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...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
PMP, parent company of Griffin Press, has announced it is making ‘headcount reductions’ as part of the second phase of its ‘transformation plan’. However, Ben Jolly, general manager of Griffin...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
The Board of the University Book Shop Otago, in New Zealand, has announced the appointment of Phillippa Duffy to the role of general manager. Duffy has previously worked as sales...

Monday, 12 November 2012
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced it will soon appoint its first ‘critic in residence’. Funded by the magazine’s patrons, ‘this will be an annual appointment worth $10,000,’ according...

Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Author Charlotte Wood is launching a soft-copy subscription magazine, to be produced as a PDF file sent to subscribers by email, called The Writer’s Room Interviews. ‘Not long ago, I...

Wednesday, 7 November 2012
The Wheeler Centre has announced its next round of ‘hot desk’ fellowships, sponsored by Readings. The successful applicants in this round are Oliver Mol, who will work on his debut...

Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Dymocks has begun producing podcasts, launching with a discussion of J K Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy and thus far including interviews with Pamela Stephenson and Richard Gill. Dymocks ecommerce manager...

Wednesday, 7 November 2012
The Australian Society of Authors has relaunched its website at www.asaauthors.org. The new site includes a dedicated news section, as well as an events calendar, resources and information on the...

Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Australian fantasy and science-fiction journal Aurealis has launched a subscriptions drive, which it says will help it obtain official recognition as a professional market by the Science Fiction and Fantasy...

Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Readings has partnered with The Monthly magazine to host a series of political discussions on modern Australia, called The Monthly Talks. In the first session in August, professor Robert Manne and Greens MP Adam Bandt discussed...

Tuesday, 30 October 2012
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC)/Hachette Australia Manuscript Development Program has announced the nine writers who will attend the program’s retreat this year. The writers are: Florence Bridger, Bill Collopy, Katrina Iffland, Adair Jones, Cathy McLennan,...

Tuesday, 30 October 2012
The Art of Being Melbourne by Maree Coote (Melbournestyle Books) has won the $5000 Victorian Community History Award, presented on 23 October at the National Gallery of Victoria. The History Publication...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Seaway Logistics has announced it will purchase the business and assets of freight forwarder Intramar, which was recently placed under the control of receivers PPB Advisory. Seaway said in a...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
The Arts Issue of The Monthly (ed by Paul Grabowsky) has selected Patrick White as the best in literature for the magazine’s feature ‘The best of Australian art 2012’. ‘Two lost books...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Kobo parent company Rakuten has announced plans to open new online stores in Australia and India, reports Inside Retail Asia. The Japanese online retailer said the new businesses are part...

Tuesday, 23 October 2012
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC)’s GenreCon, a conference for Australian genre writers running from 2-4 November at Rydges Paramatta in NSW, has announced its program. GenreCon is aimed at Australian writers...