Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Libby Varcoe, director of write-minded Pty Ltd, will lead a workshop offering practical skills to be able to prepare, edit and critique content in the digital age. Using visual examples,...

Tuesday, 6 May 2014
Tickets are now on sale for The Australian Book Industry Awards on Friday 23 May. Satirist Casey Bennetto, creator of Keating! The Musical will host this year’s awards, alongside guest...

Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Books at Miff (BaM) is a dedicated day of MIFF 37ºSouth Market, the film co-financing market organised by the industry programs unit of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). BaM...

Wednesday, 23 April 2014
ABIA Business Awards: Submissions for the 2014 ABIA Business Awards are closing soon. All entries must be submitted via the awards website. There is no limit to the number of entries that...

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Rex Finch will talk about the 20-year history of Finch Publishing at a Society of Editors presentation in May. Topics include how to find your strengths, moving with the market,...

Tuesday, 8 April 2014
The Society of Editors (NSW) is holding a workshop on Working wonders with Word and PDF, presented by Dr Hilary Cadman.The workshop will give participants a chance to use four...

Tuesday, 1 April 2014
The 2014 Dymocks Children’s Charities Great Debate will raise much-needed funds to assist Australian children-in-need around improve their literacy standards. This year’s ambassadors, Rob Carlton and Adam Spencer, will lead the debate on...

Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Society of Editors (NSW) Inc. presents a one-day Copyediting Fiction workshop on Friday, 4 April, presented by Nicola O’Shea.In this workshop, editor Nicola O’Shea will talk about some of the...

Wednesday, 26 March 2014
The Walkley Foundation for Journalism is seeking speakers for its four-day Storyology festival running from 1-4 December in Sydney. Prospective speakers may be writers, storytellers, digital gurus or entrepreneurs. Storyology is...

Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Nominations for the NSW Premier’s History Awards 2014 are now open. A total of $75,000 in prize money will be presented to the winners at an awards ceremony in September...

Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Friday 28 March is your last chance to nominate for the Best Books Categories in the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). Nominations for the Business categories are still open until...

Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Last Thursdays Networking Event (27 March, Melbourne): To Tweet or Not to Tweet: Effective social media for publishers. A topical and trendy look at what works with tweets, with Alaina Gougoulis from...

Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Published authors and illustrators of at least one book for children or young people are invited to apply for a May Gibbs Creative Time Residential (CTR) Fellowship. The aim of...

Wednesday, 12 March 2014
The APA is launching its Last Thursdays networking events in Melbourne on Thursday 27 March. To Tweet or Not to Tweet: Effective social media for publishers: Alaina Gougoulis from Text Publishing will...

Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Entries for the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award 2015 are now open. The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award is one of Australia’s richest awards for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under the age of...

Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Society of Editors (NSW) will hold a one-day workshop on copyediting fiction presented by editor Nicola O’Shea. Participants will be able to practise and refine their copyediting skills through a range...

Wednesday, 5 March 2014
The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 2014 is calling for submissions. Entry is open to all Victorian writers who have not previously had a work of fiction...

Monday, 17 February 2014
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) asks those keen to promote books at the National Conference to book trade display tables as soon as possible. Promotional inserts can be placed in conference satchels at a cost of...

Tuesday, 11 February 2014
REP 2014: Successful Applicants Announced Twelve editors have been chosen to attend the prestigious Residential Editorial Program in May 2014.  Chair of the 2014 REP Committee, Meredith Curnow (Random House...

Tuesday, 11 February 2014
The Walkley Foundation for Journalism and Writers Victoria are running an autobiography masterclass featuring Benjamin Law, with the support of the Cultural Fund of the Copyright Agency. This class is aimed...

Tuesday, 11 February 2014
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) invites applications for the newly endowed CHASS Australia Prize for a Book in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences ($3500)....

Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Entries are sought for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2014 in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, Australian history, poetry, young adult fiction, and children’s fiction.The awards are open for books first published...

Wednesday, 5 February 2014
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation is holding a trivia night in Melbourne. Book industry people are invited to come along to help raise funds for the foundation. Those thinking about attending are asked to spread the word among friends, colleagues, book groups and anyone else...

Tuesday, 4 February 2014
futurEDUCATION 2014: What will it take to improve educational outcomes? What can we really achieve using digital resources? Geoff Masters, CEO of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), will address these...

Monday, 3 February 2014
Through the Australia Council’s Literature section, grants are available for publishers to raise the profile of mid-list authors in Australia and internationally through targeted support for publishing and audience and...

Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Networking with the Australian Publishers Association (APA)Join Margaret Whiskin, publisher at Magabala Books along with industry colleagues to share some predictions for the year ahead on Thursday 30 January, from 5.30-7.30pm. Enjoy...

Tuesday, 21 January 2014
The Society of Editors (NSW) Inc. is presenting a one-day workshop, Editing Intensive, led by Meryl Potter DE. This interactive workshop is designed for editors who would like to brush up...

Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Australian Publishers Association will hold its inaugural Last Thursdays APA Networking event after work on Thursday 30 January to discuss ‘What will happen to Publishing in 2014?’  Margaret Whiskin, publisher at Magabala Books,...

Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Last reminder: applications for the Residential Editorial Program (REP) close Monday 13 January 2014. Guidelines and application form here. The line-up includes authors Charlotte Wood, John Flanagan, Alice Pung, Ellen van...

Monday, 6 January 2014
Entries for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards are now open. Established in 2008, the awards are Australia’s richest literary prize, with a total prize pool of $600,000 for winners and...