Friday, 29 May 2015
Author and teacher Kimberley Starr has won the 2015 Text Prize for YA and Children’s Writing for her manuscript The Book of Whispers.The winning manuscript, a historical fantasy novel set...

Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Hachette Australia has launched a $10,000 prize for emerging writers in memory of former CEO Matt Richell, who died in a surfing accident in 2014.The Richell Prize, which has been...

Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Tobias McCorkell has won the 2015 Affirm Press Creative Writing Prize for an excerpt from his novel Barely Anything.McCorkell’s novel, a component of his PhD on contemporary Australian literature, is set...

Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Jane Harper has won the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for her novel The Dry.The $15,000 award was presented at the opening night of the 2015...

Wednesday, 27 May 2015
This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival included the annual Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program, which offers Australian publishers the opportunity to meet with international publishers and editors. On 20 May several...

Wednesday, 27 May 2015
SalesFiction—Fremantle Press has sold UK, US and European rights to The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Tracy Farr) and The Weaver Fish (Robert Edeson) to Aardvark Bureau. Nonfiction—Black Inc....

Wednesday, 27 May 2015
‘The cancellation of the June round of funding will have an immediate effect on the publishers of Australian literary titles, requiring the cancellation or postponement of some of those titles’—Giramondo...

Wednesday, 27 May 2015
The Sydney Writers’ Festival’s 2015 theme ‘How to Live’ has been a resounding success for both the box office and book sales.This year’s festival, which ran from 18-24 May, attracted...

Tuesday, 26 May 2015
The Brothers Quibble (Aaron Blabey, Viking) will be read by an estimated 450,000 children in more than 3000 schools across Australia at 11am (EST) on Wednesday morning, as part of...

Tuesday, 26 May 2015
Express Media has launched the 2015 program for National Young Writers’ Month, its annual June event for young writers across Australia. This years’ program includes 14 livestreamed discussions with young...

Tuesday, 26 May 2015
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Small Press Network (SPN) have responded to the Australia Council’s decision to suspend and cut some of its programs, following funding cuts to the organisation in...

Monday, 25 May 2015
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) announced the winners for the 2015 Book Design Awards at an event in Sydney on 22 May.The winning titles in each category are:Best designed...

Friday, 22 May 2015
The Australia Council has cancelled its June grant round and suspended its six-year funding for organisations program, among other changes following $110m in funding cuts announced in the 2015-16 federal budget.The...

Friday, 22 May 2015
The winners of the 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced in Sydney on 21 May.Pan Macmillan was one of the big winners of the night, taking out the...

Friday, 22 May 2015
The Copyright Agency has announced the recipients of its inaugural Publisher Fellowships to ‘conduct study or research into digital publishing, emerging business models and technologies’.The recipients are:  Chrysoula Aiellou, Scholastic,...

Thursday, 21 May 2015
Alan Sampson has won the 2015 Finch Memoir Prize for his entry Schools of Fish.Sampson, a Queensland high-school principal renowned for ‘transforming weak schools into centres of academic excellence’, writes in his...

Wednesday, 20 May 2015
The shortlist for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: The Dry (Jane Harper) Nikolai the Perfect (Jim McIntyre) Fine (Michelle Wright).  The judges also...

Wednesday, 20 May 2015
‘The transparent policies and programs of the old Australia Council—supported for 45 years by both sides of politics—look positively utopian’—two-time Miles Franklin Award-winning author Rodney Hall on cuts to the...

Tuesday, 19 May 2015
Entries have opened for the triennial Melbourne Prize for Literature, which includes a new $20,000 prize for an essay.The Writers Prize, which is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund,...

Tuesday, 19 May 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been announced.The shortlisted authors and their manuscripts are: Margot McGovern for Neverland, ‘an ambitious, complex story...

Tuesday, 19 May 2015
The Auckland Writers Festival has attracted a record crowd of more than 60,000 attendees, up 20% on last year, for the five-day festival that finished on Sunday.The festival, which celebrated...