Friday, 30 May 2014
Writers Bloc has announced the appointment of Patricia Tobin as social media manager. Tobin joins founder Geoff Orton, online editor Sam van Zweden, reviews editor Emma Kochn, designer Daniel Farrugia...

Wednesday, 28 May 2014
The winners of the 2014 Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) Monash University Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing have been announced.The first prize, worth $4000, was awarded to UNSW student Emily Riches for her short story ‘Unfruitful’.The...

Wednesday, 28 May 2014
A UNESCO City of Literature Office will open in Melbourne in June.Victorian Arts Minister Heidi Victoria announced the news at the launch of the Emerging Writers’ Festival on 27 May....

Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Melbourne writer, artist and Readings bookseller Miles Allinson has won the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript.Allinson was announced as the winner of the $15,000 prize at...

Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Penguin Random House hosted its inaugural National Book Bloggers Forum on 20 May.Sydney-based journalist, reviewer and book blogger Paula Grunseit reports:Around 40 book bloggers (including just two men) gathered at the...

Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Exisle has announced that it will represent US publisher Callisto Media in Australia and New Zealand.The deal comprises Callisto Media’s 14 imprints, including Rockridge Press, Garamond Press, Salinas Press, Healdsburg...

Wednesday, 28 May 2014
‘Consuming Australian culture is the best response to a deplorable budget’—Adam Ouston reflects on the community response to the arts budget cuts in an article in Crikey 

Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Bloomsbury Australia’s revenue is up 14% for the year ended 28 February 2014. Bloomsbury Australia recorded revenue of £6.365 million (A$11.58 million), up from £5.583 million (A$10.16 million) in the...

Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Arts Tasmania will contribute $800 to the publication of illustrator and author Sarah Strong’s next book The Boobook’s Nook, after the author exceeded her target of $1600 in pledges on...

Tuesday, 27 May 2014
HarperCollins Australia has launched a new ‘direct to digital’ imprint.Harper Impulse will publish ‘fun, fast-paced reads in all commercial genres from epic fantasy to erotica’, said the company in a...

Tuesday, 27 May 2014
SalesFiction—Allen & Unwin has sold French rights to Requiem for a Species (Clive Hamilton); US English Language rights to No Goodbyes (Barry Eaton); UK and US English Language rights to...

Monday, 26 May 2014
Minecraft: The Official Combat Handbook (Egmont), a guide to the popular computer game, is in first spot on this week’s bestsellers chart, up from fifth spot last week. It is also...

Monday, 26 May 2014
Valerie Parv and Nadia Wheatley have been jointly awarded the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) Medal. Parv, a romance writer, and Wheatley, who has written for adults and younger readers,...

Monday, 26 May 2014
The winners of the 2014 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced in Sydney on Friday 23 May.It was a particularly successful night for Text Publishing, with Graeme Simsion’s The...

Monday, 26 May 2014
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has confirmed that the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards (PMLAs) will continue to be Australia’s richest literary prizes. Abbott made the announcement at the Australian Book Industry Awards...

Friday, 23 May 2014
Karen Harrland has won the 2014 Finch Memoir Prize for her entry Spinifex Baby.The memoir tells the story of Harrland’s year in the Simpson Desert with her husband ‘coping with...

Friday, 23 May 2014
The Victorian Government Bookshop in Melbourne will close on 30 June after 28 years due to ‘insufficient demand’ for physical stock.The Victorian Department of State Development, Business and Innovation announced...

Friday, 23 May 2014
Auckland mayor Len Brown has announced a new writers’ grant worth NZ$10,000 (A$9266) per year, reports Scoop. Speaking at the Auckland Writers Festival on 15 May, Brown announced that he will ‘convene...

Friday, 23 May 2014
The 2014 Pascall Prize for critical writing has been awarded to literary critic and Sydney Review of Books founding editor James Ley.Ley was awarded the $15,000 prize, which was judged by last year’s winner...

Thursday, 22 May 2014
The inaugural Death in July festival for Australian women’s crime writing will be held at the Museum of Australian Democracy in Ballarat, Victoria, from 4 to 5 July. Running in...