Wednesday, 28 March 2012
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced the finalists for the 2012 RITA and Golden Heart Awards and several Australian authors are included in the honours. More than 1200...

Tuesday, 27 March 2012
The longlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Blood (Tony Birch, UQP) The Spirit of Progress (Steven Carroll, Fourth Estate) Spirit House...

Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Australian author Sonya Hartnett has been shortlisted for the 2012 CILIP Carnegie Medal. Hartnett’s book The Midnight Zoo (Viking) is one of eight titles shortlisted for this year’s medal, which...

Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Twenty-one percent of Australian web users surveyed earlier this year had purchased an ebook in the six months prior to the survey. The survey, undertaken by Bowker Market Research’s Global...

Tuesday, 27 March 2012
A poet and an author—Queensland writers Christopher Currie and Michelle Dicinoski—are two of the five winners of this year’s Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships. The scholarship for poetry was awarded to...

Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Hachette Australia has announced it is accepting unsolicited manuscripts via its website. This follows initiatives set up by other major publishers, including Penguin with 'the Monthly Catch’, Allen & Unwin...

Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Hachette Australia has announced that Suzanne O'Sullivan will join Hachette in April as commissioning editor on the Lothian Children's Books list, replacing Jon Appleton.  O’Sullivan was senior editor at Walker...

Tuesday, 27 March 2012
'Consumers may get cheap or free postage from overseas online retailers but because of the International Postal Union Treaty, Australia Post has to pay for it to be delivered'— Australian...

Tuesday, 27 March 2012
With the film adaptation of the first book in the ‘Hunger Games’ trilogy (Scholastic) hitting Australian cinemas last week, the charts are populated with Suzanne Collins’ novels this week. The...

Monday, 26 March 2012
US-based publisher Pegasus Books has announced that it will expand its distribution into Australia and New Zealand this year, as well as into the UK. Pegasus Books senior editor Jessica...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Queensland-based publisher Steve Parish Publishing has been placed into liquidation and has ceased trading. Liquidator BRI Ferrier was appointed to the company on 9 March, and is now seeking expressions...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Mary Hoban was announced as the winner of the inaugural Hazel Rowley Memorial Fellowship on 14 March at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. Hoban will use the $10,000 fellowship to...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Australian and New Zealand authors and illustrators are among those that have been acknowledged on the 2012 White Raven’s list for international children’s and youth literature. The following Australian authors and...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
A number of Australian and New Zealand books were among the winners of the 2012 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, announced this month at the 2012 Paris Cookbook Fair. As previously...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The Federal Government is expected to introduce tax relief measures in this year’s budget which will allow businesses to claim losses back against previously taxed income, reports the Sydney Morning...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
HarperCollins Australia has announced that Stephanie Smith, associate publisher for its Voyager imprint, has resigned. The publisher said in a statement this week that Deonie Fiford will replace Smith in...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The planned sale of professional and trade publishing assets by John Wiley & Sons is expected to have 'minimal impact' on the publisher’s operations in Australia, according to a spokesperson...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Kinokuniya Bookstores Australia has launched a new Asian-themed literary festival, which will be held for the first time in October. The Asian Writers' Festival will be held between 9 and...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Allen & Unwin has announced that it is recalling all copies of Snitch: Crooked Cops and Kings Cross Crims by the Man Who Saw It All by Jimmy Thomson, published...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Awards, presented by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), have been awarded to author María Teresa Andruetto from Argentina and illustrator Peter...