Tuesday, 28 May 2013
The Myer Foundation has announced the recipients of the inaugural Merlyn Myer Biography Stipends. The stipends, which are valued at $50,000 each, have been awarded to Thornton McCamish and Geordie...

Monday, 27 May 2013
The winners of the 2013 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced on Friday 24 May at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney. This is the second time that the awards...

Friday, 24 May 2013
The winners of this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards were announced in Sydney on 23 May during the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF). The winning titles in each...

Thursday, 23 May 2013
Shaun Tan’s The Arrival (Lothian) has been selected as one of 10 honour books in Silent Books, a travelling exhibition run by the International Board of Books for Young People...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
The Sydney Writers’ Festival was officially launched last night. The opening address was delivered by oral storyteller Daniel Morden, who embodies this year’s festival theme of storytelling, and entertained the...

Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Melbourne-based publisher Scribe will launch a new series of nonfiction books about contemporary media trends later this year. The ‘Media Chronicles’ series will launch with The New Front Page: New...

Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Australian illustrators Ben Sanders and Tony Flowers have been shortlisted in the children’s book category of the UK-based Association of Illustrators (AOI) Illustration Awards. Sanders has been shortlisted for his book...

Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Hachette Australia has partnered with Sydney creative agency Droga5 and Qantas to create a set of paperback books that are timed to be read during 10 of the airline’s main...

Monday, 20 May 2013
The winners of this year’s New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award were announced in Sydney on 19 May, on the eve of the 2013 Sydney Writers’ Festival. Ali Cobby-Eckermann’s verse...

Monday, 20 May 2013
The winners of the 2012 Aurealis Awards were announced at a ceremony in Sydney on 18 May, with Margo Lanagan picking up four awards, including best fantasy novel and joint...

Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Australian author Michael Sala has won the Pacific region for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize and New Zealand writer Zoe Meager has won the Pacific region for the 2013 Commonwealth...

Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Thousands of school children will read Gus Gordon’s picture book Herman and Rosie (Viking) during Read for Australia, a nation-wide reading event to be held during National Literacy and Numeracy...

Friday, 10 May 2013
The black&write! Indigenous Writing and Editing Project at the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced the winners of the 2013 kuril dhagun Indigenous Writing Fellowships. The winners are: Scott Prince...

Friday, 10 May 2013
Melbourne-based literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has opened an online store, which will sell editions of KYD as well as other books and stationery. The store, which can be...

Friday, 10 May 2013
RMIT University in Melbourne will open two pop-up bookshops in June to cater for students buying their textbooks for the second semester of the university year. The university said in...

Thursday, 9 May 2013
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlist for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) Book of the Year Award, which is sponsored by Booktopia. The shortlisted titles...

Thursday, 9 May 2013
Children’s book illustrator, author and teacher Gregory Rogers has died, aged 55. Scholastic Australia writes: ‘Scholastic Australia wishes to note the passing of the much-loved and respected illustrator and author,...

Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Sony has opened its Reader Store in Australia, offering a range of local and international ebooks. The Reader Store has previously been available in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Austria and Japan....

Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Children’s book illustrator, author and teacher Gregory Rogers has died, aged 55. Erica Wagner, publisher of books for children and teenagers at Allen & Unwin, writes: ‘Gregory Rogers passed away...

Monday, 6 May 2013
The shortlist for the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature, which promotes ‘caring and responsibility for the environment’, has been announced. The shortlisted books in the Preschool category...

Monday, 6 May 2013
Penguin Australia has announced that Bob Sessions will retire from the company on 27 September. Sessions has worked for Penguin Australia for more than 27 years and was head of...