Tuesday, 23 April 2013
The finalists in the Best Australian Blogs 2013 competition have been announced. Finalists in the Words and Writing category are: ‘Alpha Reader’ by Danielle Binks ‘Book to the Future’ by...

Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Canadian author and editor A S A Harrison has died, aged 65. Harrison’s debut novel The Silent Wife (Headline) is due for worldwide release in June. Harrison previously published Orgasms (Coach...

Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Children’s author and illustrator E L Konigsburg has died, aged 83. Konigsburg wrote or illustrated more than 20 books including picture books, contemporary novels and books about historical figures. She was...

Monday, 22 April 2013
The Canadian Competition Bureau and the Department of Canadian Heritage has cleared the proposed merger of Penguin and Random House. Random House parent company Bertelsmann said in a statement on...

Monday, 22 April 2013
After Elizabeth witnesses a mafia murder she enters a witness protection program and begins a new life as computer security expert Abigail Lowery. The anxiety of her past life takes its toll, however, until Abigail...

Monday, 22 April 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year with a National Writers’ Congress in October. The ASA, which was founded in 1963, will also hold...

Friday, 19 April 2013
Lonely Planet is celebrating 40 years of publishing travel books this year. The company has a number of events planned across the globe to celebrate the occasion, including, in Australia...

Friday, 19 April 2013
Australian author Tom Keneally has been shortlisted for the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his novel The Daughters of Mars (Vintage). Keneally’s novel, which tells the story...

Thursday, 18 April 2013
Leading Edge Books (LEB) has announced a number of sessions and participating authors for its annual conference, to be held from 14-16 June at the Hilton Hotel in Adelaide. Registrations...

Thursday, 18 April 2013
The program for the tenth 2013 Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) in Melbourne has been announced. The festival will begin with a gala event on 23 May, featuring a keynote address from...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
The shortlist for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction, previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction, has been announced. None of the Australian and New Zealand authors who were...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Carrie Tiffany has been named the winner of the inaugural Stella Prize, an award established to promote books by Australian women writers. Tiffany received the $50,000 award for her second novel...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
The effects of globalisation on the English language, the gamification of editing and the business of freelancing were among the topics discussed at the sixth Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) National...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Ross McMullin has won the individual category of the 2013 Manning Clark House Cultural Awards for his book Farewell, Dear People (Scribe). McMullin’s book, a collection of 10 biographies of...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Sales Fiction—Hachette has sold Bulgarian and Latvian language rights to Wildflower Hill (Kimberley Freeman); Latvian language rights to Lighthouse Bay (Kimberley Freeman); Serbian language rights to The Book of Love...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Graham Davey, president of the Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBA), has died. Davey was the president of YABBA for more than 20 years. During his career he served as...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Melbourne-based author and historian Kevin Wong Hoy has died, aged 65.  Australian Scholarly Publishing writes: ‘Kevin made a significant contribution to Chinese Australian history, having written and edited books and...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
‘In only a few short years since they first started discussing the position of women in literature they have made something beautiful.’ Stella Prize winner Carrie Tiffany praised the work of the Stella Prize...

Tuesday, 16 April 2013
The winners of the 2012 Australian Shadows Awards have been announced. Kirstyn McDermott won the novel category for Perfections (Xoum) and Kaaron Warren won the long fiction category for ‘Sky’ from...

Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Kobo has unveiled a new high-definition ereading device, which will be available from Australian and New Zealand retailers in June. The Kobo Aura HD is a front-lit, 6.8-inch device with...

Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Booksellers New Zealand has announced the program for its 2013 conference, to be held in Christchurch from 23-24 June. This year’s conference will focus on the theme ‘The future is in your...

Tuesday, 16 April 2013
If:book Australia has asked 12 writers to participate in its ‘N00bz challenge’ and digital publisher Editia will publish the writers’ experiences as a collection of essays.   The organisation has asked writers to become a N00b—slang for ‘newbie’ or...