Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Michelle Wright has won the 2012 Age Short Story Award, worth $1000, for her story ‘Maggot’, reports the Age. Graeme Simsion won the second prize for his story ‘Three Encounters with the...

Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Writer, director and actor Leah Purcell has been appointed as the 2013 Copyright Agency Nonfiction Writer-in-Residence at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). As part of her residency, which begins in...

Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Former Fullers Hobart events manager Rachel Edwards and Review of Australian Fiction editor Matthew Lamb have been appointed co-editors of Island magazine. Edwards and Lamb will replace editorial director Dale...

Tuesday, 11 December 2012
The Australia Council will provide funding to three applicants from the field of literature for its JUMP mentoring initiative. The initiative aims to ‘make a positive impact on the early...

Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Dunedin-based poet and novelist Diane Brown has won this year’s Janet Frame Memorial Award. Brown, who was selected from a shortlist of five writers, plans to use the NZ$3000 (A$2391) prize to...

Tuesday, 11 December 2012
The Meanjin Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize 2012 has been awarded to Stuart Cooke for his poem ‘An Overcast Day in Another Part of the World’. As part of the prize...

Wednesday, 5 December 2012
King Brown Country by Russell Skelton (A&U) has won the 2011 George Munster Award for Independent Journalism, presented by the University of Technology Sydney’s Australian Centre for Independent Journalism. The award...

Friday, 30 November 2012
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) is calling for applications for a six-month digital publication mentorship in 2013. The festival said in a statement that it is looking for three writers...

Tuesday, 27 November 2012
The Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) has said that brands will be responsible for comments by the public on their Facebook pages. The AANA has released guidelines on best practice for...

Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Rose Powell will join the New South Wales Writers’ Centre on 10 December in the role of projects officer for events and festivals. Powell, who will finish in her current...

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
More than $14,500 was raised for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) at a trivia night in Sydney on 14 November. ILF executive director Karen Williams told Bookseller+Publisher that more than $7000...

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Western Australian poet Graham Kershaw has won the fifth Blake Poetry Prize for his poem 'Altar Rock', which addresses the mixed inheritance of white settlement in the Murchison district of...

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced that Kerryn Goldsworthy will be the ABR Ian Potter Foundation Fellow, and will ‘write a feature article on the current state of book reviewing...

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Literary journal Overland has announced that Tara Cartland’s story ‘Frank O’Hara’s Animals’ is the winner of the inaugural $6000 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers....

Thursday, 15 November 2012
David Dromer has replaced Martine Poiree as sales and marketing manager at Nielsen BookData New Zealand. The Publishers Association of New Zealand reports that Dromer was facilities manager when the...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Independent Melbourne bookshop Avenue Bookstore has made some changes to its book buying team following the departure of head book buyer Gina Collis in August. At the Avenue Bookstore in...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
The Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) annual conference kicked off yesterday in Brisbane with a day-long training program by Doug Fleener. The conference, which runs from 13 to 16 November,...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
The New Zealand Society of Authors has announced that Dunedin poet and novelist Sue Wootten is the winner of its new award for a mid-career writer. Also shortlisted were Anna...