Monday, 3 August 2015
Books by male authors received on average 58% of coverage in Australia’s major newspapers and literary journals compared to 42% for books by female authors, the 2014 Stella Count has...

Monday, 3 August 2015
An Unsentimental Bloke: The Life and Work of C J Dennis by Philip Butterss (Wakefield Press) has won this year’s National Biography Award, presented by the State Library of New...

Monday, 3 August 2015
The Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival has released the full program for its 2015 festival, which runs from 11-13 September in Hobart.Joining Don Watson, Bob Brown, Cate Kennedy and Kathryn...

Friday, 31 July 2015
Wollongong writer Chloe Higgins has won the Australian Society of Authors (ASA)’s 2015 Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency for her novella ‘Infomercials for Mixing Bowls and Treadmills’.Higgins’ winning novella is...

Thursday, 30 July 2015
Four New Zealand bookshops have received grants of up to $5000 as part of James Patterson’s Australian and New Zealand bookshop grants.The recipients are: Hedleys Bookshop, Masterton Wardini Books, Havelock...

Thursday, 30 July 2015
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2015 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women.The shortlisted titles in each category are:Adult novel Through the Cracks...

Thursday, 30 July 2015
New Zealand author Anna Smaill’s debut dystopian novel The Chimes (Sceptre) is one of 13 titles longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.The full longlist is: Did You Ever Have a...

Thursday, 30 July 2015
Queanbeyan author Omar Musa will be allowed to re-enter his novel Here Come the Dogs (Hamish Hamilton) in the 2015 ACT Book of the Year Award after the government reversed...

Wednesday, 29 July 2015
Film rights to Australian author Ann Turner’s debut thriller The Lost Swimmer (S&S) have been optioned by producer Sue Maslin from the production company Film Art Media.Turner will write the...

Wednesday, 29 July 2015
The Australian recipients of James Patterson’s Australian and New Zealand bookshop grants have been announced.In total, 70 bookstores received grants of up to $5000 to spend on projects to get...

Tuesday, 28 July 2015
New Zealand company Booktrack, which adds soundtracks and ‘ambient audio’ to ebooks and sells them from its website, has received US$5m (A$6.87m) in funding from investors COENT Centure Partners and Sparkbox...

Tuesday, 28 July 2015
Federal treasurer Joe Hockey says the government is considering removing the GST threshold entirely on overseas purchases.After previously signalling his intention to lower the GST threshold, Hockey told the ABC the...

Tuesday, 28 July 2015
Penguin Random House imprint Hamish Hamilton will publish Island Home: A Landscape Memoir by Tim Winton on 23 September.The collection of nonfiction writing explores Winton’s relationship with the Australian landscape and ‘how it...

Monday, 27 July 2015
UWA Publishing, in partnership with Copyright Agency and 720 ABC Perth, has launched a new award for an unpublished manuscript.The Dorothy Hewett Award, named after the Australian novelist, poet and...

Monday, 27 July 2015
UK author and journalist Jon Ronson will deliver the opening address at the Brisbane Writers Festival on 2 September, joining international guests Sarah Waters, Cassandra Clare and Holly Black, among...

Monday, 27 July 2015
Writers Victoria has launched a new prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds.The Deborah Cass Prize will be awarded to an early-career Victorian author who was born overseas or has at...

Thursday, 23 July 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced its Lantern imprint will reduce the number of books it publishes in 2016 and 2017, and that Lantern publishing director Julie Gibbs will...

Thursday, 23 July 2015
The Australia Council has cancelled its December 2015 grants round and replaced its six-year funding programs with a four-year model, under its new grant program introduced following cuts to the...