Inaugural SA Literary Fellowships announced
Date: 30 November 2023Category: Awards Local news
Writers SA and the State Library of South Australia have announced the recipients of the inaugural SA Literary Fellowships program, which was established to support professional writers living in South... Read more
Rights round-up
Date: 12 July 2023Category: Rights round-up
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold North American rights to Head & Heart (Kirstin Ferguson); Japanese and Bulgarian rights to Scrublands (Chris Hammer); French language rights to Green Dot... Read more
Wakefield to publish First Nations anthology
Date: 10 July 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Adelaide publisher Wakefield Press will publish an as yet untitled anthology of works by First Nations writers, supported by funding from the Australia Council for the Arts. The anthology will... Read more
Literature Structural Investment fund recipients announced
Date: 21 June 2023Category: Local news
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the recipients of the most recent round of the Literature Structural Investment fund which includes the three streams of translation, rights travel,... Read more
Neilma Sidney Travel Fund recipients announced
Date: 5 June 2023Category: Awards Local news
Writers Victoria has announced the ninth round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. The successful recipients, who share in a total of $58,675, are: Aimee Chan (NSW),... Read more
Dorothy Hewett 2023 shortlist announced
Date: 8 May 2023Category: Awards Local news
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives $10,000 prize money, as well as manuscript development and a... Read more
Notes on Her Colour (Jennifer Neal, Vintage)
Date: 11 April 2023Category: Reviews
Gabrielle has inherited the gift of being able to change the colour of her skin from her mother Tallulah, and her mother before her. Yet Gabrielle grows up in a... Read more
Ritchie wins 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award
Date: 13 September 2022Category: Awards Local news
Brendan Ritchie has won the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for his novel Eta Draconis. Ritchie, an academic and early-career novelist from the south coast of WA,... Read more
CBCA announces 2022 Book of the Year Awards
Date: 19 August 2022Category: Awards Junior Local news
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the winners of the 2022 Book of the Year Awards. The winning books in each category are: Older readers Tiger Daughter (Rebecca... Read more
Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2022 shortlists announced
Date: 7 July 2022Category: Awards Junior Local news
The shortlists for the 2022 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Birth to three years All Dogs Bark... Read more
Australia Council latest funding announced
Date: 22 June 2022Category: Local news
The Australia Council has announced its latest round of funding, with $11.9 million going to 283 creative projects and activities. 'This investment will support diverse, impactful projects for the benefit... Read more
Dorothy Hewett Award 2022 shortlist announced
Date: 28 April 2022Category: Awards Local news
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives $10,000 prize money, as well as manuscript development and a... Read more
Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year 2022 shortlists announced
Date: 27 April 2022Category: Awards Local news
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the shortlists for the 2022 Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult fiction After Story... Read more
CBCA 2022 Book of the Year shortlists announced
Date: 30 March 2022Category: Awards Junior Local news
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its 2022 Book of the Year shortlists. The shortlisted books in each category are: Older readers The Boy from the Mish (Gary... Read more
ABIA 2022 longlists announced
Date: 23 March 2022Category: Awards Local news
The longlists for the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles longlisted in each category are: General fiction book of the year After Story (Larissa Behrendt,... Read more
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature winners announced
Date: 8 March 2022Category: Awards Local news
CBCA 2022 Notable Books announced
Date: 23 February 2022Category: Junior Local news
Get to know the SPN Book of the Year shortlist
Date: 8 November 2021Category: Daily Newsletter Feature Features
MWF to launch podcast, free digital events
Date: 8 October 2021Category: Local news
Akec, Kemp win UWAP Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript
Date: 11 June 2021Category: Awards Local news News
Australian children’s book creators sign open letter in support of Palestine
Date: 2 June 2021Category: Junior Local news
UWAP announces 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist
Date: 28 April 2021Category: Awards Local news
AWW 2021 ‘more special than ever’; women dominate bestsellers
Date: 11 March 2021Category: Local news
ABIA 2021 longlists announced
Date: 22 February 2021Category: Awards Local news
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Date: 8 December 2020Category: Awards Local news
Bologna postponed due to coronavirus, CBCA & ABDA longlists, screen adaptations and more
Date: 26 February 2020Category: This week’s news
Affirm to publish speculative fiction anthology by diverse writers
Date: 26 February 2020Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Wyld wins UWAP Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript
Date: 24 February 2020Category: Awards Local news
UWAP announces 2020 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist
Date: 14 January 2020Category: Awards Local news
Ghost Bird (Lisa Fuller, UQP)
Date: 5 September 2019Category: Junior newsletter Review list Reviews
Story you can hold: Tyson Yunkaporta on ‘Sand Talk’
Date: 21 August 2019Category: Features Interview Magazine feature story
Angie Martin wins inaugural First Nations Fellowship for commercial writing
Date: 14 August 2019Category: Awards Local news
Harlequin announces shortlist for First Nations Fellowship
Date: 7 August 2019Category: Local news
Books by design: B+P magazine Issue 3 out now
Date: 6 August 2019Category: In the magazine
The Tiniest House of Time (Sreedhevi Iyer, Wild Dingo)
Date: 25 July 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Sand Talk: How Indigenous thinking can save the world (Tyson Yunkaporta, Text)
Date: 27 June 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Australia’s Original Languages: An introduction (R M W Dixon, A&U)
Date: 30 May 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
One Careless Night (Christina Booth, Black Dog)
Date: 2 May 2019Category: Junior newsletter Review list Reviews
Tony Birch’s ‘The White Girl’
Date: 1 May 2019Category:
The White Girl (Tony Birch, UQP)
Date: 26 April 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Featured book review
Hitch (Kathryn Hind, Hamish Hamilton)
Date: 26 April 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
No place like home: Kelly and Kennedy on ‘Wilam: A Birrarung Story’
Date: 19 March 2019Category: Features Interview Junior
Wilam: A Birrarung Story (Aunty Joy Murphy & Andrew Kelly, illus by Lisa Kennedy, Black Dog)
Date: 7 March 2019Category: Junior newsletter Review list Reviews
Black is the New White (Nakkiah Lui, A&U)
Date: 1 February 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Wyld, Howard, Younus announced as inaugural participants of Writers SA residency project
Date: 26 September 2018Category: Local news
Blakwork (Alison Whittaker, Magabala)
Date: 26 July 2018Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Ameblin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina’s ‘Catching Teller Crow’
Date: 11 July 2018Category:
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now
Date: 6 July 2018Category: Recently published by B+P
Reaching out: Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina on ‘Catching Teller Crow’
Date: 5 July 2018Category: Features Junior newsletter Interview
Catching Teller Crow (Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina, A&U)
Date: 5 July 2018Category: Junior newsletter Featured book review Reviews
Inaugural digital participants announced for 2018 Hardcopy program
Date: 22 May 2018Category: Local news
Wyld receives Hardcopy scholarship for First Nations writers
Date: 10 May 2018Category: Local news
Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia (Marcia Langton, Hardie Grant)
Date: 3 April 2018Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia (ed by Anita Heiss, Black Inc.)
Date: 22 February 2018Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Richell Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Date: 3 October 2017Category: Awards Local news
Richell Prize 2017 longlist announced
Date: 29 August 2017Category: Local news
Rights round-up
Date: 22 June 2016Category: Rights round-up
Identity crisis? Andrew Nette on the state of Australian crime fiction
Date: 18 August 2015Category: Features