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...

Monday, 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...

Tuesday, 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...

Monday, 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...

Monday, 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...

Tuesday, 25 November 2014
The Society of Women Writers Victoria has announced Libby Hathorn is the recipient of its ‘Alice’ award. The society presents the trophy biennially ‘for a distinguished and long-term contribution to...

Monday, 10 November 2014
The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) has announced that Dunedin-based author and poet Emma Neale is the winner of the 2014 Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship. The fellowship, worth NZ$7000 (A$6292),...

Thursday, 6 November 2014
Rodney Croome, gay rights activist and former editor of literary journal Island, is Tasmania’s Australian of the Year. Croome was commended as ‘a champion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex...

Thursday, 6 November 2014
The Australian Embassy Beijing has announced that A J Betts, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Tim Cope, Brooke Davis and Damon Young will be the guest authors at Australian Writers Week in China in March...

Friday, 24 October 2014
In New Zealand, 16 finalists in Massey University’s Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Awards have been announced. The awards, which include categories for arts, biography and history, fiction, nonfiction and te...

Monday, 20 October 2014
The Australian and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts has announced the dates for its 2015 event. The London-based festival, which held its inaugural event in May 2014, will...

Friday, 17 October 2014
Walker Books Australia has launched a new website for teachers and librarians. Walker Books Classroom features classroom ideas, book lists, interviews and other resources, which are organised by theme, title,...

Monday, 13 October 2014
The Australian Romance Readers Association has announced the program for its 2015 conference, to be held in Canberra from 6-8 March. The keynote speakers for the event are Canadian author...

Wednesday, 8 October 2014
Poet John Tranter has launched an online poetry research journal. The Journal of Poetics Research (JPR) will publish research articles, book reviews, interviews and some creative writing, and will be ‘generally peer-reviewed’. According to the journal, ‘Poems...