Wednesday, 3 June 2015
The shortlists for this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced.The shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian female...

Wednesday, 3 June 2015
Australian authors Melanie Napthine and Rashida Murphy have been shortlisted for the £10,000 (A$19,700) Dundee International Book Prize for an unpublished manuscript.Napthine was shortlisted for her manuscript The Adventures of Us,...

Tuesday, 2 June 2015
Snowprint Bookshop in NSW’s Snowy Mountains will open a second bookshop at the nearby Perisher Ski Resort over the winter.The bookshop, which opens on Saturday, will be located in the shopping...

Tuesday, 2 June 2015
Melbourne independent bookstore Horton Books will close at the end of July.The store, which is owned by John and Judy Horton, has been located on Smith Street in Collingwood for 15...

Tuesday, 2 June 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy (Sophie Cunningham, Text) A History Written...

Monday, 1 June 2015
Melbourne culinary bookstore Books for Cooks has announced it will relocate to the Queen Victoria Market in mid-June.Books for Cooks owner Tim White said in a statement that the store...

Monday, 1 June 2015
Arts Victoria has announced its latest round of VicArts grant recipients.The program will provide $1.5 million in funding for 106 new creative projects by independent artists and arts organisations in...

Friday, 29 May 2015
Author and teacher Kimberley Starr has won the 2015 Text Prize for YA and Children’s Writing for her manuscript The Book of Whispers.The winning manuscript, a historical fantasy novel set...

Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Hachette Australia has launched a $10,000 prize for emerging writers in memory of former CEO Matt Richell, who died in a surfing accident in 2014.The Richell Prize, which has been...

Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Tobias McCorkell has won the 2015 Affirm Press Creative Writing Prize for an excerpt from his novel Barely Anything.McCorkell’s novel, a component of his PhD on contemporary Australian literature, is set...

Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Jane Harper has won the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for her novel The Dry.The $15,000 award was presented at the opening night of the 2015...

Wednesday, 27 May 2015
This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival included the annual Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program, which offers Australian publishers the opportunity to meet with international publishers and editors. On 20 May several...

Wednesday, 27 May 2015
SalesFiction—Fremantle Press has sold UK, US and European rights to The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Tracy Farr) and The Weaver Fish (Robert Edeson) to Aardvark Bureau. Nonfiction—Black Inc....

Wednesday, 27 May 2015
‘The cancellation of the June round of funding will have an immediate effect on the publishers of Australian literary titles, requiring the cancellation or postponement of some of those titles’—Giramondo...

Wednesday, 27 May 2015
The Sydney Writers’ Festival’s 2015 theme ‘How to Live’ has been a resounding success for both the box office and book sales.This year’s festival, which ran from 18-24 May, attracted...

Tuesday, 26 May 2015
The Brothers Quibble (Aaron Blabey, Viking) will be read by an estimated 450,000 children in more than 3000 schools across Australia at 11am (EST) on Wednesday morning, as part of...

Tuesday, 26 May 2015
Express Media has launched the 2015 program for National Young Writers’ Month, its annual June event for young writers across Australia. This years’ program includes 14 livestreamed discussions with young...

Tuesday, 26 May 2015
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Small Press Network (SPN) have responded to the Australia Council’s decision to suspend and cut some of its programs, following funding cuts to the organisation in...

Monday, 25 May 2015
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) announced the winners for the 2015 Book Design Awards at an event in Sydney on 22 May.The winning titles in each category are:Best designed...