Tuesday, 29 May 2012
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced that current director Chip Rolley will leave the festival in August to take up the role of editor of the ABC’s The Drum....

Monday, 28 May 2012
The winners of this year's Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards were announced on Thursday 17 May in Sydney as part of the Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF). The winning...

Monday, 28 May 2012
The winners of this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced on Friday 18 May at a special event in Sydney. Hosted by the ABC’s Paul Barclay, this year’s...

Monday, 28 May 2012
An application has been made to the New South Wales Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal (CTTT) by publisher Gumquest/Editions Tom Thompson (ETT) Imprint regarding the publication of poems from Judith Wright’s...

Thursday, 24 May 2012
All That I Am by Anna Funder (Penguin) has won this year’s Barbara Jefferis Award, presented by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). Funder’s novel was selected for the $35,000...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Around 380 delegates attended this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) ‘multistoried’ conference, which was held at the Adelaide Convention Centre from 17-19 May. Julie Wells, national president of...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
The Ampersand Project, a Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) initiative to publish books from unpublished emerging writers, has signed up Melbourne writer Melissa Keil. The project received 250 submissions after an...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Author and former Meanjin editor Sophie Cunningham has been appointed to the position of chair of the Australia Council Literature Board. Cunningham, who started in the role on 16 May,...

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
The winners of the 2012 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists were announced at the Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) on 20 May. The winners are: Melanie Joosten (Berlin Syndrome,...

Monday, 21 May 2012
The 2012 Pascall Prize has been awarded to author and newspaper and magazine writer James Bradley. Bradley was awarded the $15,000 prize, which was judged by previous winners Geordie Williamson (2011) and Alison Croggon...

Sunday, 20 May 2012
The winners of this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced on Friday 18 May at a special event in Sydney. Hosted by the ABC’s Paul Barclay, this year’s...

Friday, 18 May 2012
The winners of this year's Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards were announced on Thursday 17 May in Sydney as part of the Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF). The winning...

Monday, 14 May 2012
The shortlists for this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards for women writers have been announced. The shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers,...

Monday, 14 May 2012
The Many Worlds of R H Matthews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist by Martin Thomas (A&U) has won this year’s National Biography Award, presented on 14 May at the...

Friday, 11 May 2012
The 2012 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award has been awarded to Great Central State: The Foundation of the Northern Territory by Jack Cross (Wakefield Press) and Darwin Spitfires:...

Thursday, 10 May 2012
The Small Press Network (SPUNC) has announced that it will hold a new conference for independent publishers in Melbourne in November. The Independent Publishers’ Conference, which has received some financial...

Monday, 7 May 2012
The recipients of the Australian Society of Authors' (ASA) Children's Picture Book Illustrators grants have been announced. Trace Balla and Craig Phillips are both recipients of the Emerging Illustrators grant. Balla and Phillips...

Thursday, 3 May 2012
The shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Blood (Tony Birch, UQP)  All That I Am (Anna Funder, Penguin) Foal’s Bread (Gillian...

Tuesday, 1 May 2012
HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand has announced CEO Michael Moynahan will retire from the company at the end of this month. The publisher said in a statement that James Kellow,...

Tuesday, 1 May 2012
The shortlist for this year’s Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Darwin Spitfires: The Real Battle for Australia (Anthony Cooper, UNSW Press)...

Friday, 20 April 2012
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced that this year’s festival will be the last for current director Lisa Dempster. The 2012 festival, which will be held between 24 May...

Thursday, 19 April 2012
The International Organisation of Booktowns has declared the Victorian town of Clunes as an international booktown. This recognition places Clunes alongside 14 other international booktowns, including Hay-on-Wye in Wales, Wigtown...

Wednesday, 18 April 2012
The annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced on 16 April, with the exception of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction which was not awarded this year. Instead, the board announced three finalists...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
The finalists for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The winners of the awards, as well as the Lloyd O’Neil Award and the Pixie O’Harris Award,...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
Former Dymocks CEO Don Grover has been appointed CEO and managing director of Fusion Retail Brands (FRB). FRB was launched in September 2011 to ‘secur[e] the future of several iconic...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) director and CEO Jane O’Hara has confirmed that this year’s festival will be her last. ‘Jane provided more than twelve months notice to the Committee that...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
The Queensland Literary Awards (QLAs), established by a volunteer committee to replace the recently axed Queensland Premier’s awards, will take place in 2012 and are open for nominations. ‘Thanks to...