Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Mitch Fifield has replaced George Brandis as Arts Minister and Kelly O’Dwyer has replaced Bruce Billson as Small Business Minister under cabinet changes introduced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.In a...

Tuesday, 22 September 2015
Responsibility for copyright and classification matters and legislation have been moved from George Brandis’ Attorney-General portfolio to the new Communications and Arts Minister Mitch Fifield.Fifield’s Communications department will deal with...

Tuesday, 22 September 2015
Nina Kenwood has been promoted to Readings’ marketing manager, replacing former head of marketing and communications Emily Harms, who has joined the Wheeler Centre.Kenwood has been with Readings for three...

Tuesday, 22 September 2015
The longlist for the inaugural Australian Sports Book of the Year award has been announced.The 12 longlisted titles are: Roy Higgins (Patrick Bartley, Penguin) Eddie: The Rise and Rise of...

Monday, 21 September 2015
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has appointed Mitch Fifield as federal Arts Minister and Kelly O’Dwyer as Small Business Minister.In a statement, Turnbull said that Fifield, who has also been appointed Communications...

Monday, 21 September 2015
Melbourne’s RMIT University has awarded fellowships to writers Alice Pung and Michele Lee for writing residencies in China.Pung was awarded the Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange Program (WrICE) Established Writer...

Monday, 21 September 2015
Hachette Australia has announced the shortlist for its inaugural Richell Prize, run in partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival and the Guardian.The shortlisted entries are: ‘&’ by Jonathan O'Brien ‘No...

Friday, 18 September 2015
The winners of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Educational Publishing Awards were announced at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 17 September.RIC Publications was named Publisher of the Year for Primary and...

Friday, 18 September 2015
A number of Australian writers and book industry professionals have ‘questioned the intentions’ of inaugural Book Council of Australia chair Louise Adler in an open letter to Prime Minister Malcolm...

Wednesday, 16 September 2015
The State Library of NSW has announced a new biennial Indigenous Writers Prize, to be part of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.  The $30,000 prize is intended to ‘acknowledge the...

Wednesday, 16 September 2015
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced.The shortlisted pieces are:  ‘Why Aren’t We Dead Yet’ by Idan Ben-Barak (Why Aren’t We Dead Yet?,...

Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Marcus Westbury’s Creating Cities, a crowdfunded, self-published book about the transformation of the city of Newcastle, has topped its Amazon ebook sales category several days after its launch.Westbury, the founder...

Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Affirm Press has announced the winners of the inaugural Affirm Mentorship Award, run in partnership with Varuna, the Writers’ House.Three writers were chosen from 149 submissions, with the Affirm Press editorial...

Monday, 14 September 2015
The shortlists for the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes were announced at the opening of the Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival on 11 September.The shortlisted titles in each category are:Tasmania Book...

Monday, 14 September 2015
The Australia Council has announced its Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program will run alongside the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) in May next year.Australia Council arts strategy executive director Wendy Were...

Monday, 14 September 2015
Scribe has announced the longlisted titles for its third annual nonfiction prize for young writers.The prize, run in conjunction with Express Media, offers the winner a cash prize of $1500;...

Friday, 11 September 2015
The shortlists for this year’s Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) have been announced.The shortlisted titles are:Fiction A Short History of Richard Kline (Amanda Lohrey, Black Inc.) The Golden Age (Joan London,...

Friday, 11 September 2015
The federal government has announced the terms of reference for the Book Council of Australia and that Australian Publishers Association (APA) president and Melbourne University Publishing CEO Louise Adler will...