmas Press has been founded by well-known children’s author Sophie Masson,...

Tuesday, 10 September 2013
John Charalambous’ 2006 novel Silent Parts (UQP) has been republished with the new title An Accidental Soldier ahead of an ABC TV film adaptation of the same name. UQP publisher...

Friday, 6 September 2013
Pan Macmillan’s digital imprint Momentum has launched a new romance imprint and online community called Momentum Moonlight. Momentum Moonlight, which has a dedicated website, will include all of Momentum’s current...

Thursday, 5 September 2013
The winners of the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) were announced on 4 September during the Brisbane Writers Festival. The winners in each of the book-related categories are: Fiction book...

Wednesday, 4 September 2013
The winners of the 2013 Australian Family Therapists’ Awards for Children’s Literature have been announced. The Children’s/Youth Literature Award, worth $1000, was presented to I’ll Tell You Mine by Pip...

Wednesday, 4 September 2013
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is staging its seventh Indigenous Literacy Day today and is aiming to raise up to $200,000 for Indigenous literacy. A number of booksellers and publishers...

Tuesday, 3 September 2013
A number of authors are in the running for Cosmopolitan magazine’s annual Fun Fearless Female poll. Nominated in the Author category are: Hannah Kent (Burial Rites, Picador) Romy Ash (Floundering,...

Monday, 2 September 2013
A re-elected Federal Labor Government will invest $12 million over three years in a national university publishing consortium, called Australian Universities Press (AUP). Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research,...

Monday, 2 September 2013
Campus bookseller the Co-op has acquired library supply business DA Information Services and its trade distribution arm Central Book Services (CBS). The businesses, which operated under parent company The Information...

Monday, 2 September 2013
The winners of the 2013 Davitt Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime for crime and mystery books written by Australian women, have been announced. The winning titles in each of...

Monday, 2 September 2013
Following the success of The 13-Storey Treehouse and The 26-Storey Treehouse, Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton have created The 39-Storey Treehouse (all Pan), which features 13 new levels, including a chocolate waterfall,...

Monday, 2 September 2013
Australian author Amy Espeseth and Australia-based UK academic Cordelia Fine have been shortlisted for the 2013 Warwick Prize for Writing. The shortlist was announced at a ceremony at the Melbourne Writers...

Friday, 30 August 2013
Author and broadcaster John Safran is currently presenting a six-part series about true crime writing on ABC Radio National. ‘John Safran’s True Crime’ is being broadcast on Radio National each Sunday at 3pm, and again each...

Thursday, 29 August 2013
Australian author Ryan O’Neill’s The Weight of a Human Heart (Black Inc.) has been shortlisted in the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards. O’Neill’s novel was shortlisted in the First Book...

Tuesday, 27 August 2013
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) will stage its seventh Indigenous Literacy Day on Wednesday 4 September to raise funds for literary resources in remote Indigenous communities. ILF executive director Karen...

Monday, 26 August 2013
Journalist and author David Marr has won the John Button Prize for writing on Australian politics and policy for Quarterly Essay 47, Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott (Black Inc.)....

Monday, 26 August 2013
The University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre, School of Culture and Communication and Faculty of Arts announced the winners of the Peter Blazey Fellowship, the Wesley Michel Wright Prize and the...

Friday, 23 August 2013
The winners of this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards were announced at a ceremony at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne on 22 August. Winners...

Friday, 23 August 2013
The 2013 Reading Hour will take place around the country tomorrow, 24 August, from 5-6pm. The initiative, which promotes the idea that everyone can benefit from reading for 10 minutes a...