Local author launches readathon for ILF
12 May 2015
Australian author Jane Rawson has launched a readathon for June and July to raise money for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF). Rawson has set up a website justread.com.au and is...
Cunningham wins 2015 Calibre Prize
1 May 2015
Sophie Cunningham has won the ninth Australian Book Review (ABR) Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay. Cunningham’s essay ‘Staying with the trouble’, which describes ‘an epic walk up Broadway in New York, and...
Creative Victoria reopens Marketing Innovation Fund
24 April 2015
Creative Victoria has announced it will reopen its Marketing Innovation Fund, offering grants of up to $15,000 to help arts organisations expand their audiences. The program will support up to 75% of...
Hachette launches mentorship program with SAWC
17 April 2015
Hachette Australia has launched a new professional mentorship program in partnership with the South Australian Writers Centre (SAWC). The South Australian Hachette Mentoring Program offers an opportunity for one South Australian...
International publishers to visit Auckland in May
17 April 2015
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced the guests participating in this year’s PANZ International Summit. The summit will take place in Auckland on 14 May, immediately prior...
Leading Edge Books relaunches website
10 April 2015
Leading Edge Books has relaunched its website www.indies.com.au. Among the features of the new website is a store location service to help customers find their nearest independent bookstore. The service...
Book Links, QWC to host annual lecture on children’s literature
8 April 2015
Book Links—the Queensland branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia—and the Queensland Writers Centre will host the first annual Book Links Lecture on Children’s Literature in June. The annual...
Farr selected for inaugural Mildura Writers Festival Residency
31 March 2015
Australia-born, New Zealand-based author Tracy Farr has been selected for the inaugural Mildura Writers Festival Residency. Farr, whose debut novel The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Fremantle Press) was...
Flanagan, Griffiths shortlisted for UK indie booksellers’ awards
30 March 2015
In the UK, The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (Vintage) and The 13-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths, illustrated by Terry Denton (Pan) have been shortlisted for the...
Black Inc. announces ‘Best Australian’ editors
25 March 2015
Black Inc. has announced the editors for this year’s ‘Best Australian’ series of anthologies. Amanda Lohrey and Geoff Page return as editors of The Best Australian Stories 2015 and The Best Australian Poems 2015...
Lenton wins Thiel Grant for Online Writing
20 March 2015
Patrick Lenton has won the inaugural $5000 Thiel Grant for Online Writing. Lenton’s project, a proposal to ‘document the experience of visiting the homes and lives of people he played...
‘Owls Do Cry’ voted Great Kiwi Classic
18 March 2015
Janet Frame’s 1957 debut novel Owls Do Cry has topped the second annual Great Kiwi Classic poll run by the New Zealand Book Council and Auckland Writers Festival. The initiative,...
Paloma wins 2014 ‘Overland’ poetry prize
17 March 2015
Melody Paloma has won the 2014 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets, worth $6000, for her poem ‘Hyper-reactive’. The first runner-up was Chris Armstrong for ‘Exile’ and the second runner-up...
Flanagan appointed ILF ambassador; PRH signs on as ‘major charity partner’
12 March 2015
Richard Flanagan has been appointed as an ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF). ILF said in a statement that Flanagan ‘brings a wealth of knowledge and enthusiasm to this...
Wyld wins 2014 Barnes & Noble Discover Award
6 March 2015
Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing (Vintage) has won the 2014 Barnes & Noble (B&N) Discover Great New Writers Award in the category of fiction. Wyld will receive US$10,000 (A$12,867)...
Australian recipe site Cooked launches in the UK
27 February 2015
Local Australian recipe subscription website Cooked has expanded into the UK, reports the Bookseller. The new site was launched by Hardie Grant, Quadrille and Bloomsbury and will feature over 22,000 recipes, including full...
Bologna children’s book catalogue released
24 February 2015
Books Illustrated and the Australian Publishers Association (APA) have released the catalogue to accompany the ‘Hello! from Australia’ children’s book exhibition at the 2015 Bologna Children’s Book Fair. As previously...
Varuna announces shortlisted manuscripts for Publisher Introduction Program
17 February 2015
Varuna, the Writers’ House, has announced the shortlisted manuscripts for its Publisher Introduction Program (PIP). Thirty-four manuscripts by emerging Australian writers have been sent to publishing partners Pan Macmillan, Random...
Carnegie, Greenaway 2015 medal longlists announced
10 February 2015
The longlists for the 2015 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals, presented by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) in the UK, have been announced. Australian author Shaun...
Thousands of early English books released online by Bodleian Libraries and partners
4 February 2015
The full text of more than 25,000 titles from the ProQuest resource Early English Books Online are now openly available to members of the public, reports Bodleian Libraries. Items in...
More than one million historic documents damaged in Moscow university library fire
4 February 2015
A fire at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, one of Moscow’s largest university libraries, is being described as a ‘cultural Chernobyl’, reports ABC News. The library, which...
Book Industry Study Group and American Library Association announce library survey
4 February 2015
A major survey of public library patrons’ use of digital content will be produced as a result of a new partnership between the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and the...
Newcastle Writers Festival launches 2015 Kids Program
4 February 2015
Newcastle Writers Festival has launched its 2015 Kids Program, running from 16-21 March 2015. Guest speakers include Melina Marchetta, Garth Nix, Susaire Dunn and Kaz Delaney. The festival will include...
Second annual Great Kiwi Classic poll launched
22 January 2015
Nominations for the second annual Great Kiwi Classic poll have opened in New Zealand. First launched in 2014 by the New Zealand Book Council and Auckland Writers Festival, the initiative sees...
Booktopia counting down ‘Australia’s favourite author’
20 January 2015
Booktopia is counting down the top 50 finalists in its annual ‘Australia’s Favourite Author’ promotion. On 19 January, Booktopia began announcing the top 50 finalists, with 10 finalists revealed each...
‘Kill Your Darlings’ announces new columnists
12 January 2015
Melbourne-based literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced its new columnists for 2015, with James Tierney to write about books and writing. Tierney is a freelance writer and reviewer...
HarperCollins finalist in Digital Book Awards
16 December 2014
HarperCollins Australia has been named as a finalist in the 2015 Digital Book Awards. HarperCollins has been nominated in the adult fiction category of the flowable ebook awards for Lunation...
ABIAs 2015 date and location announced
8 December 2014
The 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) will be held on 21 May 2015. The awards will be held at Doltone House in Pyrmont during the Sydney Writers’ Festival, which runs...
Joint winners announced for 2014 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize for poetry
8 December 2014
Tracy Ryan and Jill Jones are the joint winners of the 2014 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize for poetry. Ryan and Jones were chosen from a shortlist of 10 and will...
‘Inside Retail’ launches New Zealand newsletter
3 December 2014
Retail industry news source Inside Retail has launched a sister site Inside Retail New Zealand. In a statement, Inside Retail said the site is ‘a news source for New Zealand...
