Monday, 4 May 2015
Fiction and health-related cookbooks are dominating this week’s bestseller charts, with six fiction titles and three health books in the top 10. The fiction list is led by The Liar...

Monday, 4 May 2015
The New Zealand Book Council (NZBC) is producing a new monthly podcast discussing new release and classic New Zealand books.‘Talking Books’ is hosted by novelist Catherine Robertson, who will speak...

Thursday, 30 April 2015
Jane Curry Publishing (JCP) will rebrand as Ventura Press from 1 August this year, timed to coincide with a new sales and distribution partnership with Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S).  JCP...

Thursday, 30 April 2015
Dymocks, 3M Cloud Library and JCDecaux have been announced as the major sponsors of this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs), with overall funding for the awards up 24% on...

Wednesday, 29 April 2015
An interactive online graphic novel adaptation of Nam Le’s short story ‘The Boat’, from Le’s short story collection of the same name, has been launched by SBS to commemorate 40...

Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Bloomsbury Australia and Pantera Press have announced a new partnership to ‘strategically grow Pantera Press’ readership and sales’.The partnership, which begins in June, will see Bloomsbury distribute Pantera Press titles through UBD,...

Wednesday, 29 April 2015
‘I think it’s great for the vigour of the culture if one book does not scoop all the prizes’—Booktopia editorial director Caroline Baum on judging this year’s Stella Prize

Wednesday, 29 April 2015
The Victorian government has announced a $83.1 million redevelopment of the State Library of Victoria (SLV), with work on the five-year project scheduled to begin next year. The redevelopment includes...

Wednesday, 29 April 2015
A new podcast series with news and interviews about the contemporary Australian poetry scene has launched.The Australian Poetry Podcast is hosted by poets Robbie Coburn and Nathan Hondros, with four...

Tuesday, 28 April 2015
The Australian copyright industries, including ‘press and literature’, is the fourth biggest industry contributor to Australia’s economy, according to a report commissioned by the Australian Copyright Council (ACC).The report, which...

Tuesday, 28 April 2015
A new writing school has opened in Newcastle offering classes for adults and children, as well as manuscript and mentoring services.The Creative Word Shop, which is the first of its kind in Newcastle, is run...

Monday, 27 April 2015
The winners of the 2014 writingWA Awards, which support emerging writers based in regional Western Australia, have been announced. Doreen Hill of Mandurah was awarded the Curtin University Prize for...

Monday, 27 April 2015
A new festival to support young New Zealand writers well be held in Dunedin in June.The New Zealand Young Writers Festival will feature 15 free events involving writers and editors...

Friday, 24 April 2015
The shortlists for this year’s New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced.The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are:Christina Stead Prize for Fiction Only the Animals (Ceridwen...

Thursday, 23 April 2015
The Victorian government has announced a new taskforce to ‘steer the future’ of Victoria’s creative industries, to be chaired by Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) CEO Louise Adler. The taskforce will...

Thursday, 23 April 2015
The shortlist for the Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced.The shortlisted poems are: ‘As Wasps Fly Upward’ (Judith Beveridge) ‘Vantage’ (Eileen Chong) ‘Janus’ (Toby Fitch)...

Wednesday, 22 April 2015
‘When I was growing up as an editor in trade publishing, a house was perceived to have done exceptionally well if it made double-digit profitability in a given year. The...

Wednesday, 22 April 2015
The longlist for the 2015 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced.The longlisted titles are: Amnesia (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton) Golden Boys (Sonya Harnett, Hamish Hamilton) Keeps (L K...

Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Murray Middleton has won this year’s Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for his short-story collection When There’s Nowhere Else to Run.The book was chosen by author Rohan Wilson, bookseller Jenny Barry and the...

Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Film rights to Stephen and Sally Damiani’s family memoir Cracking the Code (Random House) have been optioned by M4 Entertainment (formerly Mushroom Pictures), with script development already in progress. Executive...

Tuesday, 21 April 2015
The Wheeler Centre has announced its latest round of ‘hot desk’ fellowships. Twenty writers will participate in the fellowship this year, including seven in the first intake from 11 May...