Monday, 7 May 2018
Author Emily Maguire has been awarded the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre Writer in Residence fellowship. Maguire will receive $100,000 and will spend a year based at the centre...

Monday, 7 May 2018
The Copyright Agency has announced the two recipients of its $15,000 publisher fellowships: Spineless Wonders publisher Bronwyn Mehan and Monash University Publishing director Nathan Hollier. The fellowships aim to support...

Friday, 4 May 2018
The Wheeler Centre has announced it will launch a new $150,000 initiative for developing writers called The Next Chapter. Established by the Wheeler Centre in conjunction with the Aesop Foundation,...

Thursday, 3 May 2018
Perth-based comics artist Campbell Whyte has been nominated for the 2018 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for his book Home Time: Under the River (Top Shelf Productions). Whyte’s book was...

Thursday, 3 May 2018
Brio Books has announced a new unpublished manuscript prize, the Carter Brown Mystery Writing Award. Established in conjunction with the Carter Brown Foundation and US-based Stark House Press, the new...

Thursday, 3 May 2018
University of Western Australia Publishing (UWA Publishing) has announced it will expand the eligibility of the next Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript to all Australian writers and permanent...

Wednesday, 2 May 2018
The shortlist for the inaugural Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished novel has been announced. The shortlisted works, and their authors, are: ‘When Curlews Call’ (H E Crampton) ‘Caught Between’...

Wednesday, 2 May 2018
The Melbourne City of Literature, as part of its 10th anniversary, has announced it will partner with the Wheeler Centre to present a two-day event in November to ‘celebrate where...

Monday, 30 April 2018
Author Hazel Edwards has been named as the next patron of the Society of Women Writers Victoria (SWWVic). Edwards was announced as patron at the SWWVic committee meeting on 27...

Thursday, 26 April 2018
The 2018 black&write! Fellowships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers have been awarded to Gold Coast writer Lystra Bisschop and Sydney-based writer Nardi Simpson. Bisschop, a descendant of the...

Thursday, 26 April 2018
Creative Victoria has announced the recipients of the Edinburgh Exchange, an exchange program between the Melbourne and Edinburgh Cities of Literature. The six Victorian delegates are: Marian Blythe (Homecooked Comics...