Friday, 26 June 2015
Bernard Cohen’s The Antibiography of Robert F Menzies (HarperCollins) has won the inaugural Russell Prize for Humour Writing. The book was chosen for the $10,000 biennial prize from a shortlist...

Thursday, 25 June 2015
Simon & Schuster UK has purchased UK, Commonwealth and ANZ rights for a novel by Australian author Aoife Clifford.All These Perfect Strangers is the first novel from Clifford, who was...

Thursday, 25 June 2015
Allen & Unwin NZ director Melanie Laville-Moore has been elected president of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) at the organisation’s recent AGM.Laville-Moore, who was previously vice-president, replaces Auckland...

Wednesday, 24 June 2015
Sofie Laguna has won the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel The Eye of the Sheep (A&U).Laguna’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of five, which included: Golden...

Wednesday, 24 June 2015
The federal senate has passed legislation that allows Australian publishers to apply to have sites hosting pirated content, including ebooks, films and TV series, blocked by internet service providers (ISPs).The...

Wednesday, 24 June 2015
‘I’ve heard before that writers or artists, without being really conscious of it, we are really reflecting back to society the issues of the day’—Sofie Laguna on the growing public...

Tuesday, 23 June 2015
A six-part miniseries based on the novels Marmalade Files and The Mandarin Code by Chris Uhlmann and Steve Lewis (HarperCollins) will screen next year on Foxtel’s Showcase channel.The show will begin...

Monday, 22 June 2015
The winners of the 2015 New Zealand Book Trade Industry Awards were announced in Auckland on 21 June.The winners in each category are: Publisher of the YearPotton & Burton, newly...

Monday, 22 June 2015
Book reviews on Fairfax’s the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald websites now include links to buy books directly from online bookseller Booktopia.‘While bricks-and-mortar bookshops are essential to our book industry, Booktopia...

Monday, 22 June 2015
Jannali Jones and Alison Whittaker are the winners of the 2015 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships.Each fellowship is worth $10,000 and includes publication by Magabala Books.Jones’ novel My Father’s Shadow is ‘an...

Friday, 19 June 2015
The federal senate will hold an inquiry into the impact of the funding cuts to the Australia Council in the 2015/16 federal budget.A motion to hold the ‘Impact of the...

Thursday, 18 June 2015
Dymocks’ flagship store in Perth will reopen in July.The Hay Street store, which closed on 14 June as its lease had come to an end, announced on its Facebook page...

Thursday, 18 June 2015
New Zealand author Martin Edmond is the recipient of this year’s Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship, worth NZ$100,000 (A$83,717). Edmond, who won the 2013 NZ Prime Minister’s Award for Literary...

Wednesday, 17 June 2015
A new organisation to support women working in the literary industry has been launched.Women in Literary Arts Australia (WILAA) was founded by writer and producer Lefa Singleton Norton, and also...

Tuesday, 16 June 2015
Life or Death by Australian author Michael Robotham (Sphere) has been longlisted for the 2015 Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Gold Dagger award for best crime novel in the UK.Life or...

Tuesday, 16 June 2015
The Australia Council has announced the recipients of its March grants round, including funding for 38 literature projects, worth a total of $1,350,991. The funding includes arts project grants for...

Friday, 12 June 2015
Broadcaster and journalist Jonathan Green has been appointed editor of the literary journal Meanjin from 1 July.In February former Monthly editor John van Tiggelen was appointed editor and was due to take...