Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Seizure has announced Mirandi Riwoe and Stephen Wright as the winners of its fifth Viva la Novella competition. Riwoe’s ‘The Fish Girl’ tells the story of an Indonesian girl ‘whose...

Monday, 27 February 2017
Retail, hospitality and fast-food industry workers will have their Sunday and public holiday penalty rates reduced, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ruled. Full and part-time retail workers’ Sunday rates...

Monday, 27 February 2017
Melbourne-based writer and academic Odette Kelada has won UWA Publishing’s (UWAP) Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript for her novel ‘Drawing Sybylla’. Kelada receives $10,000 and a publishing contract...

Monday, 27 February 2017
The shortlist for the Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poems are: ‘Four Egrets’ by Ronald Dzerigian ‘Sentence to Lilacs’ by Louis Klee...

Friday, 24 February 2017
Australian author Hannah Kent and Australian-born, US-based Dominic Smith have been longlisted for the 2017 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Kent is longlisted for The Good People (Picador) and...

Thursday, 23 February 2017
Melbourne writer Fury has been awarded the 2017 Kat Muscat Fellowship to work on a play ‘investigating the relationship between lesbians and gay men during the early AIDS crisis’. Fury...

Wednesday, 22 February 2017
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has introduced a new online directory of freelance editors. The Editors Directory is hosted on the IPEd website and is searchable by editors’ services,...

Wednesday, 22 February 2017
writingWA will host a public forum to discuss policies and funding for the writing and publishing sector in Perth on 1 March, in the lead-up to the WA state election...

Monday, 20 February 2017
Sydney bookseller Pages & Pages has put together an anti-Trump reading list and has pledged to donate $1 to the Refugee Council of Australia for every book purchased from the list. The...

Friday, 17 February 2017
The Australia Council has announced the recipients of its Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) 2015-16 project fund. The recipients are: Books+Publishing ($9790) Wenona Byrne ($9400) Giramondo ($7000) Mis Zalozba ($10,000) Benython...

Friday, 17 February 2017
Writers Victoria has announced a new three-year Write-ability program for aspiring writers with disability in regional Victoria.    The Write-ability Goes Regional and Online program will begin in April in...

Friday, 17 February 2017
The recipients of the University of Melbourne’s Asialink Arts Residencies Program for 2017 have been announced. Writers receiving residencies in Asian countries are: Lyn Dickens, India: Dickens will ‘work on...

Thursday, 16 February 2017
New Zealand Book Council CEO Catriona Ferguson has been appointed as Publishing Association of New Zealand (PANZ) director. Ferguson replaces outgoing director Anne de Lautour, who is stepping down from...