Wednesday, 15 June 2016
Melanie Cheng has won the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for her book of short fiction ‘Australia Day’. The $15,000 award was presented at the opening...

Tuesday, 14 June 2016
Nick Couldwell has won the Australian Society of Authors (ASA)’s 2016 Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency for his novel ‘Calluses’. Couldwell’s novel is set in the small towns of Australia’s...

Tuesday, 14 June 2016
Allen & Unwin senior designer Lisa White has been appointed head of design at HarperCollins Australia. White replaces Matt Stanton, who has left the publisher after 12 years to focus...

Friday, 10 June 2016
Adelaide-based independent publisher Ginninderra Press is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Founded in Canberra in 1996, Ginninderra Press moved its operation to Port Adelaide in 2008. Owner and publisher...

Thursday, 9 June 2016
Federal Arts Minister Mitch Fifield was joined by shadow Arts Minister Mark Dreyfus and Australian Greens Party arts spokesperson Adam Bandt for an arts election debate at the Wheeler Centre...

Thursday, 9 June 2016
The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Inside the Black Horse (Ray Berard, Mary Egan Publishing) Made...

Monday, 6 June 2016
The 2016 Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The three shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award for an established Australian female writer are: A Few...

Monday, 6 June 2016
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has pledged to ‘carefully consult on copyright’, close the Catalyst —Australian Arts and Culture Fund and return funding to the Australia Council as part of...

Friday, 3 June 2016
Australian authors Tim Lane and Elliot Cartledge have won the Cricket Book of the Year award at the UK Cross Sports Book Awards, for Chasing Shadows (Hardie Grant), a biography...

Thursday, 2 June 2016
Independent small press Sleepers Publishing has announced it will not take on new books after 13 years of operation. In a newsletter, Sleepers co-founders Zoe Dattner and Louise Swinn thanked...

Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The shortlist for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: ‘Ironbark’ by Jay Carmichael: ‘an exquisitely poetic, stylistically sure literary novel...

Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The Fair Work Commission has announced a 2.4% increase to minimum wages effective from 1 July 2016, bringing the minimum rate from $17.29 per hour to $17.70 per hour. The...

Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The 2016 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship has been awarded to WA writer Claire Coleman and SA writer Dylan Coleman. Each fellowship is worth $10,000 and includes editorial development from the...