Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Literacy consultant, teacher and author Jill Eggleton has won the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for ‘outstanding contribution to New Zealand children’s literature and literacy’.As a teacher, Eggleton implemented literacy programs...

Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Outgoing Readings books division manager Martin Shaw will join Alex Adsett Publishing Services this month.Shaw, who is moving to Germany, has joined the company as a literary agent specialising in...

Tuesday, 14 July 2015
The annual Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) has announced its 2015 program.Presented by the Sydney Opera House and the Ethics Centre, the festival invites ‘thinkers and culture creators’ from around...

Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Hachette Australia has cancelled a tattoo promotional campaign around the new ‘Millennium’ title, The Girl in the Spider’s Web (MacLehose Press), due to complaints that the stunt was offensive. Originally labelled as ‘tatvertising’,...

Tuesday, 14 July 2015
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has appointed author and Women of Letters founder Michaela McGuire as its new festival director and co-CEO, beginning on 20 July.McGuire replaces outgoing festival director...

Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Readers Feast Bookstore, Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller and the Melbourne Athenaeum Library, who form the ‘Readers’ Walk’ alliance, will launch the new art installation Hands in Print on Collins Street...

Tuesday, 14 July 2015
The Australian Book Review (ABR) and the Burdekin Readers and Writers Festival are among the recipients of Arts Queensland’s latest round of Projects and Programs funding.ABR, which is based in...

Monday, 13 July 2015
Former Random House New Zealand publisher Nicola Legat has been appointed as the first publisher of Massey University Press, following the press’ launch in February 2015.Legat, also a former editor...

Friday, 10 July 2015
The first chapter of Harper Lee’s forthcoming novel Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann) will be published by Fairfax websites this afternoon, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. The extract, as well...

Friday, 10 July 2015
Australian authors and publishers are among those nominated for the 2015 World Fantasy Awards, for works published in 2014. Kaaron Warren is a finalist in the short fiction category for...

Thursday, 9 July 2015
Jennifer Maiden’s poetry collection Drones and Phantoms (Giramondo) has won the 2015 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal.  Maiden’s book was chosen from a shortlist of five titles. Announced at the...

Thursday, 9 July 2015
The Northern Territory Library has announced the finalists for the Northern Territory (NT) Literary Awards.The 2015 finalists are:Short stories ‘Stranger in Paradise’ (Barbara Eather) ‘It’s a Privilege to Live in...