Tuesday, 21 August 2012
New Zealand bookselling chain Whitcoulls has launched a new website as part of this year’s Whitcoulls Kids’ Top 50 campaign. New Zealand readers have until 2 September to vote for...

Tuesday, 21 August 2012
The Federal Government has announced that is has ‘started working on modernising’ the Public Lending Rights (PLR) and the Education Lending Rights (ELR) schemes. The Department of Arts is currently...

Wednesday, 15 August 2012
This year’s Maribyrnong Library Literary Festival in Melbourne’s west will run between 31 August and 9 September. The festival will open on Friday 31 August with a 1920s-themed gala with...

Wednesday, 15 August 2012
The Big Issue has announced the full line-up of authors whose stories will appear in its annual fiction edition. Stories by David Cohen, Andy Murdoch, Alex Skovron, Jude Bridge, Rafael...

Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Australian author Lisa L Hannett has been nominated in the ‘best collection’ category for this year’s World Fantasy Awards for her debut collection Bluegrass Symphony (Ticonderoga). The winners will be...

Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Penguin Australia has announced it will publish a new list of children’s classics. The Penguin Australian Children's Classics ‘is a celebration of our country's most precious childhood stories, presented in...

Wednesday, 8 August 2012
A biannual magazine of international writing has been launched in Sydney. Contrappasso, which means ‘counter-step’ or ‘counter-blow’ in Italian, contains fiction, nonfiction, interviews and poetry, and is being published as...

Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Liz Steele and Rosemary Noble, who currently serve as co-presidents of Editors Victoria, have been awarded Honorary Life Membership of Editors Victoria for services to the editing profession. Steele recently completed...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Random House Australia is sponsoring the 2012 National Seniors Literary Prize, presented by National Seniors Australia. The prize is in its second year, and is open to works of fiction written...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Four previously unknown stories by Katherine Mansfield have been discovered in the archives of King’s College, London, by PhD student Chris Mourant. Gerri Kimber, senior lecturer at the University of...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Random House, which has published the winners’ cookbooks from the first three series of the cooking reality television program MasterChef, will not be publishing the book by this year’s winner....

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
The winners of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children’s Book Awards for 2012 were announced in Wellington, New Zealand, on 6 July. See Library News...

Monday, 6 August 2012
This year’s Sydney Jewish Writers’ Festival will be held between 25 and 28 August. Among the authors participating in the event are Anna Funder, Tim Bonyhady, Ita Buttrose, Elliot Perlman,...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Sydney’s Burwood Book Exchange, which first opened in 1986, will close on 8 September. The bookstore, which specialises in secondhand romance titles as well as special orders for new titles,...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
The finalists for the Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book Award for a published book in the mind, body, spirit genre have been announced, reports Booksellers NZ. The titles in the...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Screen Australia has approved investment for the second season of ABC television series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, the adaptation of Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher books (A&U). The funding was part of a $20 million...

Monday, 30 July 2012
Hachette UK has announced that Paul Kenny will oversee its new sales office in Hong Kong in the new role of Southeast Asia sales and marketing manager. Kenny, who previously...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) has dropped its attempt to seize the profits made from former Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks' memoir Guantanamo: My Journey (William Heinemann), concluding...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Writer and broadcaster Elmo Keep is a finalist in the Realise Your Dream Award, run by the British Council and designed to promote international creative collaboration. The award is given...

Tuesday, 24 July 2012
The film adaptation of Charlotte Wood’s novel The Children (A&U) has received $750,000 funding from ScreenWest. The Children was shortlisted in the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) in 2008. The...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
The Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) has achieved its goal of $20,000 from crowd-funded pledges and the amount continues to rise with 27 days left in the campaign. The volunteer-led awards replaced the axed Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, then...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Ebook provider and retailer Kobo has officially launched its self-publishing platform, Kobo Writing Life. The platform is accessible to users in Australia and New Zealand and can be accessed here....

Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Penguin has announced it will launch a series of Lantern classic cookbooks in August ‘in the spirit of the immensely popular Penguin Modern Classics’, says Lantern publishing director Julie Gibbs....

Tuesday, 17 July 2012
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) will travel interstate again this year to hold a mini-festival in partnership with the NSW Writers’ Centre. The one-day event will take place on 3...

Tuesday, 17 July 2012
The eighth annual Kimberley Writers Festival will be held in Kununurra, Western Australia, between 27 and 29 July. Among the writers participating in this year’s event are Amanda Curtin, Stephen...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Writers Victoria has announced the recipients of this year’s Glenfern writers’ studio fellowships. Ramona Koval, David Sornig and Libby Hart are the recipients of the Readings Glenfern Fellowships for Mid-Career...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Campus bookseller Co-op Bookshop has announced a new partnership with mobile phone company amaysim. The Co-op Bookshop said in a statement that the new partnership will offer Co-op members access...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
The Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers will hold the inaugural Melbourne Rare Book Week this month. The free event will take place between 19 and 29 July...