Wednesday, 27 August 2014
The shortlist for Overland’s inaugural Story Wine Prize has been announced. The shortlisted stories are: ‘I thought maybe I could be a lounge singer’ by Lauren Aimee Curtis ‘Parts per million’...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Readings has announced the titles shortlisted for its $4000 New Australian Writing Award. The shortlisted titles are: After Darkness (Christine Piper, A&U) An Elegant Young Man (Luke Carman, Giramondo) Foreign...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
A new website promises to list new book releases by Australian authors ‘and nothing more’. The publishers of the website told Books+Publishing their identities are ‘purposely not being published as...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Magabala has announced the recipients for its Magabala Books’ Indigenous Creators Scholarships for 2014.The recipients are: Reggie Sultan from Darwin, who will use the funding to attend an illustrator’s workshop...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
The eighth Indigenous Literacy Day will take place around Australia next Wednesday 3 September. Among the events scheduled is a special celebratory event at the Sydney Opera House that will...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Hinkler has announced it has sold its international literacy program Engage Literacy to US publisher CapstoneCapstone is the exclusive distributor of the Engage Literacy program in North America, the UK...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
‘We hope that the “buy it now” button will deliver real benefits to users and revenue to authors, publishers, booksellers, and libraries’—ALIA chief executive Sue McKerracher on plans for libraries...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
The titles shortlisted for the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Promise (Tony Birch, UQP) Mogwie Idan: Stories of the...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Work on a new Berkelouw Books store in Port Macquarie, NSW, will begin in September. The store, which will open in Port Central Shopping Centre, will focus on ‘providing value to...

Tuesday, 26 August 2014
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: Eldershaw (Stephen Edgar, Black Pepper) The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan, Vintage) The...

Monday, 25 August 2014
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser has won the 2014 John Button Prize for writing on policy and politics for his book Dangerous Allies (MUP).Fraser’s book was selected for the $20,000 prize ahead of...

Monday, 25 August 2014
When he was a high school student, Tsukuru Tazaki’s four best friends announced that they never wanted to talk to him again, with no reason given. As a 36-year-old railway engineer...

Monday, 25 August 2014
Brenda Saunders has won the 2014 Scanlon Award for Indigenous Poetry.Brenda Saunders is a Sydney poet and artist of Aboriginal and British descent. She is the author of several collections...

Monday, 25 August 2014
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) announced the winners for the 2014 Book Design Awards at a gala event in Melbourne on 22 August. The winning titles in each category...

Monday, 25 August 2014
The University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre and Faculty of Arts announced the winners of the Peter Blazey Fellowship, the Ernest Scott Prize, the Wesley Michel Wright Prize and the Affirm...

Monday, 25 August 2014
The shortlists for the 2014 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria for local and international...

Friday, 22 August 2014
Random House has recalled copies of He Who Must Be Obeid by Kate McClymont and Linton Besser due to a ‘misidentification’ in the book. ‘The book contained a misidentification that...

Friday, 22 August 2014
Harbour Publishing House has announced it will publish Di Morrissey’s first children’s picture book in October. Sonoma Meets Miss Mouse, written by Morrissey and illustrated by local artist Julie Sydenham,...

Friday, 22 August 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 John Button Prize for writing on policy and politics has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: Anzac’s Long Shadow (James Brown, Black Inc.) Dangerous Allies (Malcolm...

Thursday, 21 August 2014
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) has announced its first Adelaide program, which will run for three days in September and feature discussions, workshops and performances.Guests include Benjamin Law (Gaysia, The...

Thursday, 21 August 2014
The Big Issue’s 10th annual fiction edition will be launched on 29 August at the Melbourne Writers Festival, and will feature 12 short stories written on the theme ‘Take Me...

Wednesday, 20 August 2014
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced that it will ‘take leadership’ of the Queensland Literary Awards (QLA), and is calling for entries for the 2014 awards.State librarian Janette...

Wednesday, 20 August 2014
New Holland is recalling copies of Evil in a Blue Hoodie: The Tragic Murder of Jill Meagher by Joe St John due to a court suppression order.A spokesperson for New...

Wednesday, 20 August 2014
Sam Shosanya has been appointed CEO of Paper Plus in New Zealand.Shosanya has previously worked in the book industry as category director for REDgroup Retail in New Zealand. He has...