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...

Friday, 24 May 2013
Penguin has announced that it will take its School of Popular Writing, a one-day seminar for aspiring writers of commercial fiction, to Sydney. The seminar, which will be held on Saturday...

Thursday, 23 May 2013
Screen Australia has announced script development funding for a film adaptation of Susanne Gervay’s book I Am Jack (HarperCollins). Gervay will write the film script for I Am Jack, with director Nadia Tass, producer Stephan Wellink...

Monday, 20 May 2013
The Light between Oceans by Australian author M L Stedman (Vintage) is one of five titles shortlisted for the 2013 Goldsboro Crown for Historical Debut Fiction, presented by Goldsboro Books...

Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Military police have returned books that were confiscated from the Beyond Q Bookshop in Canberra in 2011, reports the Canberra Times. After two years, military police have decided that the handbooks,...

Monday, 13 May 2013
Fifteen writers from eight universities have been shortlisted for the 2013 Monash University Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing, which will be presented during the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) in Melbourne this month. The first prize winner...

Friday, 10 May 2013
M L Stedman’s The Light between Oceans (Vintage) has been selected for the Summer season of the Richard & Judy Book Club. Stedman’s novel is one of seven debuts featured...

Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Writers Victoria, in association with Templeberg Villa, has announced a new international fellowship for writers. The inaugural Templeberg Residential Writing Fellowship will give one writer the opportunity to work on...

Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Victorian bookseller Lilydale Books has opened an ebookstore using ReadCloud, called Lilydale eBooks. The 25-year-old bookseller specialises in school books and educational supplies for primary and secondary schools. The retail...

Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Perpetual, manager of many private charitable and philanthropic foundations in Australia, including the Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards, has acquired The Trust Company, which manages the Miles Franklin Literary Award, reports Business Spectator. Perpetual has entered an arrangement with...

Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Sonya Hartnett’s novel Of a Boy (Penguin) has been adapted into a film. The Weight of Elephants was shot in Southland, New Zealand, in March 2012. It is the first feature...

Friday, 3 May 2013
New Zealand bookselling chain Whitcoulls will stop redeeming Booksellers Tokens and Booksellers Exchange Cards at the end of July, reports Booksellers New Zealand. Booksellers NZ said that the tokens and...

Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Fiona Stager, co-owner of Brisbane bookstore Avid Reader, has won a Creativity Award as part of the Local Legends Awards. Organised by Queensland Government Member for South Brisbane Jackie Trad and Brisbane...

Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Australian journalist Steve Lillebuen has been shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award, presented by the Crime Writers of Canada. Lillebuen, who divides his time between Australia and Canada, is nominated...

Tuesday, 30 April 2013
The organisers of the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards have announced that the overall Book of the Year Award will be renamed in honour of well-known New Zealand author...

Tuesday, 23 April 2013
The inaugural Rewi Alley Writing Fellowship has been awarded to Chinese writer Huo Yan. Huo, a 23-year-old PhD student at Beijing Normal University, will undertake a two-month writing project in...

Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Pan Macmillan’s food and lifestyle imprint Plum has launched a dedicated website. The new website favours striking imagery and minimal text, with links to the Pan Macmillan website for more...

Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Australian media database service Margaret Gee’s has launched an online press release centre called ConnectWeb, which allows subscribers to create and send press releases to the Australian media through the...

Thursday, 4 April 2013
ABC Television has announced the cast for a television adaptation of Peter Temple’s novel The Broken Shore (Text). The novel will be adapted into a telemovie for ABC1 starring Don...

Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Dymocks has released its 101 Club list of the best books of all time for 2013, as voted by members of the company’s Booklover loyalty program. Series were popular in the top...