Monday, 7 September 2015
Book recommendation website Better Reading has announced the results of its inaugural Top 100 Books survey, which tallied the favourite books of around 5000 Australian readers.Site founder and director Cheryl...

Monday, 7 September 2015
UK-US author Rob Magnuson Smith has won the 2015 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for his story ‘The Elector of Nossnearly’.Smith, who is the author of...

Monday, 7 September 2015
The winners of the NSW Premier’s History Awards have been announced as part of the official launch of NSW History Week. The awards, which total $75,000 in prize money, incorporated...

Monday, 7 September 2015
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the shortlist for this year’s Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA).The shortlisted titles are: Isabelle of the Moon and Stars (S A Jones, UWAP)...

Friday, 4 September 2015
The longlist for Hachette Australia’s inaugural Richell Prize for Emerging Writers has been announced. The longlisted authors are: Sally Abbott Toni Bartlett Alice Bishop Lyndel Caffrey Jeremy Clarke Bronte Coates...

Friday, 4 September 2015
Australian author Foz Meadows has signed a two-book deal with UK publisher Angry Robot.Angry Robot acquired world English-language rights to Meadows’ An Accident of Stars, the first novel in a...

Friday, 4 September 2015
More than 40 literary organisations including publishers, writers’ centres, literary journals and writers’ festivals are calling for the government to consult with the literary community on planning for the Book...

Friday, 4 September 2015
The longlist for Hachette Australia’s inaugural Richell Prize for Emerging Writers has been announced. The longlisted authors are: Sally Abbott Toni Bartlett Alice Bishop Lyndel Caffrey Jeremy Clarke Bronte Coates...

Wednesday, 2 September 2015
The cast has been announced for the TV adaption of John Marsden’s ‘Tomorrow, When the War Began’ series, with shooting to begin in and around Melbourne on 16 September.The cast...

Wednesday, 2 September 2015
The finalists for this year’s Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Best Writing Award and the Writers Prize have been announced.The finalists for the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature, presented to...

Tuesday, 1 September 2015
Sisters in Crime has announced the winners of the 2015 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women.The winning titles in each category are:Adult novel  Big Little Lies (Liane...

Tuesday, 1 September 2015
Poet and editor Stuart Barnes has won the 2015 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for his manuscript The Staysails.Barnes receives $3000 and a publication contract with University of Queensland Press, which...

Tuesday, 1 September 2015
Dymocks national buying and digital manager Sophie Higgins has been appointed to the newly created role of head of merchandise and marketing.The change comes after marketing and loyalty program manager...

Tuesday, 1 September 2015
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is staging its ninth Indigenous Literacy Day today (Wednesday 2 September) to raise money for Indigenous literacy.A number of booksellers are donating a percentage of their...

Monday, 31 August 2015
The First Nations Australia Writers’ Network (FNAWN) will next week take a delegation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers to showcase their work at the National Book Festival in...

Monday, 31 August 2015
Writers Alexis Wright, Courtney Collins and Marieke Hardy are among 10 artists to be awarded 2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships, each worth $160,000 over two years.Wright is the author of...

Friday, 28 August 2015
The director and initial cast of the film adaptation of Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey, A&U) has been announced, with filming set to begin in the Western Australia’s South West in...

Friday, 28 August 2015
The program for the National Young Writers’ Festival (NYWF), which will run in Newcastle, NSW, from 1-4 October, has been announced.  The festival will include more than 100 speakers for more than 80 events, including author Abigail Ulman (Hot Little...

Friday, 28 August 2015
A Texas judge has ordered Australian Amanda Hayward set aside US$10.7m (A$14.9m) for American Jennifer Lynn Pedroza, her former partner in The Writer’s Coffee Shop (TWCS), the original publisher of the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ series. ...

Friday, 28 August 2015
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has presented author Libby Gleeson the 2015 Nan Chauncy Award for her work in Australian children’s literature.The award was presented on the evening...

Thursday, 27 August 2015
The program for the second annual Word for Word Festival, to be held at Deakin University’s Waterfront campus in Geelong from 11-13 September, has been announced.More than 70 guests will...