Monday, 8 October 2012
The Federal Government’s Office of the Arts is seeking community feedback about the Public Lending Rights (PLR) and Education Lending Rights (ELR) schemes through an online survey. Interested parties have...

Friday, 5 October 2012
The shortlist for the 2012 Blake Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poems are: ‘Once Upon a Time in the Rockies’ (David Bunn) ‘Celen’ (Christopher Kelen) ‘Alter Rock’ (Graham...

Thursday, 4 October 2012
The finalists for the inaugural Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers have been announced. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Zone of Confidence’ (Claire Aman) ‘Frank O’Hara’s...

Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Allen & Unwin has acquired Murdoch Books. A&U and Murdoch Books announced the finalisation of the sale in a joint statement on 3 October. As previously reported by Bookseller+Publisher, the...

Monday, 1 October 2012
The shortlists for this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Best Book or Series in Primary...

Friday, 28 September 2012
Sue Hurley has won the 2012 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Patterns in Nature’. Hurley was presented with the $5000 first place prize...

Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Ali Cobby Eckermann has won the 2012 Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature for her verse novel Ruby Moonlight (Magabala). This year’s Deadly Awards were announced at a special...

Monday, 24 September 2012
Creative Clunes, the organisation behind the annual Clunes Booktown Festival in regional Victoria, has announced that it is working on four cultural and arts programs with similar organisations in South...

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The longlist for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced in the UK. The longlisted titles are: Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Katherine Boo, Scribe) One on One...

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
‘Messy, difficult, contested, fiendishly complicated [and] technically a territory of hell’—the relationship between libraries and ebook publishers, according to Allen & Unwin digital publishing director Elizabeth Weiss quoted in the Sydney...

Tuesday, 18 September 2012
The winners of this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced on 17 September. Fiona Skyring was presented with the $25,000 Premier’s Prize, which goes to the most outstanding book...

Monday, 17 September 2012
Australian authors Carrie Tiffany and Chris Womersley have been shortlisted for the 2012 BBC Short Story Prize, which was opened up to international entries this year to celebrate the 2012...

Thursday, 13 September 2012
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced the appointment of Meg Vann as CEO. QWC chair Kevin Gillespie said Vann was ‘very passionate about continuing with and improving upon the...

Thursday, 13 September 2012
In a call-out that will span three publishing markets, HarperCollins science-fiction and fantasy imprint HarperVoyager has announced that it will accept unsolicited manuscripts for digital publication in Australia, the UK...

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
‘Gone are the days when publishers can think only of that small percentage of people who call themselves “book lovers”; everyone who has a device is a potential customer’—former Picador...

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Former Byron Bay Writers’ Festival (BBWF) director Jeni Caffin is returning to head up the festival. Caffin will start in the role at the beginning of November. She will also resume her former role...