Monday, 27 August 2012
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced that Jemma Birrell has been appointed as the new artistic director of the festival. SWF said in a statement that Birrell will begin...

Friday, 24 August 2012
The winners of this year’s Age Book of the Year Awards were announced on 23 August at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) at Melbourne Town Hall. 1835:...

Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Romance publisher Harlequin Australia has launched its first digital-first imprint, Harlequin Escape. The imprint will have its own website, where would-be authors will be encouraged to submit their work. Managing...

Monday, 20 August 2012
The winners of this year’s Ruby Awards for Romantic Book of the Year have been announced. The winners are: Short Sweet: Molly Cooper's Dream Date (Barbara Hannay, Harlequin Mills & Boon)...

Monday, 20 August 2012
The titles shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction book award The Chemistry of Tears (Peter Carey, Penguin) All That...

Monday, 20 August 2012
Gumbuli of Ngukurr (Murray Seiffert, Acorn Press) is the winner of the 2012 award for the Australian Christian Book of the Year. The biography was chosen from more than 40...

Monday, 20 August 2012
The titles shortlisted for this year's Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The titles shortlisted in each category are: Primary Education   Primary Reference Resource Playground...

Friday, 17 August 2012
The winners of this year’s Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced on 17 August, marking the official launch of Children’s Book Week. CBCA...

Thursday, 16 August 2012
Penguin Australia has launched a new digital-first imprint for Australian romance titles called Destiny Romance. Penguin said the imprint, which has launched with four titles, will publish ‘romance ebooks of all...

Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Outgoing director of the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) Lisa Dempster has been appointed as the new director of Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF). MWF festival chairman Michael Webster said in a...

Tuesday, 14 August 2012
The winners of this year’s kuril dhagun Indigenous Writing Fellowships, presented as part of the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) black&write! Indigenous Writing and Editing Program, have been announced. This...

Monday, 13 August 2012
The Dymocks store in Nowra, New South Wales, was named Dymocks/SBS Retailer of the Year at the 2012 Dymocks national conference earlier this month. The Dymocks Camberwell store in Melbourne received the...

Thursday, 9 August 2012
The finalists for this year’s Deadly Awards, presented to Indigenous Australians for excellence in the areas of music, sport, entertainment and community, have been announced. The finalists for the Outstanding Achievement...

Wednesday, 8 August 2012
The shortlists for this year’s Davitt Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime for crime books written by Australian women, have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories...

Saturday, 4 August 2012
The shortlists for this year's Age Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Nonfiction 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the...

Friday, 3 August 2012
The winners of the Booksellers New Zealand Industry Awards, sponsored by Thorpe-Bowker, were announced on 2 August during the 2012 Booksellers New Zealand Conference in Auckland. Unity Books in Wellington...

Thursday, 2 August 2012
The winners of this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced. New Zealand’s Native Trees by John Dawson and Rob Lucas (Craig Potton Publishing) has been named this...

Wednesday, 1 August 2012
The shortlist for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing has been announced. The titles shortlisted in the full-length book categories are: True crime Cold Case File (Liz Porter,...