Monday, 17 October 2011
Mark Tredinnick has won first place in this year's Newcastle Poetry Prize, presented in September. Tredinnick's poem 'The Wombat Vedas' was selected from a shortlist of 23 poems for the...

Monday, 17 October 2011
The longlist for the 2011 Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book was announced on 17 October. The longlisted titles are:Abandoned: The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble (Geesche Jacobsen, A&U)Mahabharata in...

Monday, 17 October 2011
The winners of the 2011 Speech Pathology Australia 'Book of the Year' Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are:Young ChildrenCan We Lick the Spoon...

Sunday, 16 October 2011
Three Australian authors and two New Zealand authors have been nominated for the 2012 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's largest prize for children's and young adult literature. Australian authors...

Thursday, 13 October 2011
In rights news this week:  SalesFiction--HarperCollins Publishers has sold The Wounded Guardian (Duncan Lay, Voyager) to Germany. Nonfiction--HarperCollins Publishers has sold Gods and Diseases: Making Sense of Our Physical and...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Australian fantasy and science-fiction magazine Aurealis has been re-launched as a free epublication. The latest issue of the magazine, Aurealis #45, has been released and is available to download from...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Australia Post has announced a number of changes to its parcel delivery services this week, in response to what it calls 'the internet shopping boom'. Australia Post managing director and...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
The November issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes nine reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles and a preview of the best biographies and nonfiction titles this Christmas. Eloise Keating looks...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Tim Coronel reviews The Cook (Wayne Macauley, Text), Heath Graham reviews Goliath: Leviathan Book 3 (Scott Westerfeld, illus by Keith Thompson, Viking), Fiona Crawford reviews...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Publisher Diana Gribble, co-founder of Text Publishing and McPhee Gribble, has died. Text Publishing writes: 'There would be no Text Publishing Company without Diana Gribble. She founded our company in 1990,...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
A survey conducted by UNSW Bookshop has found that more than 50% of students prefer to purchase printed textbooks when given the choice between printed textbooks and electronic versions. Of...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
After a woman is found gruesomely murdered in a small town situated near a large military base, Major Jack Reacher is sent in undercover to find the killer. The Affair (Lee...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Island Magazine will continue to be produced in 2012 following the announcement by the Australia Council's Literature Board that it will fund the publication in 2012 with a one-off grant...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
The winners of the 2011 Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards were announced at this year's SheKilda Australian Women Crime Writers' Convention in Melbourne on 8 October. The winning titles in...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
'It is not "privileged whining" to point out statistics relevant to gender bias in the literary world'--author Tara Moss, responding to Age arts critic Cameron Woodhead's comments on her blog...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Amazon launches sci-fi and horror imprintNielsen reports print sales in declineGoogle launches ebook store...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
The shortlists for the 2011 New Zealand Copyright Licensing Limited Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are:Best Book in Higher Education Publishing...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Andrew Wilkins reports for Bookseller+Publisher:While the world's largest book fair opens officially for business today (Wednesday) in Frankfurt, thousands of trade visitors have already been in town for a couple...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Organisers report that audience figures grew by 20% at the 2011 ANZ Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia, compared to the 2010 festival. Festival director Janet DeNeefe told the...

Monday, 10 October 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Queensland Writers Week: 10-16 Oct Litquake 2011 - San Francisco's Literary Festival: 7-15 Oct Nelson Arts...

Monday, 10 October 2011
Charlotte Wood's Animal People (A&U), an urban love story set over 24 hours, and Alex Miller's Autumn Laing (A&U), a novel about love, loyalty and creativity, made it to the top of...

Monday, 10 October 2011
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Monday, 10 October 2011
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Monday, 10 October 2011
October Belinda Alexandra, HarperCollins (Golden Earrings) NSW, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.Peter Corris, NewSouth (Mad Dog) Sydney and Melbourne. John Edward, Sterling Publishing (What if God were the Sun) Sydney, Melbourne,...