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...

Friday, 22 May 2015
The Australia Council has cancelled its June grant round and suspended its six-year funding for organisations program, among other changes following $110m in funding cuts announced in the 2015-16 federal budget.The...

Friday, 22 May 2015
The winners of the 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced in Sydney on 21 May.Pan Macmillan was one of the big winners of the night, taking out the...

Friday, 22 May 2015
The Copyright Agency has announced the recipients of its inaugural Publisher Fellowships to ‘conduct study or research into digital publishing, emerging business models and technologies’.The recipients are:  Chrysoula Aiellou, Scholastic,...

Thursday, 21 May 2015
Alan Sampson has won the 2015 Finch Memoir Prize for his entry Schools of Fish.Sampson, a Queensland high-school principal renowned for ‘transforming weak schools into centres of academic excellence’, writes in his...

Wednesday, 20 May 2015
The shortlist for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: The Dry (Jane Harper) Nikolai the Perfect (Jim McIntyre) Fine (Michelle Wright).  The judges also...

Wednesday, 20 May 2015
‘The transparent policies and programs of the old Australia Council—supported for 45 years by both sides of politics—look positively utopian’—two-time Miles Franklin Award-winning author Rodney Hall on cuts to the...

Tuesday, 19 May 2015
Entries have opened for the triennial Melbourne Prize for Literature, which includes a new $20,000 prize for an essay.The Writers Prize, which is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund,...

Tuesday, 19 May 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been announced.The shortlisted authors and their manuscripts are: Margot McGovern for Neverland, ‘an ambitious, complex story...

Tuesday, 19 May 2015
The Auckland Writers Festival has attracted a record crowd of more than 60,000 attendees, up 20% on last year, for the five-day festival that finished on Sunday.The festival, which celebrated...

Monday, 18 May 2015
A donation from the Norman Family Bequest in memory of Matt Richell has been presented to the Indigenous Literary Foundation (ILF).The donation will allow the senior girls’ class from Tiwi...

Monday, 18 May 2015
The Melbourne Writers Festival has released its schools’ program for 2015.This year’s schools’ program, which runs from 24 to 27 August, features Australian authors and illustrators including Andy Griffiths, Amie...

Monday, 18 May 2015
The shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: Golden Boys (Sonya Hartnett, Hamish Hamilton) The Eye of the Sheep (Sofie Laguna, A&U) The...

Monday, 18 May 2015
Don Watson’s The Bush (Hamish Hamilton) has been named Book of the Year at the 2015 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, presented in Sydney on 18 May.Watson’s book also...

Thursday, 14 May 2015
Australian author Jane Rawson has launched a readathon for June and July to raise money for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF). Rawson has set up a website justread.com.au and is...