Friday, 16 May 2014
Australian author Lucy Treloar is the Pacific regional winner of this year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story ‘The Dog and the Sea’.Treloar’s story was chosen from a shortlist...

Friday, 16 May 2014
Tony and Barbara Horgan have agreed to sell the Shearer’s Bookshop school business and website to Gleebooks. Gleebooks co-owner David Gaunt told Books+Publishing his store already has ‘a small international...

Friday, 16 May 2014
Bolinda has partnered with BBC Worldwide for the sales and distribution of BBC-branded audiobook CDs within Australia and New Zealand. The agreement is for the distribution of BBC Worldwide’s catalogue...

Thursday, 15 May 2014
New biannual literary journal Gargouille has announced it is open for submissions. Founded by Sarah Wreford and Adriane Howell, the publication seeks ‘short stories, poetry, scripts, aesthetic essays, lost and...

Thursday, 15 May 2014
Sleepers Publishing has made its first nonfiction acquisition with a memoir from editor Paul Dalgarno. Publisher Louise Swinn told Books+Publishing that Sleepers was ‘thrilled’ to be publishing the as-yet-untitled memoir...

Wednesday, 14 May 2014
The Federal Government has announced its decision to cease funding of the Get Reading! program in the 2014-15 Budget.  ‘The Government will achieve savings of $6.4 million over four years...

Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Sydney publisher Brandl & Schlesinger is celebrating its 20th birthday this year.The anniversary is being celebrated with ‘a very strong and varied list’, which began in February with the release...

Wednesday, 14 May 2014
‘We believe this to be a retrograde step by the government that we trust will be rethought as a matter of priority’—Australian Booksellers Association CEO Joel Becker on the defunding...

Tuesday, 13 May 2014
The Five Mile Press has launched a prize for unpublished Australian illustrators with the winner to receive a publishing contract worth $4000.‘We are offering a guaranteed publishing contract to the winner...

Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Australia Post managing director and CEO Ahmed Fahour has announced that Australia Post corporate offices will open for Saturday trading from next Christmas, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.Fahour said on...

Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Whitsunday Voices Youth Literature Festival has announced the program for its three-day festival entitled Eat My Words, running from 16-19 July. Held annually in Mackay, Queensland, the festival features children’s...

Tuesday, 13 May 2014
The newly incorporated Australian Book Design Association (ABDA) is now open for individual memberships.Individual annual memberships cost $50, with the fee going to building the association’s ‘virtual home’, which will...

Monday, 12 May 2014
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Victoria branch has elected a new committee at its AGM on 8 May. Mary Moore remains president. Newly elected vice presidents Meg Moores...

Monday, 12 May 2014
Queensland bookseller Pulp Fiction is moving.The bookseller announced in a statement on its website that it was moving its store after nearly 19 years in the Anzac Square Building Arcade...

Monday, 12 May 2014
WritingWA has announced the appointment of Margaret Whiskin as regional engagement officer. Whiskin is currently publisher at Magabala Books. ‘Margaret has been appointed to a newly created, full-time position to...

Monday, 12 May 2014
Maeve Binchy’s posthumously published short-story collection Chestnut Street (Hachette) has climbed from outside the top 10 last week to take first spot on this week’s bestsellers chart, and is also this week’s...

Monday, 12 May 2014
New publisher Satalyte Publishing has released 10 titles since it launched six months ago. Based in South Gippsland, the company is run by editor-in-chief Stephen C Ormsby and his wife, designer...

Friday, 9 May 2014
Malcolm Knox has won this year’s Ashurst Business Literature Prize for his book Boom: The Underground History of Australia, from Gold Rush to GFC (Viking). Ashurst vice-chair Mary Padbury presented...

Friday, 9 May 2014
Kobo has announced that the Sony Reader Store will close on 16 August and that ‘soon after the closure’ Australian users will instead access its ‘comprehensive digital reading ecosystem’. The...

Friday, 9 May 2014
Fifteen writers from 10 universities have been shortlisted for the 2014 Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) Monash University Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing. The shortlisted titles, along with author and their university, are:...

Friday, 9 May 2014
Around 18,000 people attended this year’s Clunes Booktown Festival on 3-4 May in the central Victorian town of Clunes. Clunes Booktown director Tess Brady told Books+Publishing that ‘highlights included the talks by the...

Friday, 9 May 2014
The Kimberley Writers Festival in Western Australia has been postponed until 2015. Festival coordinator Joanne Roach said in a statement: ‘The challenge of raising sponsorship and grant contributions has proven...

Thursday, 8 May 2014
Scribe and the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) have partnered to offer a book club for ‘environmentally-minded book lovers’.The ACF is inviting its members to sign up to host or join...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
News and research website The Conversation has launched a new books column. Deakin University research fellow Michelle Smith announced on the website that her column, which previously focussed on television and...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
The Wheeler Centre director Michael Williams will give the keynote address at this year’s Booksellers New Zealand 2014 conference. Williams will address the topic ‘Is the book world really changing’...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Ingram Content Group has announced the appointment of Deborah Lee as manager of content acquisition for Lightning Source Australia. Lee takes over from Susan Dunne, who replaced Nerida Fearnley-Gill in...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Andrew Hutchinson has won the ‘words and writing’ category in the 2014 Best Australian Blogs Competition for his blog ‘twenty six’.‘Words and writing’ category judge Brandon Van Over said Hutchinson’s blog ‘thoughtfully wades...