Wednesday, 30 September 2015
‘A really cool author would tell you that literary prizes don’t mean very much—they’re like baby pageants where everybody thinks their little darling should win—but I’m not very cool. Tonight...

Monday, 28 September 2015
The Wheeler Centre has announced a two-day festival ‘Interrobang’ to run on 27-28 November, which will include events both online and at various Melbourne locations. The festival program will be...

Monday, 28 September 2015
The University of South Australia has announced the formation of the biennial $100,000 Sir Terry Pratchett Memorial Scholarship, funded by a $1m endowment to the university made by the UK...

Monday, 28 September 2015
Electronics retailer JB Hi-Fi will close its ebookstore on 30 September, with customers given the option to move their accounts, including their digital libraries, to the Kobo platform. The JB...

Monday, 28 September 2015
The Co-op has launched a book podcast featuring conversations with authors and publishers. The Co-Op Book Podcast, which is hosted by interviewer Rob Kaldor, has broadcast six episodes since it...

Monday, 28 September 2015
The Western Australian state government will present Robert Drewe, Joan London and Dave Warner with State Living Treasures Awards at a ceremony on 16 October. The awards, which were previously...

Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Mitch Fifield has replaced George Brandis as Arts Minister and Kelly O’Dwyer has replaced Bruce Billson as Small Business Minister under cabinet changes introduced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.In a...

Tuesday, 22 September 2015
Responsibility for copyright and classification matters and legislation have been moved from George Brandis’ Attorney-General portfolio to the new Communications and Arts Minister Mitch Fifield.Fifield’s Communications department will deal with...

Tuesday, 22 September 2015
Nina Kenwood has been promoted to Readings’ marketing manager, replacing former head of marketing and communications Emily Harms, who has joined the Wheeler Centre.Kenwood has been with Readings for three...

Tuesday, 22 September 2015
The longlist for the inaugural Australian Sports Book of the Year award has been announced.The 12 longlisted titles are: Roy Higgins (Patrick Bartley, Penguin) Eddie: The Rise and Rise of...

Monday, 21 September 2015
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has appointed Mitch Fifield as federal Arts Minister and Kelly O’Dwyer as Small Business Minister.In a statement, Turnbull said that Fifield, who has also been appointed Communications...

Monday, 21 September 2015
Melbourne’s RMIT University has awarded fellowships to writers Alice Pung and Michele Lee for writing residencies in China.Pung was awarded the Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange Program (WrICE) Established Writer...

Monday, 21 September 2015
Hachette Australia has announced the shortlist for its inaugural Richell Prize, run in partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival and the Guardian.The shortlisted entries are: ‘&’ by Jonathan O'Brien ‘No...

Friday, 18 September 2015
The winners of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Educational Publishing Awards were announced at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 17 September.RIC Publications was named Publisher of the Year for Primary and...

Friday, 18 September 2015
A number of Australian writers and book industry professionals have ‘questioned the intentions’ of inaugural Book Council of Australia chair Louise Adler in an open letter to Prime Minister Malcolm...

Wednesday, 16 September 2015
The State Library of NSW has announced a new biennial Indigenous Writers Prize, to be part of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.  The $30,000 prize is intended to ‘acknowledge the...

Wednesday, 16 September 2015
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced.The shortlisted pieces are:  ‘Why Aren’t We Dead Yet’ by Idan Ben-Barak (Why Aren’t We Dead Yet?,...

Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Marcus Westbury’s Creating Cities, a crowdfunded, self-published book about the transformation of the city of Newcastle, has topped its Amazon ebook sales category several days after its launch.Westbury, the founder...

Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Affirm Press has announced the winners of the inaugural Affirm Mentorship Award, run in partnership with Varuna, the Writers’ House.Three writers were chosen from 149 submissions, with the Affirm Press editorial...