Tuesday, 7 July 2015
The Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival will be held at Hadley’s Orient Hotel in Hobart from 11-13 September, with Don Watson, Helen Garner and Bob Brown among the guests.The biennial...

Monday, 6 July 2015
The Copyright Agency has relaunched its Reading Australia website with a new design and new content.The website, which provides free resources for teachers to promote Australian literary works, now includes...

Monday, 6 July 2015
The State Library of NSW has announced the shortlist for the 2015 National Biography Award for biographical writing and memoir.The shortlisted titles are: An Unsentimental Bloke: The Life and Work of...

Friday, 3 July 2015
The Ministry for the Arts has released the draft guidelines for the National Program for Excellence in the Arts, which indicates that all funding proposals will need to be approved...

Friday, 3 July 2015
The titles shortlisted for this year’s Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced.The shortlisted titles in each category are:Three to five years Bridie’s Boots (Phil Cummings...

Friday, 3 July 2015
The 2015 Australian Christian Book of the Year shortlist has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: What If? (Kristen Young, Fervr) The Wisdom of Islam and the Foolishness of Christianity (Richard...

Thursday, 2 July 2015
Life or Death by Australian author Michael Robotham (Sphere) has been shortlisted for the 2015 Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Gold Dagger award for best crime novel in the UK.Life or...

Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Tasmanian publisher Transportation Press has announced plans to publish a second collection of short stories from Tasmania and abroad.‘The Third Script will include stories from Tasmania, the UK and Iran,...

Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Former News Corp CEO Kim Williams has been appointed chair of the Copyright Agency. Williams replaces Hardie Grant Publishing chief executive Sandy Grant, who has been chair of the board...

Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Lonely Planet has launched a series of ‘destination’ cookbooks called ‘From the Source’.The publisher will release the first two cookbooks in August—From the Source: Italy and From the Source: Thailand—and...

Monday, 29 June 2015
Literary journal Overland and the National Union of Workers (NUW) have announced the shortlists for the inaugural Fair Australia Prize. Shortlists have been released for the Essay Prize, Fiction Prize, Poetry...

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...