Monday, 19 August 2013
Underbelly: Squizzy (A&U) tells the story of Squizzy Taylor’s quest to become Melbourne’s first celebrity gangster in the 1920s. Based on the television miniseries currently screening on Channel Nine, the...

Monday, 19 August 2013
The Dymocks store in Ellenbrook in Western Australia has won the Dymocks Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at the 2013 Dymocks national conference, held in Adelaide from 11-13 August. The Dymocks store...

Monday, 19 August 2013
Writers Victoria has announced the winners of the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition. The $1000 prize for creative nonfiction was awarded to Judith Bunn for her memoir ‘Pink’, and...

Friday, 16 August 2013
Aviva Tuffield will join Melbourne-based publisher Affirm Press in the role of publisher this month. Affirm Press said in a statement that Tuffield, who has left Scribe Publications, where she...

Friday, 16 August 2013
The Big Issue’s ninth annual Fiction Edition has been launched and the line-up of authors has been announced. The line-up includes published authors Tim Richards (Thought Crimes, Black Inc.), Jane...

Thursday, 15 August 2013
The shortlists for this year’s New South Wales Premier’s History Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in the book-related categories are: Australian History Prize ($15,000) The Sex Lives of...

Thursday, 15 August 2013
The organisers of the Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) have announced that New Zealand will be the Guest of Honour at the 2015 exhibition. The Publishers Association of New Zealand...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
Auckland University Press director Sam Elworthy has been elected as the new president of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ). Elworthy, who has previously served as a PANZ councillor, was...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors have been shortlisted for this year’s David Gemmell Legend Awards for fantasy writing. Australian author Jay Kristoff has been nominated...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced the full program for its 10th festival, which will run from 11-15 October in Bali, Indonesia. More than 50 of the festival’s 160 guests are Australian, including authors Richard...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
HarperCollins Australia has announced that it will begin accepting unsolicited manuscripts via its website this month. The publisher will launch ‘the Wednesday Post’ on 21 August. Through a new online portal,...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
‘We saw a sharp increase in traffic on the day and this was also reflected in very strong sales. It really felt like Christmas in August!’—Dymocks Melbourne co-owner Melissa Traverso...

Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Australian author Majok Tulba is among the finalists for this year’s Dylan Thomas Prize. Tulba’s novel Beneath the Darkening Sky (Hamish Hamilton) is longlisted along with seven other works of...

Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Sales Fiction—Jenny Darling & Associates has sold UK and Commonwealth rights ex-ANZ to The Dressmaker (Rosalie Ham, published in Australia by Duffy & Snellgrove) to Serpent’s Tail. Random House has...

Monday, 12 August 2013
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) commissioning and managing editor Marisa Pintado has taken a year’s sabbatical to join the fiction team at Egmont UK in London. Pintado will finish at HGE...

Monday, 12 August 2013
Former Geelong footballer Matthew Scarlett is kicking goals on the highest new entries chart this week, with his autobiography Hold the Line (with Scott Gullan, Macmillan) in the top position. James...

Monday, 12 August 2013
Literary agency The Mary Cunnane Agency will close by the end of this year. Founder Mary Cunnane said in a statement this week that she is closing the agency, which...

Friday, 9 August 2013
Forged with Flames: A True Story of Courage and Survival by Ann Fogarty and Anne Crawford (Wild Dingo Press) has won this year’s Australian Christian Book of the Year Award....

Thursday, 8 August 2013
The program for this year’s Write Around the Murray Festival in Albury, New South Wales, has been announced. The festival, which runs from Wednesday 4 September to Sunday 8 September, has the...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
This year’s Byron Writers Festival was held on 2-4 August, with record ticket sales and attendances on the first day of the festival and an increase across the board from...