Monday, 29 September 2014
The Tasmanian Writers Centre has published two children’s books and may publish more in future. The centre has published When I was a Boy in Sudan (narrated by Sarafino Enadio,...

Monday, 29 September 2014
The City of Sydney has increased its funding to the Sydney Writers’ Festival.The city will provide $360,000 in cash and $110,000 in in-kind support each year for the next three years....

Friday, 26 September 2014
The winner of Overland’s inaugural Story Wine Prize has been announced. ‘That inward eye’ by Leah Swann has won the $3000 prize and will be published on the label of a Story...

Friday, 26 September 2014
Tasmania’s biennial arts festival Ten Days on the Island has been renamed the Tasmanian International Arts Festival.Artistic director David Malacari told the ABC that the new name better describes the...

Wednesday, 24 September 2014
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the 2014 Australia Book Prize shortlist. The prize, worth $3500, is part of the CHASS Australia Prizes program,...

Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Black Inc. has announced the contributors to its 2014 Best Australian Stories, Essays and Poems collections. J M Coetzee, Helen Garner, Clive James, David Malouf, Carrie Tiffany, Noel Pearson, Tim...

Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Majok Tulba has been announced as the winner of this year’s Kathleen Mitchell Award for young novelists.Tulba won the $20,000 award for his debut novel Beneath the Darkening Sky (Hamish...

Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Books by male authors received on average 55.4% of coverage in Australia’s major newspapers and literary journals compared to 44.6% for books by female authors, the 2013 Stella Count has...

Wednesday, 24 September 2014
‘I welcome a review of Australia’s competition policies but hope that international postage and GST on imports are given as much weight, if not more, than the removal of import...

Tuesday, 23 September 2014
The winners of this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced by Premier Colin Barnett on 23 September.Richard Flanagan was awarded the $25,000 Premier’s Prize for Narrow Road to...

Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Literary journal Going Down Swinging has launched a Pozible campaign to raise funds to ‘stay alive’.‘We’ve always got by without much cash, but a stack of our 2012 issue were damaged in...

Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Books by male authors received on average 55.4% of coverage in Australia’s major newspapers and literary journals compared to 44.6% for books by female authors, the 2013 Stella Count has...

Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Fremantle Press has announced the appointment of Tonya McCusker as the inaugural Fremantle Press patron. Fremantle Press chairperson Ian Lilburne said McCusker’s role would focus on raising the Press’s profile in...

Monday, 22 September 2014
The film tie-in edition of Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn, Hachette), released ahead of the film adaptation on 2 October, has entered the bestsellers chart in fourth spot, and is this week’s highest new entry....

Monday, 22 September 2014
The winners of the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards will be announced tonight in Perth. Michelle de Kretser won last year’s Premier’s Prize. The name of the awards has since...

Friday, 19 September 2014
Melbourne-based publisher and literary magazine The Lifted Brow (TLB) has announced plans to partner with US publisher McSweeney’s.TLB publisher and editor-in-chief Sam Cooney told Books+Publishing that the two organisations ‘will...

Thursday, 18 September 2014
The Co-op campus bookselling chain has announce it will open a new Charles Sturt University store at the university’s newest campus in Port Macquarie. The store will open in early...