Monday, 24 March 2008
Registration is now open for this year's Australian Booksellers Association conference, to be held in Melbourne on 15-17 June. All ABA members, bookshop owners, franchisees, managers, head office management, staff...

Tuesday, 18 March 2008
The NSW Writers' Centre will present the 2008 Contemporary Australian Fiction Festival on Saturday 29 March, co-presented by the UTS Centre for New Writing. Guests will include Gabrielle Carey, Katherine...

Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Six novels have been shortlisted for the 2008 ABC Fiction Award.The six shortlisted authors come from three states: three from Victoria, two from New South Wales and one from South...

Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Schwartz Media, publisher of the Monthly magazine, Quarterly Essay and Black Inc., has launched a new internet TV venture, SlowTV (slowtv.com.au).SlowTV will deliver online video content--interviews, debates, conversations and public lectures on...

Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Australian author Gail Jones has been included on the longlist for this year's Orange Prize for Fiction. Jones, the only Australian on the longlist, has been nominated for Sorry (Vintage)....

Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Penguin US to launch 'e-classics'Borders reduces range to increase salesRomance world in a tizz over...

Tuesday, 18 March 2008
British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died aged 90. Author of more than 100 fiction and nonfiction books, he came to fame in 1968 when a short...

Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Number one in the Highest New Entries chart this week is Mr Paparazzi. This book details the world of paparazzi photographer Darryn Lyons, a 'self-made millionaire' who tells all in...

Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Swancon 2008 - Australian national science fiction convention, 20-24 March, Northbridge, WA To view these...

Tuesday, 18 March 2008
The veracity of two more 'misery memoirs' has been called into question. Margaret Jones's Love and Consequences (Riverhead US) and Misha Defonseca's Surviving with Wolves (Piatkus) joined the ranks of Memoirs...

Monday, 17 March 2008
Educational publishing in Australia is in trouble and authors are paying the price, according to an Australian Society of Authors (ASA) report released this week. The survey of educational writers found...

Thursday, 13 March 2008
Steven Carroll has won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in the South East Asia and South Pacific region for The Time We Have Taken (Fourth Estate); and The Anatomy...

Wednesday, 12 March 2008
As reported in a WBN Special Bulletin last week, Australian author Sonya Hartnett has been announced as the winner of this year's Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.She is the first Australian...

Wednesday, 12 March 2008
As reported in a WBN Special Bulletin last week, the longlist for the 2008 Miles Franklin award has been announced. The nine novels selected are:Landscape of Farewell (Alex Miller,  A&U)Love...

Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Among the items added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Arab countries to boycott Paris Salon du LivreAuthor asks Amazon to stop selling his bookPiracy is 'caused...

Tuesday, 11 March 2008
'It is unlikely that a transaction between the two companies will proceed'--A&R Whitcoulls announces that its Borders bid has gone cold. 

Tuesday, 11 March 2008
After a record-breaking start, this year's Adelaide Writers' Week continued to draw impressive crowds on its final two days last week, despite temperatures reaching 38 degrees on Friday. ‘We didn't...

Tuesday, 11 March 2008
This year's Perth Writer's Festival, held from 22 to 24 February, attracted ‘over 15000' people according to program manager Katherine Dorrington.This was an increase of around 3000 on last year...

Tuesday, 11 March 2008
A Prisoner of Birth, Jeffrey Archer's new thriller set in London, makes it to the top in the Highest New Entries chart this week as well as securing third place...

Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Closing date for 2008 NSW Premier's History Awards, 14 March, 2008Swancon 2008 - Australian national...

Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Gary Gygax, fantasy author and co-creator of the first role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons, has died at the age of 69.

Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Romance novelist and 'natural storyteller' Suzanne Goodwin has died at the age of 91.

Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Richard King, managing editor of Canterbury University Press in New Zealand, died last week.

Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Twice Booker-nominated novelist Julian Rathbone has died aged 73.

Tuesday, 11 March 2008
New copyright guide on ‘special case exception'The Copyright Council has published a new information booklet on Special case exception, designed primarily to inform educators, libraries, galleries & museums on the...

Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Authors Matthew Reilly and Bradley Trevor Greive were among over 100 golf enthusiasts getting into the swing of things at the inaugural Dymocks Literacy Foundation Golf Day held last Thursday....

Tuesday, 11 March 2008
The shortlist for the inaugural Barbara Jefferis award has been announced by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA).Valued at $35,000, the award will be offered annually for ‘the best novel...