Tuesday, 29 November 2016
The winners of the 2016 Overland Story Wine Prize have been announced. Melbourne-based writer Cameron Watson won the $4000 first prize for his piece ‘Sweeping’, a story exploring the role...

Monday, 28 November 2016
The NSW Writers’ Centre has announced the recipients of its inaugural Writing NSW Grants for early career writers, an emerging writing organisation, and a writer and technologist working on a...

Friday, 25 November 2016
Poet Sarah Holland-Batt has been awarded a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, worth $160,000 tax-free over two years. Holland-Batt is the author of two poetry collections, Aria and The Hazards (both...

Thursday, 24 November 2016
Melissa Lucashenko has been named the 2016 Copyright Agency Cultural Fund Author Fellow, worth $80,000 after the prize money doubled from its inaugural year in 2015. Lucashenko will use the...

Wednesday, 23 November 2016
True crime author Ruth Wykes has won the 2016 Scarlet Stiletto Short Story Award, presented at Sisters in Crime’s 25th anniversary convention in Melbourne on 19 November. Wykes was awarded...

Tuesday, 22 November 2016
Ten books by Australian authors and six by New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the 2017 International DUBLIN Literary Award. Books by Australian authors on the longlist are: Clade...

Tuesday, 22 November 2016
The Copyright Agency has announced the shortlist for its 2016 Author Fellowship, worth $80,000. The shortlisted authors and their proposed works are: Georgia Blain, for a memoir that is ‘a...

Monday, 21 November 2016
Medical researcher Jaye Chin-Dusting has purchased Mary Martin Bookshop in Southgate, Melbourne, from the previous owners Graham and Margaret Brookes, who have decided to retire after running the business for...

Monday, 21 November 2016
ABC TV’s The Book Club will present an hour-long special program on Tuesday, 13 December to discuss 2016’s best books. The ‘Five of the Best 2016’ program will see hosts...

Friday, 18 November 2016
The Australian Romance Readers Association (ARRA) has released the results of its annual readers’ survey, based on 275 respondents. This year’s survey saw a drop in the popularity of erotica...

Friday, 18 November 2016
Fremantle Press has sold radio dramatisation rights to Alan Carter’s first book in the ‘Cato Kwong’ series, Prime Cut, to BBC radio drama in the UK. The deal will see...

Friday, 18 November 2016
Online bookseller Booktopia has made the Business Review Weekly’s (BRW) annual Fast 100 for the seventh time. Booktopia’s revenue grew from $12m in 2011 to $80.7m in 2016. It came...

Friday, 18 November 2016
Independent bookselling chain Harry Hartog has opened its seventh store at Warringah Mall in Brookvale in Sydney’s northern beaches. The bookstore, which opened on 17 November, is one of around...

Wednesday, 16 November 2016
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has urged the federal government to reconsider its decision to remove tertiary writing and editing courses’ eligibility for students loans, saying it will have...

Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Screen NSW has announced development funding for a number of book-to-film projects. Four Australian novels received adaptation funding. They are: Lost and Found by Brooke Davis (Hachette), Foal’s Bread by...

Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Editor Jessica Alice has joined the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) as the festival’s program manager. Alice replaces former program manager Jo Case, who has moved into the role of schools’...