Friday, 25 October 2013
Robinsons Bookshop in Frankston, Victoria, is celebrating its 50th birthday in October. The store was established by Philip and Moira Robinson in 1963 in the Frankston shopping precinct known as ‘Frankston’s...

Thursday, 24 October 2013
Collins Booksellers Ballarat on Sturt, one of two Collins bookstores in Ballarat, Victoria, was named Franchise of the Year at this year’s Collins Booksellers national conference, which was held in Melbourne...

Wednesday, 23 October 2013
This year’s Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF), which ran from 11 to 15 October in Bali, Indonesia, has been described as ‘a glowing success’ by festival founder and director Janet DeNeefe,...

Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Meredi Ortega has won the inaugural Australian Science Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Liner Notes Voyager Golden Record’. Ortega will receive the award, which is worth $1000, at the Prime Minister’s...

Wednesday, 23 October 2013
The Australia Council has released a fact sheet on the reading behaviour of Australians based on research into the Get Reading! campaigns from 2008-2012. The research, which is drawn from...

Wednesday, 23 October 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) inaugural National Writers’ Congress, Authorship 20/20, which was held from 17-19 October at the National Maritime Museum in Sydney, attracted around 200 attendees and, according...

Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Bloomsbury has established a new popular science imprint called Sigma. Launching in October 2014, the imprint will produce around 15 titles a year, which will be released through Bloomsbury’s London,...

Wednesday, 23 October 2013
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has appointed Kate Callingham to the newly created position of general manager. Callingham will begin in the role in October in time for the EWF Roadshow in Tasmania,...

Wednesday, 23 October 2013
April Murdoch has been appointed as the new manager of the Faber Academy at Allen & Unwin. Murdoch, who is currently communications manager for the academy, will begin in the...

Wednesday, 23 October 2013
‘I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel’—Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton reflects on her press coverage in an article...

Tuesday, 22 October 2013
The winners of this year’s Victorian Community History Awards were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on 21 October. The winners in the book-related categories are: Victorian Community History Award...

Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Penguin Australia has created a Penguin Teachers’ Academy app for iPad, which is available as a free download from Apple’s Newsstand and iTunes. The app, which has been designed in-house by...

Tuesday, 22 October 2013
UK publisher Granta has reprinted 25,000 copies of Eleanor Catton’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries for the Australian market, and the publisher’s Australian distributor Allen & Unwin expects the...

Tuesday, 22 October 2013
The winners of the 2013 New Zealand Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement have been announced. Owen Marshall was awarded the fiction prize, Michele Leggott was awarded the poetry prize...

Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Edwina Johnson has been appointed as the new director of the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival (BBWF) and the Northern Rivers Writers’ Centre (NRWC), which stages the festival. Johnson, who has...

Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Charles Black, director at Bloomsbury and former chairman of UK family publishing house A&C Black, has died, aged 76. Black started working at A&C Black in 1960 and served as chairman...

Monday, 21 October 2013
Belinda Castles has won this year’s Asher Literary Award for her book Hannah and Emil (A&U). Castles was announced as the winner of the award at the Australian Society of Authors...

Monday, 21 October 2013
Anthony Lawrence has won the 2013 Blake Poetry Prize for his poem ‘Appellations’. Lawrence received the award, which is worth $5000, on 17 October. The judging panel, made up of...

Monday, 21 October 2013
Rick Riordan’s House of Hades (Puffin), the fourth novel in his ‘The Heroes of Olympus’ series, is number one on the bestsellers and highest new entries charts this week. Jamie Oliver’s Save...

Friday, 18 October 2013
The longlist for the 2013 Walkley Book Award has been announced.  The longlisted titles are: Killing Fairfax (Pamela Williams, HarperCollins) The Rise and Fall of the House of Bo (John Garnaut,...

Friday, 18 October 2013
The shortlists for this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Best Book or Series in...