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...

Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Over 70 independent booksellers from across Australia attended this year’s Leading Edge Book conference, which was held in Melbourne from 16-18 May.‘New bookshop owners, fresh young enthusiasts and industry stalwarts...

Wednesday, 21 May 2014
West Australian game developer Stirfire Studios has optioned Marianne de Pierres’ ‘Peacemaker’ series (Angry Robot) for adaptation as an interactive game. The series, which launched in May with Peacemaker and continues in...

Wednesday, 21 May 2014
‘It’s our objective and I believe it’s also our duty to instil confidence in our industry and see our physical bookseller footprint maintained for many years to come’—Leading Edge Group...

Tuesday, 20 May 2014
The Auckland Writers Festival has reported a ‘45% increase in ticket sales compared to last year’ for the 2014 festival, which finished on Sunday evening.The five-day festival attracted 50,000 attendees....

Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Shane Maloney has ‘off-handedly outed himself’ as one of the pseudonymous reviewers on the Saturday Paper, reports the Wheeler Centre.In a blog post on his website, Maloney joked that the...

Tuesday, 20 May 2014
New Zealand writer C K Stead has won the inaugural Sarah Broom Poetry Prize. Stead was announced as the winner of the prize, which is worth NZ$12,000 (A$11,098), at the...

Tuesday, 20 May 2014
The Byron Bay Writers’ Festival has announced that Jeanette Winterson will deliver the keynote address at this year’s event.‘Winterson is travelling to Australia in August for a tour arranged in collaboration with...

Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Authors including Michelle de Kretser, Christos Tsiolkas and Anna Funder and other members of Australia’s literary community have written an open letter to the prime minister denouncing cuts to the...

Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Affirm Press has announced the winner of its inaugural Affirm Press Creative Writing Prize, presented in association with the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Arts.Suzanne Hermanoczki has won the prize...