Tuesday, 19 November 2013
The Australian Writers’ Centre has announced plans to offer writing courses in Perth, Western Australia, in 2014. The centre, which was previously known as the Sydney Writers’ Centre, will offer...

Friday, 15 November 2013
Melbourne-based bookseller Readings will sponsor the 2013 Age Short Story Award, reports the Age. The winner of this year’s award, worth $2000, will be announced in mid-December. Entries that come in second and...

Monday, 11 November 2013
This year’s Myer Christmas Windows in Bourke St, Melbourne, and Queen St, Brisbane, are based on the picture book Gingerbread Friends by US author Jan Brett (Penguin). The book follows the adventures...

Wednesday, 6 November 2013
From 2014, books by Australian authors about international business and financial affairs will be eligible for the Ashurst Business Literature Prize. The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW), which...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
The Lu Rees Archives of Australian Children’s Literature has received $6050 in funding as part of the federal government’s 2013 Community Heritage Grants (CHG). The Archives, which is supported by...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Melbourne author and artist Maree Coote has been shortlisted for the 2013 Melbourne Awards. Now in its 11th year, the Melbourne Awards ‘honour Melburnians who have made a significant contribution to...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
A memoir by US singer and actress Courtney Love has been delayed until next year, despite being sold-in to Australian bookshops as a November release. A spokesperson for Pan Macmillan...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Susan Swingler, step-daughter of Australian author Elizabeth Jolley and author of the memoir The House of Fiction (Fremantle Press), featured on ABC TV’s Australian Story on Monday 28 October. In...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
A new bookshop called Sneaky Fox Books has opened in the regional Victorian town of Clunes. The shop was offered in a ‘bookshop giveaway’ by its owners and Creative Clunes,...

Thursday, 17 October 2013
Australian author Tim Cope has won an award in the 2013 Banff Mountain Book Competition in Canada. Cope won the Adventure Travel category of the competition for his book On...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author Anna Funder will deliver the annual Dymphna Clark Lecture in Melbourne this week. Funder, whose debut novel All That I Am (Penguin) won numerous literary...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Publisher Inkerman & Blunt has issued stickers for booksellers to use to cover a poem by Queensland poet Graham Nunn in its collection Australian Love Poems 2013 (ed by Mark...

Thursday, 10 October 2013
Two New Zealand authors have been selected for the 2013 International Writing Program in Iowa City in the US. Whiti Hereaka and Craig Cliff are among 31 writers attending the program,...

Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Booksellers NZ has introduced electronic gift cards. The gift cards, launched on 1 October, can be purchased and redeemed at bookshops that are members of Booksellers NZ, and can be...

Wednesday, 9 October 2013
The Berkelouw Books store in Newtown, Sydney, has announced that it is relocating to Hornsby. The store will begin accepting deliveries at its new location in Westfield Hornsby from 4...

Tuesday, 8 October 2013
New Zealand author Lloyd Jones is a finalist in the Arts category of the 2013 Wellingtonian of the Year Awards, also known as ‘the Wellys’, presented by the Dominion Post....

Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Black Inc. has announced the contributors for The Best Australian Stories 2013, edited by Kim Scott, The Best Australian Essays 2013, edited by Robert Manne, and The Best Australian Poems...

Monday, 7 October 2013
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has announced that the Governor General of Australia Quentin Bryce will deliver the 2013 Boyer Lectures next month. The lectures will be broadcast on Radio National...

Friday, 27 September 2013
The Collins Booksellers store in Warragul, Victoria closed at the start of September. Owner Heather Quirk told Books+Publishing that the she decided to close the store for a number of...

Tuesday, 24 September 2013
A Queensland bookseller has won the Queensland Times’ Best Job in Town competition. Angie Niebel, manager of the Angus & Robertson store at the Riverlink shopping centre in Ipswich, was...

Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Australian actor Cate Blanchett will make her film directorial debut with an adaptation of Dutch author Herman Koch’s novel The Dinner (Text). A bestseller in the Netherlands before being published internationally, The Dinner unfolds...

Tuesday, 24 September 2013
A TV cartoon based on Andy Griffiths’ The Day My Bum Went Psycho (Pan) premiered in Australia this month. The 80-episode series called The Day My Butt Went Psycho screened...

Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Discount book retailer the Book Grocer has opened a new store at Kangaroo Flat, just outside of Bendigo in regional Victoria. The store is located at Shop 52, Lansell Plaza, Kangaroo...

Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Brisbane author Robert Hoge was featured in this week’s episode of ABC TV’s Australian Story. Hoge, who was born with deformed legs and a large tumour covering his face, has...