Tuesday, 26 August 2008
The titles shortlisted for the inaugural Indie Award have been announced. The titles shortlisted for the $19,000 award are: Debut fiction: Addition (Toni Jordan, Text Publishing)Fiction: Breath (Tim Winton, Penguin)Nonfiction:...

Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Federal Arts Minister Peter Garrett has announced that the winners of the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Fiction and Nonfiction will be revealed on 12 September. The awards will...

Tuesday, 26 August 2008
The Tasmanian Book Fair was held on Sunday August 24 from 10am to 4pm in Hobart as part of the Tasmanian Living Writers' Week. Shannon Challis, special projects officer of...

Tuesday, 26 August 2008
The Melbourne Writers' Festival got off to a very successful start over the weekend, with many sell-out sessions and crowds buying books and lining up to get them signed at...

Tuesday, 26 August 2008
The winners of the 35th Age Book of the Year Awards were announced on Friday 22 August at the opening night of the Melbourne Writers' Festival. The overall winner was...

Tuesday, 26 August 2008
The winners of the Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year 2008 were announced on the weekend. The long category winner was Kimberley Freeman, with Duet (Hachette Livre),...

Tuesday, 26 August 2008
The Bestseller charts are much the same as last week in that Stephenie Meyer has taken over, with four of her titles gracing the top spots. Click here to see...

Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 'Age' Melbourne Writers' Festival, 22-31 AugustJudith Pugh and Robert Manne in conversation, Eltham bookshop, Vic,...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
'This is censorship by fear and it sets a very bad precedent indeed.'--Salman Rushdie (or 'Scruffy' as he's known by some) as quoted in the Independent, on Random House's decision not to...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
With only two days until the Melbourne Writers' Festival kicks off in Federation Square, many events have already sold out, including the keynote address with Germaine Greer, which will follow the announcement...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
As reported in a WBN special bulletin on Friday, the winners of this year's CBCA (Children's Book Council of Australia) Book of the Year awards have been announced. To view...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
CBCA Book Week kicks offThe 2008 CBCA Children's Book Week kicked off last week with the announcement of the CBCA Book of the Year award winners. The theme of this...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Macquarie University is hoping to continue publishing the editing and publishing style guide Australian Style online in future, after the federal government announced that it ‘will no longer be funding...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Melbourne has been named a City of Literature by the United Nations' cultural arm UNESCO. The recognition is the result of an official bid--brought together by a steering committee led...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Among the articles added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Obama book plan backfiresEnid Blyton is still the UK's favouriteFamily loses Steinbeck rights appealFree iPhone e-book software...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
The second biennial Tasmanian Living Writers' Week began on 15 August and runs to 24 August. Shannon Challis, special projects officer of arts@work, which coordinates the festival, reports that so...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
The program for this year's Brisbane Writers' Festival, which runs from 17 to 21 September, has been released--with an exciting array of over 220 authors attending. The festival line-up this...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Stephenie Meyer is it this week. She has not just one title in the charts, but the top four spots in the Bestsellers. Her most recent release Breaking Dawn comes...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Customers of Landmark School Supplies can expect ‘business as usual', following the company's acquisition by Campion Education, according to managing director of Campion, James Cathro. ‘From the point of view...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Society of Editors (NSW) workshop; Preparing for the Accreditation Exam, 22 AugustAge Melbourne Writers Festival, Federation...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Be the first to see The Edge of Love--the film tie-in of The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas (Hachette Livre Australia) Thomas' lyrical, passionate, poetic letters to the women who...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
New Zealand biographer Dianne Haworth has died. Her works included Give a Man a Horse: the Remarkable Story of Sir Patrick Hogan; Tears in the Wind: The Lance O'Sullivan Story...

Tuesday, 19 August 2008
The shortlist for the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards was announced last Thursday 13 August. The titles in the running for the book-based prizes include: History Book (Faculty of Arts,...

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
'Another teacher described the situation where the community cow had made herself comfortable in his classroom during his first week at school--his teacher training hadn't covered that scenario.'--Indigenous Literacy Project...

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
A field trip to the Jawoyn region of the Northern Territory by representatives of the bookselling and publishing industry has highlighted both the positive benefits of the trade's Indigenous Literacy...

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Chabon wins HugoBook on Mohammed's wife dropped over fears of violenceNielsen backs e-book ISBN standardRace and racism...

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Playwright and memoirist Simon Gray, author of The Smoking Diaries, Year of the Jouncer and Last Cigarette, has died.

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Poet, author and politician Mahmoud Darwish has died aged 67. His works included Leaves of the Olive Tree, A Lover from Palestine and End of the Night.

Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Scholastic Corporation, parent company of Scholastic Australia has reported a net loss of US$22.4 million (A$25.8 million) for the financial year to May. However, when the company's loss-making ‘continuities' business was...