Arrowsmith-Young tops PWF bestseller list Archive
Friday, 3 March 2017
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young’s The Woman Who Changed Her Brain (HarperCollins) has topped the Perth Writers Festival’s bestseller list, supplied by festival bookseller Dymocks Claremont. Arrowsmith-Young’s nonfiction title was followed by two local...
Greenwood, Pung to feature in ‘Women in the West’ exhibition Archive
Friday, 3 March 2017
Authors Kerry Greenwood and Alice Pung are among the 10 featured subjects of the ‘Her Place: Women in the West’ exhibition at the MetroWest Gallery in the Melbourne suburb of...
Authors for second season of ‘The Garret’ podcast announced Archive
Friday, 3 March 2017
The line-up for the second season of the Australian writers podcast ‘The Garret’, which runs weekly from 2 March to 13 April, has been announced. Writers to feature on the...
ARRC 2017: Milan’s keynote on feminism and romance the highlight at ‘intimate’ convention Archive
Thursday, 2 March 2017
Reading habits, feminism and the representation of women in romance fiction were among the topics raised at the fifth Australian Romance Readers Convention (ARRC), held in Melbourne from 24-26 February....
Roberts-Orr appointed artistic director of EWF Archive
Thursday, 2 March 2017
Melbourne writer, editor and producer Izzy Roberts-Orr has been appointed artistic director and co-CEO of the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF). Roberts-Orr is a former co-director of the National Young Writers’...
Eckermann wins $215k Windham-Campbell Prize Archive
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Poet Ali Cobby Eckermann is one of eight winners of the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize, which recognises English-language writers who ‘have left their mark on the world of literature or theatre’ and comes with...
43,000 attend PWF: Lindy West, Deng Adut and first ‘Literary Death Match’ among the highlights Archive
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
More than 43,000 people attended the 2017 Perth Writers Festival, which ran from 23-26 February. Attendance was slightly down on the 2016 festival, which attracted around 45,000 people. A hundred...
VIPs announced for 2017 SWF Archive
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2017 Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) Program, to be held during the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May. The guests...
$4.1m in rights sales attributed to VIPs 2011-16 Archive
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Over four million dollars in rights sales have been attributed to the Australia Council’s Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program over the past five years, according to the Australia Council’s review...
CBCA Notable Books for 2017 announced Archive
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has released its list of Notable Books for 2017. Older Readers The Hounded (Simon Butters, Wakefield Press) Waer (Meg Caddy, Text) Words in...
Van Noorden to retire as OUP MD ‘towards the end of 2017’ Archive
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Oxford University Press Australia and New Zealand managing director Peter van Noorden has announced his plans to retire ‘towards the end of 2017’. Van Noorden has held the role for...
Hoy appointed sales director at A&U Archive
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Allen & Unwin has appointed Matt Hoy as its sales director. Hoy is currently sales and marketing director of Murdoch Books, which is owned by Allen & Unwin. Previously he...
Readings Children’s Book Prize 2017 shortlist announced Archive
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
The shortlist for the Readings Children’s Book Prize for 2017 has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Escape to Moon Islands (Mardi McConnochie, A&U) A Most Magical Girl (Karen Foxlee,...
Fictionally Yours author event sells out in five hours Archive
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Fictionally Yours, a two-day author event to be held in Melbourne on 17-18 September, has sold over 400 tickets within five hours of going on sale. Organisers Penny Rudge and...
Riwoe, Wright win Viva la Novella Archive
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...
Four Australian publishers in the running for Bologna Prize Archive
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Four Australian publishers have been nominated for the Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the Oceania category. The shortlisted publishers are Berbay Books, Lake Press, New...
Fair Work Commission announces cuts to Sunday, holiday rates for workers Archive
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...
Australian Romance Readers Awards 2016 winners announced Archive
Monday, 27 February 2017
The winners of the 2016 Australian Romance Readers Awards, presented by the Australian Romance Readers Association (ARRA), have been announced, with Anne Gracie named Favourite Australian Romance Author for the...
Kelada wins UWAP’s Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript Archive
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...
Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2017 shortlist announced Archive
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...
Kent, Smith longlisted for Walter Scott Prize Archive
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...
Readings in the running for store design award Archive
Friday, 24 February 2017
Independent bookselling chain Readings is a finalist for the Customer Experience Store Design Award, as part of Inside Retail’s 2017 Retailer Awards. Readings was selected for the design of its...
Around 90 indie publishers, booksellers attend APA, ABA Indies Forum Archive
Friday, 24 February 2017
Around 90 independent publishers, booksellers and other guests attended the Indies Forum, hosted by the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) and Australian Publishers Association (APA) in Melbourne on 20 February. The...
Nielsen survey finds 75% of Australian adults interested in Amazon Australia Archive
Friday, 24 February 2017
A Nielsen survey has found 75% of Australians aged 18 years and older are interested in Amazon Australia, and 56% say they are likely to purchase from an Australian Amazon...
Inky Awards 2017 longlists announced Archive
Thursday, 23 February 2017
The longlists for the 2017 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria for local and international...
Fury awarded 2017 Kat Muscat Fellowship Archive
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...
Milne, Littleton promoted at HarperCollins Archive
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
HarperCollins Australia has announced several promotions in its general books division following the departure of publishing director Shona Martyn at the end of 2016. Publisher Catherine Milne has been promoted...
IPEd announces directory of freelance editors Archive
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,...
writingWA to host public forum on arts policy in lead-up to state election Archive
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...
ALS Gold Medal 2017 longlist announced Archive
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
The longlist for the 2017 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The longlisted titles are: One Hundred Letters Home (Adam Aitken, Vagabond) The Easy Way Out (Steven...
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