Tuesday, 20 August 2013
The titles shortlisted for the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) have been announced. The shortlisted titles in the book-related categories are: Fiction book award The Voyage (Murray Bail, Text) My Hundred Lovers (Susan...

Tuesday, 20 August 2013
As reported in a Books+Publishing special bulletin, the winners of this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced on 15 August. The winning titles are: Fiction Questions of Travel (Michelle...

Tuesday, 20 August 2013
As reported in a Books+Publishing special bulletin, the winners of this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced in Canberra on 16 August, marking the...

Monday, 19 August 2013
The winners of the 2013 Ruby Romantic Book of the Year awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Long Romance The Lady Risks All (Stephanie Laurens, Avon...

Monday, 19 August 2013
Commonwealth Writers has announced that it will no longer offer the Commonwealth Book Prize, and will instead focus its efforts on the Short Story Prize. Commonwealth Foundation communications manager Sarah...

Friday, 16 August 2013
The longlist for the 2013 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Governor Bligh and the Short Man (Peter Cochrane, Penguin)...

Friday, 16 August 2013
The winners of this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced in Canberra today, marking the official launch of Children’s Book Week. The...

Thursday, 15 August 2013
The winners of this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced at a ceremony at the State Library of Queensland on 15 August—the first time the awards have been presented...

Friday, 9 August 2013
Organisers of the Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) have launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for this year’s awards and to ‘sustain the awards for the future’. The campaign, which is...

Friday, 9 August 2013
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) will visit Tasmania for the first time later this year for a three-day roadshow of writing workshops and performances. The roadshow will be held in Hobart from...

Friday, 9 August 2013
Australian author Hugh White has been shortlisted for the 2013 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award for his book The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power (Black Inc.). White’s...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
The shortlists for this year’s Davitt Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime Australia for the best crime and mystery books by Australian women in 2012, have been announced. The shortlisted titles...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
The shortlist for the 2013 John Button Prize for writing on Australian politics and policy has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Reluctant Rescuers: An exploration of the Australian border...

Tuesday, 6 August 2013
A number of Australian authors have been nominated for this year’s ‘Not the Booker’ Prize. The prize, which is run by the Guardian in the UK, has the same criteria as...

Monday, 5 August 2013
The shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing have been announced. The shortlisted titles in the full-length book categories are: Best fiction The Holiday Murders (Robert Gott,...

Monday, 5 August 2013
The Two Frank Thrings by Peter Fitzpatrick (Monash University Publishing) has won this year’s National Biography Award, presented by the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW). Fitzpatrick’s book, which tells...

Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Penguin Australia has launched a new website for ‘immersive reading experiences based on real life Australian stories’, called True Stories. The site launched this week with an ‘online portrait’ of Father Bob...

Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Melbourne-based publisher Affirm Press has been wholly acquired by previous part-owner, the Adidem Group. Affirm Press publisher Martin Hughes told Books+Publishing that he sold his share in the business to...