Wednesday, 13 March 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the recipients of its 2012-13 mentorships for unpublished authors and illustrators. Twelve applicants have been selected for this year’s program and will...

Wednesday, 13 March 2013
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced that its 2013 Book Design Awards will include a new award for cookbooks, which will be sponsored by 1010 Printing. PANZ has also...

Wednesday, 13 March 2013
PMP, the parent company of book printer Griffin Press, cut 180 full-time Australian jobs in the first half of the 2013 financial year as part of a cost-cutting ‘transformation plan’, reports...

Thursday, 7 March 2013
Australian Greens leader Christine Milne and 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Anna Funder have put their support behind a campaign to make the Miles Franklin Literary Award prize money...

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
The ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club has been renamed the Book Club. A spokesperson for the program told Books+Publishing that the First Tuesday Book Club team felt ‘it was time...

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Wellington illustrator Patrick McDonald has won the 2013 Storylines Gavin Bishop Award, which is sponsored by Random House New Zealand. McDonald will receive a cash prize of NZ$1500 (A$1215) and mentoring...

Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Black Inc. has announced the editors of its annual ‘Best Australian’ series of anthologies. Kim Scott is editor of The Best Australian Stories 2013, Robert Manne is editor of The...

Friday, 22 February 2013
Hardie Grant has announced that Cate Furey is the winner of its first stationery design competition. Furey’s design features vintage illustrations with the words ‘love’, ‘note’, ‘make’ and ‘word’. The...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Independent Sydney bookstore Moirs Bookshop is for sale. Rosemary Moir, who owns the independent bookstore with her husband Ian, told Books+Publishing that the couple has decided to ‘move on from...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013
The annual National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF), which runs from 3-6 October in Newcastle, NSW, is calling for writers and artists and has launched a new website. NYWF presents writing in its broadest sense through panels,...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013
The Auckland Readers & Writers Festival has announced that BNZ Literary Awards and Craigs Investment Partners have joined the festival as sponsors. The BNZ Literary Awards, which are presented annually to...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013
New Zealand author Joy Cowley has been named a ‘Marlborough Living Cultural Treasure’ and will be awarded a celebratory medal at a ceremony in Blenheim on 3 April, along with...

Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Dymocks Mandurah in WA will close at the end of February, the store has announced on its Facebook page. Dymocks loyalty and marketing manager Elain Richard told Books+Publishing that ‘this was...

Monday, 18 February 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced that it will hold its ‘One Word, One Day’ events again this year to raise funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF)....

Wednesday, 13 February 2013
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI) Conference will this year be held in Wellington, New Zealand from 12-15 March. This is the first time the biennial conference...

Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Sydney writer Persephone Nicholas has won this year’s National Seniors Literary Prize for her novel Burned. The National Seniors Literary Prize is sponsored by Random House Australia. Nicholas will receive a...

Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Penguin Australia has released two new cooking apps, creating a series of ‘Best of’ cooking apps based on recipes from its Lantern cookbook authors. The two new apps, Best of...

Tuesday, 12 February 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched a new service to offer its members advice about US tax issues. Similar to the ASA’s new contract negotiation advisory service, the...

Tuesday, 12 February 2013
The Australian Book Review (ABR) is seeking proposals for its eighth fellowship. The ABR Ian Potter Foundation Fellowship is worth $5000 and is for an article ‘on the performing arts’...

Friday, 8 February 2013
The program for the 2013 Somerset Celebration of Literature, to be held between 13 and 15 March on the Gold Coast in Queensland, has been released. The festival, which focuses...

Friday, 1 February 2013
Hardie Grant has announced the finalists in its stationery competition. As reported by Books+Publishing, the publisher called for designers, illustrators and artists to submit a concept for three stationery pieces—a...

Thursday, 31 January 2013
WritingWA has announced that it will create a new website called Proximity to provide its regional members with greater access to writers’ festivals. The website, which will be launched in...

Wednesday, 30 January 2013
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) will stage an all-night writing camp this month as part of White Night Melbourne. According to the White Night website, the free ‘All Nighter’ event will feature...

Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Australian-based author Malla Nunn has been nominated for the 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards for her novel The Silent Valley (Macmillan), published in the US as Blessed Are the Dead...