Monday, 3 November 2014
Lucinda Gifford has won the inaugural Five Mile Press Illustrator Prize. Five Mile publisher Kay Scarlett said the judges of the prize felt Gifford had the ‘strongest individual style’ of...

Monday, 3 November 2014
Cheryl Akle announced the launch of new ‘independent book recommendations and news site’ Better Reading on 3 November 2014. The website at www.betterreading.com.au has been assisted by financial contributions from...

Monday, 3 November 2014
The nominees for the inaugural AusRomToday Reader’s Choice Awards have been announced. Administered by the recently launched AusRomToday website, the awards are intended to showcase Australian romance writing to readers worldwide. The...

Friday, 31 October 2014
Children’s book author and former teacher-librarian Jill Bruce is the winner of this year’s Lady Cutler Award, presented by the New South Wales branch of the Children’s Book Council of...

Thursday, 30 October 2014
A new three-year research project funded by the Australian Research Council and undertaken by academics at Sydney’s Macquarie University will examine the impact of the changing publishing industry on authors,...

Thursday, 30 October 2014
Australian online publishing platform Tablo has announced a partnership with Pan Macmillan digital publishing imprint Momentum to discover ‘future bestselling authors while they’re still writing their books’. Tablo, which provides...

Thursday, 30 October 2014
The shortlist for a new Australian literary prize has been announced. The Voss Literary Prize is a new award dedicated to the memory of historian Vivian Robert Le Vaux Voss....

Wednesday, 29 October 2014
‘Sometimes in Australia, people pay far too much for books and that’s not very clever for what’s supposed to be the Clever Country’—Dymocks owner John Forsyth discusses parallel importation restrictions,...

Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Australian author Jackie French is a NSW finalist for the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year Award. French, the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2014-15, is the author of over 140...

Tuesday, 28 October 2014
The winners of the Young Australian’s Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced for 2014.The winning titles are:Picture storybooks The Dreadful Fluff (Aaron Blabey, Viking)  Fiction...

Tuesday, 28 October 2014
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced the shortlist for the Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year award, part of the 2014 Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) program. The...

Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Ceridwen Dovey’s Only the Animals (Hamish Hamilton) has won the inaugural Readings New Australian Writing Award. Dovey’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of six for the $4000 prize, which was established earlier this...

Monday, 27 October 2014
Richard Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize-winning Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage) has climbed back up the bestsellers chart. The $32.95 trade paperback edition is the week’s fastest mover, climbing up...

Monday, 27 October 2014
Hardie Grant Egmont has announced that its Ampersand Project for unpublished YA authors will not be awarded this year. The publisher said in a statement that the project, which opened...

Monday, 27 October 2014
Australian author Anna Krien’s Night Games (Black Inc.) is among the seven titles shortlisted for the 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in the UK, reports the...

Monday, 27 October 2014
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced a new mentorship for children’s writers.The Edel Wignell Mentorship is supported by the literary income of children’s writer Edel Wignell, who has...

Friday, 24 October 2014
The longlist for the 2014 Walkley Book Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Breaking News: Sex, Lies and the Murdoch Succession (Paul Barry, A&U) Jacks and Jokers (Mathew Condon, UQP)...

Friday, 24 October 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Blake Poetry Prize has been announced.The shortlisted poems are: ‘Penumbra’ (Brady Collard) ‘Soulchat’ (MTC Cronin) ‘either, Orpheus’ (Dan Disney) ‘Threnodials’ (Dave Drayton) ‘The Bridge’ (Ross...

Thursday, 23 October 2014
A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors and illustrators have been included in the 2014 White Ravens list for international children’s and youth literature.The Australian titles on...

Wednesday, 22 October 2014
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the shortlist for this year’s Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA). The shortlisted titles are: Gardens of Fire (Robert Kenny, UWA Publishing) A Wrong...

Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Arts Victoria has announced its latest round of VicArts grant recipients.The program will provide $1.4 million in funding for 88 new creative projects by independent professional artists and arts organisations...