Friday, 5 September 2014
The University of Queensland Press is publishing a series of ‘UQP Modern Classics’.The new series features early works from Australian authors previously published by UQP that have been ‘repackaged for...

Friday, 5 September 2014
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains six reviews of children’s and YA books publishing in October and November.Included is a review of The Three Billy Goats Gruff from Little Hare’s new...

Thursday, 4 September 2014
Melissa Lucashenko has won the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing for her novel Mullumbimby (UQP).The $20,000 award was presented at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne as part...

Wednesday, 3 September 2014
The winners of the Wilderness Society’s 2014 Environment Award for Children’s Literature were announced at the Little Bookroom in Melbourne on 2 September. Bush Baby Rescue: Juliet Nearly a Vet Book...

Wednesday, 3 September 2014
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is staging its eighth Indigenous Literacy Day today (Wednesday 3 September) to raise money for Indigenous literacy.A number of booksellers and publishers are donating a percentage...

Wednesday, 3 September 2014
The 2014 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) kicks off today and runs until 7 September.As previously reported by Books+Publishing, more than 200 writers and illustrators will participate in this year’s festival, which is...

Wednesday, 3 September 2014
‘If we in the print business want to survive, we have to make print an entirely different experience from reading digitally’—Melbourne Writers Festival guest Dave Eggers argues for a greater...

Tuesday, 2 September 2014
The inaugural two-day Writers Victoria Manuscript Assessor Conference kicks off today in Melbourne.The conference, which is open to emerging and established assessors, will host discussions on the best practice, professional...

Tuesday, 2 September 2014
Literary journal Island has announced the launch of the WD Booth Charitable Trust/Island Emerging Writer Mentoring Program to ‘build the resilience and capacity of the writing sector in Tasmania’.The program...

Monday, 1 September 2014
Liam McIlvanney has won the 2014 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel for Where the Dead Men Go (Faber).McIlvanney won the NZ$1000 (A$895) award ahead of fellow shortlisted authors Paul Cleave (Joe...