Thursday, 11 December 2014
The authors shortlisted for the 2014 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award have been announced. The all-female shortlist consists of: Louise Allan Madelaine Dickie Portland Jones Mihaela Nicolescu Nicole Sinclair....

Thursday, 11 December 2014
Melbourne-based literary journal Meanjin is searching for a new editor after Zora Sanders announced she will leave the position in 2015.Sanders, who was promoted from deputy editor to editor in 2013, told...

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
The shortlists for the 2014 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards have been announced.The awards aim to ‘recognise, reward and promote writing by ACT region authors’ that has been published by...

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
The successful applicants for Arts Tasmania’s 2015 Individual Artists Program have been announced. Several writers were among the successful applicants to share in $445,083 worth of funding. The successful applicants...

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Social Club Books has announced it will close at the end of January 2015. Established in 1983, the business runs a mail-order catalogue and a retail site at www.scb.com.au. Managing...

Tuesday, 9 December 2014
The winners of the Queensland Literary Awards were announced on 8 December at the State Library of Queensland.The winning titles in each category are: Fiction The Narrow Road to the...

Tuesday, 9 December 2014
The winners of 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced on 8 December at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.The winners in each category are:Fiction (joint winners) A World...

Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced during the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards on 8 December that the government will establish a new Book Council of Australia.A joint press release from the...

Monday, 8 December 2014
New Zealand publisher New Holland has announced that Belinda Cooke has resigned from the company after 16 years as managing director.The publisher said in a statement that Cooke is ‘planning...

Monday, 8 December 2014
Melbourne-based publisher and literary magazine The Lifted Brow (TLB) has announced a new nonfiction prize to coincide with its print magazine relaunch in March 2015. The Lifted Brow Prize for Experimental...

Friday, 5 December 2014
Hachette Australia has announced it has signed a ‘multi-book publishing deal’ with bestselling nonfiction author Peter FitzSimons.‘This signing reunites Peter with one of his very first publishers, Hachette’s Non-Fiction Publisher...

Friday, 5 December 2014
Tasmanian writer Robbie Arnott has won the 2014 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers.Arnott, who was shortlisted for the prize in 2013, was announced as the winner at the Express...

Friday, 5 December 2014
Paul Kelly has won this year’s Walkley Book Award for Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation (MUP).Kelly received the award during the Walkley Awards for Excellence...

Friday, 5 December 2014
Poet, novelist and essayist David Brooks has been awarded an Australia Council Fellowship for literature.Brooks will use to the fellowship, worth $100,000 over two years, to ‘undertake research and development...

Thursday, 4 December 2014
Australia Post will offer permanent Saturday delivery for Express Post parcels to ‘specific delivery areas’ from 9 January 2015, the organisation announced in a statement.The service is optional and will...

Wednesday, 3 December 2014
The ABC’s The Book Club announced the results of its Classic Beach Books poll on 2 December.The top 10 book are: The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough, HarperCollins) The Girl with...

Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Dan Ruffino has been appointed managing director of Simon & Schuster Australia, replacing Lou Johnson, who announced her resignation in September.Ruffino has worked in the publishing industry in Australia and...