Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Over 70 independent booksellers from across Australia attended this year’s Leading Edge Book conference, which was held in Melbourne from 16-18 May.‘New bookshop owners, fresh young enthusiasts and industry stalwarts...

Wednesday, 21 May 2014
West Australian game developer Stirfire Studios has optioned Marianne de Pierres’ ‘Peacemaker’ series (Angry Robot) for adaptation as an interactive game. The series, which launched in May with Peacemaker and continues in...

Wednesday, 21 May 2014
‘It’s our objective and I believe it’s also our duty to instil confidence in our industry and see our physical bookseller footprint maintained for many years to come’—Leading Edge Group...

Tuesday, 20 May 2014
The Auckland Writers Festival has reported a ‘45% increase in ticket sales compared to last year’ for the 2014 festival, which finished on Sunday evening.The five-day festival attracted 50,000 attendees....

Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Shane Maloney has ‘off-handedly outed himself’ as one of the pseudonymous reviewers on the Saturday Paper, reports the Wheeler Centre.In a blog post on his website, Maloney joked that the...

Tuesday, 20 May 2014
New Zealand writer C K Stead has won the inaugural Sarah Broom Poetry Prize. Stead was announced as the winner of the prize, which is worth NZ$12,000 (A$11,098), at the...

Tuesday, 20 May 2014
The Byron Bay Writers’ Festival has announced that Jeanette Winterson will deliver the keynote address at this year’s event.‘Winterson is travelling to Australia in August for a tour arranged in collaboration with...

Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Authors including Michelle de Kretser, Christos Tsiolkas and Anna Funder and other members of Australia’s literary community have written an open letter to the prime minister denouncing cuts to the...

Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Affirm Press has announced the winner of its inaugural Affirm Press Creative Writing Prize, presented in association with the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Arts.Suzanne Hermanoczki has won the prize...

Tuesday, 20 May 2014
The Melbourne Writers Festival has released its schools program for 2014. Among the guests at this year’s festival, which runs from 25 to 29 August, are Australian authors and illustrators...

Tuesday, 20 May 2014
SalesNonfiction—Black Inc. has sold Korean rights to The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power (Hugh White). Exisle Publishing has sold Lithuanian rights to Optimum Health the Paleo Way (Claire...

Monday, 19 May 2014
This year’s $10,000 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been awarded to a memoir for the first time since the prize was launched six years ago. Text...

Monday, 19 May 2014
A number of awards were presented at this year’s Leading Edge Books conference in Melbourne on 17 May.Allen & Unwin was named Publisher of the Year for the fifth year...