Monday, 15 February 2016
The ballot for the 2016 Ditmar Awards has been announced. The shortlisted works include: Best Novel The Dagger’s Path (Glenda Larke, Orbit) Day Boy (Trent Jamieson, Text) Graced (Amanda Pillar,...

Monday, 15 February 2016
Melbourne-based Express Media will host ‘pop-up events’ outside of Victoria as part of its first annual Tracks program. The program will host workshops, masterclasses and other events for young writers...

Monday, 15 February 2016
The winners of the 2015 writingWA Awards, which support emerging writers based in regional Western Australia, have been announced. Marc Simojoki was awarded the Curtin University Prize for Fiction for...

Monday, 15 February 2016
UK author Richard Dawkins has cancelled his upcoming Australian and New Zealand tour after suffering a ‘minor stroke’ in the UK. Dawkins was scheduled to speak at a number of...

Friday, 12 February 2016
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced a new fellowship for women writers. The Maher Fellowship for Women Writers will be awarded to three recipients, with each receiving $500 to...

Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Seizure has announced that Tom Langshaw will edit its 2016 Viva La Novella project. Langshaw, who works as an editorial and publishing assistant at Penguin Random House, was chosen from...

Tuesday, 9 February 2016
A new licensed café and bookshop has opened at the Paradise Island Resort on the Gold Coast. REaD, which stands for Read, Eat and Drink, features a ‘fireside lounge area’...

Friday, 5 February 2016
The NSW State Government has announced a new NSW Writer’s Fellowship for early career writers. The fellowship, worth $30,000, will be offered to a professional writer ‘in the early stages...

Friday, 5 February 2016
Macquarie University has released a report examining Australian publishers’ responses to industry changes, including 25 case studies of trade and educational publishers. The report, ‘Disruption and innovation in the Australian...

Thursday, 4 February 2016
Melbourne alternative bookstore Polyester Books is closing its doors in May, reports the Age. The store, located on Brunswick St in Fitzroy, was founded in 1985 and became known for...

Wednesday, 3 February 2016
Amazon-owned online bookseller the Book Depository has confirmed it has set up local supply of Australian titles, with packing and distribution from Melbourne-based logistics company DAI Post. In a statement,...

Wednesday, 3 February 2016
Random House Australia will publish the first novel by Australian-born Marching Powder-author Rusty Young in October. The Work of Other Men, set in Colombia, is ‘the story of one young...

Tuesday, 2 February 2016
News Corp Australia has launched a children’s literacy campaign that includes a giveaway of Dr Seuss books. The month-long ‘Raise a Reader’ campaign, which begins on 13 February, ‘will reveal...

Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Former head of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) Kate Carnell has been appointed as the first small businesses and family enterprise ombudsman. The ombudsman role, which replaces...

Monday, 1 February 2016
A Texas judge has ordered Australian Amanda Hayward pay US$11.5m (A$16.2m) in unpaid royalties and US$1.7m (A$2.4m) in attorney’s fees to American Jennifer Lynn Pedroza, her former partner in The Writer’s Coffee Shop...