Friday, 9 June 2017
The publishers of New Philosopher and Womankind magazines, Antonia Case and Zan Boag, will open a specialist bookshop and tea atelier, called Poet 130, in Hobart in early July, reports...

Thursday, 8 June 2017
The longlist for the inaugural Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The longlisted authors and their works are: Alice Bishop for ‘A Constant Hum’ Ashley Kalagian Blunt...

Wednesday, 7 June 2017
The Fair Work Commission has announced a 3.3% increase to minimum wages effective from 1 July 2017, lifting the minimum wage from $17.70 per hour to $18.29 per hour. The...

Wednesday, 7 June 2017
Writers Rebecca Slater and Scott McCulloch and poet Caitlin Maling are among the 12 recipients of the 2017 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, worth $50,000 each. Maling will use the scholarship...

Tuesday, 6 June 2017
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that planned cuts to weekend penalty rates for retail workers will be phased in over four years. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, in February...

Tuesday, 6 June 2017
The shortlist for Lip magazine’s annual Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their works are: ‘Aftermath’ by Alice Bishop ‘Burning Day’ by Kristin Meachem...

Monday, 5 June 2017
Catherine Fox and Tracey Spicer have been selected as finalists for the Walkley Foundation’s Women’s Leadership in Media Award. Fox was cited for her nonfiction book Stop Fixing Women (NewSouth),...

Friday, 2 June 2017
An app that ‘gamifies’ reading and encourages literacy development has won the University of Sydney’s second Dymocks Innovation challenge. Stephanie Ryan and Swetha Das won the $5000 prize for their DymQuest...

Friday, 2 June 2017
The finalists for the 2017 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Booksellers of the Year awards have been announced. The finalists for the Bookseller of the Year are: Nadine Allan (Better Read...

Wednesday, 31 May 2017
A number of literary projects have received funding in Creative Victoria’s latest arts grant round. Literary projects to receive funding are: Carly Godden ($19,022) for ‘development and production of the second...

Monday, 29 May 2017
Author Melissa Lucashenko, Penguin Random House publisher Meredith Curnow and Avid Reader owner Fiona Stager participated in a panel on the Macquarie University survey of Australian readers at the Sydney...

Monday, 29 May 2017
Macquarie University has published a report examining Australian book readers, the third and final stage of its three-year research project on Australia’s changing book industry. The book readership stage of the research...