Thursday, 6 October 2016
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the 2016 Barbara Jefferis Award. The shortlisted titles are: This Picture of You (Sarah Hopkins, A&U) A Guide to...

Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Varuna, the Writers House has announced the recipients of the 2017 Varuna Residency Fellowships. The writers and their projects are: The Mick Dark flagship fellowship Rebecca Giggs for ‘The Whale...

Monday, 3 October 2016
The shortlist for the 2016 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award for an unpublished manuscript has been announced. The shortlisted writers and their works are: Catherine Gillard for ‘The Incidental...

Thursday, 29 September 2016
Tasmanian author Susie Greenhill has won the 2016 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for her entry ‘The Clinking’, described as an ‘ecological love story’. In a statement, Emerging Writers’ Festival...

Wednesday, 28 September 2016
New Zealand rugby player Dan Carter will receive the best autobiography prize at the 2016 Sportel Awards, to be held in Monaco on 25 October, for his book Dan Carter:...

Wednesday, 28 September 2016
A documentary web-series looking back on the life of Indigenous author and activist Boori Monty Pryor, to be screened on the ABC’s iview portal, is one of 17 Victorian film...

Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Affirm Press has announced the winners of its second Affirm Mentorship Award, run in partnership with Varuna, the Writers’ House. The writers and their projects are: Angela J Williams, for her creative...

Tuesday, 27 September 2016
The Poet’s Voice has launched a new podcast series, called ‘The necessary poet’, which presents Australian writers, thinkers and poets discussing the work of a poet they consider to be...

Friday, 23 September 2016
Rosalie Ham’s The Dressmaker (Duffy & Snellgrove) and Sarah Wilson’s I Quit Sugar: Simplicious (Macmillan) have topped the Australian adult fiction and nonfiction bestsellers charts for July 2015-June 2016, respectively....

Thursday, 22 September 2016
Wildlife photographer and author Neville Peat has won the inaugural NZ$25,000 (A$24,195) Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Writers Award for nonfiction, to help support his project The Invading Sea. Peat...

Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Documents provided to the federal court suggest Penguin was warned about gaps in Belle Gibson’s cancer story prior to the publication of her cookbook The Whole Pantry, reports the Age....

Monday, 19 September 2016
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘Slippery migrants’ by James Bradley (the Monthly) ‘Beautiful contrivances’ by Susan...