Thursday, 24 October 2013
Susan Swingler, step-daughter of Australian author Elizabeth Jolley and author of the memoir The House of Fiction (Fremantle Press), will feature on next week’s episode of ABC TV’s Australian Story...

Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Two Australian books will be included in the 2014 International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Honour Book List. The Australian section of IBBY has selected Ursula Dubosarsky’s The Golden...

Wednesday, 23 October 2013
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the shortlist for this year’s Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA). The shortlisted books are: Fish-Hair Woman (Merlinda Bobis, Spinifex Press) Staunch (Ginger Briggs,...

Monday, 21 October 2013
Riverbend Books owner and Indigenous Literacy Foundation founder Suzy Wilson has been selected as a finalist for the 2014 Australian of the Year Awards. Wilson, who has been shortlisted in...

Friday, 18 October 2013
The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally (Vintage) has won this year’s Colin Roderick Award. Keneally, who previously won the Colin Roderick Award in 2004 for The Tyrant’s Novel (Doubleday), was announced...

Thursday, 17 October 2013
New Zealand bookselling chain Whitcoulls has suspended its Kobo-powered ebookstore due to ‘recent publicity surrounding ebook publishing through automated feeds provided by Kobo’. In a statement on the Whitcoulls website,...

Thursday, 17 October 2013
The Small Press Network (SPN) has released the program for its 2013 Independent Publishing Conference. This year’s conference will be held over three days, from 14 to 16 November, at...

Tuesday, 15 October 2013
The winners of the 2013 Speech Pathology Australia (SPA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are: Young Children Seadog (Claire...

Tuesday, 15 October 2013
The program for the New South Wales Writers’ Centre’s inaugural Creative Non-Fiction Festival has been announced. Author Benjamin Law will curate the one day festival, which will be held at the NSW...

Monday, 14 October 2013
Books+Publishing editor-in-chief Andrea Hanke reports from Frankfurt: Australian publishers have reported a productive Frankfurt Book Fair, which has been characterised by healthy interest in a broad range of titles rather...

Friday, 11 October 2013
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2013 has been awarded to Canadian author Alice Munro, who was called a ‘master of the contemporary short story’ by the Swedish Academy. The 82-year-old author was...

Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Australian author Majok Tulba has been shortlisted for this year’s Dylan Thomas Prize in the UK. Tulba’s novel Beneath the Darkening Sky (Hamish Hamilton) is shortlisted along with two other...

Monday, 7 October 2013
Remainders outlet AllBooks4Less will be relaunched in coming weeks, following the acquisition of its trademarks and some of its assets by Victorian-based company SJC Books Pty Ltd. The acquisition comes after AllBooks4Less and its parent company,...

Monday, 30 September 2013
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has presented the 2013 Louise Schofield Award for Services to SCBWI Australia West to children’s author Dianne Wolfer. Wolfer, who lives...

Thursday, 26 September 2013
Australian discount department store Big W is now selling ebooks. The Big W ebookstore, which is separate to the retailer’s main website, launched this morning and can be accessed here. The...

Thursday, 26 September 2013
The shortlist for the 2013 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Three Crooked Kings (Matthew Condon, UQP) Rendezvous with Destiny...

Monday, 23 September 2013
The Stella Prize has announced the judging panel for its 2014 awards and the creation of two new mentorship programs. The judging panel for 2014 comprises critic and writer Kerryn...

Friday, 20 September 2013
A TV cartoon based on Andy Griffiths’ The Day My Bum Went Psycho (Pan) will premiere in Australia tomorrow. The 80-episode series called The Day My Butt Went Psycho will...

Thursday, 19 September 2013
The Man Booker Prize has introduced a restriction on the number of books each publisher can submit for the prize. As of 2014, the number of submissions granted to each...

Tuesday, 17 September 2013
The winners of this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced by Minister for the Arts John Day on 16 September.  Michelle de Kretser was presented with the $25,000 Premier’s Prize, which...

Monday, 16 September 2013
Brisbane author Robert Hoge will feature on tonight’s episode of ABC TV’s Australian Story. Hoge, who was born with deformed legs and a large tumour covering his face, has recently...