Thursday, 1 September 2016
Josephine Rowe has won the 2016 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Glisk’. Rowe was awarded the $7000 prize at a ceremony during the Melbourne...

Wednesday, 31 August 2016
The finalists for the Colin Roderick Award and H T Priestley Memorial Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, have been announced. The seven...

Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Writer W J P Newnham has won The Lifted Brow’s (TLB) Prize for Experimental Nonfiction for his piece ‘Trashman Loves Maree’. Newnham was selected from a shortlist of eight entries. A...

Tuesday, 30 August 2016
Xoum Publishing has announced a $5000 romance prize for an unpublished manuscript to mark its new imprint, XO Romance. Xoum publisher director Rod Morrison told Books+Publishing the imprint will start...

Tuesday, 30 August 2016
Melbourne’s sexuality and gender diverse bookshop Hares & Hyenas will run a season of events from November to December to mark its 25th anniversary. The store received Melbourne City of Literature...

Tuesday, 30 August 2016
The shortlist for the 2016 ACT Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Locust Girl (Merlinda Bobis, Spinifex) The Eighties (Frank Bongiorno, Black Inc.) The...

Tuesday, 30 August 2016
The Co-op has bought the Australian Geographic retail chain from its owner, Myer Family Investments. The Co-op will take over the chain’s 66 stores and its online shop on 5 September....

Tuesday, 30 August 2016
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the 2016 Australia Book Prize longlist. The prize, worth $3500, is part of the CHASS Australia Prizes program,...

Friday, 26 August 2016
The winners of the 2016 ‘Overland’ Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced. The first prize, worth $8000, was awarded to Melbourne writer Julia...

Tuesday, 23 August 2016
The NSW state government has announced it will provide $75,000 in funding to the Western Sydney University’s (WSU) Writing and Society Research Centre to support emerging Western Sydney writers in...

Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Lonely Planet has announced a new imprint for food-themed titles, called Lonely Planet Food. The imprint follows the launch of Lonely Planet’s recipe book series ‘From the Source’ last year,...

Monday, 22 August 2016
The full program for the 2016 National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF) has been announced. The festival, which runs from 29 September to 2 October in Newcastle, will include over 114...