Friday, 1 April 2016
A number of Australian and New Zealand writers have been shortlisted for the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. They are: ‘Black Milk’ (Tina Makereti, New Zealand) ‘Charmed’ (Jane Downing, Australia)...

Thursday, 31 March 2016
The 2016 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) program has been launched and is now available online. Sixty international writers will attend this year’s festival, which runs from 16-22 May, with UK novelist,...

Thursday, 31 March 2016
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) has announced its festival ambassadors for 2016. The five ‘established writers’ are cookbook author and TV presenter Adam Liaw; cartoonist First Dog on the Moon;...

Wednesday, 30 March 2016
Two Australian authors have been nominated for the 2016 RITA Awards, presented by Romance Writers of America (RWA) for ‘excellence in published romance novels and novellas’. M J Scott is...

Tuesday, 29 March 2016
Australian author Lucy Treloar has been shortlisted for the UK’s Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction for her novel Salt Creek (Picador). Salt Creek is one of six books shortlisted...

Wednesday, 23 March 2016
The shortlist for this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Flesh Wounds (Richard Glover, ABC Books) Reckoning: A Memoir...

Wednesday, 23 March 2016
Thames & Hudson Australia has announced plans to expand its local publishing and has appointed Kirsten Abbott as associate publisher, among other staff changes. Abbott will commission a program of...

Tuesday, 22 March 2016
Penguin Random House (PRH) will publish Rachael Treasure’s first nonfiction book Down the Dirt Roads in November. The publisher described Down the Dirt Roads as ‘a celebration of life on...

Tuesday, 22 March 2016
The shortlist for the 2016 Ernest Scott Prize for history, presented by the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Arts, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Entanglements of Empire (Tony...

Monday, 21 March 2016
The winner and runners-up for Overland’s inaugural Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize for travel-themed short fiction have been announced. Lauren Foley’s ‘K-K-K’, a ‘story about states of placenessness’ inspired by...

Monday, 21 March 2016
The National Gallery of Victoria will host the second annual Melbourne Art Book Fair from 29 April to 1 May. The program has expanded to include twice as many publishers...

Monday, 21 March 2016
The Co-op has appointed COO Thorsten Wichtendahl as its new CEO, replacing Peter Knock, who has stepped down for family reasons. Wichtendahl joined the Co-op in 2011 and oversaw the...

Monday, 21 March 2016
Actor Rachel Griffiths has acquired the film rights for Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Michelle Payne’s forthcoming autobiography. Griffiths will produce and direct the film, which will begin shooting in 2017. Payne’s...