Thursday, 7 May 2015
Affirm Press and Varuna, the Writers’ House, have announced a new publisher partnership.The Affirm Press Mentorship Award offers up to four local writers at any stage of their career the chance...

Thursday, 7 May 2015
Night Games: Sex, Power and a Journey into the Dark Heart of Sport (Black Inc.) has been shortlisted for the British Sports Book Awards.The title has been shortlisted in the...

Wednesday, 6 May 2015
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has appointed Katie Woods as its new CEO, replacing Meg Vann, who stepped down from the position in February.Woods joins QWC from the State Library...

Wednesday, 6 May 2015
‘As a reader, venturing only to the front of the bookshop is a bit like visiting Europe or Asia or Africa in five days. Exploring ideas takes time’—Spinifex Press director...

Tuesday, 5 May 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: The Golden Age (Joan London, Vintage) Drones and Phantoms (Jennifer Maiden, Giramondo) Earth...

Tuesday, 5 May 2015
The finalists for the 2015 Locus Awards for science-fiction and fantasy writing have been announced, and include several Australians.Garth Nix has been nominated in the young-adult category for Clariel (A&U);...

Tuesday, 5 May 2015
US author James Patterson has announced he will donate a total pool of $100,000 to Australian and New Zealand bookstores to spend on projects to get children reading. Australian and New Zealand booksellers...

Tuesday, 5 May 2015
Scholastic will move its Adelaide-based children’s book imprint Omnibus to its Sydney office over the next eight months.A Scholastic spokesperson would not say why the imprint was being moved but...

Tuesday, 5 May 2015
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has announced that the Melbourne Art Book Fair will become an annual event, after the inaugural fair attracted 16,000 visitors from 1-3 May.The fair...

Monday, 4 May 2015
A crowdfunding campaign for an anthology of apocalypse-survival fiction with a focus on disabled characters has reached its US$13,000 (A$16,595) target on crowdfunding website Pozible. The Defying Doomsday anthology, edited by...

Monday, 4 May 2015
Fiction and health-related cookbooks are dominating this week’s bestseller charts, with six fiction titles and three health books in the top 10. The fiction list is led by The Liar...

Monday, 4 May 2015
The New Zealand Book Council (NZBC) is producing a new monthly podcast discussing new release and classic New Zealand books.‘Talking Books’ is hosted by novelist Catherine Robertson, who will speak...

Thursday, 30 April 2015
Jane Curry Publishing (JCP) will rebrand as Ventura Press from 1 August this year, timed to coincide with a new sales and distribution partnership with Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S).  JCP...

Thursday, 30 April 2015
Dymocks, 3M Cloud Library and JCDecaux have been announced as the major sponsors of this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs), with overall funding for the awards up 24% on...

Wednesday, 29 April 2015
An interactive online graphic novel adaptation of Nam Le’s short story ‘The Boat’, from Le’s short story collection of the same name, has been launched by SBS to commemorate 40...

Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Bloomsbury Australia and Pantera Press have announced a new partnership to ‘strategically grow Pantera Press’ readership and sales’.The partnership, which begins in June, will see Bloomsbury distribute Pantera Press titles through UBD,...

Wednesday, 29 April 2015
‘I think it’s great for the vigour of the culture if one book does not scoop all the prizes’—Booktopia editorial director Caroline Baum on judging this year’s Stella Prize

Wednesday, 29 April 2015
The Victorian government has announced a $83.1 million redevelopment of the State Library of Victoria (SLV), with work on the five-year project scheduled to begin next year. The redevelopment includes...

Wednesday, 29 April 2015
A new podcast series with news and interviews about the contemporary Australian poetry scene has launched.The Australian Poetry Podcast is hosted by poets Robbie Coburn and Nathan Hondros, with four...

Tuesday, 28 April 2015
The Australian copyright industries, including ‘press and literature’, is the fourth biggest industry contributor to Australia’s economy, according to a report commissioned by the Australian Copyright Council (ACC).The report, which...

Tuesday, 28 April 2015
A new writing school has opened in Newcastle offering classes for adults and children, as well as manuscript and mentoring services.The Creative Word Shop, which is the first of its kind in Newcastle, is run...

Monday, 27 April 2015
The winners of the 2014 writingWA Awards, which support emerging writers based in regional Western Australia, have been announced. Doreen Hill of Mandurah was awarded the Curtin University Prize for...

Monday, 27 April 2015
A new festival to support young New Zealand writers well be held in Dunedin in June.The New Zealand Young Writers Festival will feature 15 free events involving writers and editors...

Friday, 24 April 2015
The shortlists for this year’s New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced.The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are:Christina Stead Prize for Fiction Only the Animals (Ceridwen...

Thursday, 23 April 2015
The Victorian government has announced a new taskforce to ‘steer the future’ of Victoria’s creative industries, to be chaired by Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) CEO Louise Adler. The taskforce will...