Monday, 5 November 2012
The Stella Prize has announced that Megan Quinlan has been appointed to the role of prize manager. The Stella Prize team said in a statement that Quinlan has ‘many years of...

Friday, 2 November 2012
Authors Kim Scott and Anita Heiss are among the state and territory finalists for the 2013 Australian of the Year Awards. Scott is one of four finalists from Western Australia...

Wednesday, 31 October 2012
The shortlist for the 2012 Waverley Library Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The People Smuggler (Robin de Crespigny, Viking) Double Entry (Jane Gleeson-White, A&U) Sarah Thornhill (Kate...

Tuesday, 30 October 2012
The program for the 2013 Adelaide Festival, to be held between 1 and 17 March 2013, has been launched. Next year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week will be held between 2 and...

Monday, 29 October 2012
HarperCollins parent company News Corporation has indicated it is interested in acquiring Penguin, reports the Sunday Times. News Corporation chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch is reported to have indicated...

Monday, 29 October 2012
Leading Edge Books has announced that it will close its New Zealand Books Group at the end of the year. Leading Edge Books general manager Simon Milne said in a...

Monday, 29 October 2012
Pearson and Bertelsmann have announced that they will merge the Penguin and Random House businesses. Bertelsmann said in a statement on Monday 29 October that the new business will be called...

Friday, 26 October 2012
In the UK, Pearson has confirmed that it is discussing ‘a possible combination of Penguin and Random House’ with Bertelsmann. Pearson said in a statement that the two publishers ‘have...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
The State Library of Victoria’s Centre for Youth Literature has announced the winners of the 2012 Gold and Silver Inky Awards.  The Gold Inky winner (for an Australian book) is...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Kill the Morans: The Real Story of the Moran Crime Crew by Bert Wrout and Brett Quine (Five Mile Press), which was due to be released on 22 October, has been...

Friday, 19 October 2012
The longlist for the 2012 Walkley Book Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Broadcast Wars: The Money, the Ego, the Power Behind Your Remote Control (Michael Bodey, Hachette) Mine-Field: The...

Friday, 19 October 2012
The Bridport Prize, the UK writing competition open to all nationalities, has announced a shorlist. Australian and New Zealand writers appearing on the shorlist in each category are: Poetry shortlist Marg...

Thursday, 18 October 2012
The Stella Prize, Australia’s equivalent of the UK’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, will be awarded for the first time in April 2013. Entries are now open for the $50,000 prize, which...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Hilary Mantel has become the third author to win the Man Booker Prize twice, after she was announced the winner of the 2012 award for her novel Bring Up the Bodies...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
The Small Press Network (SPUNC) has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Most Underrated Book Award, a prize that was established to showcase outstanding books published by small and independent...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced that Sam Twyford-Moore will take over the role of festival director from Lisa Dempster, who announced in April that she would be stepping...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
The winners of the 2012 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are: Young Children Come Down, Cat!...

Monday, 15 October 2012
Favel Parrett has been awarded the 2012 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship by the Federal Government. Parrett, whose debut novel Past the Shallows (Hachette) won the Australian Book Industry Award for Newcomer...

Friday, 12 October 2012
The 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Mo Yan. The Chinese author, whose real name is Guan Moye, was presented with the award on 11 October by Peter Englund,...

Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Kobo will become the dominant ebook provider in New Zealand as a result of new partnerships with Booksellers New Zealand members and the Paper Plus Group. Kobo announced the new retail...

Tuesday, 9 October 2012
The sale of Canongate’s 70% shareholding in Text Publishing was worth £662,142, or approximately A$1.04 million, to the Scottish publisher, reports the Bookseller. The value of the sale, which took...

Tuesday, 9 October 2012
The shortlist for the inaugural Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces of writing are: ‘Storm front’ by Jo Chandler (Feeling the Heat, MUP)...