Thursday, 19 February 2015
The program for the 2015 Newcastle Writers Festival, to be held on 20-22 March, is now available online. The opening night of the festival will feature Helen Garner, Jessica Rudd...

Thursday, 19 February 2015
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) is celebrating its 20-year anniversary in 2015.To mark the anniversary, ACWA has partnered with Kill Your Darlings (KYD) to publish the winner of the...

Wednesday, 18 February 2015
‘The downgrading of the Premier’s Book Awards from an annual to a biennial event could be seen as Western Australia losing its literary AAA rating in the eyes of other states’—WA...

Wednesday, 18 February 2015
A new online bookshop selling print books about Tasmania directly from the authors has been launched.Tasmanian Books, which was launched in January by local author Andrew Wilson, aims to ‘bring all of...

Tuesday, 17 February 2015
Journalist John van Tiggelen has been appointed editor of Melbourne-based literary journal Meanjin from February 2016.Van Tiggelen, who has previously worked as a staff writer and editor at the Monthly...

Tuesday, 17 February 2015
The shortlisted works for the Ditmar Awards ballot have been announced and voting has commenced.The shortlisted works include:Best Novel The Lascar’s Dagger (Glenda Larke, Orbit) Bound: Alex Caine Book One (Alan...

Tuesday, 17 February 2015
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has appointed former Australian governor-general Quentin Bryce as its 2015 patron. Bryce, who was governor-general from 2008-2014, said in a statement that she had travelled extensively...

Monday, 16 February 2015
The titles in the top 10 bestsellers chart remain largely unchanged this week, with the film tie-in to American Sniper (Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen & Jim DeFelice, HarperCollins) in top spot for a...

Monday, 16 February 2015
The University of Melbourne’s Asialink program has announced the recipients of its 2015 Arts Residencies, supported by the Australia Council for the Arts.Writers and arts programmers receiving residencies in Asian...

Thursday, 12 February 2015
The longlist for the third Stella Prize has been announced.This year’s longlisted titles are: Foreign Soil (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette) The Strays (Emily Bitto, Affirm Press) Only the Animals (Ceridwen...

Wednesday, 11 February 2015
UK-based, Swedish-owned media company the Bonnier Group, owner of The Five Mile Press, has launched a new publishing house, Echo Publishing, specialising in narrative nonfiction, photography and fiction titles.Echo Publishing has opened an office...

Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Melbourne-based publisher and literary magazine the Lifted Brow has announced the longlist for its Prize for Experimental Nonfiction.The longlisted works are: Sophia O’Rourke for ‘Flaming June: Still Life and the Anthroposcene’...

Tuesday, 10 February 2015
The shortlists for the 2015 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced.The shortlisted titles in each category are:Older readers Dancing in the Dark (Robyn Bavati, Penguin) Zac...

Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Tasmania-based literary journal Island will be print-only from 2015.The quarterly magazine will increase its print run by 200% and add more stockists, while also revamping its website and increasing its...

Monday, 9 February 2015
The film tie-in of American Sniper (Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen & Jim DeFelice, HarperCollins) has stayed at the top of the bestsellers chart this week, with Family Food (Pete Evans, Plum)...