Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Australian and New Zealand consumers can now purchase Kobo ereading devices directly from Kobo.com. The company announced this week that all of its devices, including the recently-launched, high-definition Kobo Aura, are...

Friday, 26 July 2013
Australian author Kaaron Warren has won in the novella category of the Shirley Jackson Awards, presented annually for ‘outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark...

Wednesday, 24 July 2013
The Book Grocer will close its Williamstown store in August due to the planned redevelopment of the building in which the store is housed. ‘We’ve absolutely loved being a part...

Wednesday, 24 July 2013
Short story-writer Michelle Wright has won the first Templeberg Residential Writing Fellowship. The Fellowship, which is offered by Writers Victoria and Templeberg Villa, will send Wright on a 30 day...

Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Reader’s Feast Bookstore, the Co-op and ABC Stores have been recognised at the 2013 Australian Retailers Association (ARA) Australian Retail Awards. Melbourne-based Reader’s Feast was named runner-up in the Victorian Retailer...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Australian author Nam Le has been selected as a judge for the inaugural Folio Prize. Le joins fellow judges Lavinia Greenlaw (chair), Michael Chabon, Sarah Hall and Pankaj Mishra, who...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched a manuscript development service to support authors with a substantial work-in-progress. As part of the service, an author nominates a developmental editor...

Monday, 8 July 2013
Booksellers New Zealand and ebook provider Kobo have announced that two young booksellers will be given the opportunity to attend the American Booksellers Association’s 2014 Winter Institute in Seattle, Oregan,...

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Cassandra Golds has won the 2013 Nance Donkin Award, presented biennially by the Society of Women Writers Victoria (SWWV) for an outstanding woman author in Australia who writes books for children....

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
New Zealand’s Guest of Honour Pavilion at the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair has won the Supreme Award and the Installation category at the 2013 Interior Awards in New Zealand. The pavilion’s co-designers, Pattersons Associates and...

Friday, 21 June 2013
Sydney creative agency Droga5 has won a Gold Medal in this year’s Cannes Lions Awards for advertising for its ‘Stories for Every Journey’ collection of in-flight books, which was developed...

Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Australian author Margo Lanagan has been nominated for the 2013 British Fantasy Awards. Lanagan is shortlisted in the Best Fantasy Novel category for her book Sea Hearts (A&U), published in...

Thursday, 13 June 2013
The University Book Shop Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, is undergoing a restructure, with staff required to reapply for their jobs. General manager Phillippa Duffy said in a statement that...

Wednesday, 12 June 2013
New Zealand author Fiona Farrell is the recipient of this year’s Creative New Zealand Michael King Fellowship, worth NZ$100,000 (A$83,717). Farrell is the author of a number of novels, short...

Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Alli Sebastian Wolf has won in the Written Word category of Qantas’ Spirit of Youth Awards (SOYA 365). Wolf, a Sydney-based writer, performer and artist, receives a cash prize of...

Friday, 7 June 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced that Hannah Bent has won the 2013 Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency, entitling the author to one week’s stay at Varuna, the...

Wednesday, 5 June 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has released details about its inaugural National Writers’ Congress, Authorship 20/20, which will celebrate the association’s 50th anniversary in Sydney from 17-19 October. Guest speakers for the congress include...

Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Helene Young’s Burning Lies (Penguin) has been nominated for the Daphne du Maurier Awards in the Mainstream Mystery and Suspense category of the published division. The winners will be announced on 18 July...

Tuesday, 4 June 2013
Two Australian authors have recently won international book awards. Jesse Blackadder has won a gold medal in the historical fiction category of the Benjamin Franklin Awards for The Raven’s Heart (HarperCollins), receiving gold Benjamin...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
The ABC has announced that it is working on a television miniseries adaptation of Kate Grenville’s The Secret River (Text). The adaptation is being developed by producers Stephen Luby and Mark Ruse; screenwriters Jan...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
New Zealand poet and fiction writer Sue Wootton has won second place in the 2013 Open International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine for her poem ‘Wild’, which reflects on a friend’s...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Bronwyn Parry’s Dead Heat (Hachette) has been nominated for the Daphne du Maurier Awards in the Single Title Romantic Mystery/Suspense category of the published division. The winners will be announced on 18 July...