Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Debi Hamilton and Anthony Lawrence are the joint winners of the 2014 Newcastle Poetry Prize for their poems ‘Red Riding Hood Grows Old’ and ‘Itinerary’, respectively. The winners were announced at a...

Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Poetica, the ABC Radio National program ‘dedicated to the performance of poetry’, has been axed as part of the cuts announced by ABC managing director Mark Scott on 24 November,...

Tuesday, 25 November 2014
A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.Books by Australian authors on the longlist are: The Narrow...

Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Seizure journal has announced the three editors for its 2015 Viva La Novella project. The successful applicants are Marisa Wikramanayake, Nicola Redhouse and Zoya Patel. Seizure is currently accepting novella...

Tuesday, 25 November 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize for poetry has been announced. The shortlisted poets are: Bonny Cassidy Dan Disney Alison Flett Molly Guy Jill Jones Carmen Leigh...

Monday, 24 November 2014
Fiona McFarlane’s The Night Guest (Penguin) has been announced as the winner of the inaugural $6500 Voss Literary Prize.The Voss Literary Prize is dedicated to the memory of historian Vivian...

Monday, 24 November 2014
The Scarlet Stiletto Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime to recognise short crime stories written by Australian women, were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on 21 November.Perth writer Judith Bridge won...

Friday, 21 November 2014
The winners of the 2014 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced.The winning books are:Picture books The Three Bears (Sort of) (Yvonne Morrison, illus by Donovan Bixley, Scholastic...

Friday, 21 November 2014
Independent Australian publisher Spineless Wonders has announced plans for a new series that combines short stories with authors’ reflections on them.Publisher Bronwyn Mehan told Books+Publishing that the ‘SW Fiction Plus’ series...

Thursday, 20 November 2014
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) will launch its latest community literacy project, a resource to help parents prepare their children for school, in Broken Hill this week.Ready for School in...

Thursday, 20 November 2014
The ACT Book of the Year Award 2014 shortlist has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: 18 Days: Al Jazeera English and the Egyptian Revolution (Scott Bridges, Editia) Earthmasters: The Dawn...

Thursday, 20 November 2014
Independent Australian publisher Spineless Wonders has launched a new series of events featuring live readings of short fiction by professional actors.‘Little Fictions’ will be held once a month at Sydney’s...

Wednesday, 19 November 2014
The shortlisted titles for the 2014 Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) have been announced by the State Library of Queensland (SLQ). The shortlisted titles are:Fiction All the Birds, Singing (Evie Wyld,...

Wednesday, 19 November 2014
‘Bundling has been talked about for some time, so we’re delighted to be in a position to test the theory, and see how results measure up against expectations’—HarperCollins Australia CEO...

Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Sulari Gentill’s A Murder Unmentioned (Pantera Press) and Michael Mori’s In the Company of Cowards (Viking) were the bestselling fiction and nonfiction titles at the seventh annual Crime & Justice Festival run by Readers...

Monday, 17 November 2014
The Long Haul, the ninth book in Jeff Kinney’s ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ series (Puffin) is at the top of bestsellers chart and highest new entries chart this week....

Monday, 17 November 2014
Hardie Grant has won the award for best consumer-facing website at the Bookseller’s Futurebook Innovation Awards. The best publisher website in the awards was divided into two this year, with...

Monday, 17 November 2014
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has expressed ‘great concerns’ over the prospect of the Book Depository supplying Australian consumers directly from Australian publishers and distributors and avoiding payment of GST....