Monday, 13 July 2015
Booksellers New Zealand will hold its first national bookshop day on Saturday 31 October 2015. NZ Bookshop Day, which aims to celebrate and publicise local bookstores, is based on similar...

Friday, 19 June 2015
The Mudgee Readers’ Festival (MRF) in regional NSW has announced the program for its 2015 festival, to be held on 15 and 16 August. The line-up includes authors Don Watson, Ramona...

Friday, 12 June 2015
The Mildura Writers Festival and PEN Melbourne have launched the inaugural Mildura Indigenous Writers Award, with support from the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. The Mildura Indigenous Writers Award, worth $700, will...

Monday, 1 June 2015
Louis de Bernières, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Vintage) and Red Dog (Vintage), will deliver the opening night address at the 2015 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), to be held on...

Tuesday, 26 May 2015
The Golden Age by Joan London (Vintage) and Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey (Hamish Hamilton) are the joint winners of the 2015 NSW Premier’s People’s Choice Award. The People’s Choice Award is chosen online by...

Friday, 15 May 2015
Judith Beveridge has won the Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize for her poem ‘As Wasps Fly Upwards’. Beveridge’s poem was chosen for the $5000 prize from a...

Tuesday, 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...

Friday, 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...

Friday, 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...

Friday, 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...

Friday, 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...

Tuesday, 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...

Wednesday, 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...

Friday, 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...

Wednesday, 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,...

Tuesday, 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...

Thursday, 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...

Friday, 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)...

Friday, 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...

Tuesday, 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...

Tuesday, 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...

Tuesday, 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...

Thursday, 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...