Tuesday, 10 November 2015
The winners of the 2015 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), New South Wales’ annual children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles and honour books in each category...

Monday, 9 November 2015
Australian fantasy and horror author Angela Slatter has won a World Fantasy Award for best collection for The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings (Tartarus Press). Slatter, who shared the award...

Monday, 9 November 2015
Suzanne Houghton has won the second annual Five Mile Press Illustrator Prize and a $4000 contract with the publisher. Acting managing director Kay Scarlett said in a statement that Houghton’s entry...

Friday, 6 November 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Walkley Book Award, which ‘celebrates the value and importance of long form journalism’, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Acute Misfortune: The Life and...

Friday, 6 November 2015
Creative Victoria, formerly known as Arts Victoria, has announced the latest round of VicArts Grants recipients. The program will provide $1.3 million in funding for 71 creative projects by independent...

Friday, 6 November 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) Asia Pacific CEO Gabrielle Coyne has left the company, with Random House Australia (RHA) children’s division director Julie Burland appointed CEO of PRH Australia and New Zealand effective...

Friday, 6 November 2015
Natasha Besliev has been appointed to the newly created role of CEO of Bonnier Australia, a ‘consolidation’ of the company’s Australian businesses, which includes The Five Mile Press and Echo...

Thursday, 5 November 2015
New legislation requiring publishers to deposit certain online publications with the National Library of Australia (NLA) will come into effect from February 2016. Earlier this year, the federal parliament passed legislation...

Wednesday, 4 November 2015
Scribe has announced the shortlist for its third annual nonfiction prize for young writers.  The shortlisted entries are: ‘A Liberal View’ by Patrick Mullins ‘Eating With My Mouth Open’ by...

Monday, 2 November 2015
Dunedin academic Trish Brooking has won the 2015 Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award in New Zealand. Brooking has worked at the University of Otago for more than two decades, where she...

Friday, 30 October 2015
Sally Abbott has won the inaugural Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for her entry ‘Closing Down’, which imagines a future Australia ‘negotiating a tidal wave of refugees’. In a statement, Hachette...

Friday, 30 October 2015
Children’s book author Andy Griffiths was awarded the 2015 Dromkeen Medal at the State Library of Victoria (SLV) on 29 October. Acting CEO and state librarian Justine Hyde said Griffiths ‘has...

Friday, 30 October 2015
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) NSW branch has awarded its 2015 Aspiring Writers’ Mentorship Program Charlotte Waring Barton Award to Derina McLaughlin for her story about ‘a young girl’s belief...

Thursday, 29 October 2015
A number of book adaptations are among the nominees for this year’s Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards. The film The Dressmaker, adapted from Rosalie Ham’s novel...

Thursday, 29 October 2015
Joan London has won the 2015 Patrick White Literary Award. The annual award was established by Patrick White using the proceeds of his 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, and is...

Thursday, 29 October 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced.  The shortlisted stories are: ‘The Conservation of the Stars’ (Michalia Arathimos)...

Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Christine Kenneally has won this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her piece ‘The past may not make you feel better’, published in her book The Invisible History...

Wednesday, 28 October 2015
The latest recipients of the Melbourne City of Literature Travel Fund have been announced. First launched in 2014, the travel fund provides grants of up to $3000 to help people...