Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Arts Victoria has announced its latest round of Arts Development Program grants. In all, 60 new projects will share in more than $810,000 in funding as part of the grants program, which...

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
The shortlists for the 2012 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Fiction ($15,000) and nominees for the People’s Choice...

Monday, 1 July 2013
A new book by former Australian cricketer Steve Waugh will be sold exclusively through BIG W and selected Woolworths supermarkets from 15 August. The Meaning of Luck: Stories of Learning,...

Friday, 28 June 2013
Online bookseller Boomerang Books has reversed its decision to close its ebookstore Booku, announcing this week that the store will continue to trade. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Boomerang Books...

Thursday, 27 June 2013
The Griffith REVIEW will celebrate 10 years of publication with an inaugural lecture, the annual Griffith REVIEW Lecture, and a 10th-anniversary edition of the review. The inaugural lecture will be delivered by...

Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Black Inc. is publishing the 50th issue of Quarterly Essay this year.   The journal was founded in 2001 by Black Inc. owner and the Monthly publisher Morry Schwartz with its first...

Friday, 21 June 2013
Online bookseller Boomerang Books has announced that its ebookstore Booku will close on 30 June.  In a letter sent to customers this week, Booku said that customers who have purchased...

Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel (A&U) has won this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award. De Kretser’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of five, which included: Floundering (Romy Ash,...

Monday, 17 June 2013
The shortlists for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Fiction Floundering (Romy Ash, Text) The Chemistry of Tears...

Friday, 14 June 2013
Maree McCaskill has resigned as CEO of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) after more than seven years in the position. Her resignation is effective from 14 June 2013. ‘Under Maree’s...

Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Pearson has announced that it will close its educational publishing business in New Zealand by the end of August. Pearson Australia and New Zealand CEO David Barnett said in a...

Wednesday, 12 June 2013
HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand has announced that it will relocate its New Zealand distribution to its Australian facilities in Moss Vale, New South Wales. HarperCollins said in a statement...

Friday, 7 June 2013
Journalist Peter Hartcher has won this year’s Ashurst Business Literature Prize for his book The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck (Black Inc.).  Federal MP Malcolm Turnbull presented the $30,000 award...

Friday, 7 June 2013
The shortlist for the 2013 Ernest Scott Prize for history, presented by the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Arts, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Webs of Empire: Locating...

Thursday, 6 June 2013
American author A M Homes has won the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel May We Be Forgiven (Granta). Homes, the author of six novels, two collections of...

Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Melbourne-based publisher Scribe will publish its first children’s picture book in November. Amazing Babes by Sydney writer Eliza Sarlos and Tokyo-based illustrator Grace Lee is described as ‘an inspirational picture...

Wednesday, 5 June 2013
The shortlists for this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian...

Tuesday, 4 June 2013
The merger of Penguin and Random House is expected to be completed next month, following the approval of the proposed merger by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) this week. Penguin...

Monday, 3 June 2013
The longlists for the 2013 Inky Awards, presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria, have been announced. The awards recognise local and international fiction,...

Monday, 3 June 2013
Melbourne-based author Jane Jervis-Read has won the inaugural Viva La Novella prize offered by Seizure literary journal for her novella Midnight Blue and Endlessly Tall. Jervis-Read was announced as the...

Friday, 31 May 2013
The longlist for the 2013 John Button Prize for writing on Australian politics and policy has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The New Leviathan: A National Disability Insurance Scheme...

Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Hardie Grant Books has launched a free newspaper-style publication that features book extracts and author interviews, called First Pages. The first edition of First Pages was distributed to cafes in Melbourne...