Writers Victoria announces winners of its emerging writers prizes
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
Writers Victoria has announced the 2017 winners of the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition. The Grace Marion Wilson Prize in the fiction category was awarded to Kieran Stevenson for...
Writers Victoria Write-ability and Glenfern fellowships announced
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
Writers Victoria has announced the recipients of its 2017 Write-ability and Glenfern fellowships. Five emerging writers with disability were awarded Write-ability fellowships. They are: Mary Borsellino for ‘The Alchemist’s Girls’,...
Book Council survey: 88% of New Zealanders read at least one book in the past year
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
A new survey into New Zealanders’ reading habits has found that 88% of the adult population read, or started to read, at least one book over the past year, with...
Shortlist announced for 2017 ‘SRB’ Emerging Critics fellowships
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
The Sydney Review of Books has announced the shortlist for its 2017 Copyright Agency-SRB Emerging Critics fellowships. The shortlisted writers are: Shu-Ling Chua (ACT) Daniel Davis Wood (NSW) Stephanie Guest...
LoveOzYA conducts survey into YA reading habits
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Young-adult literature advocacy group LoveOzYA is conducting a survey into the reading habits of YA readers, with the results to be released later this year. The survey, which runs from...
Winners of 2017 Affirm Press Mentorship Award announced
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
The winners of this year’s Affirm Press Mentorship Award have been announced. The winning authors and their work are: ‘Inheritance’ by Kathryn O’Connor, a novel about ‘Eileen and Anita, who...
State Library of Queensland to run inaugural Young Writers Conference
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) is running its inaugural Young Writers Conference—a day of industry seminars and writing workshops for young writers aged 15 to 25—at the library on...
PRH to publish Luke Hodge autobiography
Monday, 7 August 2017
Penguin Random House will publish the autobiography of retiring AFL player Luke Hodge on 30 October. Luke Hodge: The General will ‘explain his own transformation’ and that of the Hawthorn...
New publisher Dirt Lane Press launches first book
Friday, 4 August 2017
New children’s publisher Dirt Lane Press has launched its first book The Sorry Tale of Fox and Bear, written by Margrete Lamond and illustrated by Heather Vallance. A not-for-profit organisation based...
Readings wins Store Fit-out award at Australian Retail Awards
Friday, 4 August 2017
Readings has won the Store Fit-Out of the Year award at the 2017 Australian Retail Awards for the design of its Readings Doncaster and Readings Kids stores. Both stores were...
Amazon appoints Oz manager, leases warehouse
Friday, 4 August 2017
Amazon has appointed Rocco Braeuniger as its country manager for Australia and has confirmed it will open its first Australian fulfilment centre in Dandenong South in Melbourne’s south-east, reports Fairfax....
Multilingual children’s bookstore opens in Fairfield
Friday, 4 August 2017
A multilingual children’s bookstore, Lost in Books, has opened in Fairfield, South Western Sydney. Open from Monday to Friday, the bookstore also serves as a café, creative learning and language...
First guests announced for 2017 Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival
Thursday, 3 August 2017
The Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival has announced the first guests for its 2017 program, which runs from 14-17 September in Hobart. UK author A C Grayling will deliver the...
Robinsons to open Canberra store in October
Thursday, 3 August 2017
Independent bookselling chain Robinsons Bookshop is opening a store in Canberra on 31 October. The store is Robinsons’ 10th and its first outside of Melbourne. It will open alongside other...
Fine shortlisted for Royal Society Science Book Prize
Thursday, 3 August 2017
Australia-based British author Cordelia Fine has been shortlisted for the 2017 Science Book Prize for her book Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of our Gendered Minds (Icon Books). Fine’s book is one...
NZ Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement 2017 announced
Thursday, 3 August 2017
Creative New Zealand has announced the winners of the 2017 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, worth NZ$60,000 (A$55,900) each. Novelist Witi Ihimaera has been honoured in the fiction category,...
2016 Stella Count revealed; judges for 2018 prize announced
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
The 2016 Stella Count has found that four out of 12 publications surveyed reviewed more books by women than men—up from one publication in 2015’s survey—with book reviews in Australian...
New report shows government funding for literature and writing lags other artforms
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
A report prepared for the Department of Communications and the Arts has found that Australian federal, state and territory, and local governments contributed $5.8b to cultural activities in 2015-16, with...
A&U to publish Nick Riewoldt’s autobiography in November
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Allen & Unwin will publish AFL player Nick Riewoldt’s autobiography in November, following the St Kilda captain’s announcement that he will retire at the end of the season. The publisher said...
‘The Chaser’s’ Andrew Hansen and wife Jessica Roberts sign two-book deal with Walker Books
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Comedian Andrew Hansen, best known for his work on ‘The Chaser’, and his wife, designer Jessica Roberts, have signed a two-book deal with Walker Books. The books will be the...
The Lifted Brow launches imprint Brow Books
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
The Lifted Brow (TLB) has announced its new books imprint, Brow Books. In a statement on its website, the imprint said it will publish ‘across a variety of genres, styles...
New festival to focus on Indigenous and culturally diverse writers
Tuesday, 1 August 2017
The NSW Writers’ Centre and Bankstown Arts Centre have announced a new writers’ festival that focuses on Indigenous and culturally diverse Australian writers and writing. The inaugural Boundless festival will...
Waterstones selects Australian author for UK ‘Book of the Month’ promotion
Tuesday, 1 August 2017
Melbourne-born, Edinburgh-based author Anthony O’Neill’s forthcoming novel Dr Jekyll and Mr Seek (Xoum, September) has been chosen by UK bookselling chain Waterstones as its Scottish ‘Book of the Month’ for September....
Screen rights to ‘The Good People’ optioned
Tuesday, 1 August 2017
Australian production company Aquarius Films has optioned the film and TV rights to Hannah Kent’s The Good People (Picador) via Curtis Brown Australia. Aquarius producers Angie Felder, Polly Staniford and Cecilia...
Dorrington steps down as PWF program manager
Tuesday, 1 August 2017
Perth Writers Festival (PWF) program manager Katherine Dorrington has left the organisation after 12 years in the role. Perth International Arts Festival artistic director Wendy Martin said in a statement:...
‘Before Rupert’ wins National Biography Award
Monday, 31 July 2017
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced Tom D C Roberts’ Before Rupert: Keith Murdoch and the Birth of a Dynasty (UQP) as the winner of this...
Dymocks Waurn Ponds wins top award at Dymocks conference
Monday, 31 July 2017
Dymocks Waurn Ponds in Geelong has won the Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at the 2017 Dymocks national conference, which was held on the Gold Coast from 23-25 July. Dymocks...
New ABC TV ‘Story Time’ series to screen during Children’s Book Week
Monday, 31 July 2017
A new ABC TV series called Story Time will screen during Children’s Book Week in August. The Play School spin-off series will feature Australian celebrities—including journalist Leigh Sales, comedian Rove...
Canberra Writers Festival 2017 program launched
Friday, 28 July 2017
The program has been announced for the second annual Canberra Writers Festival, which will run from 25-27 August. International guests appearing at the festival include UK novelist Samantha Shannon, Dutch...
Affirm to publish junior fiction series by ‘Bondi Rescue’ lifeguard
Friday, 28 July 2017
Affirm Press will publish a children’s fiction series by Bondi Rescue lifeguard Trent ‘Maxi’ Maxwell in 2018. The series will be co-written by David Lawrence, author of the ‘Fox Swift’...
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