Monday, 25 August 2014
When he was a high school student, Tsukuru Tazaki’s four best friends announced that they never wanted to talk to him again, with no reason given. As a 36-year-old railway engineer...

Monday, 25 August 2014
Brenda Saunders has won the 2014 Scanlon Award for Indigenous Poetry.Brenda Saunders is a Sydney poet and artist of Aboriginal and British descent. She is the author of several collections...

Monday, 25 August 2014
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) announced the winners for the 2014 Book Design Awards at a gala event in Melbourne on 22 August. The winning titles in each category...

Monday, 25 August 2014
The University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre and Faculty of Arts announced the winners of the Peter Blazey Fellowship, the Ernest Scott Prize, the Wesley Michel Wright Prize and the Affirm...

Monday, 25 August 2014
The shortlists for the 2014 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria for local and international...

Friday, 22 August 2014
Random House has recalled copies of He Who Must Be Obeid by Kate McClymont and Linton Besser due to a ‘misidentification’ in the book. ‘The book contained a misidentification that...

Friday, 22 August 2014
Harbour Publishing House has announced it will publish Di Morrissey’s first children’s picture book in October. Sonoma Meets Miss Mouse, written by Morrissey and illustrated by local artist Julie Sydenham,...

Friday, 22 August 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 John Button Prize for writing on policy and politics has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: Anzac’s Long Shadow (James Brown, Black Inc.) Dangerous Allies (Malcolm...

Thursday, 21 August 2014
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) has announced its first Adelaide program, which will run for three days in September and feature discussions, workshops and performances.Guests include Benjamin Law (Gaysia, The...

Thursday, 21 August 2014
The Big Issue’s 10th annual fiction edition will be launched on 29 August at the Melbourne Writers Festival, and will feature 12 short stories written on the theme ‘Take Me...

Wednesday, 20 August 2014
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced that it will ‘take leadership’ of the Queensland Literary Awards (QLA), and is calling for entries for the 2014 awards.State librarian Janette...

Wednesday, 20 August 2014
New Holland is recalling copies of Evil in a Blue Hoodie: The Tragic Murder of Jill Meagher by Joe St John due to a court suppression order.A spokesperson for New...

Wednesday, 20 August 2014
Sam Shosanya has been appointed CEO of Paper Plus in New Zealand.Shosanya has previously worked in the book industry as category director for REDgroup Retail in New Zealand. He has...

Wednesday, 20 August 2014
‘This is an outcome where we would provide a library free of charge to the citizens of Brisbane by placing a retailer at ground level’—Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk announces...

Tuesday, 19 August 2014
The Australia Council has announced a new arts grants model.As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the new model is the result of a review of the program, including consultation with the...

Tuesday, 19 August 2014
Scribe has acquired world rights to The Ice Age: A Journey into Crystal Meth Addiction by freelance journalist Luke Williams, an expanded version of an article by Williams published in...

Tuesday, 19 August 2014
Writers Victoria has announced the recipients of this year’s Glenfern Fellowships. The fellowships for mid-career and established writers were awarded to Jennifer Down, Lee Kofman and Christian Ryan, and the...